Must have (and Cheap) mods for any Sega Dreamcast

Описание: This time looking at mods that are worth doing to your Sega Dreamcast games console. It doesn't matter if you are using an original GD drive or a GD emu. The Dream PSU mod doesn't require any soldering and gets a lot less hot then the original power supply.

If you want to get your soldering iron out then the other mods covered here are replacing the original internal ML2032 with a holder that allows you to easily replace the internal rechargeable lithium battery when the original one no longer holds a charge and instead you get that annoying prompt to enter the time and date every time you start your Dreamcast.

The other mod is a resettable fuse for the game controller board. If you short out the control board in your Dreamcast then there is an internal fuse which looks a lot like a resistor that once blown, needs to be de-soldered and replaced. The resettable fuse will also blow if you put a faulty controller in there but just turning the console off and on again will reset it... making sure you've unplugged the faulty controller first of course.

The Dream PSU board I bought complete on AliExpress for around £20 which came complete with instructions and the necessary power supply. Lots of different sellers of this but I got this one from MOJ bag store on there. No affiliation with these guys but just the store I used and took a week to arrive. All of the AliExpress boards also seem to be marked with a website called retropsu.com which at the moment leads to a holding page.

Link to the Dream PSU board I bought from AliExpress here:
https://it.aliexpress.com/item/100500...

As for the rest of the components. I bought these on eBay from a seller called Digital Delights, again no affiliation and lots of other people selling similar kits on eBay. All these items cost £3.99 with free postage in the UK. The link to this item is here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264448750067

This kit also came with a blue LED to replace the original one and a 47uF capacitor to replace the one on the controller board. These don't need to be fitted but while I was there I thought why not.

There are also other kits that allow you to use a non-rechargeable CR2032 battery instead but I believe the only difference is a diode that stops the Dreamcast from being able to charge it.

00:00 Introduction
00:15 Dreamcast Dream PSU Unboxing
02:04 Unboxing the Dreamcast battery holder and resettable self- healing fuse
02:30 Removing the Original Power supply
02:56 Removing the Controller PCB board
04:10 Desoldering the battery and fuse from the controller PCB board
06:05 Soldering the capacitor on to the Dreamcast controller PCB board
06:45 Soldering the Resettable self healing fuse on to the Dreamcast controller PCB board
07:38 Soldering a New LED on to the Dreamcast's controller PCB board
08:45 Replacing the existing battery for a new battery holder
09:54 Reassembling the Sega Dreamcast
11:02 Installing a Dream PSU replacement power supply, replacing the original Dreamcast Power supply
14:12 Setting the time and date on the Sega Dreamcast
15:00 Testing it all works by playing some Heavy Metal Geomatrix
15:39 Testing how hot a Dream PSU power supply gets with a GDEmu fitted
15:56 Using a Testo 872 thermal imaging camera on the Dreamcast to see how hot it is getting
17:10 Comparing the new blue LED on the Dreamcast to its original Orange LED