wanted: Dreamcast in not-so-great shape

[gulag picture radio]

Hiya,

 

A cople of days ago, I scored a Dreamcast store display. It hasn't worked in a long time (I guess thats' why they weren't able to move any of the games), so I'd like to get it running. The DC built into the display unit starts up, let's you change the time and switch screens to the VMU manager or the CD player, but the GD-rom doesn't seem to be reading data.

 

I don't want to spend a lot of money on this project. I've already got a Dreamcast, so you can understand that getting another working system just isn't worth a lot of cash to me (after all, that leaves me less dough to spend on Atari carts at the thrift! ), so I'm hoping tha one of you may have a cracked or damaged DC that you don't want and I can just drop the guts into the display unit that I have.

 

I don't have a tradelist organized yet, but I have a number of classic consoles that I'd trade like Odyssey 2, SMS, Genesis, even a few games for each. I also have a TON of Laser Discs (including anime stuff only released in Japan) that I could trade as well.

 

Just thought that I'd put the feelers out there so I don't have to spend $30 to get a console on Ebay (and make my girlfriend want to throw me out of the apartment even more...)

 

Thanks!

[Gunstar]

I have an extra DC that has some kind of problem with the drive, not sure what, and it's missing the fan (I took it out and installed it in my overheating DVD player), I do know that the main board is in good working condition and you may be able to get the drive working with parts from both, heck, it may even be something simple that I didn't notice and you can get mine working again anyway. If your interested, I'm interested in picking up that Odyssey2 you have. PM me if interested.