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SD Adapter For Dreamcast Released

Posted by timothy on from the for-all-you-dreamers dept.

YokimaSun writes "The Dreamcast was the last console by Sega that had innovations that today's consoles have taken on board, i.e. broadband online gaming and innovative gaming controllers (such as the fishing controller). The console still lives on today, thanks to the support of the homebrew community that still churns out games and emulators and also the odd commercial release for the console by independent developers. Today the spark has been ignited by the fascinating release of an SD adapter for the Dreamcast that allows homebrew games to be played without the need to burn to disc. It's time to dust off those Dreamcast consoles and get back into free gaming. The same company have also released a Dreamcast modified with VGA support and a front-loading SD slot and its own BIOS. Awesome to relive some of those Dreamcast classics."

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  1. Re:Broadband online gaming? by mewsenews · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dreamcast came stock with a 56k but there was a rare "broadband adapter" that would swap the 56k for an ethernet socket. They are probably still a pretty hot item on ebay.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_Broadband_Adapter

  2. Re:Broadband online gaming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    The inclusion of the modem at least brought /online/ gaming to consoles if not broadband gaming. They did make a not-widely-available Ethernet interface for it, however.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast_Broadband_Adapter

  3. VGA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The same company have also released a Dreamcast modified with VGA support"

      The Dreamcast always has had VGA support.
      Dreamcast VGA

  4. Commercialization of an old hack from 2008 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    FWIW the SD card modification was invented back in 2008 by a Japanese guy here:

    http://f17.aaa.livedoor.jp/~takotako/dcserial_ft232bm.php#sdcard

    It's an internal mod as the serial port connector is very hard to come by. All this company did was make an external version and package it with (I'm assuming) a CD-R packed with emulators and ROMs without the respective author's permission.

    It's a cool product, but it would have been cooler if the original guy who did the hardware hack (and the emulator authors who are getting ripped off) could somehow have been compensated for their hard work which made this product possible.

    I know I'm dreaming, console products out of China are all rip-offs so they have zero R&D expenses.

  5. Make your own for free, it's based off a free mod by assemblerex · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is based off a free mod from this site