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gojira1954

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Cdrom ode up for preorder
« on: August 25, 2017, 07:41:26 PM »
https://www.beep-shop.com/blog/8154/

Nice to see this happening, gonna wait for deunans solution nyself tho

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2017, 08:35:38 PM »
Neat.   Didn't know these were this far along.  Not cheap either...

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2017, 05:24:29 AM »
Price is garbage and attached to an upscaler. Blah. I'll be waiting too.

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2017, 07:22:49 AM »
Probably should wait for the GDEMU guy to finish his own.

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2017, 04:01:10 AM »
The price is rather steep, but it's cool that such a thing is becoming a reality.  I'd much rather have something that attaches to the bus than the type of device that has to be hacked into a real cd-rom drive.

Does it have a built in system card?

Yeah, I'll wait for Polymega. :D

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gojira1954

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2017, 09:16:18 AM »
Pic shows a system card being used so nope.
Cool that it can plug straight into the ext bus, wonder what the game compatibility % ends up being tho


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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2017, 05:27:01 PM »
do you think that the possibility of using usb or sd card within future updates enable the usage of hucards and cd roms via the expansion port, could this be possible? the holy grail?

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2017, 11:47:05 PM »
The price is absolutely insane.  If they could make like just the SD Card adapter for 100 bucks, that might be something. 

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2017, 05:02:10 AM »
actually for what it can do this isn't a bad price if you thinking about it.
It replaces and the interface unit and the cd-rom.    Getting a working IFU and CD-ROM will usually run you about $150, you'll likely then need to recap the both units and replace or upgrade the BRAM.     Then if the laser go out on a first gen unit, it can be hard to track down a replacement.   If you have a Super CD-ROM2 you can replace the laser with greater ease but these are often plagued with capacitor rot.    They claim the lag is 1 frame or less, which implies that it probably scales from the RGB or even digital output and is likely a good scaler.     The GDemu unit is intended to replace the earlier drives and will still require an IFU and given his current price I would expect it to be around $150.   

I wouldn't likely buy one however for several reasons.    I use RGB monitors, so I have no need to DVI or upscaling.      I have a supergrafx and coregrafx II with already had super CD-ROM 2s connected to them.      My CoreGrafx I has a IFU-30 connected but no CD-ROM, so maybe that'll get an ODE down the road to make it more portable.

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2017, 05:28:41 AM »
$150 wouldn't be bad at all.  $400+ on the other hand......
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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2017, 06:36:32 AM »
I would pay the asking price if I could get details and feel it out without a language barrier... if the disc image part still works while lining video out of the console. I don't want to use that scaler and if it's mandatory, it's a deal breaker.
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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2017, 09:23:23 AM »
actually for what it can do this isn't a bad price if you thinking about it.
Actually for what it can't do compared to the hypothetically cheaper solution of a Framemeister+GDemu device, this is a bad price.

They claim the lag is 1 frame or less...
If it is anything like the original Upergrafx, it actually drops/duplicates frames due to a timing mismatch.

It still looks like a half-baked solution that preys on ravenous tech otakus.

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2017, 10:46:22 AM »
Looks cool but damn, way too expensive. Plus it better have a massive amount of storage for the iso files.
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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2017, 02:00:25 PM »
Awesome! but I think we all agree that the asking price is high.  Hopefully this will brake the ice and will allow us in the future to play CD images out of an SD card or USB on a less expensive add-on  :pray:

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Re: Cdrom ode up for preorder
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2017, 01:28:03 AM »
I do wonder if this is something Rene of db Electronics could add to his RGB out board that he makes for the TG16/PCE.