Things You Should Know Before Buying GDEMU
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ค. 2024
- I decided to put this video together quickly to help out fellow GDEMU users or people who are planning on getting one. I messed up a little bit when demonstrating the disc swapping feature, excuse me for that, but it is hard to edit videos from my phone, as it records in a very undesirable format.
One major thing I forgot to mention is don't bother with firmwares for GDEMU clones as they can brick it.
My twitch channel:
/ the_oc
Tools:
GDEMU_SD to copy images and create menu:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachment...
RebuildGDI to resize images:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachment...
Guiformat to format to FAT32:
www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/inde...
GDMENU Builder:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachment...
List of games I've found to be problematic using RebuildGDI:
4x4 Evolution
Armada
Atari Anniversary Edition
Bang Gunship Elite
Bust A Move 4
Centipede
Coaster Works
Ducati World
Draconus Cult of the Wyrm
Dragonriders The Chronicles of Pern
Half-Life (you don't want to rebuild prototypes anyways)
Hidden and Dangerous
Hundred Swords?
Jimmy White's Cueball/Snooker 2
Kiss Psycho Circus (Failed to rebuild, so it will be fine)
Maximum Pool
Max Steel
Metropolis Street Racer
Mortal Kombat Gold (maybe region locked)
Nightmare Creatures II
Q-Bert
Railroad Tycoon II
Resident Evil 2
Roadsters
San Francisco Rush
Shadowman (potentially only region locked)
Slave Zero
Starlancer
Super Runabout
Taxi 2
The Grinch
the ring: Terror's Realm (may not be WinCE but broke)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six + Rogue Spear (missing text)
Tomb Raider Chronicles
Tomb Raider The Last Revelation
Unreal Tournament
Urban Chaos
Vigilante 8 2nd Offence
Who Wants To Beat Up A Millionaire
Wild Metal (nothing after the intro)
Worms Armageddon - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Posting links in a comment cause youtube keeps ruining the ones in the description. Maybe these will work.
Tools:
GDEMU_SD to copy images and create menu:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518776906670145566/754958542829518909/GDEMU_SD.rar
RebuildGDI to resize images:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518776906670145566/754958605698072597/RebuildGDI.zip
Guiformat to format to FAT32:
www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
GDMENU Builder:
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/518776906670145566/754958555916009472/GDMENU_Builder.rar
Quick question if you're about to answer: I just did this install and I installed a 12V fan the same way shown in this video. Am I correct in understanding that with a fan on the 12V line I do not need to install the 300 ohm resistor?
@@ultimateman55 In theory yes. It works as a similar load to the disc drive's DC motor.
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Great video, I learned a lot. Waiting for mine to arrive but you pointed out a lot of gotcha's that weren't mentioned anywhere else I saw. (Off to watch the sept 2020 follow-up one now!)
I just ordered one of these; i'm sure that you just saved me hours of time and headaches. Thanks for the video!!!
Great informative video!!! Many thanks for this!!!!
Thanks for all the effort of explaining it saves me a lot of time
Great help, thank you so much!
Any human doing Anything with a Dreamcast is considered a patron saint in my book! Then showing others..... well we're all just lucky I'm not the Pope. Thanks man! Finding these videos after my laser(s on BOTH my dreamcast)went out might be the high point of my year.
Thanks for your kind words. I'm glad my video was helpful.
Sorry about the messy disc swap showcase, it is hard to edit videos recorded on my phone, so I keep it to a minimum.
can you reupload gdemu_SD? that link is broken and i cant find it anywhere
@@OmaeWaMoShindeiRYU I've updated the links in my description.
More info that isn’t common knowledge: You actually CAN install GDEMU on a VA0 Dreamcast. You just have to swap 7 resistors to drop the voltage from 5v to 3.3v. I had no intention going back to the dead ODD, so I didn’t feel bad removing the 12v regulator.
Thanks for the resistor/PSU idea I really didn't want to remove parts of the PSU. I only have a 470 Ohm resistor, but I think it would be fine.
Any extra resistance will help.
Mod Idea : A 12v line adapter for plugging in an additional Noctura fan with a 3D printed top half of the case to not only line up with a GDEMU SD insert, but to also have a fan mount that pushes up through the lid as well to take that power and use it for cooling.
Are you ummm... a God?
Thanks a Bunch!
512GB cards will work, just as long as you format in fat32
PanzerJack82 I don’t think it matters. I’m pretty sure I left that at the default setting. Hopefully that works for you.
I own a dreamcast v1 model and am thinking of getting myself a gdemu plus maybe an insert with a sd extender.
GOOD WORKING
15:40 After installing GDEMU, the Noctura Mod, and the GDEMU tray insert I noticed my Dreamcast noticeably warmer after extended play. Especially on the bottom. So I took a laptop fan, put a piece of wood under two legs so it sits level, and it remains cool. In a test I left it running for 48 hours (didn't turn it off when I went to bed, but played during day) and the only warmth was on the top and only if I kept the lid down.
Sadly, the little indent in the tray is too shallow for a spare SD card. I thought it would be nice to have only a single game on a small card so it boots straight to a game I'm playing more of, and it works, but no place to slip it.
I also figured out that ejecting the SD card let's you access system menu, and apparently if the SD card has a lock switch locking the card somehow causes games to freeze in the start menu. Not sure why.
I use GDEMU to play Phantasy Star Online actually online with a Broadband adapter using an official serial number and GDEMU made it so easy to get a modified disc image with improvements. It's way more convenient than using the Disc drive.
That said, it's a real shame I can't use my overclock setting on my Dreamcast while gdemu is inserted. I have to use the actual disk drive. It would have been nice if there was an overclocked variant of gdemu for overclocked consoles.
What's the benefit of overclocking a Dreamcast?
@@HollowRick Games run at the same speed, but framerates and performance is better especially in games that normally have occasional slow downs. Some games also look better.
Unfortunately, you can't use wireless Dreamcast controllers with overclock turned on because they end up out of sync hence why my Dreamcast has an overclock switch.
You also need an overclocked VMU to work while DC Overclock is on, but Overclocked VMUs also work when DC Overclock is off so I had most of mine converted to OC and also had a backlight installed.
The left hand side of my DC gets very hot now after installing a GDEMU.
Because there is no power draw on the 12v pin of the PSU. The airflow is also interrupted as well. So make a little cardboard gate for yours like I did here and it works fine.
www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=12034#p120455
BFKAnthony817 I got a Pico PSU instead. Problem solved! :)
@@BFKAnthony817 awesome work around, i have no soldering experience and this gives me some peace of mind to pick up a GDEMU
@@matt6093 Yeah still use it to this day. No issues.
You can either remove the capacitor and resistor for the 12v rail or install a few resistors in series. There are a few videos addressing this on YT.
Here is a follow up to this video where I correct a thing I've said in this video and detail the setup procedure for SD cards.
th-cam.com/video/q-VDJ1C8F-Y/w-d-xo.html
thanks for the video, it was very helpful. do you know how to get homebrew working properly cause i cant seem to get them working.
for example, i found the doom mod collection and it boots to the main screen where you choose the mod you want but it freezes there, any solutions you know of?
My button is set to reset it, but doesn't work when i try to use it to disc swap? Any help would be appreciated. I was told I can 'swap discs' from the GDEMU menu, but not sure how that's done w/o it cancelling the current game being played?
“Meaning that the sticker on the bottom of the Dreamcast should say ‘1’ in a circle”
This is not common with all VA1 dreamcasts. Depending on where your Dreamcast originates from, the VA1’s won’t have an indication. Some regions make it clear via the first 3 characters on the barcode, which correspond to the month and year of manufacturing. Mine had neither, but listed the name of the manufacturer, which only built Dreamcasts in 1999, which was the VA1 model year. I was thankful to find a Dreamcast forum and a fellow who had a LONG LIST of Dreamcast manufacturers, and the years they were manufacturing the console. VA1’s can also be found out by testing to see if it’ll play a burned CD, but if you’re looking into a GDemu, chances are that’s not an option for you anymore.
could i theoretically put in a 12v fan as an intake at the back to keep the 12v rail busy like you did? Could this be a permenant heat solution? like a really small fan that fits in the case?
Are there small 12v fans?
The link for the "Guiformat to Format to FAT32" isn't working
I have no idea why there is not a design for the VA0 with a stepdown transformer or something or even an add-in chip upgrade.
Is this mod region free? Can you do it on NTSC and PAL systems as well? If yes which version number should you look for on an NTSC system?
how do you put games on sd card if there more than one disc do you put them all in same folder?
Thanks for the informative video. I have kind of a interesting personal story about this game. The first time I played this game I watched the intro and of course your plain gets hijacked and goes down. That night I had a dream I was on a airplane and it got hijacked. That was on 9-11-01 about 5 hours before everything bad went down.
I have one Dreamcast with model v1 and board va01, it is compatible with this gdemu?
I went through a ton of work to get bin/cue dumps rebuilt to gdi with cover art and made a 200+ GB image for GDemu but I am running into a problem list of games similar to the one you have posted. What is the recommended fix? IIRC I opted to patch them for VGA, could that be the cause of the problem? I tried to turn off “Force VGA” in gd menu, but still experiencing crashes on the same games.
@Brad Viviviyal you are a Dick for no reason. It is very hard to get ahold of the non clone models.
Sorry for the late answer. I've pretty much just didn't rebuild the games I have had problems with. That fixed it. And yeah, it's worth keeping Force VGA off and only enable it if the game requires it.
Nice. What about the famous red jewel glitch in
Resident Evil?
Some of the games what they did as a anti-piracy measure is make a dummy file on the disc that it would check for. Only a rare few games did that. I am honestly not pro-gdmu unless it can keep the disc drive, primary because I play the disc based homebrew games that I pay for, yes I am aware of the myth that "pirated" games will burn out your laser faster. But the only research I find around that myth is a few popular youtubers repeating what anti-emulation people claim. I find that a lot of them do not seem to understand that the greatest failure rate on the sega saturn was the laser. I do have a sega saturn as well, and I have had to replace the laser on that, and I have not seen too many mods for the saturn.
On the dreamcast it is the very thin ribbon cables that are easy to break while modding or even just cleaning the system. I have tried dreamshell sd card reader through the serial port as a option and the only images I have been able to play are ones that I rip using the ripping tools. I heavily suspect that the download sources I use modify it with a custom bootloader which causes dreamshell to not load it. I also have been struggling with the dreamcast sdk that is out there, but its mostly because it depends on codeblocks which almost always gives me problems on windows but works fine on linux. I have not tried the sdk on linux but codeblocks for windows has been garbage for the last 15 years or so. What is overheating on that dreamcast is the GDMU chips is over heating and so is the power supply, but you address that and don't use dreamPU because it has power issues as well with not giving the system enough power.
hello . I got few months ago japan import (hkt 3000) with ic bd katana VA0 . I out of luck with gdemu mod or is there any mod to mod the gdemu mod :D
Any hep or advice would be great . CD unit runs fine but it wont read anythig i burn for it .
The PAL games aren't that different, most have options for 50Hz AND 60Hz in PAL mode anyway.
PAL 60Hz is actually more vivid than both NTSC 60 and PAL 50. and both NTSC 60Hz and PAL 60Hz run at the same speed, just don't choose 50Hz unless your display doesn't do 60.
(Though unless your Display is completely archaic, it probably supports 60Hz PAL or otherwise, just don't use SECAM because that's dumb.)
Nowadays you can buy it around 30$ plus shipping from Ali.
I was looking for a broken DC to mod like this, and damn they have gotten way more expensive than when I bought my working one. I rather keep one that runs discs and one that could run without discs but might just gut my working one if I don't source another before too long.
True, prices have gone up crazy. I got all of mine back in 19 and holding onto them lol. I got 3 broken ones (they all worked) for the price of 1 broken one nowadays.
@@ocworkshop I got 4 controllers 3 games and 2vmus and complete console for 40 dollars in 2011
If there are GDEMU clones, how do you know if you're buying a legitimate one that can accept firmware updates.
I used the SD maker app in windows 10 and it worked but I got weird error messages after it ran (Acer predator Helios 300). All games loaded fine but there was no decrease in load times. Maybe it's just mine but for me it all depends on SD card size, and 32gb seems to be the sweet spot as I went to 16gb fully loaded was about the same as a 32gb fully loaded. I also tried 128gb and 256gb. 128gb was reasonable (about a minute), but 256gb sandisk was hella slow I didn't even fill it up completely. 128gb holds all my most wanted games and I keep 32gb cards for quick play with family. I used the gui format app for fat32 with the largest cluster setting.
Sorry for the late answer. Not sure what's wrong with your setup. Maybe you should try a different SD card reader to format the card and then put the games on. I've seen some pretty dodgy SD card readers in the past and at the moment I'm just using my old huawei LTE stick which has one built in and comes in very handy. I've updated all the links in the description so if you have the time and feel like testing, go for it. My 256GB card is pretty much full and it still loads quickly.
@@ocworkshop it’s kool life kinda got in the way and hobby stuff got put on the back burner for the time being, and honestly it works it just takes longer to get there. I was going to try again on an old Windows 7 laptop my wife use to use I’ve had better luck with it running certain software.
The GDEMU_SD to copy images and create menu link does not work, it says
Website is no longer available
The authors have deleted this site.
After a bit of searching I couldn't even find the version I'm using right now, so uploaded it myself and updated the description.
Can you use v0 Dreamcast if you replace the PSU?
No, because it is an incompatibility with the motherboard, not the power supply. While the VA1 models send 3.3V to the disc drive, the V0 models use 5V iirc.
I just got this today am not a tech guy managed to get the gdemu set up but it wouldnt recognise any game i dowloaded so formatted my sd card to start again and am totally stumped and unable to do anything with it
Hi
Do you know if there is a Chinese clone disc emulation device like this for Sega Saturn?
If so, what name & model should I be searching for?
I know there’s TerraOnion stuff, but I can’t afford that 😩😝
I'm really looking forward for a Chinese Sega Saturn clone fenrir
como puedo comprar uno aquí en la sudad de México
i want to know.. can u use the code breaker.. or action replay or gamshark iso ? then load cheats then load the game???? or is that option not working ?
Sorry for the late answer. I've not tried it but I think if you don't have too many discs on your sd card you could first load the cheat disc and then skip to the game you want to play using the button on the gdemu.
@@ocworkshop blind leading the blind.....
@@specialformula14 Haha, I mean THEORETICALLY it should work.
How do you set the Cluster Size to 64? All I see is sector size and the smallest is 512k.
Sorry for the late answer. Have you been using GUIformat to format the memory card?
In guiformat it shows the cluster size in Bytes and not KiloBytes, so you want the last option which is 64KB. th-cam.com/video/q-VDJ1C8F-Y/w-d-xo.html
What's the difference between this v5.5,v5.15 and v5.15b?
Can you test skies of arcadia?
I'm playing rom from replayers.org and it works fine.
I have a clone and 128gb sd card in fat 32 format (there's a guy selling them and swears they work) but start up is intermittent, sometimes it freezes on the dreamcast logo and stutters the sound. Any ideas what the problem could be?
I've a v1 model dreamcast. The battery needs replaced though - could that be the problem?
@@dannywholuv Your 12V rail is running too high, you have to install a resistor between the 12V rail and ground on the power supply connector. I'm soon making a video of it. But basically a 300ohm 0.25W resistor should work.
@@ocworkshop cool! I will look forward to the video. Just want this to work as it should 😊
@@dannywholuv th-cam.com/video/q-VDJ1C8F-Y/w-d-xo.html
Привет! Значит если консоль pal региона,то и образы gdemu нужно качать того же региона?я думал любые подойдут
Любые подойдут. Там ведь мультирегион в gd emu.
hello OC Workshop :-)
Hey any Video You Would Recommend Showing how to Add GDI As Well As CDI Game Files?
I Thought i Saw a You Link before i Started Mine but Cant Find that Video NOW :/ :- :-)
And Good Video LINKS Help On That?
THANK YOU In Advance :-)
I just bought mine and have been having game crash issues lately. I've been able to get the games to run for about an hour, but theres a 60% chance they'll crash 10 minutes into playing. Anybody have any idea of how to fix this?
Are you using cdi or gdi?
Clean the power supply pins for oxidation. Had the same problem.
I have PNY, Toshiba, SanDisk cards. None work in my GDEMU clone. I’m getting exhausted buying different cards.
@Brad Viviviyal I really don't need this type of toxicity here. You act like it's just a money issue if you are buying one off ebay instead of the original one. Availability is non-existent on original GDEMUs, demand is high and it's one guy putting them together. Orders are closed 99% of the time. Therefore buying one off of ebay is a perfectly valid option, so get out of here with your elitism.
As for the original poster's comment, I used a fairly inexpensive type of SD card and it worked perfectly. I'd say OP is not using the right formatting method.
Those SD cards should have worked. You are probably not formatting the SD card properly. Needs to be FAT32 and large cluster size, at least 32KB or 64KB. If you are using a micro sd card with an adapter, maybe the adapter is bad. If nothing else works, you might have a defective unit.
I dont have one and I can tell you you have it formatted with the incorrect format
@Brad Viviviyal the Chinese make some good stuff mang.
I just did mine about a month ago. My menu doesn't load that fast. I used the same program to format and set the cluster size. I first used a 128gb that takes about a minute to load. I tried a different card with the same results. Everything works once setup but switching games is slow so I put my favorites on a 32gb card and it boots in under 20 seconds but yours is like instant. I would love to use a 256gb as it would fit every game I could ever want.
if your games dont work its because of a bad ripp !
im going to buy one of these on ebay a 5.15 ver b , were do i download the files for the sd card thanks
I know its a little late, but it help anyone else looking through the comments, search for SD card maker for GDEmu by MadSheep
REMOVE 12V regulator. its supposed to be for GD ROM drive but since it's not installed it's overheating. alternatively I think you can throw resistor on it I think
do i need to replace it with anything? or just remove it, and i'm good?
@@dubson965 remove.. I did a video on my channel regarding this
@@cyo_corner I will watch it, Thank you very much
@@dubson965 actually my video was just servicing a PSU.. Not the same. All you need to do is remove 12V regulator and it will eliminate heat issue with GDEMU and USB GDROM. However I think I read somewhere you lose SCART OR VGA if you do that. Cannot remember which one.. I use DC HDMI mod so I am unaffected.
@@cyo_corner thank you for the info, really don't want to lose VGA
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Offers all the USA Dreamcast releases for you to have on an SD or USB. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Or just download full no intro sets on archive.org ... for free
Vasili as has been discussed not everyone does it and prefers a convenience factor because they may lack the bandwidth speed, disk space, etc...
@@lildude6906 yeah yeah lazy bastards you mean. You are free to hold you're opinion... but paying some guy to drag and drop a folder on a sd/hdd of copyrighted material just isn't right its available for free for a reason... but thats my opinion. Sega don't care if you dload there game's but they do if you profit off them.
128gb sd card £10 😞
Internet free if you vote labour 😂
IS THAT A REALLY BAD S.A ACCENT BTW ?
there's a million of these things for sale right now, but they're all at minimum double price. i'm not even going to bother thinking about it til the price comes back down. first one under 60 gets my money.
Do you ever found one for the price you're looking for. I saw one on AliExpress for about 64
could i theoretically put in a 12v fan as an intake at the back to keep the 12v rail busy like you did? Could this be a permenant heat solution? like a really small fan that fits in the case?
Actually recently I started having issues with the system. It would be unstable. The 12V rail was too hot even with the fan installed, so I ended up adding the resistor as well. That fixed the issue. So it would seem a fan is not enough to keep the 12V rail busy.