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i decided that i would buy a dreamcast..but long time ago. someone said that there is a specific type of dreamcast..(newer versions) in which you can't play backup'ed games..so which one am i suppose to buy?..this it eh one i was about to buy..

 

CPU: Hitachi SH-4:

 

* 200MHz clock rate

* 360 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)

* 1.4 GigaFLOPS (floating-point operations per second)

* 128-bit 3D calculations

* 64-bit data bus

* 800+ MBytes/second bus bandwidth

 

Graphics Core: NEC PowerVRSG:

 

* 3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate

* Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping

* Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering

* Gouraud shading 32-bit z-buffer

* Colored light sourcing

* Full scene anti-aliasing

* Hardware-based Fog

* Bump mapping

* 24-bit color

* Hardware-based texture compression

* Shadow and Light volumes

* Super sampling

 

Memory :

 

* 16 MB main RAM

* 8 MB video RAM

* 2 MB sound RAM

 

Sound: Yamaha Audio Core:

 

* 32-bit RISC CPU

* DSP for real-time effects

* 64 sound channels

* Full 3D sound support

* Hardware-based audio compression

 

Storage Media: CD-ROM:

 

* 1 Gbyte data storage

* 12x speed CAV drive

 

Dreamcast Control Pad:

 

* Digital and analog directional controls

* Dual analog triggers

* Virtual Memory System data save unit

 

Expansion Options: Modem:

 

* 56Kb per second transfer rate

* Upgradable

 

could anyone tell me if this is ther ight one?

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Err....is there a difference?

 

Ofcourse there's a difference, you think they would give it different name for the hell of it!?

 

The HKT-3030 doesn't read CD-Rs. It's the firmware update to the HKT-3020. The 3030s were made around the end of the Dreamcast. According to Cominus, anything before Nov. 2000 is safe and is almost 100% HKT-3020.

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I dun know. Our local dealers are all using bootdisk when they are still selling DC.

Some I know modeify the DC :blink:

Those are probably the earlier models. There are more models that read CD-Rs than those that don't.

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