Anyone know a place in Japan that has Dreamcast drive replacements?

I got a dead DC at home that should work if I can just get a new drive for it.

Ah, Dreamcast...my favorite means of virtual fishing...Just ordered "Maken X" off of Amazon as well, had no idea it was the Shin Megami Taisen people. Someone should post up those old "Dreamcast Online" commericals with the DC inserting its cord into the back of a phone, those were fun.

But yes, if anyone has a answer to Witzbolds query, please do respond. A whole DC retrospective/guide (purchasing/games/retailers) would be helpfull. And does anyone know if anyone sells generic Sega Genesis consoles like they do for the Famicom and the Super Famicom? Someone just gave me NHL 95 and its soon to be "on".

A proud owner of the Dreamcast :D And guess what? The games STILL look great on my Sharp Aquos HDTV through S-Video. If only the Dreamcast had component cables...unless they actually do exist. I haven't been able to find them on eBay.

Dreamcast for life!

Is that SuperPotato? Those wooden shelves look familiar.

martapp, nice eye!

@y2kenjination

The Dreamcast does have a VGA cable though.

The Dreamcast was my fav (specially that memory card) until the Wii came along. My latest comic is about SEGA ruining the DC and Sonic at:

http://madiart.blogspot.com/

I hope my Dreamcast never dies.

Yes, make the dreamcast already, they the poor sega studio's don't have to waste time figuring out how crappy dev kits for "home console of the future" work...

The Dreamcast is still with no doubt in my mind the best system I've ever owned and easily the one I'm emotionally the most attached to.

I still have a mint Hello Kitty version in transparent pink with all the matching peripherals factory sealed.

Does anybody know what happened to SEGA's plans to completely halt GD-ROM production? Did they really go through with it? That would be what I call losing the last little touch with reality, not to mention your fans.

SuperPotato the shop that keeps showing up on TV anytime a program has to do with retro video games.

Plus isnt the owner some uber collector so those of you who have the more rare, obscure famicon games could make a small mint off of the guy.

Haha, I was standing in front of the same shelf two weeks ago. The staff told me Dreamcasts are not sold in shops anymore, apparently because of some problems with the power supply/cable. (My Japanese is somewhat limited, so I might got it wrong).

I got one from Rakuten with no problems though.

I would have bought the boxed NES as well if I was you.

I think a redesigned budget priced Dreamcast could be money for Sega. Bundle it with some best of games and let the money roll. Or at least start getting some of those classics on one of the other systems as a downloadable.

Wish the Wii was BC with the DC like the Genesis,

Ok that was a stupid comment

@ SWATdoctor

Maybe a stupid comment but an awesome idea. You know, to dream of at night :_(

Wow, they sold out that fast? I was just at that Super Potato three days ago, and they had three to four consoles there. One of them was in the hands of what looked to be a potential buyer. He was giving it the "Hmm, should I buy this?" look.

I wonder if they're picking it up for Triggerheart Exelica or for Karous? Or both? Or something else?

Wow theres a lot more Kotakuites in Japan than I expected, pretty cool stuff. :)

Imagine a dreamcast with a 20gig harddrive, read gd's and dvd's, wifi the sega network back online , firefox browser and a live arcade like service for 100 bucks. i think with its expansive library and its homebrew community, the DC couldbe the perfect 3rd or 4th system and just might compete with the wii.

As with the PS2, another console that refuses to die. ROCK ON!!!

Yeah, SEGA should get back in the business. The world is ready. ^_^

@Witzbold:

Are you in Japan as well?

There aren't any dreamcasts in stock? By Kotaku Commenter Shelf-Logic, it must be outselling Wii. :)

About the power supply thing somebody mentioned - it's not that Japanese law that came in a while back banning sale of outdated electronics or something (possibly due to dangerous chemicals or whatever, I dunno)? There was a fuss at the time that it would prevent sale of old game consoles but I don't remember what came of it, if anything.

@landolakes: Yah, Im in wonderful Tokyo having a ball with the kafunsho season.

@martapp: Haha, you can tell its super potato by the high prices too! ;)

@Flazh: I remember them asking for around 78000Yen for a 20gb PS3 the day they launched last year. Putting some of their prices in perspective (I convert everything into pounds even though I left the UK 5 years ago), they can be reasonable for some old kit. $20 N64? not too shabby.

Was that brand new? I paid 3500 Yen for mine, but it was second hand. Gotta love Hard Off.

Ashcraft.. was that you in Super Potato yesterday afternoon with 2 other white guys?

Yes. Sega. Make Dreamcast again. Screw 'em all. Dreamcast rules!

I never felt so sad about the passing of a console and probably never will again.

@Witzbold and jrose

I said this in the other Akiba thread, but we really gotta find a way to meet up and chill. I think it would be cool to meet other Kotakuites.

Waaaaay back in the day I had a Dreamcast with VGA cable hooked up to an actual VGA arcade monitor in an arcade cabinet with the dreamcast wheel mounted. MSR and the Ferrari game made me wet my pants a bit. A dreamcast re-release with a new wireless controller would own. Side note -Dreamcast emulated MAME perfectly ;-)

Come to think of it, I could really use one of those controllers on the shelf there... and a new VMU

*sigh* so underrated...

I love my Dreamcast, but so far I've had my launch unit die out on me (the last time it boot up was 9/9/04... five years after I bought it. Then I had my next preowned console die on me... I'm pretty sure the DC has a very high console death rate. But since the DC is my favorite system, I've since purchased a brand new DC off of eBay and two more preowned systems just in case any of them decide to break.

It's kind of funny that Japan was the reason Sega ditched the Dreamcast in the first place and now everyone there loves the system.

the dreamcast is the best system ever created , all this comming from someone who owns allt he major systems in existance except the ps3 , AND recently repurchased the DC off ebay with Jest Set Radio , Seaman , Sonic Adventures and Shenmue!

All i need now is some powerstone mmmmm

If your DC isn't reading games properly any more, you can calibrate the laser to try to get it to read games again. I've corrected many "broken" DCs doing this. It's just a matter f slightly turning a little screw on the back of the laser assembly. Lots of tutorials can be found on the subject.

@quen: No, all other systems are back for sale, only the Dreamcast isn't, in any of the shops I went. I got a new, boxed set of first party Maraccas though, and it was very cheap...

Actually picked a Dreamcast myself the other week for a cool $20 :)