Dreamcast HKT-3020 December 2000 problems

[brockmoreno]

Bought a Dreamcast from Buybacks yesterday. Took it home and proceeded to burn marvel vs capcom. When I tried to play it. The music screen came up. So I burned some home brew cdi self booting games and the samething happened.

Model HKT-3020
Made in Chinese
Made December 2000
WK
Circle with a 2

Anybody seen this before?

[ZenErik]

Try an official game. I cannot remember when they stopped making consoles that boot CD-R discs.

Your laser lens may need cleaning and adjustment. Could also be burned out, but I would hope not.

[brockmoreno]

I might just being it back. I found another one on CL for the same price. Just missing the power cable.

[irixith]

The circle with the 2 is the important bit -- that's the revision where Sega modified things so that the existing methods of booting CD-R wouldn't work. Your model doesn't boot "mil-cds". I forget exactly what the process is, but you just have to burn the games differently to get them to load.

ALL Dreamcasts can boot CD-Rs. Whether you have revision 0, 1 or 2 the method is slightly different, that's all.

Edit: Look for a circle with a 0 or 1 if you don't want to go to the extra trouble.

[ZenErik]

The circle with the 2 is the important bit -- that's the revision where Sega modified things so that the existing methods of booting CD-R wouldn't work. Your model doesn't boot "mil-cds". I forget exactly what the process is, but you just have to burn the games differently to get them to load.

ALL Dreamcasts can boot CD-Rs. Whether you have revision 0, 1 or 2 the method is slightly different, that's all.

Edit: Look for a circle with a 0 or 1 if you don't want to go to the extra trouble.

Interesting. I didn't know that. Every game I have burned is a self booting CDI. Never even checked to see which revisions my two Dreamcasts are.

[brockmoreno]

The circle with the 2 is the important bit -- that's the revision where Sega modified things so that the existing methods of booting CD-R wouldn't work. Your model doesn't boot "mil-cds". I forget exactly what the process is, but you just have to burn the games differently to get them to load.

ALL Dreamcasts can boot CD-Rs. Whether you have revision 0, 1 or 2 the method is slightly different, that's all.

Edit: Look for a circle with a 0 or 1 if you don't want to go to the extra trouble.

I will be very sure to check! Thanks.

[bacardipr05]

I have a dreamcast same as yours except October 2000. Has the 2 with the circle. Purchased it on ebay maybe 3 months ago. I purchased it first then emailed the seller asking him what was the Manf : date as i recalled several people here an else where posting about possible problems with backed up games. He never responded to my email. When i received the dreamcast an notice the manuf date I thought i would run into problems. I emailed the guy back he finally responded an said fine I can return it. Same day i get an email from ebay saying the guy account was suspended blah blah. Well to the exciting part it plays every single backedup game i have. Even ones that i thought where coasters an never loaded up for me on my original release date Dreamcast. I even threw some badly scratched games at it....loads them 98% time no problem no skipping or freezing. Well he is the one flaw occasionally(maybe 1 or 2 times out of 30 plays) the drive locks up. An i have to gently push the mechanism up. When it's not doing this it plays every game i have the first time 98%of the time with no freeze up. I suspect after a while it will stop working though but besides this i havent had any issues with games.

[Hobie-wan]

November or December 2000 is the actual cut off date. But it is easier to remember to pick up a 0 or 1 when out and about and be 'safe'.

[brockmoreno]

Yea got a 0 off ebay and a VGA adapter now I am living the high life!