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It's a Dreamcast USB Adapter. For those who don't understand why this could be a good thing, here is my personal list of how it'd be nice:
- The Dreamcast's disc drive is really loud.
- Dreamcast backups on a CD-R are limited in file size since the original GD-ROMs are bigger. Some Dreamcast ISOs have to get clover to fit on a CD-R with lower quality audio, video, voice acting, or removing some of these altogether.
- GDIs on the real hardware
- The Dreamcast drive will die eventually. You can tune the laser strength to give it a little extra life but a busted drive is the eventual fate of most disc based gaming consoles.
- Dreamcast emulation isn't perfect. The Dreamcast owns and playing stuff on the real hardware owns. Just Emulate It is a bad attitude for retrogaming.
There was an attempt at a Dreamcast SD card loader earlier. It turned out not to be very good. The big downside to this is that it altogether replaces the disc drive in a Dreamcast. This is great for units with broken drives, of which there are plenty. Also noteworthy is that it doesn't appear to reduce load times much. It's probably going to be super expensive and Stone Age Gamer kind of sucks.
Here's the announcement with my comments in bold.
http://www.stoneagegamer.com/Stone Age Gamer said:From the creator of the 3DO USB Adapter (the what?) comes the Dreamcast USB Adapter.
Features:
- USB 2.0 Host
- support USB Flash Stick, SATA/IDE HDD(tested only 3.5''), SD up to 2 TBytes
- support FAT32 (no NTFS?)
- Game selection menu system (updatable?)
- 100% compatible (good)
- CDDA supported (you just said 100%...)
- Format: GDI & ISO
- Region free (You can launch any GDI images on your console)
- excellent design (really?)
We have been working with MNEMO (creator) over the last couple months trying to acquire a few hard-to-find parts for this project.
The good news we have accomplished this. So we hope later 2015 or very early 2015 we will begin to carry the Dreamcast USB Adapter. Unlike the GDEMU this adapter has a built-in menu system and can handle drives up to 2TB.
But SAG, I can't mod a system to save my life! Well we have good news for you. These mod is virtually plug and play. No soldering, de-soldering or wiring needed. You just unplug and remove your GD-ROM and connect the USB Adapter. Its a simple PCI-style connector. The only modification is a simple cut to the back of the shell. (Cutting or dremmeling a nice hole is not that easy)
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We currently do not have any final pricing on this product, but obviously once we do we will post about it in FaceBook. A long with any news about pre-orders, etc.