DC Help

[whateverandever]

I bought a DC today to play Shenmue two but I can't get it to work...I have a PS2 which works fine but on the DC the picture won't show up.

I have the tv aerial in the tv out bit and the dc aerial in the tv, I have tried switching between to two 'I and G' modes that are on the black aerial but nothing happens, it just won't work.

Any ideas pls??

Thnx

[Dave_K.]

Where do you live (what country)?  If you bought the UK version of Shenmue2, then you will not be able to play it on a 60hz tv.

[whateverandever]

Hi,

I am in England but I have a 50hz TV, it's not just Shenmue 2 that doesn't work, it's all of them, I don't understand it tho cause my PS2 works fine.

[Dave_K.]

Did you purchase a PAL compatible Dreamcast?  Maybe you bought a US one by mistake?

[whateverandever]

I'm told it's a pal one, it has the blue colour on the logo on the DC/

I've trie everything

With and without scart lead
Tested it on 4 different tv's too

[Dave_K.]

Well if you also tried it with a scart lead and you still get no picture, then it sounds like you have a broken dreamcast on your hands.  

I don't know much else I can help on troubleshooting broken dreamcasts, but some other questions might be, when you turn it on does the fan come on and the light go on?  Does a disc spin when you put  disc in it?  IF you could borrow a dreamcast VGA adapter, you could also test it on a computer monitor.

If I were you I'd just return it, and get another, they are cheap enough.

[whateverandever]

Yep, everything works, light comes on, disc goes round, fan works, I wanna check out few more things before I return it, Ill try it on friends TV too, but I bought it from Ebay 'as new' and was apparently tested befoe it got sent.