well i have a lid switch in both of my dreamcasts...my other one has a lid on it but i never put the lid down anyway (since i dont have to) when playing games. I'll eventually get a replacement lid (maybe transparent) for it though, but for right now no lid. I hope you didn't throw away the old lid,...

nobody cares?

well ive repainted my first dreamcast (it used to be silver...if anyone remembers....it was a horrible paint job) 1. painted it black (looks a whole lot better) 2. placed a lid switch on the side (had to....i messed the lid up...so no lid...heh) http://www.angelfire.com/ex/hopeless/dreamcastpic1.jpg

when you say "cuts out", do you mean the whole dc shuts off?

all i can say is just try it...i dont own a saturn so im not familiar with its hardware.

might be a bad psu....do you have more than one dreamcast? if so then try swapping psu's.

i used a 1.7v red LED and no resistor.

how did you get it to work?

So only solder to the points on the motor right? Sorry im not to good with this suff. No soldering to the PSU or anything right? Thanks

thats what i did. heh.

Could be draining too much power

yeah thats what i thought....maybe i could use power from the psu for it to work?

look under the gdrom (not under the whole unit...just the top part that lifts up)...and you will find the motor that moves the laser (not the motor that spins the spindle...look more carefully) and the points are right on the motor. Doing it is not hard...but getting it to work is a mystery (well......

2-3 coats will do it...but when you put the coats on dont soak it.

Edit: also before you paint it...you might wanna sand it a little with some really smooth sandpaper (i use 320) and then apply your paint.

Edit....again: http://www.devcast.dcemulation.org has a really good paint tutoral.

Edit: ok...ive just tried it...but nothing. I put a disc in there...it begins to read it...and then my dreamcast shuts off.

just run over to wal-mart and pick up a can of Krylon paint but when you go to spray it...dont soak the dc because then it will look as if you "just sprayed it on".

that would be cool...except that i dont go online with my dc...heh.

im not sure if this has been mentioned..but i like the idea of riva's saturn access led mod where the led blinks as its loading. Is there a point on the gd-rom unit in the dc that could possibly be used as a access led?

i never did like Kazaa...i always seemed to be the one that downloaded the terrible quality songs and sometimes it wasnt even the right song

My alternative: record internet streams and save'em to mp3s

you always know what your getting that way

mines 25 watts...heh.

nice paint job...i also love that window mod. cool.

well...you could start by turning the gd-rom unit upside down and unscrew everything until you having nothing but the casing and than you could paint it but im not sure its worth taking the time when nobody's going to be looking inside of your dc.