dreamcast discs are canceled 

oh my god you just opened pandora's box and it can never be shut again. I'm so conflicted right now. I am going to seek an optometrist for eye removal surgery asap

the real optical media was the friends we opted for along the way

Great swap you did lad. Even I think a 256 GB storage card is enough for many Dreamcast games.

@@BringusStudios oh yeah everything is optical media

The Human Body Uses Optical Media. Let's Change That.

To reply to the original question I was asked which appears to have been removed … It’s because there’s no load on the 12v rail which powers the GD-ROM drive. Without anything on the 12v rail, it’ll just sit there drawing power with nothing using it, resulting in excess heat. The channel owner is correct in that regard. However, that heat is there in every version of the console, not just PAL - there is more heat from a stock PAL PSU than a US one, due to the increased voltage, but to say it’s not required for US consoles simply is not true. At the end of the day, it’s up to the user of the console to decide how best they use their console after installing a GDEMU. Some leave it be and accept the excess heat and potential damage (I’ve personally blown a PAL PSU after running it stock with a GDEMU for just over an hour). Some people use a set of resistors to bridge the PSU connector pins and add load to the rail, but that’s a very janky mod in my opinion. There are aftermarket PSU’s, like the Pico PSU as mentioned in the video, but avoid the DreamPSU (not to he confused with the DreamPower PSU, which I use).

"it’ll just sit there drawing people with nothing using it" - @@SEGAGuys lol

@@bland9876 When you realise your phone auto corrected power to people … 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣

@@bland9876 You ever hear of phantom load?

@@mickeyqtip7918 no but I've heard of phantom pain before.

thats crazy 💀

>:(

Try paying for an overpriced dreamcast game and you'll understand.

True, bullying Optical Optical media is not cool

No, I would rather fall off a cliff than not breaking optical media.

Optical media bad

HHHHHVICTORREEYYYY!!!!

Based opinion, based as hell

Also fallout new vegas

gee whizz bambino

Gee whizz gambino lol

this is true. but ever since my copy of jumpstart for 1st graders stopped reading when I was a child I am no longer able to take the heartbreak of my beloved media failing on me anymore. I am working on this trauma with a therapist

@@BringusStudios I had the same problem Toy Story 3 on my PS3, had a lot of memories with it

@@BringusStudiosI’m having the same issue with sonic adventure 1 on my Dreamcast. It’s really weird tho, like it’ll actually load in some areas if you wait a week, but then after an hour it’ll go back to not working. Still love my Dreamcast from 1999 tho

​@@BringusStudioslmaoo 😂

can't really say that about my dreamcast, it sounds like a fax machine when it's reading

He specified optical not physical. Carts good CD bad

This is true physical media good I just hate scratching a DVD and instantly losing a $60 game it's very un-gaming

Own your games DRM free, then literally no one can take that from you. I dont know why people conflate digital media with DRM. Like yeah its everywhere, but GOG exists, rom dumping, and piracy. Physical media kinda sucks if you ask me, the write speed on spinning disks sucks and even with cartridges you can physically lose those, and they take up space too.

@@BringusStudios bring back cartridges

​@@totallynoteverything1.Me trying to find a reason to own fancy plastic

There used to be a DC iso floating around that was a Genesis emulator with hundreds of ROMs and now I can't find it anywhere.

Dump them

Have you considered uploading this to the internet archive? I'm VERY interested in your collection

bump on the internet archive comment, you really should put it there if it's not there already

you want to go home and rethink your life

⁠​⁠​⁠@@BringusStudiosYou want to go ahead and take options away from existing systems in the name of “modernization”?

@@fujinshuyeah I love having the inability to physically own the media that I bought and everything be behind a subscription or online based in which I can’t access if the service is down, MODERN GAMING

​@@BringusStudiosYou should've thought twice before posting this reply. Taking away options is not good. TBH saying the optical drive needs to go entirely is incredibly closed minded.

@@LampHatScott it's a star wars reference

Majority of the Dreamcast library was under 700MB so it doesn't apply to most games. It's nice being able to use the full iso though yeah.

I remember seeing a lot of 900MB CD-Rs used by DC owners

Dam that's bigger than some sd cards. I've seen 64MB and 256MB cards and no I did not mean GB. I don't have them my dad dose but the smallest regular storage device I own (not a memory card for a game system) is two 512MB USB thumb drives.

The GameCube discs are much smaller physically but is actually 1.47GB more than the Dreamcast.

@@VOAN GD-ROM discs are roughly 1.1GB, GameCube discs are 1.46. Sega always gave 1.2GB as the size (and Wikipedia states so) but that's Sega's little fib.

Same, also in his walls with cd-rs on my fingers

I am also in his walls with HD-DVDs of Kangaroo Jak over my eyes

This wall is going to get crowded soon

fi and hall hall!!!!!

hey can yall move to other walls it;s kinda crowded in here

You bad because optical media + you = bad

I prefer the original discs myself.

That's an insult to Scott

​@@abrahanmorales9314 It's an insult to Bringus, ew.

That cd bit was literally Scott the Woz

But Bringus is lacking the proper spice. The Aussie accent. :) Still, a good channel

My favourite thing was being able to play Playstation games on it using Bleem!

Dude, i got pretty tired of it quick. The games were shallow. I dunno, maybe i'll dig it out again. Emulation even with a good PC just doesn't feel right to me.

​@@Name3rdGearVTACK🤡

Don't worry. Once you games start to get bitrot you will have both systems with optical drive emulators

​@@USDebtCrisisIsn't it a waste of time to mod 2 systems to be the exact same just for the chance that the CDs for the one that uses CDs start breaking down when you still have the original moded system that you can still put stuff on even if you run out of space just by buying a new SD card?

@@USDebtCrisis Yes. The Bitrot is upon us. Especially for Saturn games right now. Optical Media Bad.

@@caseykoons I have tons of discs that were pressed in the 90s and only seen it happen on some newer writable discs that were not well taken care of. On the other hand, the optical reading head, motors and whatnot do wear out in time, probably quicker than CDs becoming unreadable in normal circumstances

This was indeed a gee whiz bambino tier video.

gee whiz bambino is quite the thing to ask for

gee whiz bambino frfr

Gee whiz bambino. Damn you pause button. Here I am again.

Gee whiz bambino

Cronch cronch bzzzzzzzzzzzt

that felt like a gunshot please I can't take it

@@BringusStudios also, it's funny how you say optical media bad but you have so much dvd's that you break them for a 1 second gag, and if the burn fails, it's just an skill issue

Optical media is terrible. Both the discs and the drives are fragile and prone to failure. The only benefit to using optical media over anything else is that the discs are slightly cheaper than other options. If you want or need a physical copy of your media for any reason then flash ROMs are significantly better in every other way and the extra cost is well worth it.

​@@frequentfrenziedoptical mefia will basically be the only type of media that will survive a direct solar flare, also cmon man do you leave your discs on sandpaper?

@@frequentfrenzied Ahh yes, so glad I can go out to GameStop and buy RDR2 on flash rom for my PS4 !

@@Gatorade69 Flash ROM *is* superior, not that it was used in everything. It had a rough start with carts being wickedly expensive, but now it's cheap for basically every major game. Even starfield could fit onto a 128 GB SD card. You can't tell me that's not preferable to an optical disc, especially if the console's laser fails, you now can't play your legally purchased games.

​@@frequentfrenziedAll of my PS1 discs from when I was a kid in the 90s still work fine. No rot or anything. It just depends on storage and care. Anything can fail over time. SSDs fail.

oh my god that is insane. I didn't know that the GD-ROM communicated over IDE. it's so cursed

​@@BringusStudiosold ass 2004 IDE full size harddrive to Sega Dreamcast let's go

I know I thought that same thing. It was between a black one or a white one and I wasn't sure what would look better. Black had the benefit of looking like the original drive but I was hoping the white would blend in with the rest of the shell better... which it kinda didn't

i am slightly damaged now but i will recover thank you for your concern though

When it works.

Also did I say optical media good? Optical media good!

I am not infected with opticaltitis

Yup I'll agree with that, dumb subscription services < optical media < digital copies

No. I also love optical media.

Wdym? They will be saved in the hdd

The preservation method for digital games or a game on a piece of optical media is actually identical. You are not preserving a game by putting it in a case on a shelf because they degrade naturally and if you want to actually use that media you move it closer to the grave with each use. Both digital games and physical games have DRM and you have to circumvent that if you want to preserve them. Which is actually illegal. So in either case to preserve games long term you have to circumvent their DRM and be a pirate. Once you do that you can back them up onto as many drives as you want and that is how all games that will be preserved are preserved. So if you are not preserving the actual software you are really only preserving the action of using a disc and frankly, optical media sucks.

@@SirNarax you’re degrading naturally.

CD/DVDs are properly preserved as a digital file tho?

There’s no flawless way to store games but digital is the worst out of all of them. I’d say cartridge is better as it’s more robust than a disk but the flash dies. The thing with optical is that it doesn’t degrade. As long as you treat the disk well and keep it in a case it’ll keep it’s data.

RETURN TO CARTRIDGE Flash storage is cheap, you can actually fit the whole game on it, and you can just plug it in and immediately play. No install required.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

The primary reason I don't like discs is how easy it is to lose the data that's on them. I'm 100% for dumping discs for archival and preservation, that's why I've moved a lot of my collection over to digital

@@BringusStudios This is only true of the older disc formats (CD, DVD). Blu-Rays have special coating that makes them practically impossible to scratch.

untrue and false this is not the way

@@BringusStudiosno optical media good