Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Consoles => Topic started by: Zrooney on April 05, 2012, 08:10:14 pm
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Today my controller came in the mail for the Dreamcast I bought a week ago. I turn it on, set the Dreamcast Date and put in my CD ( only thing I have to test it), and it does not read it! I searched around on the internet and started messing with the potentiometer ( the screw nest to the ribbon cable) for an hour and with no results. This is one of the launch Dreamcast's. The question is should I order a new lens assemble for $20 for a grand total of $37 spent on this Dreamcast, continue screwing around with the old lens assemble, or just get a new Dreamcast?
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Sometimes if you open and close the lid, it gets the system to start reading the disc. It make take a few tries, otherwise find another used system. You can usually find them cheap.
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Thanks for the input, as I was on the fence of getting a new one, or replacing the lens assembly.
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I would buy a new used one from a eBay. It should only cost about $50. But whatever you do get that sucker up and running. I love my Dreamcast : ;D
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Drop it on a carpeted floor, and give it a good kick.
You will feel better. ;D
Oh and try a retail game. CDI backups do not always read first time.
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Today I had one in my hands, with a controller for $25, but I could not justify the purchase for some reason. I think i can find one cheaper at a yardsale, and if not. I know where to go to get one for a whooping $25.
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Dam you guys, even broken ones go for more than $50 in Australia :angry:
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Dam you guys, even broken ones go for more than $50 in Australia :angry:
They sometimes show up in the Pawn shop in my town for £10.
You seem to have the same voltage as the UK....
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This weekend if I am bored I might attempt ( again) to repair the Dreamcast, I turned the potentiometer last time, all the way up and down. Can I still repair it , or would the laser be burned out?
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Dam you guys, even broken ones go for more than $50 in Australia :angry:
They sometimes show up in the Pawn shop in my town for £10.
You seem to have the same voltage as the UK....
Yes, I have a broken one, but the power supply should be good. Have been toying around with the idea of buying an NTSC one and swap the power over, but I'm not 100% all the connections are exactly the same for a straight swap. I don't want to use a step down transformer. So my new idea is to spend a bit more for one in the UK. Even with the postage (provided I get a fairly basic deal, not with a dozen games etc) it should come out to less than the nit wits are paying here...
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This weekend if I am bored I might attempt ( again) to repair the Dreamcast, I turned the potentiometer last time, all the way up and down. Can I still repair it , or would the laser be burned out?
if it was powered all the way up then more then likely it is shot and cooked the coils for the eye.
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Ok, thanks. I think that is what i did :banghead: Well now I know....
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Rest in peace. The hours of entertainment you provided will not soon be forgotten.
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The funny thing is.. this was not even mine, I got it second hand with out a controller ( but everything else) for 10 dollars. And I never got a chance to even play on a real Dreamcast, I was hoping this one would work.