I just won a BBA!

Post by **|darc|** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:26 pm

$132.50 shipped, used, out of box, with the Dream Passport disk. Only problem: I don't have any money. $0.00.. I do have 2 eBay auctions going though, they end in 3 days and I should have the money then, hopefully the seller lets me wait until then to pay.

JellyWarrior · Post by **JellyWarrior** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:59 pm

is a BBA a Broad Band Adapter?

Post by **|darc|** » Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:28 pm

JellyWarrior wrote:is a BBA a Broad Band Adapter?

Yep

ben15dc · Post by **ben15dc** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:57 am

Nice job.. I been trying to find one of them damn things too.

Komid · Post by **Komid** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:46 am

Ive got one on my dreamcast back in the states.... Just collecting dust

One of these days im going to hit up a few DC auctions on Ebay for PAL stuff, and have my BBA to sent me.

neoak · Post by **neoak** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:24 am

Komid wrote:Ive got one on my dreamcast back in the states.... Just collecting dust One of these days im going to hit up a few DC auctions on Ebay for PAL stuff, and have my BBA to sent me.

i call dibs on this one if you ever thing about selling it

Komid · Post by **Komid** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:30 pm

neoak wrote:
Komid wrote:Ive got one on my dreamcast back in the states.... Just collecting dust One of these days im going to hit up a few DC auctions on Ebay for PAL stuff, and have my BBA to sent me.
i call dibs on this one if you ever thing about selling it

That will be a cold day in hell my friend..

Post by **Christuserloeser** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:10 pm

Hey, congrats Darc

I still need to buy me one too one of these days.

dj898 · Post by **dj898** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:06 pm

Nice one!

I wouldn't part with mine which is in black... ^__^

Mark30001 · Post by **Mark30001** » Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:26 pm

Congrats. :p

Mr. Jones · Post by **Mr. Jones** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:27 pm

Good luck, Darc.

Question tho - besides game development, Quake and Unreal, what would you use the BBA for? $130+ seems like an awful lot to spend on hobby programming or reducing lag in an older FPS...

stagg · Post by **stagg** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:45 pm

Mr. Jones wrote:Good luck, Darc.

Question tho - besides game development, Quake and Unreal, what would you use the BBA for? $130+ seems like an awful lot to spend on hobby programming or reducing lag in an older FPS...

I image it will only grow in value.

mankrip · Post by **mankrip** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:03 pm

DC's Unreal Tournament isn't online anymore.

Post by **|darc|** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:05 pm

Mr. Jones wrote:Good luck, Darc.

Question tho - besides game development, Quake and Unreal, what would you use the BBA for? $130+ seems like an awful lot to spend on hobby programming or reducing lag in an older FPS...

Well, for one, I don't have dialup and the only phone line we have in the house is my father's fax line that I couldn't use for gaming. So if I wanted to do anything related to an internet connection at all, I would need the BBA. The costs of maintaining a phone line and ISP would certainly easily exceed the costs of a BBA and would be much more of a pain in the ass to use.

As stagg said, I can only imagine that these things will increase in price. On eBay there are still sellers getting rid of their excess supply of BBAs. As these things find their way from people trying to get rid of them to hobbyist's hands, I can imagine it will become hard to find one period, nevermind getting one cheap.

I think years from now, when I have an actual steady source of income, if my interest in the Dreamcast never wanes (as it hasn't for over 6 years or nearly one-third of my life), I would look back and think myself foolish for not spending a "mere $130" on such a prized accessory.

GyroVorbis · Post by **GyroVorbis** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:26 am

Mr. Jones wrote:Question tho - besides game development, Quake and Unreal, what would you use the BBA for? $130+ seems like an awful lot to spend on hobby programming or reducing lag in an older FPS...

I payed about that much for my BBA around a year ago. While I admit that I played 250 hours of online PSO since I got it, my decision to get one was entirely based on devving for the DC.

I've never heard of anybody who regretted purchasing one for that reason. It really does make a HUGE difference. Eventually your projects can take several minutes to send with a coder's cable. If you're like me, and you screw up a lot while programming, this is completely unacceptable. The BBA is instant. I don't even send files like music and textures to the DC anymore, because it's fast enough to just access them directly from my hard drive.

If DC devving is a hobby that you plan to pursue, your purchase of a BBA is so totally worth it.

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:04 am

Guess where I'm posting from!

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:12 pm

A warezy browser?

Red Ronin · Post by **Red Ronin** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:17 pm

Congratulations, indeed! If there are two things that broke my heart before Sega announced the death of the Dreamcast, they were: 1) The cancellation of Propeller Arena and 2) the nigh nonexistent release of the broadband adapter. Even at a hundred bucks each, I prolly woulda got at least two of them. I'm gonna have to try setting up the DC-to-PC broadband sharing thingie... That's something I have never been able to get to work on Windows XP. I had managed to get it working on my old Win95b machine, but that was ages ago. I hope that I can get it going again, though I expect it will take some time.

Red Ronin

Post by **|darc|** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:42 pm

Red Ronin wrote:Congratulations, indeed! If there are two things that broke my heart before Sega announced the death of the Dreamcast, they were: 1) The cancellation of Propeller Arena and 2) the nigh nonexistent release of the broadband adapter. Even at a hundred bucks each, I prolly woulda got at least two of them. I'm gonna have to try setting up the DC-to-PC broadband sharing thingie... That's something I have never been able to get to work on Windows XP. I had managed to get it working on my old Win95b machine, but that was ages ago. I hope that I can get it going again, though I expect it will take some time.

Red Ronin

I don't think anyone's been able to get it to work on XP. I think you need Win98.

Red Ronin · Post by **Red Ronin** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:34 am

Michael K Ter Louw came up with a method, but it is very, very specific... You can check it out here:

PC-Dreamcast Server - Consolevision, "Have you ever wanted to share your PC's internet connection with your Dreamcast? Maybe you want to be able to use both at the same time. Or maybe you have a broadband connection to your PC and want to let your Dreamcast share it, but don't want to spend money on the DC Broadband Adapter. There are many good reasons to set up a Dreamcast server on your PC, but it's not necessarily an easy thing to do. This guide is here to help you get everything set up."

It was quite a bit easier to do on Win95 or Win98. WinXP requires some fiddling with the registry, lucky timing and a bit of witchcraft to get this working... I actually used a slightly different method than he outlines in his FAQ though. I mostly just ran a web server on my PC with my own HTML pages that showed graphics I created for use in Jet Grind Radio. I used the DreamKey web browser that was bundled with Phantasy Star Online to save the graphics to a VMU. I suspect I may have to modify his methodology to get it to work this time as well. But the FAQ is a great starting point.

If I can get it working properly, I won't have to worry about tying up the phone line in the house (or spend time cussing out Time Warner because their dialup service doesn't work). Also, since I've started playing JGR again, I'll be able to hit up all of Tokyo-To in grand style. You can see some of the tags I've been working on HERE.

Red Ronin