New Chinese Sandisk adapter for Sega Dreamcast! Updated!!!

[Nullface]

Hmmm. Strange, it says the cost is $10...then mentions a FINAL cost including international shipping...which is $30.

Yeah you have to pay the drop shipper/importer to send it to you.

[flamepanther]

This adapter was discussed here previously:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=19103


There seem to be problems with games that stream a lot of audio or video.

[Anthony817]

I know many folks that have bought this from the site and went through a site that uses paypal to make things easier.

http://buyfromtaobao.com/

Aparently the guy that makes these has materials to produce a bunch more, and he actualy mods systems with a front loading SD card slot and built in VGA too. It is the ultimate Dreamcast if you ask me.

http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=7655637293





They also have a bios mod in them that uses the devkit bios.


I reckon they go for rund $55 USD when you convert 350 Yuan into dollars. Shipping is what will hurt.

There seem to be problems with games that stream a lot of audio or video.

Yes that is true, but you cant blame it on the SD adapters, the Serial port on the Dreamcast only has a transfer rate of 5mb I believe.

While some retail games WILL work with this, thats not what it is really for. Think of it like what the 360 has with its dashboard, a place for watching movies and playing live arcade games. You could put Xvid movies on these and watch many shows on it for fun.

Oh, and sorry for making a new thread about this, I seen another thread about SD cards but thought it was about the ones you make yourself or the ones the Spaniards were making.

[Nullface]

Is there any savings on buying like 20-30 of them shipping wise? Maybe we can do a group deal or something like the NeoMyth flash carts. I'd buy a couple.

[Anthony817]

Well, thats what we were trying to do over at Dreamcast-Talk forums, but many folks have already started buying them from that buytaobao site, as they use paypal and only charge a little.

It would be great if somebody could buy them en masse and resale them on ebay. Shipping should be cheaper in bulk anyway. I am sure they could still make a profit and sell them reasonably cheap at the same time.

[ujnhunter]

Interesting...

[benderx]

I want one for $20 no other extra cost shipping.

[retro69]

Is it possible to Boot from SD card? Because I have some Dreamcast with bad GDROM lens...without GDROM, this does not work any solution for GDROM replacement?

[SGGG2]

This is nice, but I wish someone would figure out how to load games through the broadband port

[Anthony817]

Is it possible to Boot from SD card? Because I have some Dreamcast with bad GDROM lens...without GDROM, this does not work any solution for GDROM replacement?

You can install Dreamshell into a bios mod that allows you to boot Dreamshell instead of the regular Dreamcast "Dashboard" or bios.

You still need a working GDRom drive to install the OS into the bios though.