Entertainment/Gaming Consoles

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Originally posted by dave
So, I ordered the purple Dreamcast from NCSXshop.com and it got here today. I got home and installed my old Dreamcast in it. And let me tell you... wow does it look sweet. Works perfectly.

NCS is my favorite importer; they have decent selection, new games on their Japanese release date, and they ship with lightning speed.

I'm thinking about buying the mod chip for the Dreamcast. It's $25 and it's a four-wire solder job which will make the Dreamcast able to play <b>all</b> imports without having to worry about a boot disc. Cool!

If you trust your soldering skill, it's a thought, but it's sheer overkill on the DC (particularly if you have a decent USENET feed and broadband).

Every game -- from the US, Japan or Europe -- for the Dreamcast has been taken apart and put back together in a self-booting format, which will run WITHOUT a boot disc on the vast majority of Dreamcasts. I have an original (NCS-bought) Fire Pro D, but I play my bootleg instead, because it cuts out the need for the disc swap with no soldering required. (At least now that DCs are $30-40 at EB, the penalty for screwing up is less dramatic than when they were $200.)