Dreamcast MP3 Player (official hardware)

Who was manufacturing the Zip drive (dumb idea to begin with). Same w/ the DVD -- didn't Sega say from the beginning they'd never bother with this.

The MP3 and ISDN adaptor I believe were at least going to be distributed by SoJ (couldn't imagine them selling the ISDN adaptor in the states). I alwys assumed the DVD and Zip were a 3rd party.

 

Well, in certain areas of Europe (Germany and Holland to a lesser extent) ISDN got quite popular, too.

And OMGLOLW00TBBQ @ GSL's pic :smt043

 

Iomega were developing the zip drive as far as i can remember and yes it was fully finished, only no known games utilized the option

 

it would have been great if the zip drive actually was released. and that it had the function of an HUUUGE VMU.. no more saving problems

 

Personally, I think Sega shouldn't have created the underlying problem of VMUs saving almost no data. Absolutely ridiculous how many VMUs it takes to support a half-decent DC collection.

I do see how the Zip drive would look enticing after the fact. Wouldn't it be kinda slow though?

 

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at least Saturn FDD works with few tittles...
anyone with Nexus VMU cable? I seem to have 16M Nexus VMU minus cable...
or should I sell it since I don't use it anyway...

cheers

 

There was supposedly a Dreamcast Sakura Wars MP3 - the only picture I've seen was this -

 

Not really. Seek time of 29ms, transfer rate of 1.4Mb/sec; probably slower than VMU PROM, but given that we're talking 128Kb per vmu those specs seem ok. The question is compatibility, as it'd be useless if Zip saving had to be implemented in each game.

 

So, is it possible to take a standard zip drive and make it work with a DC? For DCLinux, maybe?

Surely the DCZip can't have been that different from a normal PC one. We need technical diagrams.....

 

apparently, the Dreamcasts extension port (the one that holds the modem) is very versatile and allows easy adaptation of ISA and IDE devices, as seen here: http://cadcdev.sourceforge.net/hdwrprj/navi/

 

Loooks like a samsung mp3 player will post pic after i tend to my wounds from street skating tonight :smt011

Edit:
Sorry its a Sanyo one and it looks alot like it but i think maybe one minor difference is how the picture you showed the scrool on the side seems to move in however on this one it sticks out.

 

Yeah, that mp3 was just hype back when mp3 players were a booming idea. Sega was just trying to get people interested in what the Dreamcast COULD do. . .the DVD player set top was petty much the same thing. I surmise they'd need two lasers or different media all together (DC games on DVD) to to run DVDs and DC games on one system. That DVD combo they showed at TGS was lame looking anyways. From what I remember with the Zip though, it was legit. . .lots of talk about it, but from what I overheard, there were no apps for it and Sega didn't want to release (nor did they have the capital to release) another 32X/SEGA CD bomb. . .I myself, never saw the video demo hl718 speaks of but I trust he knows what is up. . .

More interestingly, I visited EA today and went through their little hall of history and they have a most interesting reversed engineered SEGA Genesis on display that they built. I should have taken a pic but I forgot my phone has a cam Maybe ASSEMbler already has an image of it on the site. . .I don't know. . .

 

Oooh that would be interesting to see :smt033
Back from the days when EA was still 1337

 

i've heard that sega was planning to do a high capacity memory card
and somes games where supose to be implanted in them ( i have a picture in a magazine where you see two vmu pluged in each others playing a 2 player dinosaur fighting game.. weird...)

maybe it was releashed only in japan , i dont know.

 

Well there WAS the official Sega 4x Memory Card that held (obviously) 4x the amount of stuff that a VMU could. This card had no LCD or anything like that, and was strictly business. It was definately released here in the US, and can easily be found on eBay.