The MODE from TerraOnion - Review - Game Sack
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2020
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285 - Terraonion's MODE is an optical disc emulator for Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast that lets you play games on real hardware without the original discs. how does it work? Is it worth the investment? Let's find out!
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"Show yourself, demon!" Joe, you're the best.
Actually, in all honesty, I watch Game Sack when I'm feeling down. It has an indescribable way of easing my sadness.
That ending was great!
Qommodore I do the same thing I have watched his videos over a over helps keep me going seen your comment and I felt like I should comment don’t know what you have going on but hope you get through it my hubby and son help me or I wouldn’t make it god bless
I'm dieingggggg. Joe's grumble man voice is the best.
Why is there a disembodied voice in my house?!?!
Terraonion are scumbags mocking Krikzz for escaping the war in Ukraine with his family. Don't support those garbage humans
Game Sack still running strong been one of my favorite RUclips channel for years.
Totally! One of the best.
Weekends rule with new Sack.
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How old are they?
"Sorry for not testing every variant of every game of every region"
"If it has a 2, you can go straight to hell"
He's saying what we're all thinking.
If you happen to have a 2 on the back of your Dreamcast, you must have real bad luck.
@@MegaManNeo "You've won the unlucky lottery" - Adam K
@referral madness SEGA later on released a revision which had the exploit patched which allowed for games on CD-R and thus homebrew games to run on the system.
In case you have one of those Dreamcast, new games won't work for you either.
Good thing mine has a 1
What are we thinking exactly?
"Show yerself, demon!" Found my new public restroom stall catchphrase!
Bahahahaha yessss.
Yes! Before THIS, mine was always,
"Before we get started, does anyone want to get out?"
@@SwankeyMonkey Admitted, that is a pretty good one. Another good one is the :41 second mark on Roundabout.
My Dreamcast's optical drive sounds like a washing machine on drugs. I would love one of these.
If cost is a factor, and if you want a solution now, I'd recommend the GDEmu. Clone units are available for as little as £35/$50. It's plug and play, so no soldering necessary. And as the Dreamcast has a library of roughly 600 games, you can split them amongst a few SD cards. I've got about 300+ games split over 2 x 128GB SD cards, but I've also used a 256GB micro SD card in an adapter without issue. Games are easily managed using a utility called GDEMU_SD which renames your games in a format that makes them easier to read for the system. There's tons of videos about the GDEmu with lots of resources available. If you want one look on eBay for a good deal.
That ending skit had me chuckling Joe. Well done 😂.
yeah that was a good one.
Terraonion are scumbags mocking Krikzz for escaping the war in Ukraine with his family. Don't support those garbage humans
Ahh! Was actually awesome seeing you on the TO discord. Also, thanks for helping me on Twitter with the Mega-MSU1 stuff, I eventually got it figured out! You're a great dude, and your content is ALWAYS awesome.
To fix the Starting Disc issue, just hold the A button and it brings up a context menu to let you clear what they call the disc queue.
Damn, I always forget how good the DreamCast is. Those games still looked amazing.
Yeah, even that street fighter game looked flawless
Upvoting just for your icon.
It doesn't look as good as the new machines. It's not amazing at all. You blind?
So you’re saying Dreamcast games don’t look as good as PS5 games? Who said they did? Obviously he meant that they look surprisingly good for the time and hold up well.
2:00 am baby!
00:19 PST bro!
Yeap
I was specifically looking for a product that will give me a guaranteed jail sentence so this comes really handy cuz pirating is too hard for my tiny brain.
yeah i mean i keep calling the cops on myself and telling them i am emulating games, yet every time they show up they're just like what seems to be bothering you boy? did you download a car or something?
How this show only has 248k subs is beyond me. Should have at least 1 million, minimum...
I love it when you do these kinds of tech episodes despite not ever having bought anything like this and having no plans to ever buy anything like this in the future.
Hey, what the hell TerraOnion?! I didn't get my free trip to Jail with my MODE! I demand a refund!
Lmaooooo Pass Go! 😂
Ahahaha😊
honestly underrated joke in the episode
Just turn yourself in to the police and explain your situation about how you are a major game pirate and want to be punished.
@@bruceg22000 GIVE ME THE CHAIR
Gotta watch every game sack video. Even the ones covering stuff I'm not necessarily interested in are must-sees for the humor alone. You're killing it Joe!
That ending cracked me up. Thanks for the great content and laugh
“Just make sure your dreamcast has a 0 or 1 on the bottom, if it has a 2? Well you can go straight to hell.” 😂
🤣
Its Canon Christian law , Got a Dreamcast with a 2 on it, you are going to hell.
"Thy Dreamcast shall be revision Zero or One, as Two is the mark of damnation the heretic offending god shall burn in the everlasting fires of hell." Romans 19:9.9
@@lukasperuzovic1429 Why is it not good?
Rockymann27 It was a revision to the DC that prevented the use of CD-Rs and hombrew games.
Yet when you consider what that feature (not a bug) was intended by Sega to do (facilitate playing import games) I’m not sure if our anger at such a revision isn’t misplaced...
@@osurpless Actually that not the issue when it comes to version 2 Dreamcast hardware and an Optical Drive emulator (ODE) like the MODE or GD Emu. The GD drive circuit board on versions 0 and 1 were both with the optical drive, when you replace the optical drive on those versions you also replace the circuit board for the drive. Version 2 has those circuits integrated with the mainboard/motherboard. The ODE has to replace the Drive's circuit board in order for it to work. There no way to replace the Drive's board on version 2 as its integrated with the mainboard.
But there some, and I do mean some very early version 2 Dreamcasts that did allow for Mill-spec CDs which was the exploit allowing the Vers 0 and 1 Dreamcasts to read games on CD-Rs. Version 2 Dreamcast can still read Music on CD-Rs.
Still one of the best gaming channels on RUclips through all these years. Thanks Joe, for putting out this quality content year after year. Your fans appreciate it!
Loved the ending skit. Maybe your best one yet.
Tou are my favorite YT channel. Congratulations.
I bought one, primarily for my Saturn. Not worth it for me to buy a second one for the DC when I play it so rarely, so I'll just move the MODE over as needs be. I agree about the super slow artwork loading, so I just leave mine in list mode. Haven't had the problem with the question marks in the list, but I am using the most current firmware, so maybe that solved it. Anyway, really happy with the MODE. Totally worth the $200 and whatever that I paid for it.
Terraonion are scumbags mocking Krikzz for escaping the war in Ukraine with his family. Don't support those garbage humans
So can you play rpgs like the English translations of the shining force 3 games? Can you save game files to a memory card?
Man.. these ending skits are pure awsome!!!
3:04 Ahh....Panzer Dragoon Saga! Truly I can tell you are a man of culture and refinement (and also DEEP POCKETS of you didn't purchase it back in the day like me 😁)
One of my top 3 Saturn games. Truly showed what the system was capable of. Some of the rendered cutscenes were just incredible.
"Not only am I hearing voices, these voices think it's 1999!?"
Dead.
I love that Mr. Bones music near the start of the video.
I have mine coming in the mail soon and can’t wait to put it in one of my spare Saturns! I have a mod chipped US model 2 and a stock JP Hi-Saturn model 1 (both with dead lasers), AND their respective, fully functioning stock consoles. Can’t decide which one is gonna get it!
I couldn’t score a Rhea/Phoebe from the maker and was not going to pay the ridiculous scalper prices online for one either. This awesome alternative came in at the right time. Thank you for showing a visual of how a multi-disc game is supposed to be shown in the folder. This takes away a lot of the guesswork.
Maybe in the future you can do an ODE comparison video with the MODE, Fenrir, Rhea/Phoebe, and the Satiator (when it’s released). Great vid as always, Joe. This makes mid-weekends special!!
I have a broken Saturn and a broken Dreamcast, both with dead optical drives... this would be a perfect fix, and the fact it works for both is great
Great review Joe!
I just installed one into a Sega Saturn. Some info no one seems to mention, you can use a usb extension cable and route it out the back expansion port for hot swapping external drives and usb sticks. I'm only using a usb 2.0 extender and I didn't notice any difference with load times compared to using the sata or micro sd ports.
Terraonion are scumbags mocking Krikzz for escaping the war in Ukraine with his family. Don't support those garbage humans
Happy Gamesack day
Huge props for using Rayman music in the introduction!
That may be my favorite post-credits sequence you've made. It's the exact right kind of silly.
Since I've already got a GDemu for the Dreamcast I'll most certainly pick this up for the the Saturn. Very exciting times to live in. We may be in the Golden Age of gaming right now!
That skit at the end was really funny
"Show yourself, demon!" LMAO! 😂
The skits at the end of the episodes are better than modern AVGN.
I wonder if that outro counts as... well, breaking the '3.5th wall'.
This is a pretty good proposition. Think about it: you've got a Dreamcast but you only have a few games for it. You want one or two super rare titles though. For the same price as those two ultra rare games, you can have them and every other game made for the console by getting a MODE. I'll pick one up!
That outro made my day, still laughing. great stuff.
Funny thing about that ending; I got my Dreamcast (pre-order) at my local Electronics Boutique...on 9/10/1999, since that was my payday. I still have my original DC, though the drive is kaput (I use a spare DC).
I myself have moved on to emulation, but I love seeing this stuff, my big worry for the disc systems has always been the drives and discs themselves. We are at the point where almost every disc system has a SD or HDD load, and I love it. Almost makes me want to get back into original hardware again.
Good review, definitely going to get one of these for both systems.
Looks like a quality product and good to have a few different options now for ODE for Saturn and Dreamcsdt. I have a rhea for my Saturn which works great but is a bit fiddly to set up the SD card. MODE looks so much easier to set up and organise your games.
I am definitely one of those people who likes to play on original hardware, so thank you for showcasing this. I even have a Saturn with a broken optical drive.
This is another awesome episode. The MODE sure is pretty awesome I feel. Thanks Joe
Come on game sack! Almost at 300k subs with over 30k views on the first day. KEEP GOINGGG
As usual great video Joe. Keep up the great work. I usually prefer emulation myself, but I may end up getting one of these because I have a Dreamcast locked away in my closet that I would love to play again. It's awesome you cover stuff like this because I personally would likely never know about it otherwise.
Of all the consoles I used to own, it's the Dreamcast and the Nintendo Gamecube I miss the most that was such an awesome generation for consoles. I still have my Gamecube but all the cables are missing, but my Dreamcast just vanished I have no idea where it went and that sucks. It was such an awesome system.
Great episode. I find it fasinating there are modern solutions for these retro systems. I would love to see an episode that shows all of the Sega Saturn hardware variants. I learned that there are several different companies that made them and there are some unique differences between them. I still dont' know why they spent time to change the US Saturn Logo boot-up menu and controller that no-one liked.
I always look forward to the endings. Funny stuff!
I'm impressed how you always manage to break out of jail after each episode!
You should start to call yourself *Jailbreak Joe* ;D
Can anybody please compile all the instances in which Joe tell us to go straight to hell? That shit's so funny
I have one for my saturn and after the fw update beta file its been perfect to play with no issues at all. The multi disc thing may have been you holding A and setting up a few games as disc queue but if not that was a strange thing to happen haha 😆
Nice choice of background music. Rockman X4 - Magma Dragoon
14:28 Inside your brilliant yet twisted mind, Sir.
I can't take my hands into a Saturn but if I can in the future, I will add this for sure !
Saturn is the most amazing computer architecture ever used in a console, all others are quite a different due to their generation but for the era, Saturn was IMPRESSIVE !
I've got a GDEmu Dreamcast on its way in the post. I've recently gone in on a GameCube SD2SP2, EZ Flash Omega IV for GBA, and Ever Drives for my Mega Drive and N64. I think they're all amazing products in terms of sheer preservation efforts.
I think it’s pretty awesome. Installation looks easy enough. Even comes with the rubber feet 👍🏻
Sack still going strong and keeping up the quality. 👊
Great quality video :) Thanks Joe.
The outros always get me!
*Show yourself demon!* 😂
Pretty cool product. Maybe with future updates Terra Onion will add the option for adding emulators.
Great review,! Great sketch!
That ending skit... 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The comedy skits at the end real lack bite since Dave left.
Awesome overview Joe... Looking to get a couple of these myself when they are back in stock!
Oh hey it's Mr Slope
Someone is getting too much Patreon money! :-)
@@hazy33 not enough sadly, I missed it first time round
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@@hazy33 I go for a modchip because of the price
tbh, on the list for next tax season. had no idea this was a thing! I love how game sack introduces us to new stuff, especially for hardcore gamers and collectors! the wry humor and upbeat narration is great, too. :)
That’s an interesting idea, there are tons of virtual disc drive software for PC, and this seems to do just that, it’s really interesting.
Finally I can deck out my Saturn. I ordered a new one 6-7 years ago and waited for a proper SD solution.
Even though it's not for me, I'm really pleased to see these devices. The optical drives will probably be the first thing to break on these consoles given the moving parts, and we'll run out of donors eventually, it's a less intrusive way of keeping an old console going.
8:26 That's the spirit!!! XD
nice to see an alternative to the rhea and phoebe for saturn owners[even if installing it is a bit involved], but it being able to work with the dreamcast is a nice bonus.
Pretty funny that they gave a toggle to slow down the speed of the drive emulation (something almost everybody can live without) with something that many people would feel they can't (disabling the sound effects).
My sunday begins good
Awesome shirt Joe.
The end skit is Joe in the far future, and the voice is Joe from the past, he uploaded the narration through internet explorer
I bought one of these when they were first announced some months ago, and I just received it last week. As I don't want to put the whole Saturn library on a hard drive, I'm using a micro SD with an extender since you otherwise can't reach that slot without removing the lid. Anyway, it works sooooo well, albeit with some trial-and-error. ISOs from certain, let's say sources, just wouldn't work for me, and the MODE would NOT load them. I've found ripping the games off of a real disc via ImgBurn provides the most consistent results for getting Saturn ISOs that boot every time (except for my Bug! disc for some reason).
One minor complaint I have is the size factor of the MODE board itself. On my US Model 1 Saturn, I found that it was a very tight fit vertically, since placing the board too far back would block the cartridge slot, but placing it too far forward would make one of the sticky mounting pegs rest on the ribbon cable that goes from the mobo to the controller port, and this made me incredibly uncomfortable. I hope future MODE revisions can downsize the board if that's even possible, and maybe place the micro SD slot where the unnecessary USB port is.
God, what a beautiful end skit. Show yourself Demon!!
I got a Satiator for my Saturn. It's got some drawbacks: it's more expensive, only takes SD cards, more basic menu, fewer features. However, the main reason I got it (aside from wanting to support all of the work that Dr. Abrasive did to create this wonderful little thing) is that it doesn't require any modification of the console. It just slides right into the MPEG slot on the back of the Saturn.
I'm no stranger to opening things up and doing modifications. I'm not worried about a difficult install or anything. But like Joe, I do have a bunch of games on disc and my Saturn works perfectly, so I really didn't want to just chuck those parts away for something like the MODE. Additionally, the SD card thing is not that big a deal, as I've already put most of the games I want to play on a 64 GB card I had laying around. I will likely just buy a 128 GB card for it, as that should be plenty of storage space for me. I don't actually want ALL of the games on the card, as there are some games that I will either never want to play or would rather play on a different console.
I will likely get a MODE for my Dreamcast. It's also still working perfectly, and I lament having to remove the drive, but at least the install is less complicated than the Saturn's and I will just store the optical drive in a safe place. I like the ability to use a SATA SSD since Dreamcast games are usually a bit bigger. Interestingly there's now an option to use the MODE with the PSX, but the XStation is half the price. XStation also is limited to microSD cards, but it has some cool features like over-the-air updates via WiFi. I will probably eventually get a 512 GB card or something similar for PSX games, which is only a fraction of the size of the full library, but there are likely a LOT more games that I'll never want to play for PSX than almost any other console I own. I like having lots of games to play at my disposal but often find it overwhelming if there are TOO many options, so I'm sure that will be plenty of space for me.
Then I just have to get around to buying a Mega SD, an Everdrive 64, an FX PAK PRO, and a bunch of HD Retrovision component cables for all of my different consoles!
I got one for both my DC and Saturn. Very happy camper!
So I'm watching a Game Sack episode, AND SUDDENLY I'M HITTING THE LIKE BUTTON!
The beard is looking fantastic!
Awesomeness please do more thanks
amazing episode, joe
The ending where he screams, "WHAT IN THE HELL!?!?!?!" as the voice is talking to him cracked me up. I always stick around after the credits to see these scenes. :)
this definitely makes me want to get a dreamcast again.
I like more to see the art boxes , since I don’t remember what all games are about only reading the names
i wish there was such product for PS2 slim!!! (i know there are other ways to play iso on ps2, i just don't like the drawbacks and compatibility)
That sucks. You need a fat PS2 and FreeMcboot. I have several emulators and I have all my iso games on a hdd.
Fun Fact: The Slim can use an IDE HDD just like the Fat. You just med to solder in the connector and find a power source.
@@xnamkcor - Or just buy FreeMcboot(Which has most emulators) & PS2 Network Adapter from Ebay total cost $30. No special connection, Have fun.
Did you just say "buy FreeMCBoot"? Also, the person said Slim. Fat isn't an option.
@@xnamkcor - I can't help you with Slims. I bought a FreeMcboot memory card because it's not easy to do. Especially installing emulators on the PS2. And I modded my PS3 with all that stuff 10 yr's ago.
I’m getting this ASAP!!!!
Those menu bugs look relatively trivial to fix. It's fantastic that these ODEs exist now. I don't think I ever dreamed of it back in the day.
Yeah I can't imagine the menu bugs hanging around very long.
Best ending skit ever!
Fitted mine to my Saturn, very impressed although getting a 2.5 SSD to work has been so far unsuccessful... despite adding the optional 5v. Still even on a micro SD the load times are impressive, and it's going to keep my Saturn going for decades to come :D
"Make no mistake about it, I WILL be going to JAIL"... lol Never change Joe!!! Love your brand of humor. :) TAAAAAAATE MODE!!!!!!!
You had me at "show yourself demon!" MUWAHAHAHAHaaaa...
9/9/99 for $199.99. It was an innovative system, easy to develop for, and had online play. Sega really learned from their mistakes and did everything right. Should have been very successful.
Great review! with the price of some Saturn games it is worth it if all you want to do is play games!
Joe sums up the internet at 12:28: "Or you can just emulate them 4 freeee lolol u r so stoopid". :D
Great episode, Joe.
Great video. Could you try smaller image files to view the games quicker?
I was literally working on my Launchbox (similar to hyperspin) setup while watching this video on another monitor...
I feel attacked Joe 😅😂
I see a sack I hit like...
Definitely want one for my Saturn initially. Not sure I’d get two.
The Rhea and Phoebe don't have to boot into Action Replay, then menu, then full boot again. Does basically everything the Mode does and more.
for dreamcast there is a homemade mod that allows you play from sd cards (not recommended because is not fully compatible and runs too slow) the ide mod is recommended but it can be messy and if you want to make an extra mod you can add a second bios so the dreamcast wont have to run dreamshell from the gd drive.
Great stuff!