There is some talk about this on the internet, attaching a hard-drive to a dreamcast and I know its possible. anything can be hacked. I would like to know if anyone knows anything about this or if you have done it. Maybe we should get a group together, we all want our dreamcasts to live forever and we all know that playing cd-rs on it will ruin it faster than otherwise.
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dreamcast hardrive!!!!!
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Yeah but there aint nothing like playing on original hardware. Even if you have to mod the hell out of it to make it work. But as far as if it possible, well sure anything is possible with enough work but copying games for the dc was always so easy and Hdd's with enough space were so expensive that I guess nobody bothered back then. Maybe someone will blow us all away any day now with some amazing mod that allows us to hook up an external hard drive but I don't see it happening.GSZX1337 wrote:I'm sure you can hook up an HD to a Dreamcast (there's already a Floppy Drive for it). The only question is, is it worth it? nullDC is looking pretty promising.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
I get the impression that software like HDLoader only exists because the hardware itself already had some sort of minimal support for that function, for games like FFXI.Perseid wrote:Attaching the hard drive wouldn't be the hard part. Writing some sort of drive emulator similar to HDLoader on the PS2, on the other hand, would be insane. Getting it to do, well, anything would be insane.
In order for a hard drive to work you'd have to find a high-speed interface to the DC and then you'd have to reprogram the BIOS/Firmware to that it knows what to do with it. Possible, but hard. And the people with those skills have other priorities right now what with drooling over more recent systems.
