I've tried that simple fix before, but it didn't always work for me. Could still be playing a game and get a sudden reset, but the weight on the lid does at least allow a boot up of games, just not 100% for me.
Friday, October 10, 2014
The Dreamcast is knocking on a bit these days - as you're probably no doubt aware, the entire planet celebrated the 15th year since the system's US launch barely a week ago. With age, comes knowledge and wisdom...but also wear and tear, and Old Father Time does not discriminate between the mechanical or the biological. To this end, you've probably noticed that occasionally your Dreamcast may not load certain games or that the system sometimes resets in the middle of a game. You may also be more acutely aware that the console's GD-Rom drive makes way more noise than any of the more modern systems. There are remedies to both the disk reading errors and the cacophony of grinding drives and GD access though, and these videos from Youtubers Mark Fixes Stuff and Carl Eggett will show you how to go about banishing those ear-shredding noises and game resets from your Dreamcast once and for all:
"Well Oiled Machine"
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I've tried that simple fix before, but it didn't always work for me. Could still be playing a game and get a sudden reset, but the weight on the lid does at least allow a boot up of games, just not 100% for me.
Friday, October 10, 2014