Post by Kazuya_UK on Jun 4, 2004 18:39:50 GMT -5
darkschneider said:
The older games without dummy files didn't strain the laser, they strained the actuator motor for the laser.To give 'explanation: lite' The closer in to the middle of the CD the laser reads, the faster the CD spins. (without dummy files or CDDA, the small games would be close in to the middle) The faster the rotational speed, the quicker the actuator motor is going to have to move in order to find the data. The noises you hear aren't the laser but the motor.
The GDROM drive isn't not meant to read CDs and CDRs. In fact, the hitachi drive and the yamaha drives are almost identical to corresponding CD drives made by the respective companies. In fact, it is this hardware simularity that the group Kallisto used to rip GDROMs with a yamaha 4X CD drive.
In fact, the reason self-boot games actually boot is not because of the popular belief that you are 'tricking' the drive into thinking a CDR is a GDROM, rather it is due to a routine put in the firmware. That is; SEGA wrote a function to boot from CDs.
Generally speaking, the people who get the reset problem, are also the people who rip their own DC games via the serial slave route. (DC has to be on for a good 24 or more hours)
IMO If you typically play for 2 - 3 hours, nothing appreciable is going to happen to the contacts on the power supply (no warping etc.)
Oh yeah, speaking of bizarre noises the DC can make when playing games, check out the GDROM of Soul Calibur.
I spose you could be right about the laser, but 'm not so sure about the psu pins. I never really used to use my DC for more than about 2 hours at a time (VERY rarely anyway), but I still ended up with the reset problem after about 8 months of use. Same thing happened to a couple of friends of mine. Still, it's a good job that that particular prob is easily fixed
It has been a while since I played SC on the DC, but I don't personally remember too many horrible noises from the DC while playing it (and yeah my copy was an original
). I need to dig that game out again actually ;DKaz
