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Yeah.....it's too bad. I think it's best to only do something like this in an extremely closed beta, almost not even announcement. I guess kind of like the way Kitsch has figured out, don't even really talk about it till it's ready to be sold. And for the love of all that is holy don't take any pre-order money.

Amen to that last bit.

It is my experience that people buying used video game systems can be some of the most difficult, exacting, and unpleasant customers around. Some are awesome, but after a long time in normal retail environments I can honestly say that dealing with some of these forum-buyer types can produce the absolute worst experience possible.

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37 Reply by arfink Jun 10, 2014 7:43 pm

Re: Good source for Dreamcast SD adapters (14 replies, posted in Sega)

rygD wrote:

arfink wrote:
Sounds pretty interesting to me. I have a pair of Dreamcasts with dead GDROM drives, and this would be nice to have. I mostly play shmups on it, since the DC is pretty much the best shmup machine ever outside of the Neo Geo.
The dead drives are why I wanted to mention things like GDEMU. I think there might be other projects out there like it, however I don't know how they compare.
If I can get something to keep it alive after the GDROM drive dies my Dreamcast will probably be the only Sega console I keep around. I prefer real hardware to emulators, but I have decided to stick with Nintendo stuff for now. I won't be getting rid of much of my older gaming stuff, but any new purchases will be well thought out. Dreamcast was the only Sega console I really wanted, and by the time I got around to buying one half the stuff I wanted to do I couldn't for various reasons.

The way the GDEMU project has been going is a little sad, IMO. That guy must have had some horrible experiences with customers, which I can fully relate to.

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38 Reply by arfink Jun 10, 2014 7:37 pm

Re: Good source for Dreamcast SD adapters (14 replies, posted in Sega)

stargazer wrote:

Should be noted that at least initially, you need your GDROM to boot dreamshell. After that it can be installed into memory.
I agree with rygD here. The Dreamcast is such an interesting system to me. While it's library was pretty limited, it did indeed have a good one.
What I really wish is that there was some kind of kit you could buy to mod the network card to wireless. You'd need that big connector port, but overall that adapter has quite a bit of room inside it for all sorts of stuff.

OK, that's cool. I've noticed that with my dead GDROMs it's less of them being completely dead and more a case of not wanting to read certain disks and being fine with others. For example, my copy of Ikaruga reads fine on all of them, but SoulCalibur will read some of the time, and PowerStone 2 won't read at all. So I might get lucky.

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39 Reply by arfink Jun 10, 2014 5:42 am

Re: Good source for Dreamcast SD adapters (14 replies, posted in Sega)

Sounds pretty interesting to me. I have a pair of Dreamcasts with dead GDROM drives, and this would be nice to have. I mostly play shmups on it, since the DC is pretty much the best shmup machine ever outside of the Neo Geo.

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40 Reply by arfink Jun 10, 2014 5:40 am

Re: Want info on 8bit collective .com owners - want torrent of all music! (30 replies, posted in General Discussion)

e.s.c. wrote:

infradead wrote:
Though if there is no infradead it's not all bad
there's also no low-gain, so yeah...
edit: was also just talking before this about how i really still like you track for that nanoloop2008 comp

I have a decent amount of Low-Gain on my HDD and a CD too. Have to check which one it is...

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41 Reply by arfink May 21, 2014 7:02 pm

Re: Linux software (82 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

Some things you should know about Linux:

-Most any software which is Linux compatible will run on any distribution, it just may be more or less work to get it going. You just need to figure out the dependencies and how to compile in most cases. If you're running a Debian-based distro you can find easy .DEB packages so you don't have to compile.

-Linux has some weirdness in Audio. Lots of people try to use JACK for the audio back-end, but support for JACK is very clunky and problematic. That said, OSS is even older and more junky. ALSA was the standard for a while in Debian-ish distros, but lately they have moved to Pulseaudio. This is where you'll see most of your audio compatibility issues. Some trackers assume OSS, some assume ALSA, some assume JACK, and most are so poorly maintained that you won't see Pulseaudio support. If you find ones that use OSS you may be out of luck. ALSA can be wrapped to work in Pulseaudio, and most *buntu types will do this for you seamlessly, but if not, check that out.

-If you want to run Windows stuff, avoid WINE. It's terrible. Use VirtualBox. If you're willing to put in the work for USB host emulation, I believe you can even use the crummy EMS 64 cartridge loading software.

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42 Reply by arfink May 21, 2014 5:06 pm

Re: (Linux)Thin client into Chip client? (8 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

Third the Debian. Thin client is nice if you have them laying around, but otherwise the Raspi is probably cheaper and has better community support in general.

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43 Reply by arfink Apr 14, 2014 4:28 am

Re: Glossy DMG (5 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Gobbing on more paint will not produce the result you want. Wet sanding is absolutely critical, as well as patience and a very, very dust free environment.

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