Dreamcast not playing games

[darylicked]

hey guys and gals

just yesterday my dreamcast stopped loading games

i put in my import booter and it would show the screen

it would just show the Dreamcast start up screen and i could hear the laser and disk moving

and it would just go to the "play, file etc.." menu

so i would pop the lid and close it and it would say "checking disk" and then i would go to "play" and it would say "please insery game disk" and this happens with regular US game disks as well

any ideas as to what the problem could be??? i'm soooo disheartened my sega saturn has been lasting and playing just as well as it did 13 years ago :^(

thanks guys

[az_bont]

you might want to put this in a different forum, seeing as this one is more for hardware and modifications, not bootdisks.

The fact that discs fail to boot suggests a hardware problem that might be repairable.

[Christuserloeser]

Try this tutorial:
http://www.ilovetheinternets.com/index. ... ion-trick/

It's very easy and you can test and hear if you got it or are getting close

[darylicked]

yeah i tried the dusty lid lever fix and to no prevail

i'll try calibrating the laser

i still don't understand why out of nowhere it stopped reading games

[Christuserloeser]

It's old and its laser has worn out.

[darylicked]

yep sad to say it myself i tried the lid detector trick as well as calibrating the laser and i guess the damn thing is dead :^(

looks like i'll have to ebay a new dreamcast

[Christuserloeser]

Well, even if you did not manage to calibrate the laser, you could still try it again later and I am sure you will get it to work. All you need to do is to listen to the sounds you GD-ROM drive makes when you test a GD/CDR.

[Calavera]

Mine works fine, except when you play Wacky Races you can hear the laser just *grinding away and the speech skips.

[zman]

One thing I do when my dreamcast resets and stops working. I put it in my freezer for a little while. After it is child not super cold. Just cooled. I then restart the game it crashed on and everything works. I do not know the scientifics with this, but I do know this works very well. Maybe it cools down the capacitor long enough. I don't know, but it's my fix.

[centralsnare06]

haha! how unorthodox yet creative