Dreamcast GDEMU

Relikk

If anyone's interested, there is a new GD-ROM drive replacement device from Deunan (developer of the Makaron DC and Naomi emulator) about to be released that looks very promising which should make the SD card reader obsolete.

http://dknute.livejournal.com/

http://gdemu.wordpress.com/

He's only doing a limited run and is asking for €100 before postage and packaging.

Retr0gamer

Don't do this to me on april fools. I hope it's true.

Relikk

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Don't do this to me on april fools. I hope it's true.

He's been posting about it on his blog for a while now, it'd be a pretty lengthy April fools although the timing of him to post it is pretty poor.

I doubt it is, and I also hope it isn't as I'd look a right twat (if I don't already).

CiDeRmAn

Looks like a must have for all owners of Dreamcasts everywhere.
It'd be more convenient to use a hdd though.
I wonder if that will be doable.
Plus the menu system will be handy too.
But it's an amazing piece of work as it is.

Myrddin

Are the games stored on SD with this? Price tag is hefty...

Relikk

It's SD based, aye.

Steve X2

This + 3D printer(a much better one that what I have) = Dreamcast Super Slim edition

Steve X2

I've preordered 2 units from the guy. He says max 3 per person on this run.
Also, this might be the only run of these so if you think you want one then you better jump in quick.

Relikk

Steve SI wrote: »

I've preordered 2 units from the guy. He says max 3 per person on this run.
Also, this might be the only run of these so if you think you want one then you better jump in quick.

Wanted to ask him about that, myself. Think I'll grab two as I have 2 DC's. Just have to check and see if the spare one is a VA1, also.

o1s1n

Would love to buy one of these too but the price, eek.

Chris_Heilong

It seems like the device has memory slots that he selects by pressing a button, so there maybe a max limit to the amount of games per session.

Myrddin

Relikk wrote: »

Wanted to ask him about that, myself. Think I'll grab two as I have 2 DC's. Just have to check and see if the spare one is a VA1, also.

Does the GC have to be a VA1 to be compatible?

Chris_Heilong wrote: »

It seems like the device has memory slots that he selects by pressing a button, so there maybe a max limit to the amount of games per session.

That's just for that revision prototype, in the next one, that remote board will be gone & he's seemingly going to look at adding a menu system

Relikk

Myrddin wrote: »

Does the GC have to be a VA1 to be compatible?

Yeah. VA0 and VA2 have problems. I think VA0s were very early JP and US NTSC models. Don't know about the VA2s. He mentions the details about it here...

http://gdemu.wordpress.com/details/

Steve X2

Will be a nice little setup inside my candy cab. Can solder on a couple of buttons or re-use some that are already on the cab if there is no select menu.

80s Synth Pop

lots of nice things happening around disc emulation for different consoles. There is another Dreamcast disk emulator almost ready by some guys on assemblergames DCIO That's probably why dknuke has decided to get his out there before the others instead of sitting on it all these years


Then there is the sega saturn one and another for the ps1 (same guys behind the DCIO)

o1s1n

Steve SI wrote: »

Will be a nice little setup inside my candy cab. Can solder on a couple of buttons or re-use some that are already on the cab if there is no select menu.

Do you have a Dreamcast MGCD?

Was considering getting one of them to play the Dreamcasts vertical shmups on my cab. Would be really great with an SD loader like this alright.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Do you have a Dreamcast MGCD?

Was considering getting one of them to play the Dreamcasts vertical shmups on my cab. Would be really great with an SD loader like this alright.

No I don't have that no. At the moment I just have a DC hooked up to my cab via hacked pads and a VGA switch. I've got the SD serial port loader on it as well but that's pretty slow so I usually just use discs.

o1s1n

Ah yes, of course! The oul VGA in on the Egret III. Really handy thing to have. Sometimes I'd love a more modern cab for that kind of functionality.

I've one of those Dreamcast serial port loaders too. They an interesting item for the idea, but a waste of time really as far as practicality goes.

Steve X2

o1s1n wrote: »

Ah yes, of course! The oul VGA in on the Egret III. Really handy thing to have. Sometimes I'd love a more modern cab for that kind of functionality.

I've one of those Dreamcast serial port loaders too. They an interesting item for the idea, but a waste of time really as far as practicality goes.

Ah the SD thing is ok. But it is a novelty more than a reliable game loader. I got a nice torrent a while back with all the games that currently work with it. So I just dumped them in the SD and they work fine, only prob CDDA isn't supported so no music etc on a lot of games. Most of the shmups work fine on it, just without background music.

Relikk

Small update...

http://gdemu.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/hot-stuff/

Chris_Heilong

so tempted, but thats 100 I dont have at the moment, shame these are limited run.

Relikk

So, I got mine today. It works flawlessly and the load times are virtually nil on anything I've tried, so far. A GUI would be nice but, only to make it handier as the way games are selected now isn't much of a problem.

Steve X2

Still waiting on mine
There really isn't much to the DC when you remove the GD-ROM drive. I wonder how it'd look in another case? Now that the drive isn't needed it opens up some pretty interesting modding possibilities.

Relikk

Steve SI wrote: »

Still waiting on mine

I know he sent one more to Ireland along with my order, was thinking it was yours but, obviously not. Even though I was more or less next on the list, the only reason I got mine now is probably due to the fact that I offered a bank transfer to help him out because PayPal froze the money in his account for 60 days.

CiDeRmAn

Steve SI wrote: »

Still waiting on mine
There really isn't much to the DC when you remove the GD-ROM drive. I wonder how it'd look in another case? Now that the drive isn't needed it opens up some pretty interesting modding possibilities.

Dreamcast Portable perhaps?

KeRbDoG

Steve SI wrote: »

There really isn't much to the DC when you remove the GD-ROM drive. I wonder how it'd look in another case? Now that the drive isn't needed it opens up some pretty interesting modding possibilities.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Dreamcast Portable perhaps?

The main board is still the width/length of the bottom of the case - under the metal plate the GCEmu is sitting on. Runs fairly hot, would be 'interesting' to try to cool it in a smaller case

Relikk

Only thing left to do is to find out how to patch GDI's to make them region free or the same region as the console.

Myrddin

Relikk wrote: »

Only thing left to do is to find out how to patch GDI's to make them region free or the same region as the console.

Region free bios chip

80s Synth Pop

Relikk wrote: »

I know he sent one more to Ireland along with my order, was thinking it was yours but, obviously not. Even though I was more or less next on the list, the only reason I got mine now is probably due to the fact that I offered a bank transfer to help him out because PayPal froze the money in his account for 60 days.

that was my one and it arrived safe and sound

Steve X2

My one should be coming next week I'm told. I ordered two of them but seems like he's having some problems getting all the parts, so we agreed to just 1 for now and another a bit later.

Relikk

Myrddin wrote: »

Region free bios chip

Seems like a pain to do but, I'm enquiring about getting some chips for it right now.

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

that was my one and it arrived safe and sound

Nice.

Steve SI wrote: »

I ordered two of them but seems like he's having some problems getting all the parts, so we agreed to just 1 for now and another a bit later.

Ordered two myself and agreed on one for the time being, also.