Does dreamshell 4.0 and boot disk 2.4 except 512 GB micro SD cards? Also am I able to do .GDI files, in other words the full whole Dreamcast game not the choppy CDI portion?
The myth of the dreamcast burning out quicker due to playing pirated games stems from actually the saturns disc drive, the saturns disc drive was not tuned correctly and burns itself out very quickly, they use the laser in early day cd players found in boomboxes and even some car sterios. Finding the replacement part for me was actually easy, my saturn in a once in a while use disc drive died twice due to a failure in the saturns disc drive burning it self out due to overvolting the laser. Now reading GD discs vs CD rom discs does actaully have a difference, far less than that of putting a cd in a dvd player keep in mind. At the end of the day the dreamcast disc drive actually had usages out side of the dreamcast and was used in other systems such as karako machines that had video going with them. These discs were made to store video and play back video and sound prior to dvd, it was a odd ball one but it wasn't at the same time. The laser had to be able to read both CD And GD discs there were actually many manufactors for the disc drives in saturns with multiple itterations in its short life span just for the states models alone never mind UK and japanese models which lasted much longer in production. The dreamcast does still have a failure point in the disc drive, many failure points, the most common one I see is the ribbon cable ware issue where the ribbon cable has a split in it from bending ever so slightly from heavy use. The cables are so thin and easily tear that even opening up the unit to change out the battery if done wrong can tear the cable, and it is easy to do it wrong enough to do this. IF you don't open the lid first before opening this can cause the plastic of the housing unit in some cases to hang onto the floating part of the disc drive and cause the top of the drive to pop out and tear the cable. Yes this has happen to me, yes it is a pain to find the right cabling for it, luckly it is somewhat common and somewhat cheap pre-covid prices, now people want $8.00 for some screws that they frankin sold dreamcasts piece by piece to make more money. The myth is somewhat true that the drive will burn it self out quicker, but the question then becomes how much quicker, and the answer I always found was not that much quicker, it actually depends on the drive model on how quickly it dies. Some were made like crap while others were gold good. Most are samsung drives, samsung products in general I have misfortune with.
@@nocigar87 I actualy solved this problem, not all devices are compatible with the sd card reader, I can't say what sd cards are compatible but try another one and it might work
@@nocigar87 just a friendly advice by my experience, when you put an sd card on the sd card reader, don't touch it or the console when it's on, it might corrupt the sd card, and trust me, it will not work anymore on the dreamshell forever, I was dumb and aproached the console to me, since the cable of the controller is to short, and this happened, I had to get another sd card, again... I tryed to recover it, but it's Impossible
There were 2 Dreamcast that came out first production run allowed cdrs with burned games on them to just boot like normal. When Sega figured out that they did not have piracy protection on the first batch of Dreamcast for like the first year and a half or so they put a blocker in them to stop the boot of the CD r. You probably have a later model Dreamcast
I'm having that problem with the SD card ever SD card that I tried is that'll work for a while then it'll kick itself out it won't come back on until after 5 minutes like it's getting hot any solution?
Update: In the four years since I found this E3 Demo the original source (firstones forums) and both the Isozone have been shut down. Users over at Hard-light.net have uploaded their own back up links & archives: www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=88722.0 I hope this can be of help as due to my life now involving alot of travel I am seperated from my personal hard copy of the iso, and truthfully speaking I am unsure if my hard copy still exists. Thank you all for spreading the word and keeping Babylon 5 alive. As time goes on there are few of us left and to see such an important and beautifully crafted piece of media such as Babylon 5 fall into obscurity breaks my old heart. All the best.
@TheBackStabbedSniper Think i am 6 Years too late, but firstable, Great Video and secondly, IMGburn and ISO Zone seems both to be Dead. You have any other Options where to get the Burn Software and the Games?
havent been able to run the game on any compatibility settings. I can only get to the menu but when i click start it crashes immidieatly. Win 10, GTX970, i5-6800K so maybe my system is too new
Is it wrong that I was hoping for an FMV point and click choice oriented game? I mean.... no offense to babylon 5, but the action was really not what I watched that show for....... I'm the only one who finds politics fun aren't I...
@G_Odu Of the North The game was to use FMV between missions. All the series cast reprises their rolls and they filmed it all on the real sets inbetween the filming of the 5th season & the TNT films. Between 1-3 hours of footage was shot and JMS penned the script. But no one has access to the pre-release builds of the game. Just this mutiplayer demo so all the FMV has been lost. The soundtrack was saved and repurposed for the Official Guide to Babylon 5 Multimedia CD-Rom. But that is the only other aspect of the game which still exists.
How do you add games to the menu as shortcuts. I bought 2 rare games I am going to backup and would like easy access to them. On a side note how do you get emulators working on it? such as megadrive and other consoles
do you need to put the DS files on the sd card or do you need to just have a boot disc? games just go right on the root of the sd card? you dont need to make a folder for them or anything? thanks
The only micro SD card I had to test was a Toshiba 4GB class 4. I formatted it FAT with allocation size 64kbs but it's not working. After the system boots it checks the card and says "no card found'. I'd appreciate some help.
