USB <-> DC High speed Cable Coders released

SiZiOUS · Post by **SiZiOUS** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:20 pm

Hi all,

Axlen has created an USB <-> DC high speed coders cable.
Some picts :

The price is 45? (~49$), without carriage costs.

Write here if you want to buy it (Remove [NO-SPAM]).
CodersCable[NO-SPAM]@sbcglobal.net

Source : DCReload [FR]

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:27 pm

Nice, very tidy. Like the blue casing and LED too. If I was a coder, I wouldn't think twice about buying one

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:39 pm

Impressive. Can this be used to boot homebrew games without burning it to a CD-R? Kinda like how the BBA does it? If so, is it pretty simple?

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:52 pm

Heh, old news to us Consolevision people. He has been keeping us updated for months with the progress of this project. Good to see the final (I think??) design is done. It looks really nice, heh.

GyroVorbis · Post by **GyroVorbis** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:04 pm

If I wasn't a 15 year old unemployed 10th grade bum who can't even drive yet, I wouldn't think twice about buying me one of them.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:04 pm

I should check the Consolevision boards more, I didn't know about that DC with all the mods till Higgens asked

SiZiOUS · Post by **SiZiOUS** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:48 pm

Yes, that's the final version.

Vchat20 · Post by **Vchat20** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:57 pm

nice. may be a stupid question, but is it faster than Serial<->DC Serial? i thought i remember the DC serial port being slow to begin with.

SiZiOUS · Post by **SiZiOUS** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:59 pm

is it faster than Serial<->DC Serial

It's the goal. It is very fast : 1562500 bps (~ 1,5 Mbits/sec or 200KB/sec).

It works as the same of the serial coders cable, but the PC output is an USB socket.

dcmodder · Post by **dcmodder** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:11 pm

wow that's very very nice.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 9:18 pm

Damn, that's nice. How'd you manufacture them?

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 11:59 pm

Xylene wrote:Heh, old news to us Consolevision people. He has been keeping us updated for months with the progress of this project. Good to see the final (I think??) design is done. It looks really nice, heh.

Fairly old news on dcemu.co.uk as well. I couldn't really stand the attitude (at the time? haven't been there in a while) over at consolevision, and they promised a DC page for like months. So I went back here.

Edit: Ein, check out his page here.

MetaFox · Post by **MetaFox** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:44 pm

Alexvrb wrote:
Xylene wrote:Heh, old news to us Consolevision people. He has been keeping us updated for months with the progress of this project. Good to see the final (I think??) design is done. It looks really nice, heh.
Fairly old news on dcemu.co.uk as well. I couldn't really stand the attitude (at the time? haven't been there in a while) over at consolevision, and they promised a DC page for like months. So I went back here.

Consolevision has had a Dreamcast only page for years. http://www.dcvision.net/

Axlen · Post by **Axlen** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 8:35 pm

I have created a preliminary web-page for the USB Coders Cable. It contains a brief history, a short technical write-up, schematic and parts resources.

Hi, I just re-discovered that I'm registered as a user here

Must have done that years ago

Benimaru · Post by **Benimaru** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 7:24 am

How do you hook this converter up to the dreamcast?

revengeofLaEternal · Post by **revengeofLaEternal** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:33 pm

May be a stupid question, but are there plans to build a DC<>Serial<>USB adapter of sorts? Some of us (myself included) already have a serial <> DC cable and might not want to pay full price for a brand new cable. Of course, if this is impossible, or already exists (I know there are serial to USB adapters geared towards PDA users), just let me know

Alexvrb · Post by **Alexvrb** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:22 pm

MetaFox wrote:
Alexvrb wrote:
Xylene wrote:Heh, old news to us Consolevision people. He has been keeping us updated for months with the progress of this project. Good to see the final (I think??) design is done. It looks really nice, heh.
Fairly old news on dcemu.co.uk as well. I couldn't really stand the attitude (at the time? haven't been there in a while) over at consolevision, and they promised a DC page for like months. So I went back here.
Consolevision has had a Dreamcast only page for years. http://www.dcvision.net/

Yes, the DC scene is old, isn't it? I got a bit tired of scrolling through PS2 news when they were supposed to have a DC centric site up again. That and the attitude, again at. the. time. So I went back and found that DCE had improved vastly and decided I liked it here.

SiZiOUS · Post by **SiZiOUS** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:35 pm

revengeofLaEternal wrote:May be a stupid question, but are there plans to build a DC<>Serial<>USB adapter of sorts? Some of us (myself included) already have a serial <> DC cable and might not want to pay full price for a brand new cable. Of course, if this is impossible, or already exists (I know there are serial to USB adapters geared towards PDA users), just let me know

same here.

GyroVorbis · Post by **GyroVorbis** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 5:12 pm

SiZiOUS wrote:
revengeofLaEternal wrote:May be a stupid question, but are there plans to build a DC<>Serial<>USB adapter of sorts? Some of us (myself included) already have a serial <> DC cable and might not want to pay full price for a brand new cable. Of course, if this is impossible, or already exists (I know there are serial to USB adapters geared towards PDA users), just let me know
same here.

Same here.

MetaFox · Post by **MetaFox** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:36 pm

Alexvrb wrote:
MetaFox wrote:
Alexvrb wrote:
Xylene wrote:Heh, old news to us Consolevision people. He has been keeping us updated for months with the progress of this project. Good to see the final (I think??) design is done. It looks really nice, heh.
Fairly old news on dcemu.co.uk as well. I couldn't really stand the attitude (at the time? haven't been there in a while) over at consolevision, and they promised a DC page for like months. So I went back here.
Consolevision has had a Dreamcast only page for years. http://www.dcvision.net/
Yes, the DC scene is old, isn't it? I got a bit tired of scrolling through PS2 news when they were supposed to have a DC centric site up again.

Eh? That link works you know.

It points to http://www.consolevision.com/dreamcast/ - which has been up since Consolevision went multiplatform oh so many years ago. That link has always had Dreamcast only news.