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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday April 23 2020, @06:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the glorious-8-bit-graphics dept.

An SSD can resurrect your old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast consoles:

Classic disc-based consoles are getting long in the tooth. As their optical drives burn out, they're rendered unplayable, which is a shame -- these systems were the peak of gaming in the eyes of many. Hardcore gamers who miss titles like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Power Stone may want to perform life-saving surgery on their Sega Saturn or Dreamcast consoles this summer, as a new solution will be able to replace dead disc drives, with no soldering skills needed. The Terraonion MODE -- Multi-Optical Disc Emulator -- simply drops into your console of choice, reads ROMs from a storage medium, and passes the data onto the console for processing. The dream of the '90s is alive.

[...] Some may wonder what the big deal is. Most of these games can be played on an emulator. But emulators simply don't have that magic that original hardware does. Is that worth the nearly $200 price of something like the MODE? For a lot of hardcore gamers -- especially those who are privy to the Saturn and Dreamcast's vast Japanese libraries -- the answer could be yes. It may be time to dust off some old consoles and relive one of gaming's greatest eras.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by damnbunni on Friday April 24 2020, @04:54AM

    by damnbunni (704) on Friday April 24 2020, @04:54AM (#986396) Journal

    I have a heavily hacked Dreamcast.

    Replacing the GD-ROM with an SD card isn't hard. Nor is it that expensive, $100-ish for a board on Amazon.

    But mine is also hacked to have HDMI support, pulled digital from the GPU, no digital-analog-digital conversion.

    And it has an original Dreamcast controller modded for Bluetooth. And a replacement power supply that puts less heat into the console and adds Bluetooth support and lets me turn it on and off from the controller.

    Yes, this cost a crapload of money. But there are a bunch of Dreamcast games I really like, and this lets me play them almost like it's a modern console - the only thing missing is 'suspend' functionality.

    I haven't bothered to do this with my Saturn because there aren't that many Saturn games I play.

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