Ambivalence

Sparks43

The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.
Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow.


After a long time i finally picked up a Dreamcast and tbh i was like a little kid at xmas plugging all the leads in and powering it on.

Took a while to get it tuned in properly but after fixing the Date i then seen the lovely Swirley logo.

Bliss..........

But then i went to try at play a disc and guess what it didnt bloody read it:mad:

Tried another 3 discs with no joy and i have a bad feeling i have been sold a dud:mad:

Are there any easy fixes that i could try before i fly into a Rage;) at the injustice of it all.

Myrddin

Boulder Dash tbh

Steve X2

Sparks43 wrote: »

The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.
Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow.


After a long time i finally picked up a Dreamcast and tbh i was like a little kid at xmas plugging all the leads in and powering it on.

Took a while to get it tuned in properly but after fixing the Date i then seen the lovely Swirley logo.

Bliss..........

But then i went to try at play a disc and guess what it didnt bloody read it:mad:

Tried another 3 discs with no joy and i have a bad feeling i have been sold a dud:mad:

Are there any easy fixes that i could try before i fly into a Rage;) at the injustice of it all.

Are the discs original or filthy pirate discs?

I've a DC that will only read original discs, it used to work with backups but after many years of calibrating the lens it just wasn't worth it any more.

Google "Dreamcast laser lens calibration" and you'll find all sorts of info about it. Personally I return it and get another from them.




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Sparks43

Steve SI wrote: »

Are the discs original or filthy pirate discs?

I've a DC that will only read original discs, it used to work with backups but after many years of calibrating the lens it just wasn't worth it any more.

Google "Dreamcast laser lens calibration" and you'll find all sorts of info about it. Personally I return it and get another from them.




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Originals m8

Had a google and tbh you are spot on its going back on thursday when i am in town.

To cap it off the vmu i got has a flat battery as well:mad:

Retr0gamer

Tell them to unban me on facebook as well while they are at it :P

Steve X2

Sparks43 wrote: »

Originals m8

Had a google and tbh you are spot on its going back on thursday when i am in town.

To cap it off the vmu i got has a flat battery as well:mad:

VMU batteries are always flat. I don't even bother replacing them any more as a good quality CR2032 lasts feck all time in them.

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o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Tell them to unban me on facebook as well while they are at it :P

I take it they got sick of you trolling all the FF VII fans?

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

I take it they got sick of you trolling all the FF VII fans?

Legend of Dragoon fans more like and they deserve it.

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Legend of Dragoon fans more like and they deserve it.

Great game that, don't you think?



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Sparks43

Sparks43

So anyway the Dreamcast

Anything else worth trying?

Retr0gamer

I heard the CDi is very much underappreciated.

Sparks43

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard the CDi is very much underappreciated.

Stop talking to yourself then m8:D

DinoRex

Sparks43 wrote: »

So anyway the Dreamcast

Anything else worth trying?

It's pretty much all good!

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard the CDi is very much underappreciated.

Those are the voices of the demons on your back, trying to drive you mad.
To be honest, they never really expected you to buy one, so one up for them...
I reckon you'll have an epiphany one of these days, immediately have it incinerated and end up performing some sort of rite in your house to cleanse it after the CDi has frakked up it's gaming mojo for some time to come.

I can imagine the next Beers there, we'll all sense... something

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I heard the CDi is very much underappreciated.

Enternow swears by the Zelda games.*

Enternow wrote:

The Zelda CDi games are as good if not better than ALTTP

I applaud his convictions - as wrong as they may be. It's a strong position to take.




































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May be a blatant lie

CiDeRmAn

o1s1n wrote: »

Enternow swears at the Zelda games.*

Fixed it for ya!

Myrddin

The blatant Americanisation of the Zelda characters is just farcial. If your able to get the red tunic in the cd-i games, this is basically who your playing as

CiDeRmAn

The only canon those Zelda games should find themselves in is one pointing off of the port bow, by Jingo!

Sparks43

Got the Dreamcast changed yesterday for a working one:D

and it plays burned games:D

So 1st game i put on was a c64 emulator so i could play Boulder Dash

yippee

Sparks43

OwaynOTT

And it didn't bloody work.