I didn't know the Dreamcast could play DVD's.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=294927[/url][/quote]I like the Dreamcast and it has to be one of the most vercitile systems ever made because you can do prettymuch anything with it, including playing DVD's. Thats if you know how to set the system up anyway. All in all, I don't think that anyone appreciates how hot this system really is and even with all the import games that it has!!
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Re: Check out this review of the Dreamcast(DC's Hidden Features)
Uhh.. yeah the DC can play DVDs. You just need to open it up and change a switch from 6C to 7D near the laser. It then will let you watch DVDs, but the software is buggy and crashes a lot during the movie playback.Calavera wrote:I didn't know the Dreamcast could play DVD's.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=294927I like the Dreamcast and it has to be one of the most vercitile systems ever made because you can do prettymuch anything with it, including playing DVD's. Thats if you know how to set the system up anyway. All in all, I don't think that anyone appreciates how hot this system really is and even with all the import games that it has!!
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Re: Check out this review of the Dreamcast(DC's Hidden Features)
is this really true?. and if so could you give a little more detail on how it's done.|darc| wrote:Uhh.. yeah the DC can play DVDs. You just need to open it up and change a switch from 6C to 7D near the laser. It then will let you watch DVDs, but the software is buggy and crashes a lot during the movie playback.Calavera wrote:I didn't know the Dreamcast could play DVD's.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=294927I like the Dreamcast and it has to be one of the most vercitile systems ever made because you can do prettymuch anything with it, including playing DVD's. Thats if you know how to set the system up anyway. All in all, I don't think that anyone appreciates how hot this system really is and even with all the import games that it has!!
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Re: Check out this review of the Dreamcast(DC's Hidden Features)
Did you know that if you say "fish" real slow it sounds like "gullible".zero wrote:is this really true?. and if so could you give a little more detail on how it's done.|darc| wrote:Uhh.. yeah the DC can play DVDs. You just need to open it up and change a switch from 6C to 7D near the laser. It then will let you watch DVDs, but the software is buggy and crashes a lot during the movie playback.Calavera wrote:I didn't know the Dreamcast could play DVD's.http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... s&n=294927I like the Dreamcast and it has to be one of the most vercitile systems ever made because you can do prettymuch anything with it, including playing DVD's. Thats if you know how to set the system up anyway. All in all, I don't think that anyone appreciates how hot this system really is and even with all the import games that it has!!
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ok so i take it it doesn't, i thought so anyways, i mean the dc's gd-drive, is just an upgraded cd-drive, or is it a down graded dvd drive, what ever. but ether way it wouldn't be able to play dvd's. it's just the way darc put it. he made it sound so real... ok so a fell dor it, whats the big deal, the is no need to keep going on about it, ok, ok no more, ok i said i fell for it what more to ye want from me. funny i think i may be going mad .
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Was what the bloke said.. he is refering to a Playstation 2 being a souped up Dreamcast that plays DVDs.. not that the draemcast plays DVDs.When you are buying a PS2 you are basically buying a dreamcast that plays DVD's
Written properly it makes more sense:
When you are buying a PS2, you are basically buying a dreamcast that plays DVD's.
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Ok, this only works on SOME EARLY JAPANESE models... Luckily a friend I know from school has one, and I could take pics of it.
The DC was going to have a DVD drive in the beginning... but they canned that idea, and went for a GD-ROM drive with small DVD-reading capabilities... It wouldn't be able to do everything a normal DVD drive could, but it COULD read movie DVDs. The produced a few GD-ROM units with the DVD capability in it, but it was eventually canned for a no-DVD reading GD-ROM drive. Forseeing this, when they first made the DVD GD-ROMs, they made switchs on the units to turn DVD off in case they did can it. Since they already had quite a few units with DVD-capabilties on them, they just put the DVD units in some of the early Japanese DC units, and had the switch set to OFF.
Most of the Japanese systems have the DVD playback software except the late ones. However, they don't have the drive of course, making it useless.
Around the area I have in white (you can't see it very well in the pic) there will be a tiny switch. Use something with a small point to flick the switch from 6C to 7D. Place a DVD in the drive and boot (it may have to be a japanese region DVD, not sure). It will boot, show the Dreamcast logo and swirl, then it will immediatly play the DVD. There are no fast forward/backwards/etc. functions, however. I'm not even sure if you can operate menus.
The DC was going to have a DVD drive in the beginning... but they canned that idea, and went for a GD-ROM drive with small DVD-reading capabilities... It wouldn't be able to do everything a normal DVD drive could, but it COULD read movie DVDs. The produced a few GD-ROM units with the DVD capability in it, but it was eventually canned for a no-DVD reading GD-ROM drive. Forseeing this, when they first made the DVD GD-ROMs, they made switchs on the units to turn DVD off in case they did can it. Since they already had quite a few units with DVD-capabilties on them, they just put the DVD units in some of the early Japanese DC units, and had the switch set to OFF.
Most of the Japanese systems have the DVD playback software except the late ones. However, they don't have the drive of course, making it useless.
Around the area I have in white (you can't see it very well in the pic) there will be a tiny switch. Use something with a small point to flick the switch from 6C to 7D. Place a DVD in the drive and boot (it may have to be a japanese region DVD, not sure). It will boot, show the Dreamcast logo and swirl, then it will immediatly play the DVD. There are no fast forward/backwards/etc. functions, however. I'm not even sure if you can operate menus.
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