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aaroneff
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Thu May 08, 2008 10:34 pm		 quote : #1
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 I just bought a Dreamcast made in 2000 off of ebay and I got ahold of the Japanese version of Samba de Amigo. I downloaded Utopia off of this site. I burned the cdi file with alcohol and I was able to use it to play the japanese disc. But, the game randomly crashed and now the system won't read recognize any disc, including region 1 dreamcast games. Any suggestions would be extremely helpful because I need to get my maraca on.
 
SEGA RPG FAN
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Thu May 08, 2008 11:00 pm		 quote : #2
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 I suppose it's not very helpful now, but Utopia is not the greatest boot disc and does cause errors in some games. I've not heard of it messing with the physical system though. Can you play music cd's still?
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aaroneff
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Fri May 09, 2008 4:05 am		 quote : #3
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 no. I tried a CD and a CD-R and it wouldn't read either.
 
gary_b
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Fri May 09, 2008 4:49 am		 quote : #4
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 have you tried taking it apart and adjusting the laser?
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aaroneff
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Fri May 09, 2008 12:01 pm		 quote : #5
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 no, I probably need to wait for my brother to get home tomorrow before I attempt something like that because he's better that kind of stuff than me.
 
RickBB
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Sun May 11, 2008 9:16 pm		 quote : #6
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 My dreamcast had a similar problem. But it all started with random resets. These random resets got more and more frequent, to the point when my DC couldn't even start up anymore. So I found a simple way to solve it by reading this:

http://www94.pair.com/jsoper/dc_fix.html

I don't know if it's the same problem, but if you remember experiencing random resets often before the Utopia disc incidente, this might have something to do with it.

I hope this helps.
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