WTB: Dreamcast HKT-01 katana dev kit

Hi guys,

Is anyone selling a HKT-01 dev box? I have really limited space in my dorm so it would be super convenient to have a region free Dreamcast rather than 3 separate systems, and also be cause I've always thought the HKT-01 looked extremely cool, very industrial looking

If it matters I'm most likely not going to be developing anything on this dev kit, at least anytime soon as I am only being taught Java at the moment but later on I will get C/C++ skills and then I probably would play around with it. I bring this up because I know some people don't like the idea of giving a perfectly usable dev kit to someone as a collectors piece.

I have no preference on either the earlier Katana branded variant or the later Dreamcast branded variant, nor am I looking for any of the addons really, however knowing how expensive shipping is I'd rather it come from someone in the UK but maybe I can stretch to paying shipping from the US.

Thanks for reading!

 

Any reason why you want to pay for a devkit that you wont develop on, just for region free - rather than getting your existing console modded with the region free bios which will be much cheaper?

 

Because it's shiny? I dunno why does anyone want development kits if they can't use them?
I really can't give any justification other than they are just cool and kinda exclusive

 

Cant argue with that. If its because its nice a shiny - rather than just for region free, have at it!

 

All this talk of dev kits makes me want some dev kits too! :wink-new:
Good luck in your search!

 

Thanks guys

 

You are looking at about £400-600, though. You're not going to find one any cheaper. And, if you've limited space, it seems odd to want something much bigger! Conversely, a BIOS chip is a few quid and if you can't do it yourself, you'd probably get someone to do it for £10-20. Then a Dreamcast shouldn't be more than £20... say 50 quid and you've got yourself a region free console.

There's been a guy selling a few dev kits on eBay lately - but they'll certainly be in that price range if he still has any.

 

Well yeah space saving was my "justification" but yeah it's just because it's shiny and cool, like I said above

And yeah I am willing to pay around that area, but the last one I saw being sold on eBay got to £620 with no sign of stopping so I gave up there because it could of probably gone to well over 700...damn auto-bid demoralizes me when I'm trying to win an auction!

 

I used it to get my model 1 Sega CD system. Poor guy trying to beat me gave up after 20 bids at around $120. :highly_amused::victorious:

 

Exactly! It feels like there could be like a grand going on something after that many bids, although to be fair the idea is that everyone just puts there highest bid down and the highest will win, much better from the last second sniping of an auction on the eBay of old, that was always extremely frustrating!

 

pardon me for asking but what exactly is this auto-bid? some feature I'm unaware of on ebay, or just another type of sniping bot?

I still snipe by hand because in most cases, my connection is fast enough to pull last two second bids off by hand, and it lets me make the decision to change my mind on the fly a lot easier than setting up a bot for me.

 

I dunno if it's the same as a bot, basically you enter your maximum bid and then eBay will put one bid for the item, if someone else bids but it still isn't more than your maximum bid eBay will bid for you again and it will keep doing this until the bids have gone over your maximum bid, after which you'll need to either increase your winning bid or walk away.

For example a Dev kit on eBay has a starting bid of 400, and I say my maximum bid is 500, eBay will then put a bid down for 405. Someone else comes along and bids 450 then eBay will automatically bid 455, but if someone bids over 500 then we would have to increase our maximum bid.

I think the idea is to stop sniping as even if you do throw in a quick bid with 2 seconds to spare, if that bid isn't more than the winners maximum bid then the sniper still wont win

 

I have been looking for one of these too, no luck yet...

 

I think I may of underestimated how rare these things are!

 

^ Yup...

 

No... the idea, just like in a proper auction house, is that you tell them what your maximum bid is so they can bid on your behalf, and stop when you told them to - nothing to do with sniping.

In an auction house, you'll often hear something along the lines of:

"And I can start the bidding with me at £100.... £150.... £200" (that's the auctioneer going through their list of bidders to start).

Then say I raise my hand... there's a bid for £250.

The auctioneer replies, "£300 with me."

I bid again. That's £400.

The auctioneer replies, "I'm out at £400."

That means that her bidder had a maximum of £400 (or less) so it's my high bid.

Likewise, to use your example, eBay will have an increment. The item is at 400. Someone else bids 405. Actually, it would then have bid 410 for you. Someone else comes along and enters 450. They aren't bidding 450 - like you, they're letting the system know they'll go up to 450. It works out their first bid is 415, then you'd bid 420... and so on. In actual fact, the outcome there should be that you get the bid at 450, and the system tells them they've been outbid. Of course, we don't see all the 'raised hands' as we would in the auction room

In other words, if someone is prepared to pay more than you, then you're most likely to get outbid regardless..... and you shouldn't worry about people sniping because you've put in YOUR maximum, right?

 

Pretty much- I'm just not a fan of dealing with a bidding war at the beginning/middle anymore, and as you say- bid the max you actually want to pay... the downside is that in this and other hobbies- there's ALWAYS someone with more money to throw at something- because I'm cheap, yeah.. I find sniping bids are the best solution.

Personally, I've grown to like the method that YJ utilizes where IF people are still bidding, well, the auction actually gets drawn out until no one's willing to compete. At least it's overall more honest.

 

Regardless of WHEN you bid, you still have to bid the maximum you're willing to pay.

If you're going to snipe at the last second, it's at $500 and you're willing to pay $600 but the actual maximum funds you have are $750, then do you bid $600 or do you bid $750? As you're sniping, you HAVE to put in the maximum you're willing to pay - because if I've bid $700 and you snipe $600, it's your tough luck.

Yes, Yahoo! Auctions always were good with the extension, even when we had their services in the West - it makes it more like a real auction. I actually favoured Yahoo! for that reason. Shame they called it quits.

 

The auto bid made me lose out on my first chance at a Sega DS-16. The one on FleaBay that went for $300.

I'm the one who pushed it to that point before giving up. Thankfully I got one from a member here a month later for less.

If you can look up that DS-16 eBay auction and see who bid on it, I'm MCHR9750 on the there.

 

Just saw another one of these go for £620 on eBay, would you guys say this is a reasonable price to expect? Or a little bit more or less than that?