My DreamCast Has Just Died On Me!!! :(

[rav96]

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

My Dreamcast has decided to die on me!!!

well after Years of trusty gameplay and the video chip has decided to shot out on me, probably from a broken heart as i got an Xbox recently (and modded it and installed xbox Media Centre...Uber Sweet coz now i can play all my divx,rm,mkv,ogm etc on my TV)

anyway i hadnt played my DC in ages since moving house (ive just recently moved house a couple of months ago) and so decide i could play some arcade action hence got out my DC and when i turn it on the screen image is all fuzzy and degraded so i fiddle around with the TVout port to see if it was a loose connection then bam ...lost all sound and image!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

thinking it was not a serious problem i thought maybe the lead messed up coz the fan and graphic chip etc all seem to be working fine and my VMU's were displaying game stats etc so i try switching my RGB scart for a normal lead but the same problem...

then i research the net to find to my Horror that the DC has a common problem along with the Reset one (i had that on one of my prior Dc but got it exchanged back when i had the warranty) Basically if you fiddle with the Tv Out lead it can short the video chip ...but the rest of the DC along with all the other chips etc run fine AHHHHHHH!!!!!
so i read how to sort out the DC reset problem (not that i needed to know that one) but never found how to fix this one...spares for DC are hard to get so i need a buy another console...but to no avail coz all the shops i have dont have any in stock :'( and i dont trust ebay sellers coz there are soo many buggy DC's out (damn SEGA made soo many buggy DC consoles...grrr)

AHHH!!! i loved my DC and have gizzilions of games for it...it was my Fav Console (and i own loads of consoles...all the way back to NES )

[Puppet Master]

Damn sorry to hear that worst I've had with my DC was a damn game stopped working but I can relate still.

[Cidien]

I could probably visit 3 stores and have a choice of 15 DC's around here. Only real problem is finding games that aren't complete crap or sports titles.

[Batz Kage]

Sorry to hear that bro

[rav96]

wo0t just bought another Dreamcast...with a years warranty

only £17.99 wo0t!!! think i'll keep my orig DC as spares for repair etc

[gubi-gubi]

Yeh DC's are pretty cheap in the UK. Don't play on mine really and won't get much money for it so im going to keep it purely for Jet Set Radio... Congrats for getting XBMC! It's truely awesome... Wish it could do advanced subs in MKV files and stuff like fonts and karaoke but that's my only complaint!

[rav96]

hopefully the fitures releases of XBMC will

im thinking of buying another Xbox (second hand this time) for my Dwnstairs TV so i can watch my PC files in my living room and not just my bedroom... yeah i know im lazy cant be asked to unhook and rohhok my Xbox to differnt TV's every time and they are like £60 second hand so the price of a decent Divx player so kinda the same thing as getting that but better...

Dude to be honest i play my DC less often now, but atleast i have a working one
wo0t tis all about the classics like SegaRally2, Soul calibur, Project justice, HODead 2 etc
gahhh have way too many ganmes for it...

[Cidien]

Only way i'd ever buy and play a dc is if I found powerstone 1 or 2 cheap at a pawn shop. Never know what you'll find at pawn shops. Hell I got the zelda promo collection for $10 and sold it on ebay for $45. Kinda wish i'd have kept it but I know I wouldn't get around to playing them for probably a couple years anyways.

[Homeless Joe]

sorry to hear about your dc. i love my dc lol. i think it's a very good system and did have some really enjoyable titles, i'm really dissapointed it didn't do better. what really pissed me off is when my last cd for shenmue didn't work, i was so pissed. and i can't find a mic to play seaman, i finaly find the game and now i can't find a mic, i just gave up on it.