Anyone know where to find a Dreamcast mod chip these days?

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I'm lazy and don't feel like using boot discs anymore. Anyone know where you can pick up the 4 wire modchip these days? I swear there was I site I was on a few weeks ago that sold them for like $10 each or something and I can't find it for the life of me.
 

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You could also download selfboot disc images, quite a few are available now. No need for any separate boot discs.
 

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4-wire chips are getting more difficult to find. All of the places I had bookmarked are now OOS/404'd.

Edit: Mentioned the Dreamshell/SD Card reader soft mod method but looking at it, apparently that's still early and has shit for compatibility.
 
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I've never had to use any boot discs any more, they are all pretty much self boot.

there's also a cool and easy region mod that changes the region on your Dreamcast with a CD. you just need to solder to 2 points, if you ever wanted to play originals.
 

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I've never had to use any boot discs any more, they are all pretty much self boot.

there's also a cool and easy region mod that changes the region on your Dreamcast with a CD. you just need to solder to 2 points, if you ever wanted to play originals.

You do need a boot disc to play original Japanese games on a U.S Dreamcast. I ended up purchasing a region modded dc from eBay.
 

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I've never had to use any boot discs any more, they are all pretty much self boot.

there's also a cool and easy region mod that changes the region on your Dreamcast with a CD. you just need to solder to 2 points, if you ever wanted to play originals.

I've actually done this, but it didn't work for some reason. No errors or anything, but my DC stayed Japanese region.

Also, fuck ISO's. I roll legit. I just have a mix of Japanese and US discs.
 

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There was a region free bios that was floating around for awhile...I dunno if the guy doing the mod is still around, but I think he was on racketboy.
 

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I've actually done this, but it didn't work for some reason. No errors or anything, but my DC stayed Japanese region.

Also, fuck ISO's. I roll legit. I just have a mix of Japanese and US discs.

Might as well just get USA and JPN Dreamcast consoles. When you want to play one, just unplug the current system and swap in the other one. They use the same cables.
 

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I had mine done a few years back by them. IIRC, it was $35 with return shipping...yes, you have to ship them your DC.

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I've actually done this, but it didn't work for some reason. No errors or anything, but my DC stayed Japanese region.

Also, fuck ISO's. I roll legit. I just have a mix of Japanese and US discs.

did one of the points have a resistor?

I also tried it, the guide says to feed a resistor 12v, it didn't matter which end of the resistor, on my Dreamcast there was no resistor at all, the 2 points where the resistor would have been solderrd to were there but no resistor present.

I had to get the 12v to the correct point or the region disc wouldn't do anything.

I finally got it to work, I can change regions now.
 

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I don't remember, I'll have to open it up and look. Thanks for the suggestion.

If I can't find the 4 wire chip I may hit up that dude for the region free bios.
 
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