Curing myself of Dreamcast Optical Media Poisoning
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Have you realized that when you see media through your eyes is optical media
oh my god you just opened pandora's box and it can never be shut again. I'm so conflicted right now. I am going to seek an optometrist for eye removal surgery asap
the real optical media was the friends we opted for along the way
Great swap you did lad. Even I think a 256 GB storage card is enough for many Dreamcast games.
@@BringusStudios oh yeah everything is optical media
The Human Body Uses Optical Media. Let's Change That.
You absolutely should remove the 12v regulator if you have a NTSC console with GDEMU installed. It doesn’t only apply to PAL consoles.
To reply to the original question I was asked which appears to have been removed …
It’s because there’s no load on the 12v rail which powers the GD-ROM drive. Without anything on the 12v rail, it’ll just sit there drawing power with nothing using it, resulting in excess heat. The channel owner is correct in that regard.
However, that heat is there in every version of the console, not just PAL - there is more heat from a stock PAL PSU than a US one, due to the increased voltage, but to say it’s not required for US consoles simply is not true.
At the end of the day, it’s up to the user of the console to decide how best they use their console after installing a GDEMU.
Some leave it be and accept the excess heat and potential damage (I’ve personally blown a PAL PSU after running it stock with a GDEMU for just over an hour).
Some people use a set of resistors to bridge the PSU connector pins and add load to the rail, but that’s a very janky mod in my opinion.
There are aftermarket PSU’s, like the Pico PSU as mentioned in the video, but avoid the DreamPSU (not to he confused with the DreamPower PSU, which I use).
"it’ll just sit there drawing people with nothing using it" - @@SEGAGuys lol
@@bland9876 When you realise your phone auto corrected power to people … 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣
@@bland9876 You ever hear of phantom load?
@@mickeyqtip7918 no but I've heard of phantom pain before.
10:38 i love how you chose the one organ in your body doctors actually do just throw back into you bc your intestines know where theyre supposed to be like a memory foam pillow.
thats crazy 💀
@@einfachnurtoni Even crazier when you realize your intestines are a muscle and are constantly writhing inside you.
@@BoyBlunder66 like ur mom
@@BoyBlunder66 And the fact that the human intestines have more neurons than cat's brain
SEGEGEG
My sister is a surgical assistant and she says that's literally how you do intestinal surgery, you just kind of shove them in a corner and stitch them up and the body just of puts everything back where it was.
Gee whiz bambino!
Also, how are these videos so funny?? All of them have me dying of laughter. Truly the peak of comedy. Thanks for all your videos Bringus!
Gee whiz bambino
gee whiz bambino! we truly are the gamers of all time😎
Not sure if ive seen anyone comment on it before, but i love your use of TF2 sound effects, theyre always perfectly placed
HHHHHVICTORREEYYYY!!!!
Based opinion, based as hell
Also fallout new vegas
gee whizz bambino
Gee whizz gambino lol
Optical media is good when it works because it feels satisfying when it still works
this is true. but ever since my copy of jumpstart for 1st graders stopped reading when I was a child I am no longer able to take the heartbreak of my beloved media failing on me anymore. I am working on this trauma with a therapist
@@BringusStudios I had the same problem Toy Story 3 on my PS3, had a lot of memories with it
@@BringusStudiosI’m having the same issue with sonic adventure 1 on my Dreamcast. It’s really weird tho, like it’ll actually load in some areas if you wait a week, but then after an hour it’ll go back to not working. Still love my Dreamcast from 1999 tho
@@BringusStudioslmaoo 😂
can't really say that about my dreamcast, it sounds like a fax machine when it's reading
I will NOT take this optical media slander
>:(
Try paying for an overpriced dreamcast game and you'll understand.
True, bullying Optical Optical media is not cool
No, I would rather fall off a cliff than not breaking optical media.
@@blue-spy-j4g i do my finances on optical media, its fine
10:41 this IS in fact how surgeons put your intestines back into your body. Your intestines have muscle memory and will relocate themselves to where they need to go.
Love it! Dreamcast was an amazing system!
As an optical media enthusiast, I am in your walls
Same, also in his walls with cd-rs on my fingers
I am also in his walls with HD-DVDs of Kangaroo Jak over my eyes
This wall is going to get crowded soon
fi and hall hall!!!!!
hey can yall move to other walls it;s kinda crowded in here
Found this channel like a week ago. Quickly become one of my favourites. I love these chaotic tech adventures more than anyone could ever imagine.
So many of the dreamcast websites are disappearing unfortunately. I have a bunch of archived homebrew stuff, and even a STACK of like 300 CDR's from back in the day before these mods existed. Linux ports, Web browsers, BleemCast boot cd's for any ps1 game, emulators for different consoles and so much more
There used to be a DC iso floating around that was a Genesis emulator with hundreds of ROMs and now I can't find it anywhere.
Dump them
Have you considered uploading this to the internet archive? I'm VERY interested in your collection
bump on the internet archive comment, you really should put it there if it's not there already
As a member of the optical media fandom i can say that we will find you
I read optical in the thumbnail and legit thought it was my name fore a moment.
I was like "what did I do?"
The Dreamcast is amazing, one of the best consoles ever. One of my favorite parts is that it will run all homebrew without any mods at all (if you use optical media), but there's still so many mods to make it even better. Hope you enjoy it, looking forward to your future video on it!
My favourite thing was being able to play Playstation games on it using Bleem!
Dude, i got pretty tired of it quick. The games were shallow. I dunno, maybe i'll dig it out again. Emulation even with a good PC just doesn't feel right to me.
@@Name3rdGearVTACK🤡
I don't think optical media bad
you want to go home and rethink your life
@@BringusStudiosYou want to go ahead and take options away from existing systems in the name of “modernization”?
@@fujinshuyeah I love having the inability to physically own the media that I bought and everything be behind a subscription or online based in which I can’t access if the service is down, MODERN GAMING
@@BringusStudiosYou should've thought twice before posting this reply. Taking away options is not good. TBH saying the optical drive needs to go entirely is incredibly closed minded.
@@LampHatScott it's a star wars reference
This guy is the perfect mix of Dankpods and Scott the Woz, it’s incredible.
That's an insult to Scott
@@abrahanmorales9314 It's an insult to Bringus, ew.
That cd bit was literally Scott the Woz
But Bringus is lacking the proper spice. The Aussie accent. :) Still, a good channel
Amazing video. Great gags, great editing, all around great stuff. Subbed, keep it up!
between the clicky card slot and the whole assembly looking like dustin from stranger things, absolutely worth it
1:44 "Say it with me: Optical, media, *_B A D_* "
As a computer repair tech, this was actually really cool! I loved it! lol. Very funny and fun! (Also, "gee whiz bambino"! ;D)
Gee whiz bambino to you too
The nostalgia hit hard when the splash screen animation played. Been so many years since I've seen and heard that.
Great one lad. Perhaps you might get more of those Sega Dreamcast's from Flea Markets, Thrift Stores, Ebay, Amazon, and Kijiji as options.
No the worst part of burning DC games was that most of the best games had to be modified to fit on 750mb discs, since GD-ROMs were bigger. It was never anything game altering iirc, but it did lead to things like music being turned into mono, video files being compressed, stuff like that iirc. That was okay in 2000, when you were playing on a CRT and were just happy to get free games off the net because you were poor, but today, why compromise?
To add to the list, the Dreamcast GD ROM discs were like, super-cds that could hold up to 1 GB. A CD can only hold about 700 MB, so any discs you burn need compression or stuff ripped out of them, like cutscenes. With that SD card slot you can run the original, unaltered games.
Majority of the Dreamcast library was under 700MB so it doesn't apply to most games. It's nice being able to use the full iso though yeah.
I remember seeing a lot of 900MB CD-Rs used by DC owners
Dam that's bigger than some sd cards. I've seen 64MB and 256MB cards and no I did not mean GB. I don't have them my dad dose but the smallest regular storage device I own (not a memory card for a game system) is two 512MB USB thumb drives.
The GameCube discs are much smaller physically but is actually 1.47GB more than the Dreamcast.
@@VOAN GD-ROM discs are roughly 1.1GB, GameCube discs are 1.46. Sega always gave 1.2GB as the size (and Wikipedia states so) but that's Sega's little fib.
The entertainment value of your video is getting much better. I enjoyed this one a lot.
THAT MEMORY CARD WAS A BEAST
Gee whiz bambino!! That was a cool video😎
12:54 that wasnt bringus, that was the crys of pain from the dreamcast taking damage
Performance was a common maker of third party accessories for the dreamcast , if I remember right they got their start in the N64 days but really went in on the Dreamcast and unsurprisingly tanked when it did.
Oh yes! Love it!! I have two dreamcasts, two saturns, so I can have one each with those optical drive emulators and one each with a disc drive. There's something nice about playing the original discs from my childhood for a good hit of copium but also the disc drive emulator is my most used for like real world gaming.
Don't worry. Once you games start to get bitrot you will have both systems with optical drive emulators
@@USDebtCrisisIsn't it a waste of time to mod 2 systems to be the exact same just for the chance that the CDs for the one that uses CDs start breaking down when you still have the original moded system that you can still put stuff on even if you run out of space just by buying a new SD card?
@@USDebtCrisis Yes. The Bitrot is upon us. Especially for Saturn games right now. Optical Media Bad.
@@caseykoons I have tons of discs that were pressed in the 90s and only seen it happen on some newer writable discs that were not well taken care of. On the other hand, the optical reading head, motors and whatnot do wear out in time, probably quicker than CDs becoming unreadable in normal circumstances
i come for the really fun and interesting mods that you put together (love watching you do those btw) but i absolutely stay for the plethora of source engine and tf2 sound effects throughout, i just love little things like that
This is my favorite video to watch in 4k
New subscriber here.. So fun to watch and no dull moments haha
The dreamcast disc drive is loud af too. You did gods work
Gee whiz Bambino!
This was one cool video, I need to get my hands on a couple of console so I too can pull shenanigans such as this hahaha
Also, of course I know a friend who has "Optical Medialitis", that friend is me 😃
Don't put a CD tower near me, I'll use it, with joy.
This was indeed a gee whiz bambino tier video.
gee whiz bambino is quite the thing to ask for
gee whiz bambino frfr
Gee whiz bambino. Damn you pause button. Here I am again.
Gee whiz bambino
gee whiz bambino i want to do this now!
like fr dude you are a huge inspiration for me, thanks.
"anyone who stands in the way of progress stands to die" is an immeasurably raw quote hello??
Thanks for the shout out!
I love it when you make something do a task it wasn’t supposed to do
1:00 that company actually made some decent 3rd party gear for the N64 at least. I had their memorycard plus. had 4 cards in one. Never failed on me. They also had the tremor pak, a rumble pak with memory card pass through (and later made a plus version with the memory card built in)
Gee whiz bambino....
What if I wanted those lovely disc drive sounds? The Dreamcast ones are simply just too nostalgic.
Cronch cronch bzzzzzzzzzzzt
13:07 While it's true that I usually comment what I'm told to when I happen to pause videos to look at flashing text, in this case the sense of being part of an elite crew of viewers desn't come from yet another "guided" comment , but rather from a lack of one.
Thank you for taking the time to read this (useless) block of text. You've just joined the "why am I reading that" elite crew of commenters who have chosen to read this comment.
with self-tapping screws, if the hole was already used by another screw, you're supposed to spin the screw the other way around until you feel it drop in, that means it has engaged in the pre-existing threads only then you start screwing in like normal
can somebody tell me what the song that starts at 5:46 is called and where it´s from?
Super Mario Odyssey - Steam Gardens
Look into the IDE mod for the dreamcast it looks ridiculous and matches the aesthetic of your channel perfectly. I soldered the 40 pins of a compact flash adapter to the disc drive and jammed a cf card in there it works great. Some compatibility concerns but very minor. You'd also need to bios mod in your case? I left the disc drive in-tact and run dreamshell off a disc. Look into it, it's ridiculous.
oh my god that is insane. I didn't know that the GD-ROM communicated over IDE. it's so cursed
@@BringusStudiosold ass 2004 IDE full size harddrive to Sega Dreamcast let's go
I like optical media for video, i refuse to subscribe to 10 streaming services just to watch a few series now and then.
I've been moving the same way with music as their software gets suckier by the day, and they keep removing albums at random, just like in video streaming.
Yup I'll agree with that, dumb subscription services < optical media < digital copies
This dude had me rolling with the screw situation.
My favorite part about your videos is how you use Half Life and Team Fortress sounds, makes it hillarious
1:45 I've never seen someone smash a CD with so much force
Also are your fingers okay
i am slightly damaged now but i will recover thank you for your concern though
I know it's a gag/joke but optical media good.
When it works.
gee whiz bambino, this sure looks neat but that white on the sd card thing looks quite odd compared to the grey-ish beige on the dreamcast
I know I thought that same thing. It was between a black one or a white one and I wasn't sure what would look better. Black had the benefit of looking like the original drive but I was hoping the white would blend in with the rest of the shell better... which it kinda didn't
"i bet even somebody you know likes optical media"
"dang it"
I was a victim of the optical media bug but you cured me, thank you Bringus.
also gee whiz bambino
"gee whiz bambino"
I collect optical media and I'm not joking
As do i!!
controversial opinion here
optical media g o o d
that felt like a gunshot please I can't take it
@@BringusStudios also, it's funny how you say optical media bad but you have so much dvd's that you break them for a 1 second gag, and if the burn fails, it's just an skill issue
"I bet you even know someone who likes optical media"
Well of course I know her, she's me :3
Same here!The one and only reason being that they are CHEAP AS HELL.I dont care if they are inconveniently hard to fix,just f$&% it and buy a new one!
They were also the number one go-to piracy discs in my country for the same reason.(i have 20+ pirated PS2 games)
@@flazeboi I just like bc I enjoy owning my shit lol
10:17... That song is from The Legend of Zelda! 😀 Spirit Tracks specifically, Aboda Village 🙂
Optical media good :)
As a proud 2003 hifi user, I love cds (I love it except for sony's copyright protection so I can't write anything to it)
Also did I say optical media good?
Optical media good!
I am not infected with opticaltitis
I like optical media. There’s just. Somthing so beautiful. About having a slim disk on a shelf, and being able to play a game immediately upon sliding it into the computer. Rather than. Needing a 2 terabyte SSD
Came for the Dreamcast mods, stayed for the end of video songs.
This is a great video. Your style is fresh and witty. Keep going! (gee whiz bambino)
Oh optical media bad you say? well lucky for you lots of games today aren't getting physical copies! ... Good luck preserving them.
Wdym? They will be saved in the hdd
The preservation method for digital games or a game on a piece of optical media is actually identical. You are not preserving a game by putting it in a case on a shelf because they degrade naturally and if you want to actually use that media you move it closer to the grave with each use.
Both digital games and physical games have DRM and you have to circumvent that if you want to preserve them. Which is actually illegal. So in either case to preserve games long term you have to circumvent their DRM and be a pirate. Once you do that you can back them up onto as many drives as you want and that is how all games that will be preserved are preserved.
So if you are not preserving the actual software you are really only preserving the action of using a disc and frankly, optical media sucks.
@@SirNarax you’re degrading naturally.
CD/DVDs are properly preserved as a digital file tho?
This whole video you dunk on optical media, but have you ever considered that having a pile of shiney circles is fun?
I love optical media it’s so sool🥰
Dude you are funny as hell. Definitely become one of my favorite channel 😂
The only problem I see is that now that when the drive is removed you don't get that iconic dreamcast motor noise when loading happens.
Wait I don't get the joke at 0:03. Wouldn't you just get the Xbox again?
I will not take this Xbox slander (I’ve never played on an original Xbox)
the dreamcast and og xbox are pcs but the dreamcast is worse than the og xbox
yeah digital is better than fragile discs
There’s no flawless way to store games but digital is the worst out of all of them.
I’d say cartridge is better as it’s more robust than a disk but the flash dies. The thing with optical is that it doesn’t degrade. As long as you treat the disk well and keep it in a case it’ll keep it’s data.
@@ThisWillCharacterdisks and cartridges do degrade with time. It's called aging hardware. Be realistic.
@@Kmatt_9262 cartridges do because their digital storage and hold a small amount of power in each positive bit that after a few years loses the data. Optical disk media or vynl disks will keep it’s data indefinitely unless something external causes physical damage to the disk so as long as it isn’t damaged it won’t lose the data
@ThisWillCharacter dude, your argument is that the disks will be fine. What if the disk readers on your systems stops reading, and it's far off in the future when replacements aren't available. Sure, now you're stuck with a ton of plastic that's useless. At least you "own" them, right?
@ThisWillCharacter also, have you never heard of disk rot. May take 50 years or more. But eventually, those chemicals will just go bad. Doesn't matter how well you took care of them then. And of course, we go back to it just being trash you own.
mmmmm disks 😋😋
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
4 months after this video was released, this is a life quote, 13:07 "gee whiz bambino"
That intro made me laugh.
The Xbox technically is the spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.
Also, gee whiz bambino!
Funny fact, most of our videogames were NTSC, even tho we have mostly 220v in our outlets in Brazil
I think they could make a plug in disc drive for when you want to use the disc drive, like you plug it in and it disables the SD card temporarily, and then you have an external enclosure for the Disc drive
Thank you for refreshing my nightmares of porthole cows on a dreamcast video??
0:54 I desperately want to bait tech scammers with dreamcast
gee whis bambino
also bringus keep it up your vids are GREAT, made me laugh out loud
Just found your channel. Funniest shit I've watched in a while 😂
Gee whiz bambino, that one hecken good video
About the PSU situation:
You could basically just create a dummy load like a 1k resistor to have a minimal current flow at the 12V rail.
Dunno if approx. 12mA would be "enough" to stabilize the PSU, but one could put maybe two or three 1k resistors in parallel to increase the current.
12mA at 12V equals 144mW of heat dissipation, so next to nothing.
This man really said lets party like its 1998 when it says 1999 smh
shh you didn't see that
Gee whiz bambino, absolutely loving your content. Perfect blend of scuff and technological know how.
I will never forsake my dvds, they will live on forever
I think they make those holes when the cow has an issue digesting food. And fun fact guts are usually just pushed in and they'll go back into place by themselves.
top tier content, subbed
I am an optical media enjoyer and I thoroughly liked this video. gee whiz bambino
I was glad when I did this mod to mine no more burning discs yay.
i know someone who likes optical media
also "gee whiz bambino" or something
You consistently make me laugh unlike very very very few people do. Great stuff!
gee whiz bambino
gee whiz bambino, this video sure is swell as always
This is the first time I've ever seen a Cisco SD card. Feels like I just stepped into an alternate reality.
All my optical media consoles still have their disc drives, YET, they still can boot games from SD cards/SSD drives.
-My Saturn has a Saroo, which acts like a everdrive and lets me play games via SD card. Full CD-rom and MPEG card functionality preserved.
-My 3DO FZ-1 has an SATA23DO ODE, it can run games via SD card while keeping the CD-rom, you change between them with a switch.
-PS1 has a PSIO, like the Saroo, it keeps the CD-rom intact and allows me to run games via SD card.
-Original Xbox, well, that's self explanatory, just upgrade the internal HDD. In my case a 500GB SATA SSD is being used using a SATA to IDE adapter (Marvell controller).
-PS2, just like the Xbox, just need an HDD and a modem/network adapter. Mine has a 750GB SATA SSD, and an official network adapter with a SATA adapter fitted to it.
-PS3 just need an HDD upgrade to fit more stuff. Mine is using an 1TB SSD.
-Xbox 360 has RGH and can run anything via HDD, also using 1TB SSD.
-Wii just uses a 256GB SD card
-WiiU uses 512GB USB thumb drive with a tiny extension cable, so that the hot air coming from the exhaust fan doesn't overheat the USB drive.
The Gamecube and Dreamcast were a LOT more complicated.
For the GC, I used the Wiikey mod, you install a Wiikey (for Wii) with special adapter boards to the terminals of the GC's DVD drive. This allows me to run games from the Wiikey's SD reader, while maintaining the DVD drive intact. This one has a 256GB SD card. Sounds simple, but it takes a lot of soldering, you also need to order PCBs online and assemble them.
Soon to be released Flippy drive will allow this same functionality, but with much, much, MUCH easier installation.
The Dreamcast was probably the worst one to pull this off.
There's been an HDD mod for years now, but since the DC has so little space inside, modding an internal HDD while keeping the GD-rom was a challenge. At first I tried using 1.8" IDE HDDs for Ipods and stuff, it worked but they were expensive, and the capacity and performance was terrible. So I used an IDE adapter that went under GD-Rom drive board itself (GD-IDE V3), a tiny IDE to SATA adapter with Marvell controller (The Dreamcast doesn't like SATA adapters with generic controllers), and SATA to M.2 adapter, and a tiny SATA M.2 SSD to go with it.
The whole thing fits inside the GD-rom drive so, since I don't have easy access to it, I installed a 512GB SSD in it, and copied the whole library of the console to it. If I need to move any data around, I also have an SD to serial port adapter, it's slow, but in case I want to copy anything to the SSD, it's possible without taking the console apart. (taking it apart is easy still, since there are no soldered wires, everything is just plugged in place)
The only console with optical media I haven't modded is the Sega CD, but even that is not a problem, since I own an Everdrive and can boot Sega CD games from it.
Actually optical media is really good
For making laser pointers i mean
But you can get rid of the yellowing if you put the housing in a container with hydrogen and irradiate it with a very strong UV lamp.
The hydrogen then reacts with the UV light and bleaches the yellowed plastic and it looks like new
9:17 Was that... The flyswatter hand getting hurt sfx from Mario Paint?
I can't even imagine playing Dreamcast without that constant whirring noise
You have defiled your dreamcast by not being to hear the UURRRGG EEERRRR ERKKKK while the laser moves around