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DaveMMR:

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--- Quote from: Bootay on December 15, 2010, 10:40:40 am ---Just thought I would share that info for the ones that were confused on how they got the PC to read the GD-ROM. Sega screwed themselves more or less with this device, but like people have already stated, the Dreamcast was already on a decline anyway.

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That device was part of the standard software development kit provided by Sega to third party developers.  It was very expensive and came with a very heavy license agreement.  Of course, someone abused it, as always happens.  Devices like that exist for every closed software platform.  They have to or else the software development process would be severely slowed down by the nature of writing out masters for rapid testing.

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Thought I should chime in.

To clarify what ChadTower wrote. Dreamcast used a full blown development PC with a GD-ROM burner as part of it's specifications. Essentially, it was a hybrid system with Dreamcast and PC hardware connected together via SCSI. Google Katana if you want more info. I remember this beast because I tried to get a hold of one (a Katana marked one no less) when it appeared on eBay (and before any morons chime in about piracy, I wanted this as a collector and the Dreamcast was already so far gone the Living Will already kicked in). Katana was not the basis for all the piracy that went on with the Dreamcast. Maybe some, if any, but most certainly not all.

Bootay is probably confusing Katana with what was actually used to copy the games. Do I dare mention what it was and have a moron accuse me of piracy?

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How much did it eventually sell for, pirate!  (just kidding)   

Actually, I wouldn't mind having one of those too as a collector.  Here's something I came up with (but with the DC logo - not the Katana)
http://retro-treasures.blogspot.com/2008/05/sega-katana-hkt-0120-dreamcast.html



SavannahLion:
TBH I don't rightly remember the exact amount. I think I bid somewhere in $500 range. It sat there for days with me as the highest bidder until the last half hour when the snipers came in and a bidding war ensued. I want to say it was at least four figures.

I recall it went to a well known (though not by me) SEGA collector. I'll have to find the archive to be certain.

WhereEaglesDare:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on December 16, 2010, 10:44:42 pm ---TBH I don't rightly remember the exact amount. I think I bid somewhere in $500 range. It sat there for days with me as the highest bidder until the last half hour when the snipers came in and a bidding war ensued. I want to say it was at least four figures.

I recall it went to a well known (though not by me) SEGA collector. I'll have to find the archive to be certain.

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Whoa!  Thats nuts for a piece of 10 year old tech.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: WhereEaglesDare on December 16, 2010, 10:55:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on December 16, 2010, 10:44:42 pm ---TBH I don't rightly remember the exact amount. I think I bid somewhere in $500 range. It sat there for days with me as the highest bidder until the last half hour when the snipers came in and a bidding war ensued. I want to say it was at least four figures.

I recall it went to a well known (though not by me) SEGA collector. I'll have to find the archive to be certain.

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Whoa!  Thats nuts for a piece of 10 year old tech.

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Maybe. I'm not 100% sure on that. I was bidding on a lot of old console tech back then. A lot of Atari and Sega a peripherals and stuff with some Nintendo (eg FDS) whenever they cropped up.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on December 16, 2010, 04:21:16 pm ---Hmmm.. the only thing that comes to mind is kallistios or the serial cable used prior to the broadband adapter. Lik-Sang might have sold a commercially made one, IIRC the cable or one like it was also used on a Linux homebrew dev kit. None of it was sanctioned by Sega that I can recall.

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People were using the broadband adapter to rip games at one point.

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