04-14-2006, 04:44 PM
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 )
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 )
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Right way
then the...
Rav way!
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