daclassicgamingmaster
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This is copy/pasted from my thread over at dc forums.uk or whatever. I'll ask here as well, perhaps get some different responses:
I've had a DC since I read in a gaming magazine that Sega was to stop production on them. I figured that it had such great games that I ought to buy one before it's too late.
So I played ready to rumble boxing, and other games of the like. This was maybe 4 years ago (When it was first announced, i dont remember the exact year).
Im now older, and so a year ago I went ebay surfing and picked up some gems such as shenmue and the really good sport games. I hadn't played my Dreamcast in a while since i had pretty much crappy games laugh.gif
So I break out my DC after a long period of not playing it, pop in shenmue, and start playing. After the long opening sequence, I play for maybe 5 minutes, and BAM, it resets. It wouldnt detect the disc until it cooled down either.
This was completely new to me, and so I ignored it and tryed again and again; but I kept getting the reset issue.
I stopped playing it once again, and stored all my games. I was disappointed to say the very least. I never bothered finding what the problem was though, until yesterday, when some googling brought me to the infamous pin solution. So I followed through with it, and tryed leaving my DC on. 10 minutes later, some weird disc noises, and back to the menu once again sad.gif. So again I hit google, and find that it may be a heat problem.
I isolate my DC, allowing plenty of air (it was in a media cabinet, so it was somehwhat cramped), and power on NBA 2K1. An hour and a half later, still going strong! So I come to the conclusion that it is indeed a heating issue. So I power down, and try to switch discs. I wanted to see if the new game would be detected, because previously it wouldnt (due to the unit being hot, as I stated above). My new game was NOT detected, as I thought.
So now, I have decided that it is probably a heat problem, and while allowing room for my DC to breathe allows me to run a game for a long period of time, I still cannot swap discs while it's warm.
Is there any solution?? I read about the add on fan, but lik sang's sold out ("out of business" anyway), and the only other place to get it is from a UK site where I get raped on cost of shipping alone.
Can anyone help me? There must be something I can do unsure.gif
I can always send it into old school gamer, but I want that to be my last resort.
What do you all think? I've heard this is fairly common. wtf should I do????
I've had a DC since I read in a gaming magazine that Sega was to stop production on them. I figured that it had such great games that I ought to buy one before it's too late.
So I played ready to rumble boxing, and other games of the like. This was maybe 4 years ago (When it was first announced, i dont remember the exact year).
Im now older, and so a year ago I went ebay surfing and picked up some gems such as shenmue and the really good sport games. I hadn't played my Dreamcast in a while since i had pretty much crappy games laugh.gif
So I break out my DC after a long period of not playing it, pop in shenmue, and start playing. After the long opening sequence, I play for maybe 5 minutes, and BAM, it resets. It wouldnt detect the disc until it cooled down either.
This was completely new to me, and so I ignored it and tryed again and again; but I kept getting the reset issue.
I stopped playing it once again, and stored all my games. I was disappointed to say the very least. I never bothered finding what the problem was though, until yesterday, when some googling brought me to the infamous pin solution. So I followed through with it, and tryed leaving my DC on. 10 minutes later, some weird disc noises, and back to the menu once again sad.gif. So again I hit google, and find that it may be a heat problem.
I isolate my DC, allowing plenty of air (it was in a media cabinet, so it was somehwhat cramped), and power on NBA 2K1. An hour and a half later, still going strong! So I come to the conclusion that it is indeed a heating issue. So I power down, and try to switch discs. I wanted to see if the new game would be detected, because previously it wouldnt (due to the unit being hot, as I stated above). My new game was NOT detected, as I thought.
So now, I have decided that it is probably a heat problem, and while allowing room for my DC to breathe allows me to run a game for a long period of time, I still cannot swap discs while it's warm.
Is there any solution?? I read about the add on fan, but lik sang's sold out ("out of business" anyway), and the only other place to get it is from a UK site where I get raped on cost of shipping alone.
Can anyone help me? There must be something I can do unsure.gif
I can always send it into old school gamer, but I want that to be my last resort.
What do you all think? I've heard this is fairly common. wtf should I do????
