Happy_Dude Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 ...It starts doing crazy shit. I'll load a game and it will reset to a blank screen after a while. Sometimes I'll turn it on and the rumble pack will just vibrate and the screen is blank. It even does this with Audio CD's and I'm this close (holds fingers really close toghether) to throwing the damn thing out the window. It's been nice ever since I bought it 1 year ago and now it starts messing up for no reason. WTF? It always had problems with certain games (crazy taxi and worms Armagedon) but now it's crashing with every game. Grrrrrr. Just blowing off some steam. I'm leaving it unpluged for a while and going back to my trusty old Atari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clint Thompson Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 If you've put a lot of time into playing games on the Dreamcast and/or you have a pretty healthy Dreamcast collection then I'd suggest buying a used one for $35 somewhere locally... Some things don't last forever I guess.... Try a different controller plugged into port 1 only? Clint Thompson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamajoe Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 be a happy dude again by trying this: http://www.geocities.com/solidbat/dcreset.html if this doesn´t help you can try sticking matches (no joke) into the connector on the mainboard... it looks like this: http://www.scw-web.de/dreamcast/streichholzgr.jpg that´ll keep the connector pins closely attached to the mainboard. Hope it helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
black dog Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 As I stated in a previous post I have had some similar problems with my DC. It is the only "modern" system I own, I like it ,but I'm certainly not impressed with it's durability. Maybe I'm just spoiled by the durability of the 2600-they don't make them like they used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted February 20, 2003 Share Posted February 20, 2003 Slightly off subject...but this was also a known problem..and the same fix for the Sega Saturn as well. If you ever happen to crack open a Saturn and look at it...you will notice that besides the boards being different in size...both the DC and the Saturn share almost the exact same Step Down transformers..and even the whole machine layouts are almost identical. Basically the DC uses the Saturn's internal layout but with more modern stuff in it of course...and smaller. Just interesting to see. However, at least the DC has a cooling fan in it..the Saturn didn't and actually used to heat up worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy_Dude Posted February 21, 2003 Author Share Posted February 21, 2003 Well I fixed my baby up today and now it also plays Crazy Taxi for more than 5 minuetes (just spent 5 hours playing it ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdstuff64 Posted February 21, 2003 Share Posted February 21, 2003 Glad to hear it!Have more DC fun! And good luck with Shenmue II import. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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