Dreamcast DVD - Possible?

[snoggleby]

I think a better question is whether or not replacing the GD-ROM drive with a CD drive would work. I imagine replacement GD-ROM drives won't be around forever and with a CD drive at least you would be able to play backups and homebrew apps.

[Yackom]

a naomi drive might work?

[ravenmgs]

no

[marurun]

You know, you might be able to connect a DVD drive to the system and, using custom firmware, create a bootloader that maps GD-ROM calls to DVD file locations.

Something like this was done for the TG-CD. It's a Super CD called Super Hucard. It loads hucard images of a certain size or smaller into super system memory cache and then basically emulates the hucard interface and maps the hucard calls to the memory cache.

Though quite a bit more complicated, an alternative could theoretically be rigged for the DC. It might cause streaming data to stutter due to loading delays but straight loads should work.

[ImportBoy]

Perhaps the expansion port (where the modem/bba goes) is where to look. Make some kind of an DVD-drive expansion that sits under the system that would its own BIOS/Firmware. I wonder if Sega had this in mind for its own never released DVD player.