PSP AV Display Help

[oxymoron]

Everthing works fine up until I boot up my game. The screen displays in 2 halves with a black bar in the middle. It tried switch from progressive to interlaced but that didn't help. I changed the output size and finally reset the settings to default. Any idea how to fix this?

[flojocabron]

the scratch is probably in the center ring?

Isn't it Dreamcast discs center rings have the region information? Or the data needed for the DC to start up the game?

Not too sure.

[oxymoron]

the scratch is probably in the center ring?

Isn't it Dreamcast discs center rings have the region information? Or the data needed for the DC to start up the game?

Not too sure.

I just noticed it's really scratched in the middle ring.

[Blu]

I'd get a professional cleaning--usually around a dollar a disc. They'll buff it out and hopefully you'll have some results.

[s8n]

i think i read somewhere that if you resurface Dreamcast discs they wont work after it.


might want to check that out

[Fragems]

Dreamcast discs overall suck . I have tried to save them in the past by resurfacing but 50%+ of the time it doesn't work. Seems like their discs in general just have a high failure rate.

Luckily I have an earlier system so I have come to the point that I just burn back ups from online and don't mess with the originals if they don't read.

Edit: I have my own resurfacing machine and have probably resurfaced over 1000 discs in the past year or two. In that time I have probably not been able to save around 10 of them mostly due to deep scratches. Out of those 10 or so that I failed to save 2 of them were dream cast discs which looked like new after resurfacing and showed no signs of disc rot, but refused to go past the Sega logo .

[TheBrick]

I've got a problem with my copy of Giga Wing (the original). Whenever I get to level 5, the game glitches up and won't show sprites or backgrounds; it only shows hitboxes, bullets, my ship, and the occasional flickering of a background piece. It also runs extremely slowly. The disc itself doesn't seem to have any scratches, so I don't know if buffing it would work. Any ideas?

[oxymoron]

Dreamcast discs overall suck . I have tried to save them in the past by resurfacing but 50%+ of the time it doesn't work. Seems like their discs in general just have a high failure rate.

Luckily I have an earlier system so I have come to the point that I just burn back ups from online and don't mess with the originals if they don't read.

Edit: I have my own resurfacing machine and have probably resurfaced over 1000 discs in the past year or two. In that time I have probably not been able to save around 10 of them mostly due to deep scratches. Out of those 10 or so that I failed to save 2 of them were dream cast discs which looked like new after resurfacing and showed no signs of disc rot, but refused to go past the Sega logo .

That's exactly what's happening to my disc.

[nightrnr]

i think i read somewhere that if you resurface Dreamcast discs they wont work after it.
might want to check that out

Heard this as well, at least on some discs. My resurfaced MvsC2 and Star Wars Racer work fine.

Also,
Dreamcasts and discs are finicky. I have a copy of Bomberman Online that refuses to boot in one Dreamcast, but plays flawlessly in another. The insubordinate system has no trouble playing anything else.

Also,
have a game (possibly resurfaced) that boots fine after a gameshark/code/import-enable disc is used. It must help it get past a trouble spot on the disc.

Also,
my import copy of REX freezes at the level one boss when using a gameshark disc to boot, but is fine if I uses a code disc to boot. Neither discs are supposed to boot imports "officially", but work that way on the few imports that I've tried.

Weird stuff.