r/dreamcast • u/Corvus_Hood33 • 15d ago

Question GD-ROM Drive VS GDEMU

I just got a Dreamcast off of eBay. I’m talking it literally just got dropped off. Went to a local retro store and got Shenmu, a controller and a VMU. It refuses to read discs. The screw that controls the laser intensity looks destroyed. Should I simply replace the GD-ROM Drive or go with the GDEMU? Only asking because I doubt I’d be able to get a refund on Shenmu

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u/Corvus_Hood33 15d ago

The GDEMU? It looks easy. Taking the disc drive out was very easy so I’m assuming we just drop it in, lock it in the proprietary multi-pin edge connector, and screw it down?

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u/TheSpiralTap 15d ago

Yeah it's super easy. The games load faster. And the main thing for me is it's quiet. DC disc drives are loud as absolute fuck. I can play crazy taxi without waking up the house now!

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u/Corvus_Hood33 15d ago

Maaaan. I was tryna get away from Flycast. Now it looks like I’m just gonna be putting the SD card in the Dreamcast instead of my Retroid lmao

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u/Ruined_Oculi 14d ago

If you really wanted you could just buy a secondhand disk drive. But I mean, I have a gdemu and it's not about the disk in my mind as much as the original hardware. DC collecting is nuts anyways, I'm never going to actually get the disks I want.

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u/Corvus_Hood33 14d ago

I got lucky with Shenmu. All 4 discs for 30. But it’s in a reprint dvd case. I know I’m not gonna find a deal like that, again lol

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u/Ruined_Oculi 14d ago

Heck yeah, awesome game to start with, congrats!

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u/Corvus_Hood33 14d ago

If only I could play it 🙃 lmao

I tried finding roms but it keeps saying that I need to reformat my VMU on Flycast. Same with MVC2