Making Dreams Come True - Sega's Katana!

I have waited 20 years to finally see the inside of this thing after first seeing it in 2003 online.

It's kinda wild to think how I used to use one of these as a footrest after we stopped developing Dreamcast games.

GD-ROMs can be read with a few Plextor IDE CD burners and a patched firmware. You can't create them without GD-Rs, of course, but at least clone them for archiving and emulation. The common way is to use a program on the Dreamcast that slowly transmits the disc image via serial connection to the PC. The software side of the Katana is pretty much obsolete today as there are better Open Source development tools and libraries available, unless one really wants to utilize WindowsCE for any reason. The machine itself is just one of the most beautiful console devkits ever. Thanks for taking it apart :)

This is why i generally use dd to image any drive, cd, or dvd for archival purposes. Having a full backup to look into all this will be wicked! This thing looks genuinely so friggen cool, thanks a million for showing this off. It's really a dream!

Havent seen this dev kit since 2000’s bring back so many memories

Man this brings back so many memories of spending so much time in CodeWarrior writing homebrew for the dreamcast. It was a really fun console to homebrew for what with how easy it was to make bootable disks.

I never really stopped to think that a dev kit would need to be tethered to another computer to function. They have been all in one units in my head

Been after a Dreamcast Dev Kit for years, Found a Sega Saturn one last by total chance, the one NBA JAM TE was developed on, but Dreamcast ones never seem to turn up. At least for a decent price.

Seeing you tinker with the hardware and software, instantly takes me back to that wonderful time of computing in 1999. Like finding the rights cables in a box or just experimenting in Windows to see what would happen. It still bugs me that Sega didn't outlived the home console market. The Dreamcast remains as one glorious piece of gear.

I love to see this DevKits, the way it's build says a lot about how hard it is to make a console.

27:18 Seen this intro everywhere but never seen a unit actually properly boot up on camera, really good

I'm sure you've heard this like a thousand times already but the gdemu 4 gig limitation would be a perfect use case for a bluescsi so you could have a bunch of 4 gig drives to work with

Take a shot every time he says scuzzy.

Had no idea these boot retail GD roms.

By the way. despite the fact that it seems you can simply replace old power supply with modern ones, this may not be a trivial task. Modern power supplies are designed for a mandatory 12-volt load, unlike old ones, so without it you can easily get problems with stable voltage on a 5-volt rail

С1\С2 - Возможно : "Console 1/Console 2". Порт параллельного сопряжения двух консолей. При этом, текущая консоль может выступать как ведомой (С2) так и ведущей (С1)

I can't believe that sega used mosquito repelling coil as their logo!😂

SCSI drives always sound like a tractor starting up, warms my heart :p

Still have my original Dreamcast. So under-rated. Ahead of its time and needed decent internet.

Gotta love the sound of a older computer/HDD spooling up during startup. Somewhere I got a old IBM 386 SX system with a big orange juice carton sized HDD… took damn near half a min to spool up. Sounded like a turbine engine.