"Let's make GD ROM emulation happen" Facebook group.

^ awesome, welcome to the club

 

The story is that he bought for the GD-EMU a console NOS from Japan, which he paid the same price than his GD-EMU...

 

Hey everyone.

Ive just tested the above card (128GB Komputerbay SD) and its loading all the games perfectly up to and including folder 64.
I formatted it with the "HP USB Format Tool" to FAT32 which gives me 119GB usable.
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I don't know what NOS means - But I am going to assume he bought a console (dreamcast) that he wanted to put the GDEMU into and paid a high price for it and it has a VA2 MOBO in it..

Again... Just pick up a dead GDROM dreamcast (any VA1 will do) and swap the MOBO's into the other console. If someone spent 200+ euro on a console and GDemu to have a special setup
only to be derailed by a VA2, then what is another 10 euro to get a VA1 mobo?

I personally have dropped almost $500 on this stuff - between USB GDEMU and SD GDEMU and the 3do usb emu and a few systems to put them in, all to mess around with some fun stuff I could have bought a PS4.
I don't think a small drop in the money bucket is a big deal to complain about when the only thing stopping you is a incompatible MOBO, were not talking new systems here. Even craigslist I have seen fully working
dreamcast for under $20 USD 15 euro or so...

 

I believe NOS = New Old Stock

 

Bragging on a collector forum to have spent $500 and not knowing what NOS means is somewhat funny.

But, you missed a point : he's French. -_-'

 

I was making a point....about the hobby nothing more

This is a hobby and really underground. There are only a hand full of people in the world playing with this stuff.
I am sure there are many people who want to mess around with these emu boards but don't have the funding or time to do so.

IF your going to invest in these expensive hobbies, then you really can't complain when something don't work or fit right when clearly it was posted that VA2 systems do not work. (you have to do your research - or ask)
You know how many systems I bought to exploit that turned out not to be compatible. Many.. (across many consoles - Xbox, ps3, ps2 -ect.. ect..)
If something is not compatible, return it, exchange it, resell it, or make it work. Again, I am sure a cheap $10 dreamcast MOBO will work just fine inside the case of his NEW system.
I personally bought a brand new Clear shell for $70 to put my SD GDEMU in. Just to differentiate from the USB one that needs the case cut which is in a standard white case.

TO me NOS - means nitrous for racing. Not everyone knows what every acronym means, but I got the gist of it when you said his system cost as much as the GDEMU - TO me that said some sort of special variant or collectible system.

Anyways.. I could care less if he is French, Aus, Russian ect.. what does that have to do with it?
It just seemed to feel like the post was a major big deal...
to me it read like this....

I bought a GDEMU and I have a VA2 which is not compabily.. OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO..
Seems like a super simple solution.. Pick up a VA1 MOBO..

I can understand the guy wants a BRAND NEW SYSTEM to play with and mess around with. From the case to the controller to the cables and such.. SUre... Why not put a expensive toy like GDEMU inside the best system possible.
But if the system he has is not compatible. why not compromise. Pop in any VA1 board - call it a day.. only only a pittance compared to what was already spent.

As for bragging - I was not bragging.. I was more about saying.. hey I am spending hard earned cash just like you guys on old systems for new fun tech to play with. I could be buying new tech.. but I decided to go this way.
So when I run into trouble. I am already committed financially, might as well throw more money at an issue and get it work right.

 

And I was just making a joke... :-D

 

Will USB powered drives work fine with Mnemo's device? I am guessing so, but I want to make sure I didn't need to buy an externally powered hard drive.

 

^ I am using a 2.5" WD Passport 500GB hdd, it works fine. I asked MNEMO about the power strain on the usb-controller and he said that he passes 5v directly from the PSU, so there is no worry, it will work with a relatively "good" 2.5" hdd. Just don't use an older one that needs 2x USB plugs or something

 

Awesome, I got a brand new Toshiba Canvio 1TB for $38.00 total, so I am happy to hear I will be fine. Thanks!

 

Almost forgot!
First, thank you and congratulations, for taking the risk and succeeding without effort.
Did you tell Deunan about that? Not that I don't want, but my "Some guy on a forum succeeded using a 128GB sd card with GD-EMU" somehow works less than "I successfully tested a 128GB sd card with GD-EMU and I can prove it to you; would be please let us have as many folders as we want, because we're going to try with larger capacity cards." ^^

 

I messaged DK about folder limits after testing the SanDisk 128GB card - he had valid concerns on compatibility, speed and reliability too, also depending on the changes it would affect the way he wants his menu to run. I won't post his reply as it was sent in a private mail so that would not be right - but DK does reply to you when contacted (though with Rhea currently being in development replies may take longer to receive)

Overall I'm not too bothered as I fit all the games I will ever want to play on 2 SD cards now which is great

 

That's a bummer, but guess it can't be helped. :-(

 

As per Braintrash's suggestion, i have shot Deunan an email just confirming that i too had success with the 128gb card.
I'm not expecting anything to come from it due to what NightbreedUK pointed out, But you never know

 

64GB card with about 56 titles per card should be fine. You can put the entire collection on 5 64gb cards (less than $100).

 

@cybdyn
Are you working on something new and can you tell as the progress or your thoughts?
also do you contacted with neuroacid because he is not answering on my e-mails (maybe he is busy)

 

When I say entire collection, I mean all regions. Also, some games have multi discs.5 64GB cards are way not enough.

 

Without Doubles if you want to include all the PAL games that did not come out in the US and (unless you speak JAPANESE) want Jap games that never came out on PAL/USA that are playable without reading any japanese or are jap with english menus your talking about maybe 6 cards tops.

Sure if you want all JAP,USA,PAL your talking 15 carrds. But 95% of us here are all english and or other language (not jap) speakers and USA/PAL are going to be a majority of what is being played.

US collection can fit on 5 cards - no problem.
PAL/JAP that are playable to NON JAP readers that never came out in USA reagon are about 35-50 games (depending on where you want to draw the line on JAP titles in regards to text skipping).

There is no need to have doubles and triples of the same game avalable and playable on SD cards. That is a waste.

So your looking at 6 cards max about $110-130 for 6 cards.

 

I beg to differ.
I happen to write articles and other things about retro games, and I usually compare all regions to check differences and all, which are more than common. Especially, I live in PAL region and I speak Japanese. Add to that the fact I also check scene releases, which are quite interesting on DC, as piracy is one of my field of work.
So, my way of stocking games is to mix up all the regions of the same game on same card, in order to fastly change version and spot and confirm differences.
That way, being to put everything on the same card (possible when the larger card are going to be released) would have been a time saver in an already tedious task.

But, Deunan officially confirmed that we can sit barenaked on the folders number increase, so I'll continue to fill up manually carts using on a per need basis. :'(

Well, I know I am an edge case so guess I can't complain.