Dreamcast Sega Confidential Discs

Dreamcast Sega Confidential Discs

Any info of these discs would be helpful

It may be hard to see the title of the discs in some the pics so here they are

DC Checker For Repair
Version 2.16R
Company.CS
Date 02/02/2000o
Disc No. SDPS-5

DC Checker For MP - This disc is not pictured below
Version 2.16M
Company.CS
Date 02/02/2000
Disc No. SDPS-4

Himozuke Family
Version 2.40
Company.CS
Date 07/14/2000
Disc No. SDPS-7

I havent tired these in my US/CDN dreamcast to see if they boot as i wont have access to it for a few days

 

Check-GD does exactly what it says on the tin - it's a loop checker to check various components in the console are working. For repair, of course, is exactly as it says - for repairing Dreamcasts.

Is the other one GD-Check? I think that tested the GD-ROM drive itself.

The family one? Lol, no idea! A test game, perhaps?

 

I'd ninja one of each version lol

With that out of the way thy do exactly what thy say on the tin to be honest.

Pop them in when you get the chance, some weird stuff will happen. Perhaps exciting the first time you see them but they get old quick as they are not supplied for their form but their function.

 

I love how you guys play down these. Maybe they're not preproduction or unreleased games, but cool finds nonetheless.

Himozuke Family sounds interesting.

 

... on the NES-side, these kind of test-carts are very sought after and are pretty rare and pricey.

I find them very cool! Congratulations!

How do you got hold of them?

 

Sorry, but who is down playing these? If you meant Legit's comment, it isn't down playing, just stating the obvious. If you get a diagnostics test disc/cart for whatever system, you will probably use it once and that's that.

The family title is the only one that sparks any interest from me! :nod:

 

So like most of the dev hardware that's featured here

They're still neat items to have (and possibly valuable). That's all I was saying

 

You forget that a lot of the members actually like to use their dev gear for its intended purpose, not just have it sitting there taking up a shit load of space and looking cool.

As for playing down, no not really... but we have all seen these before - at least the first two. If you've ever seen an arcade machine going through diagnostics check, it's pretty much like that.

Scarce items? Sure. Valuable? Perhaps... but I've seen them sell for like $25 before. Useful? To me, yes, as I like to repair console. Interesting? Not sure I'd go that far... even as a collector of repair gear! They're tools for a specific, limited purpose. Nice to have? Yeah, of course.

 

the SNES check carts are REALLY trippy to watch. These might be pretty cool too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVNIi9orEzU

a LOT cooler than the NES ones!

(on the video skip to the burn in test)

 

No, it's really boring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAL7l1YA49Q

 

I don't know about that - gets pretty trippy around the 2:38 mark.

 

i thought the same.

 

Me too. ^_^

 

If you want to call a quick GPU test trippy, then OK. It's basically the same as watching 3DMark running, only shorter and with less variety. Still not interesting.

 

To you, maybe. I'd love to own these discs.

 

what's the family one?

 

Loving to own the discs and thinking they're interesting to watch are two entirely different things. I'd love to own them, but I wouldn't find them interesting to watch.

 

"Loop checker" reminds me of Ice Age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MslcMzCgXM


Anyways, I'd love to see Himozuke Family.

 

good news! the discs boot in a standard us/cdn dreamcast
i will upload some videos later this week of what happens but so far
2 discs do testing of the dreamcast's hardware
video test is pretty cool as theres different 3d models being rendered with sonic, dreamcast logo, etc
and as far as the family disc it just goes to a screen with the title and thats as far I could get, tired pressing start wouldn't budge

i would also like to mention these dont run the same tests as the youtube linked video