I'm going to have to agree with fp on this one. That "clean" smell you're smelling sounds like ozone to me too. My electric drill produces a similar smell. Sometimes I catch a whiff of ozone just before a thunderstorm rolls in. When I was a kid, the bumper cars at the county fair always smelled like ozone (far from the worst smell at a county fair).
What I'm getting at here, is that anything which produces electricity can split an O2 molecule. The errant oxygen atoms will then become attracted to another dipole O2. This bit of chemistry creates O3 molecules.
This website explains it better than I can:
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I don't know about smells, but I really like the sounds some consoles make. In particular, I like the sounds of the Saturn open button, and the beep that the PS1 makes when you turn it when it starts spinning the disc. I also like the sound of putting in a CD into a top loading console.
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The beep of a dead Dreamcast VMU is comforting and depressing at the same time.
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Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! I love that sound.lisalover1 wrote:The beep of a dead Dreamcast VMU is comforting and depressing at the same time.
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I hate it. But I'm forced to hear it every single time I play DC, because my brother threw my VMU on a hard surface years ago, and ever since, it can't use batteries.vlame wrote:Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! I love that sound.lisalover1 wrote:The beep of a dead Dreamcast VMU is comforting and depressing at the same time.
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lisalover1 wrote:The beep of a dead Dreamcast VMU is comforting and depressing at the same time.
I stopped replacing my vmu batteries years ago, so I now associate that sound with the DC's usual "powering up" sequence of noises.
To me that sound now means "GAME ON".
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I still have the battery protector in mine. The beep is a good indicator that the controller has a good connection.CFFJR wrote:lisalover1 wrote:The beep of a dead Dreamcast VMU is comforting and depressing at the same time.
I stopped replacing my vmu batteries years ago, so I now associate that sound with the DC's usual "powering up" sequence of noises.
To me that sound now means "GAME ON".
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Lol I love dc so much. I am gonna make new thread haha.
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Boot the DC with the VMU taken out. I don't think it will beep when you plug it in later. Though I don't have a DC hooked up right now to check.BoringSupreez wrote: I hate it. But I'm forced to hear it every single time I play DC, because my brother threw my VMU on a hard surface years ago, and ever since, it can't use batteries.
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I'm pretty sure the vmu will beep as soon as it's put in. Even with the console running. It's pretty rare that I swap vmu's with the console running so I'm a little fuzzy but I'm almost certain it still beeps.Hobie-wan wrote:Boot the DC with the VMU taken out. I don't think it will beep when you plug it in later. Though I don't have a DC hooked up right now to check.BoringSupreez wrote: I hate it. But I'm forced to hear it every single time I play DC, because my brother threw my VMU on a hard surface years ago, and ever since, it can't use batteries.
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