Am I the only person who is waiting for a dreamcast optical drive emulator? I have cash ready to plunk down for one:033:, but All I see is bickering, and loose ends, and no project. I'm sure there is others that would jump on board, especially after the 64drive massive pre-order.:banghead:
Thanks for the sarchasm, but if you read the post you sent me to, you'll see that the guy can't be reached anymore
Really, because I saw a link to a blog where a WIP model was being demonstrated. Seems it answered your question rather nicely.
He doesn't seem that interested in getting anything completed. I was wondering, does the DC have rolling encryption? If not, Can't we just: 1.connect a fast usb based logic analyzer to the gdrom ribbon, and record how it interacts with the utopia boot cd. 2.Then watch it read an ISO. 3.Then have it playback?:shrug: if not what am I missing?
Conceptually, you're right Evotistical. However this thing is harder than it seems, as every reverse-engineering jobs. The part where you "watch" it, it doesn't mean you "understand" everything that you see, and that you have the skills to emulate the behavior. You can't guess a cake's recipe by watching people eating it ... Still it could be possible to do for someone motivated with the right skills and spare time.
where is a good place to start learning how to reverse engineer? or a good place to hire someone from, mabe from china to reverse engineer for me? So far in life I have always been able to figure out how something works or how to do complicated tasks, as long as i am given a starting point. i see a real need for the dc drive emulation, as i mod classic video game systems on the side. I constantly get asked why we cant mod the dc and tg16 to play backups easily and reliably, and that backup discs are the only answer for the dc.
