Resetting help?

[Johnny Sasaki]

Okay.. I'm new to all this burning disks for dreamcast use and like 3 days after that It just stops working when I try to play a disk. I already try cleaning the pins but its still doing it.

 

Any advice?

[The-Ice-Man]

Is it just burnt disks that it does it with or originals too?

[Johnny Sasaki]

Both.

[The-Ice-Man]

What happens exactly? I had a dreamcast that worked fine for ages, then one day it started to stop working. It would sometimes play a disc for a minute or two, and then just cut out, as if the signal to the TV had gone or something. Sometimes it would cut out straight after the dreamcast logo movie, and sometimes it'd not even get that far. I had to get a new dreamcast in the end, but it was years later till I bothered coz I had an xbox by then and didn't play my dreamcast much. Last year though I missed my old dreamcast games so I bought a replacement off ebay.

[Johnny Sasaki]

Well its boots into the menu fine, the play, music, vmu screen. But when I try to play a disk, the consel just resets over and over and over and over till it just shuts off.

[emsley]

its fecked bro - replace.

[The-Ice-Man]

Some dreamcasts seem to break after a while. I wish they'd make new ones. Coz if you replace it you're only replacing it with second hand, which could break the same way after a while. If you know anyone that could repair it get them to have a look, otherwise go look on ebay.

[Johnny Sasaki]

Awe. Okay Thanks for the help.

[Shibathedog]

Try this stuff here, I've fixed many by pushing those pins (If you really want to make sure it never breaks again you could drop some solder in there, but you have to be real careful it doesn't connect with any next to it or it will explode)

 

http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/dc-reset.htm