i wasnt saying to use the HD as what i described, but a whole different device that attaches like a controller, i just hate having to have VMUs pretty much limited to 200 blocks. even a device that combined 2 VMUs would be handy. oh well...

indeed it is, i think what would be useful would be a memory block. With as much storage space as multiple VMUs, the memory block would plug into a controller port or possibly serial port and be used to save anything as opposed to just a few games.

Prophet: yes that is interesting especially since it was the not tech but the sales dept. "Buisness Development"! qatmix: There is already a DC that has been modded to have a HD, do a search for it in the forms and as for USB, that would be interesting, maybe a usb-DCcontroller or usb-seri...

I just got an email back from from Hitachi that ends this discussion sadly. =( Turns out there is no SH-5 model that is pin compatable with the specific SH-4 model used in the Dreamcast but that if there were the instruction sets are completely backwards compatable so if they were physically compata...

im not saying for it to be a huge thing, nor for their to be a point. The fact that you are reading this or answering to this means that you already have free time so why not spend more trying to help solve this meaningless question or just not and do something else, but dont complain

it wouldnt need to be sitting like it should be on the board at least not for test purposes, you could have it seperated from board with wires or long pin stilts or such and run it disassembled...

good one boneycork & lord ball, my fav sony product that i have is a 1988 trinitron they made quality stuff, note past tense so good call!

also can you PLEASE edit that post to not include picture but a link to the picture? please?

i have seen the mobo before but didnt notice that, mostly because i was never seriously considering buying an ultra fine tipped soldering iron and somehow getting an SH-5 and trying it , this is all just theoretically not for any kind of immediate, practical use. just look at the Treamcast(?) althou...

please dont try to kill this thread so soon after i created it =*(

thanks Xylene, i didnt realise that. I think this should continue as a discussion into theoretically whether it is possible or not, not if a home user could do it. It leads to further questioning of the restrictions of hardware in the Dreamcast console and leads to ideas about lets say a DC2. Lets s...

Well just so as not to have to wait for a first post ill put some links: This is a link to a press release on the SH5 addressing its backwards compatability: http://www.eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG19990923S0024 This is a link to the SuperH(SH) site, formerly made by Hitachi then Hitachi&some other ...

Just a quick add-on: Currently there is no place dedicated to hardware upgrade etc, maybe this could stay on longer than my original thread to become a makeshift FAQ and thread for discussion of this class of hardware modding. It could end responses that were made out of stupidity like those initial...

I once posted on this ( click link for original post http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=16391) and as i expected almost the entire first page was laughing, scoffing, and otherwise ridicule directed at my 'newbieness' it wasnt untill posters actually read what i wrote an looked it up th...

another in my series of RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE innovations after countless experimentations i found that on most games you can get vga box to work if you have a normal cable plugged in at first then unplug and plug in VGA box it made most of the games that wouldnt work with no cable then vga work, and...

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!! just felt like popping this back up for ppl to see minus the off topic Tekken stuff. interesting no? Was the Dreamcast actually developed by scientists in 1950 hence the date ? WHO KNOWS!!!!
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WOOT!! By posting my hatred for sony i just got a rank increase, the DC gods must have been truely pleased by my display of PS hatred WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!

Why would a handheld need 7.1 channels of sound? I haven't even seen a DVD with that many. Nothing needs 8 channels of sound unless it is surround sound, which unless they use amazingly expensive headphones is useless. On a handheld only need 2 channels up and down (kidding) but where does the .1 c...

PC and console gaming will always both exist because they have seperate distinct features, PCs are upgradeable, theoretically inifinitely and have standardized development making it possible to find software to do almost anything you want and hardware to run it, the downside is that PCs are also com...

I dont know how old this news is but as of June 2003 all non-PSO DC servers have been shut down. I was wondering how Sega's server systems worked, were they custom machines or PC-styled servers running DC specific server software? Either way, is there any kind of freelance server project in the work...