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I'm lying.
It was just a Dreamcast that had it's GD-Rom replaced with a cart.
Meet the Atomiswave Dev Kit, the System X. It truly is a Dreamcast Katana box with a Flash Cart where the GD-Rom sat. The PCB you see on the front contains a Jamma interface and what I assume is an expansion port. I was able to trace out the Jamma pins, but I didn't try the other port.
I bought it as non-working, but it turned out to be just a faulty PSU. It also has a custom BIOS PCB, and a JVS interface. Haven't tested the JVS.
When you turn it on, you get a black screen. It took me a few hours, but I was able to get it to boot the flashed game with the Dreamcast SDK.
Unfortunately the game is Ranger Mission. The HDD contents are much more interesting though. At least 5 games were created/debugged/tested with this thing. What's great is the contents look to be in a format that Dreamcast devs could possibly work with. I'm able to view and export PVR images/textures.
Since the AW SDK has never been released, there are a lot of things I cannot do with this. The DC software can handle a few things, but I cant flash the card inside
All the HDD contents and photos will be released soon. I bought this earlier this year and I haven't messed with it in a few months, so I need to organize pics and stuff and make a video of it working.
It was just a Dreamcast that had it's GD-Rom replaced with a cart.
Meet the Atomiswave Dev Kit, the System X. It truly is a Dreamcast Katana box with a Flash Cart where the GD-Rom sat. The PCB you see on the front contains a Jamma interface and what I assume is an expansion port. I was able to trace out the Jamma pins, but I didn't try the other port.
I bought it as non-working, but it turned out to be just a faulty PSU. It also has a custom BIOS PCB, and a JVS interface. Haven't tested the JVS.
When you turn it on, you get a black screen. It took me a few hours, but I was able to get it to boot the flashed game with the Dreamcast SDK.
Unfortunately the game is Ranger Mission. The HDD contents are much more interesting though. At least 5 games were created/debugged/tested with this thing. What's great is the contents look to be in a format that Dreamcast devs could possibly work with. I'm able to view and export PVR images/textures.
Since the AW SDK has never been released, there are a lot of things I cannot do with this. The DC software can handle a few things, but I cant flash the card inside
All the HDD contents and photos will be released soon. I bought this earlier this year and I haven't messed with it in a few months, so I need to organize pics and stuff and make a video of it working.
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(iirc this game load resources from compressed containers, so almost all plain .PVR files you see there is development leftovers, not used by game itself)
