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Why do people want Dreamcasts so much?? Can they be hacked...
creatine28:
Just found this link
http://devcast.dcemulation.com/mods/overclock/overclock.php
nickbuol:
So where does everyone put the Dreamcast in their cabinet?
I bought my DC back before they stopped making them for like $150, accessories started going cheap, so I have just about everything made for the thing and over 200 games. I would love to encorporate it into my new cabinet that I am building, but since it is a top load console, I don't know where I could cleanly install it and have it still be easy to access. No coin door on my cabinet, otherwise I thought about making a roll out shelf that slid out the coin door when open. I might have room in my control panel, but I would have to test a few things out there and I am not quite done with that part.
Just looking for creative ideas.
Level42:
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--- Quote from: SirPoonga on August 09, 2005, 10:01:14 am ---What is pre-played??? That would mean they haven't been played yet.
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In English, yes. But you have to understand English is one of the few languages that does everything the wrong way around, as well as adding or removing terms and still making grammatically sentences.
As per the latin roots, "pre-played" would mean "played in the past". Not "before being played" as you suggest.
Ask anyone who has English as a second or even third language: it's a very difficult language to learn thanks to the large number of exceptions, and huge number of different allowable combinations of words with double-meanings.
ON TOPIC:
I'm also keen to hear about the DC overclocking, also for schmup smoothness. Looking forward to the posts when they arrive!
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Haha, so I was succesful in hiding the fact that my native language is not English, thanks for the compliment ;D
I'm Dutch, and believe me, that's a much stranger lanuage, although not as strange as German and French ;D
I think English is pretty easy really, but that maybe because we grow up with everything subtitled on TV, good practice :)
Back to the topic: Indeed, hadn't thought about where to put it, coin door is a good idea. But I have a feeling that the DC will be next to my TV for some time first :)
nickbuol:
Well, I made the decision tonight to put the Dreamcast inside my control panel. With my 4 player design, it fits nicely. I drilled 4 holes for the controller ports on the left and right ends of the back of the control panel (won't see them under normal conditions), and I am letting the glue dry that is holding the controller extension cables in place. That way, I will just have to plug in my favorite DC controls to the back of the control panel and keep things nice and clean looking.
I did have to drill (using a medium hole cutter attachment) an opening in the back center of the control panel. Everything else is USB for the MAME stuff and I have a 4 port USB hub, that doesn't require power, inside the control panel and have a 6 foot USB cable so that I have 1 connection to the PC, but now with the DC going inside, I needed a hole big enough to get power in and video/audio out of the DC. I will need to use a RCA style extension cable for the video, and I will have to use an audio converter to go from the RCA right and left audio to "headphone" style and then run a splitter from my powered speakers so that it can take inputs from the DC or the PC. Should be good.
I am going out of town for the weekend, so I won't be back to the project until Monday night when I plan to finish covering the sides (left, right, front, and back) of my control panel, and then get the control panel base mounted on to the cabinet. Then comes the fun wiring job, and then attaching the top to the control panel base. My goal is to be done with that by the end of next week and then next weekend get MAME tested and running. Somewhere in there I need to get the speakers mounted (holes are already cut), the marquee light mounted, and the artwork on. I will finish up with getting the PC power on/off button moved to on the cabinet itself, and if I feel really gutsy, take the TV remote apart and set up a button for that too to turn it on/off. Once all of that is done, I will put the front glass in place (haven't ordered it yet, but don't want it laying around just asking to be broken), and THEN I will finally get around to getting the Dreamcast fired up.
I've come so far, and yet have so far to go....