USB GDrom Thread

Thank you for your reply. Awesome. I knew he was busy and not going to reply back quickly but just wanted to see what kind of time frame I was looking at. I do have a rev 1 unit so I'm good there, thanks for the heads up..
Will wait anxiously for his reply for payment to him.

 

I sent a few emails and never once got a reply over many weeks/months. I already had him on messenger and I'd see him online every once in a long while for very short periods. Once when I saw him come online I quickly messaged him. He told me he had a few boards for sale and gave me a price and a PayPal account. I was a bit apprehensive transferring hundreds of dollars to some random guy on ICQ who is difficult to reach and contact at the best of times. It worked out as some weeks later my USB-GDROM's arrived safely...

Ted.

 

Thanks Ted for your experience. I'm crossing my fingers he replies to me soon.

 

Hi! Anybody can tell me how it work with an hard drive. I received my version 5 yesterday and everything works fine with an usb flash drive. I use fat 32 with 64k with the root init 2. But nothing work with hard drive. I tried a La cie 300 gigs and WD 500gigs hard drives with same fat and root structure, when I power on the console, it only show orange dreamcast logo on screen. I cannot see the usb gdrom menu. Thanks

 

Some HDDS are not compatible, I have one that sometimes requires a few power cycles to initialise the drive.
(or I get the hanging blue/orange swirls screen)

 

I am a similar hard drive issue with my Toshiba 500gb. I get the menu, but after selecting an image it hangs on the dreamcast logo. It has worked on my USB flash drive fine. My flash drive is limited to 1gb though so I have only been able to run a game at a time. I need to reformat my hard drive and see if that works.

 

Reformatting the hard drive didn't work for me. Is fat32 limited to 32GB partitions using windows if I understand correctly? I looked around to find if toshiba made a formatting software, but they don't. I looked for 3rd party software, tried it and still nothing. WD has software available for their hard drives though to format to fat32. I don't really want to buy another portable hard drive, as the 500gb one I have now isn't even half full, but if I can't get it working, I will probably buy a new hard drive.

 

I use fat32format.exe to format them to a max of 2TB.

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm
Direct link: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip

 

I will try it out tomorrow afternoon and let you know how it goes. I soldered in the lid switch. I got gameshark up and running fine. I wasn't able to get Bleemcast Metal Gear Solid running though...

 

So bleemcast still dont work... damn it....

 

Not necessarily, I would wait for someone else to chime in first before verdict. I did get my portable hard drive formatted in fat32 though, so that's all good. I REALLY wanted to play MGS on Bleemcast, so I will continue going at it.

 

I own all 3 actual discs and love them. Would have been awesome if thier vision was completed. Would have been nice if bleem worked on this board. Could really. Test some games

 

I have never played the Bleemcast versions available. I love MGS on PS1 and the Bleem! Version looked to be an improvement. I was excited. I know it has it's critics, but I enjoyed the GC twin snakes version. That's for another thread, but damn I feel like it should be entirely possible to run Bleemcast. I just get a Bleem startup screen that loops! Krikzz really spoiled us with the Everdrives.......

 

The dreamcast renders all 3 games better than the psx. But the skybox looks funky

But imagine bleemed psx. Games with vga!!! Vga to hdmi!!!

 

Bleemcast issues are probably due to the data between sessions that gdemu assumes to be blank. If so, it'd be possible for deunan to add support for it.

 

Paid for mine just today (just in time, as I got my quote and reservation before the price bump) and can hardly wait.
I assume 1/2 TB WD My Passports will work without problems... Still gotta look out for a temp DC console though.
Some questions:
Does anyone know if homebrew works (or still not yet)?
And is there any news on a nice GUI?

 

I use a 2TB WD My Passport with no issues, and most home-brew works, providing its in the self booting cdi format

 

Can anyone ask the dev about supporting CCD files

Could bleem work as ccd?

 

It won't as far as i know.
But yes, we need support for ccd files
I hope he will do a firmware upgrade for this.

 

I think all usb_gdrom is missing is ccd support and bleem... it supports disc swap and cdi now....