With great pride I announce we have a working selfboot for geist force!

looks good yakumo

 

I agree, the cover looks incredible. I look forward to seeing that cover art in a case in my shelf.

Does anyone know where in the process the disc is currently? Was there going to be more testing before getting the disc pressed, or has it already been sent off for pressing?

 

I'm pretty sure Assembler has completed the game however he is ill at the moment so we may have to wait a little longer.

Yakumo

 

Oh, I see then... I hope he's feeling better soon.

Thanks for the update, Yakumo!

 

I'd be willing to donate for funding the site itself for a nicely made one with a good print job. .

So what about a fundraiser doing that at some point?

 

The problem with that is any money donated probably would end up being used for that second printing without there being much of anything left over to go towards the site itself.

This is probably going to stay a one time thing, unless Assembler decides to keep doing more prints of it if a lot of people ask for it. But he probably won't gain anything from it in the end, with how much it must cost.

 

damn, I totally missed that. This game looks wonderful. Any chance to get a copy of this game? I've donated several times to the site's fund.

 

There'll be a public release at some point. Sit tight.

 

Got APE992 to OC my DC just in case it might be needed for this gem.

 

Indeed, I was rather surprised at just how simple it is to overclock a Dreamcast honestly. At least if you've got a steady hand, 30AWG wire and can tell a collector from an emitter from a base!

Hoping additional cooling won't be necessary for Geist Force. One could potentially replace the existing thermal pads with something of higher efficiency but then you'd just be dumping the heat from the CPU/GPU onto the aluminum that is (presumably just) bolted onto the steel shielding. No real "fins" for the heat to dissipate off of really, even a larger fan would only have the affect of pulling air out of the console faster. Not sure how much of a cooling benefit that would be realistically.

Any thermal engineers in the house?

 

I was just thinking about this today. I've finally begun the SD/GD mod I created a thread about and the only way I could see there being any extra heat countermeasures put in place would be to cut a hole (fairly wide) around the GPU/CPU in the metal plate under the GD ROM (obviously not too big) and place a cut down copper heat sink on there, and maybe a thin fan.

Only problem then would be, where would the fan vent to?

The only other suggestion I could think of would be to copy the heat pipe version Dreamcast, not an easy task...

Or run it with the top off... :lol: Easy

 

Awesome - the case covers look like retail ones!

Good job!

 

A heat pipe is a good solution overall but I can't imagine attempting to replicate it without having access to professional level equipment and skills. No surprise why SEGA's engineers picked it as a first run but fairly obvious that it'd be removed if it wasn't truly necessary given how much it must have cost.

 

You can use Fourier Transforms to locate what kind of patterns you're intercepting, organizing them and picking them out/manipulating them is just doing the reverse.

it's not easy, but it's fun if you can handle this kind of thing!

 

Being a scientist myself, I know a lot about Fourier analysis (although not applied to computer science) and while I agree with you that it is good to find patterns in pretty much any set of data, I don't think it would be of real use to crack a Dreamcast game.

It's not a matter of analyzing the signals going through traces, it's plain compiled data analysis. While a FFT could still be performed, I really don't think this is what the anonymous hacker used, as he was not looking for a pattern, but rather for a single exception.

On a side-note, seems like ASSEMbler started pressing discs! Good news!

Cheers,

FG