Have you realized that when you see media through your eyes is optical media

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

oh my god you just opened pandora's box and it can never be shut again. I'm so conflicted right now. I am going to seek an optometrist for eye removal surgery asap

@cs8712

8 ай бұрын

the real optical media was the friends we opted for along the way

@sharptoothtrex4486

8 ай бұрын

Great swap you did lad. Even I think a 256 GB storage card is enough for many Dreamcast games.

@ninteenth

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudios oh yeah everything is optical media

@vanjavicko20

8 ай бұрын

The Human Body Uses Optical Media. Let's Change That.

You absolutely should remove the 12v regulator if you have a NTSC console with GDEMU installed. It doesn’t only apply to PAL consoles.

@SEGAGuys

8 ай бұрын

To reply to the original question I was asked which appears to have been removed … It’s because there’s no load on the 12v rail which powers the GD-ROM drive. Without anything on the 12v rail, it’ll just sit there drawing power with nothing using it, resulting in excess heat. The channel owner is correct in that regard. However, that heat is there in every version of the console, not just PAL - there is more heat from a stock PAL PSU than a US one, due to the increased voltage, but to say it’s not required for US consoles simply is not true. At the end of the day, it’s up to the user of the console to decide how best they use their console after installing a GDEMU. Some leave it be and accept the excess heat and potential damage (I’ve personally blown a PAL PSU after running it stock with a GDEMU for just over an hour). Some people use a set of resistors to bridge the PSU connector pins and add load to the rail, but that’s a very janky mod in my opinion. There are aftermarket PSU’s, like the Pico PSU as mentioned in the video, but avoid the DreamPSU (not to he confused with the DreamPower PSU, which I use).

@bland9876

8 ай бұрын

"it’ll just sit there drawing people with nothing using it" - @@SEGAGuys lol

@SEGAGuys

8 ай бұрын

@@bland9876 When you realise your phone auto corrected power to people … 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣

@mickeyqtip7918

8 ай бұрын

@@bland9876 You ever hear of phantom load?

@bland9876

8 ай бұрын

@@mickeyqtip7918 no but I've heard of phantom pain before.

As an optical media enthusiast, I am in your walls

@HexOverride

2 ай бұрын

Same, also in his walls with cd-rs on my fingers

@hyperslime64

2 ай бұрын

I am also in his walls with HD-DVDs of Kangaroo Jak over my eyes

@Cyber_Akuma

Ай бұрын

This wall is going to get crowded soon

@ctbdjc

Ай бұрын

fi and hall hall!!!!!

@richwater296

29 күн бұрын

hey can yall move to other walls it;s kinda crowded in here

10:38 i love how you chose the one organ in your body doctors actually do just throw back into you bc your intestines know where theyre supposed to be like a memory foam pillow.

I will NOT take this optical media slander

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

>:(

@moonlitkoi

8 ай бұрын

Try paying for an overpriced dreamcast game and you'll understand.

@legospartan3.042

8 ай бұрын

True, bullying Optical Optical media is not cool

@MainAccReborned

8 ай бұрын

No, I would rather fall off a cliff than not breaking optical media.

@soldier-gaming321

6 ай бұрын

Optical media bad

Not sure if ive seen anyone comment on it before, but i love your use of TF2 sound effects, theyre always perfectly placed

@KRAFTWERK2K6

8 ай бұрын

HHHHHVICTORREEYYYY!!!!

@fatdogamer

8 ай бұрын

Based opinion, based as hell

@fatdogamer

8 ай бұрын

Also fallout new vegas

@JordanPlayz158

8 ай бұрын

gee whizz bambino

@ParkerBlank

8 ай бұрын

Gee whizz gambino lol

This guy is the perfect mix of Dankpods and Scott the Woz, it’s incredible.

@abrahanmorales9314

5 ай бұрын

That's an insult to Scott

@JomasterTheSecond

5 ай бұрын

​@@abrahanmorales9314 It's an insult to Bringus, ew.

@brobeckskazooremixes8703

5 ай бұрын

That cd bit was literally Scott the Woz

@thatguyalex2835

4 ай бұрын

But Bringus is lacking the proper spice. The Aussie accent. :) Still, a good channel

As a computer repair tech, this was actually really cool! I loved it! lol. Very funny and fun! (Also, "gee whiz bambino"! ;D)

Optical media is good when it works because it feels satisfying when it still works

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

this is true. but ever since my copy of jumpstart for 1st graders stopped reading when I was a child I am no longer able to take the heartbreak of my beloved media failing on me anymore. I am working on this trauma with a therapist

@hw_driver5988

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudios I had the same problem Toy Story 3 on my PS3, had a lot of memories with it

@maxrichards5925

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudiosI’m having the same issue with sonic adventure 1 on my Dreamcast. It’s really weird tho, like it’ll actually load in some areas if you wait a week, but then after an hour it’ll go back to not working. Still love my Dreamcast from 1999 tho

@Nicomanism

8 ай бұрын

​@@BringusStudioslmaoo 😂

@DecibelAlex

8 ай бұрын

can't really say that about my dreamcast, it sounds like a fax machine when it's reading

optical media is good when you get falsely banned for something and lose all your digital games

@64bitmodels66

8 ай бұрын

He specified optical not physical. Carts good CD bad

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

This is true physical media good I just hate scratching a DVD and instantly losing a $60 game it's very un-gaming

@dracopug

8 ай бұрын

Own your games DRM free, then literally no one can take that from you. I dont know why people conflate digital media with DRM. Like yeah its everywhere, but GOG exists, rom dumping, and piracy. Physical media kinda sucks if you ask me, the write speed on spinning disks sucks and even with cartridges you can physically lose those, and they take up space too.

@totallynoteverything1.

7 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudios bring back cartridges

@abdellahbadaoui4042

7 ай бұрын

​@@totallynoteverything1.Me trying to find a reason to own fancy plastic

I read optical in the thumbnail and legit thought it was my name fore a moment. I was like "what did I do?"

Love it! Dreamcast was an amazing system!

I don't think optical media bad

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

you want to go home and rethink your life

@fujinshu

8 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@BringusStudiosYou want to go ahead and take options away from existing systems in the name of “modernization”?

@octanegamer1576

8 ай бұрын

@@fujinshuyeah I love having the inability to physically own the media that I bought and everything be behind a subscription or online based in which I can’t access if the service is down, MODERN GAMING

@LampHatScott

7 ай бұрын

​@@BringusStudiosYou should've thought twice before posting this reply. Taking away options is not good. TBH saying the optical drive needs to go entirely is incredibly closed minded.

@BringusStudios

7 ай бұрын

@@LampHatScott it's a star wars reference

So many of the dreamcast websites are disappearing unfortunately. I have a bunch of archived homebrew stuff, and even a STACK of like 300 CDR's from back in the day before these mods existed. Linux ports, Web browsers, BleemCast boot cd's for any ps1 game, emulators for different consoles and so much more

@DarkNia64

8 ай бұрын

There used to be a DC iso floating around that was a Genesis emulator with hundreds of ROMs and now I can't find it anywhere.

@Weneedaplague

8 ай бұрын

Dump them

@ofoosy

Ай бұрын

Have you considered uploading this to the internet archive? I'm VERY interested in your collection

@doomguydike

Күн бұрын

bump on the internet archive comment, you really should put it there if it's not there already

Amazing video. Great gags, great editing, all around great stuff. Subbed, keep it up!

The entertainment value of your video is getting much better. I enjoyed this one a lot.

Found this channel like a week ago. Quickly become one of my favourites. I love these chaotic tech adventures more than anyone could ever imagine.

To add to the list, the Dreamcast GD ROM discs were like, super-cds that could hold up to 1 GB. A CD can only hold about 700 MB, so any discs you burn need compression or stuff ripped out of them, like cutscenes. With that SD card slot you can run the original, unaltered games.

@Agret

8 ай бұрын

Majority of the Dreamcast library was under 700MB so it doesn't apply to most games. It's nice being able to use the full iso though yeah.

@talibong9518

8 ай бұрын

I remember seeing a lot of 900MB CD-Rs used by DC owners

@bland9876

8 ай бұрын

Dam that's bigger than some sd cards. I've seen 64MB and 256MB cards and no I did not mean GB. I don't have them my dad dose but the smallest regular storage device I own (not a memory card for a game system) is two 512MB USB thumb drives.

@VOAN

5 ай бұрын

The GameCube discs are much smaller physically but is actually 1.47GB more than the Dreamcast.

@SpookyDollhouse

Ай бұрын

@@VOAN GD-ROM discs are roughly 1.1GB, GameCube discs are 1.46. Sega always gave 1.2GB as the size (and Wikipedia states so) but that's Sega's little fib.

can somebody tell me what the song that starts at 5:46 is called and where it´s from?

The dreamcast disc drive is loud af too. You did gods work

The nostalgia hit hard when the splash screen animation played. Been so many years since I've seen and heard that.

Gee whiz Bambino! This was one cool video, I need to get my hands on a couple of console so I too can pull shenanigans such as this hahaha Also, of course I know a friend who has "Optical Medialitis", that friend is me 😃 Don't put a CD tower near me, I'll use it, with joy.

@MDLuffy1234YT

8 ай бұрын

This was indeed a gee whiz bambino tier video.

@Pizzanet-8917

8 ай бұрын

gee whiz bambino is quite the thing to ask for

@bretonanimations9146

5 ай бұрын

gee whiz bambino frfr

@afivey

5 ай бұрын

Gee whiz bambino. Damn you pause button. Here I am again.

@akuma_no_zetto

Ай бұрын

Gee whiz bambino

Great one lad. Perhaps you might get more of those Sega Dreamcast's from Flea Markets, Thrift Stores, Ebay, Amazon, and Kijiji as options.

New subscriber here.. So fun to watch and no dull moments haha

The Dreamcast is amazing, one of the best consoles ever. One of my favorite parts is that it will run all homebrew without any mods at all (if you use optical media), but there's still so many mods to make it even better. Hope you enjoy it, looking forward to your future video on it!

@CableWrestler

5 ай бұрын

My favourite thing was being able to play Playstation games on it using Bleem!

@Name3rdGearVTACK

4 ай бұрын

Dude, i got pretty tired of it quick. The games were shallow. I dunno, maybe i'll dig it out again. Emulation even with a good PC just doesn't feel right to me.

@polocatfan

3 ай бұрын

​@@Name3rdGearVTACK🤡

1:44 "Say it with me: Optical, media, *_B A D_* "

Gee whiz bambino! Also, how are these videos so funny?? All of them have me dying of laughter. Truly the peak of comedy. Thanks for all your videos Bringus!

That loud grinding sound of death is just the Dreamcast working as intended.

THAT MEMORY CARD WAS A BEAST

Oh yes! Love it!! I have two dreamcasts, two saturns, so I can have one each with those optical drive emulators and one each with a disc drive. There's something nice about playing the original discs from my childhood for a good hit of copium but also the disc drive emulator is my most used for like real world gaming.

@USDebtCrisis

8 ай бұрын

Don't worry. Once you games start to get bitrot you will have both systems with optical drive emulators

@alu2901

8 ай бұрын

​@@USDebtCrisisIsn't it a waste of time to mod 2 systems to be the exact same just for the chance that the CDs for the one that uses CDs start breaking down when you still have the original moded system that you can still put stuff on even if you run out of space just by buying a new SD card?

@caseykoons

8 ай бұрын

@@USDebtCrisis Yes. The Bitrot is upon us. Especially for Saturn games right now. Optical Media Bad.

@DecibelAlex

8 ай бұрын

@@caseykoons I have tons of discs that were pressed in the 90s and only seen it happen on some newer writable discs that were not well taken care of. On the other hand, the optical reading head, motors and whatnot do wear out in time, probably quicker than CDs becoming unreadable in normal circumstances

Performance was a common maker of third party accessories for the dreamcast , if I remember right they got their start in the N64 days but really went in on the Dreamcast and unsurprisingly tanked when it did.

Thanks for the shout out!

i come for the really fun and interesting mods that you put together (love watching you do those btw) but i absolutely stay for the plethora of source engine and tf2 sound effects throughout, i just love little things like that

controversial opinion here optical media g o o d

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

that felt like a gunshot please I can't take it

@thesergius2295

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudios also, it's funny how you say optical media bad but you have so much dvd's that you break them for a 1 second gag, and if the burn fails, it's just an skill issue

This is my favorite video to watch in 4k

between the clicky card slot and the whole assembly looking like dustin from stranger things, absolutely worth it

gee whiz bambino i want to do this now! like fr dude you are a huge inspiration for me, thanks.

i love the comedic timing of your editing style

This dude had me rolling with the screw situation.

good touch with the funny triangle man

Gee whiz bambino.... What if I wanted those lovely disc drive sounds? The Dreamcast ones are simply just too nostalgic.

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

Cronch cronch bzzzzzzzzzzzt

I love it when you make something do a task it wasn’t supposed to do

This was one of the coolest things I have ever seen

My sister is a surgical assistant and she says that's literally how you do intestinal surgery, you just kind of shove them in a corner and stitch them up and the body just of puts everything back where it was.

Optical media isn't really that bad when you live in a rural area that only has .7mbps DSL available. Plus it's nice having the actual game on a disc just in case publishers want to remove their games from digital storefronts. And c'mon the Dreamcast isn't that bad. The worst thing about it is the controller.

@frequentfrenzied

8 ай бұрын

Optical media is terrible. Both the discs and the drives are fragile and prone to failure. The only benefit to using optical media over anything else is that the discs are slightly cheaper than other options. If you want or need a physical copy of your media for any reason then flash ROMs are significantly better in every other way and the extra cost is well worth it.

@meep.472

8 ай бұрын

​@@frequentfrenziedoptical mefia will basically be the only type of media that will survive a direct solar flare, also cmon man do you leave your discs on sandpaper?

@Gatorade69

8 ай бұрын

@@frequentfrenzied Ahh yes, so glad I can go out to GameStop and buy RDR2 on flash rom for my PS4 !

@johnbuscher7119

8 ай бұрын

@@Gatorade69 Flash ROM *is* superior, not that it was used in everything. It had a rough start with carts being wickedly expensive, but now it's cheap for basically every major game. Even starfield could fit onto a 128 GB SD card. You can't tell me that's not preferable to an optical disc, especially if the console's laser fails, you now can't play your legally purchased games.

@tornekotaloon9732

8 ай бұрын

​@@frequentfrenziedAll of my PS1 discs from when I was a kid in the 90s still work fine. No rot or anything. It just depends on storage and care. Anything can fail over time. SSDs fail.

You hate optical media. I still have a DVD-RW drive I regularly use on an almost daily basis on my gaming PC, and about 300 CDs. We are definitely not the same.

gee wiz bambino this was a great video! I can't wait for the modding video!

I was glad when I did this mod to mine no more burning discs yay.

Optical media good :)

Look into the IDE mod for the dreamcast it looks ridiculous and matches the aesthetic of your channel perfectly. I soldered the 40 pins of a compact flash adapter to the disc drive and jammed a cf card in there it works great. Some compatibility concerns but very minor. You'd also need to bios mod in your case? I left the disc drive in-tact and run dreamshell off a disc. Look into it, it's ridiculous.

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

oh my god that is insane. I didn't know that the GD-ROM communicated over IDE. it's so cursed

@MandrakeFernflower

8 ай бұрын

​@@BringusStudiosold ass 2004 IDE full size harddrive to Sega Dreamcast let's go

11:13 I see the little dancing triangle man. You thought I wouldn't, but I did.

Just found your channel. Funniest shit I've watched in a while 😂

1:00 that company actually made some decent 3rd party gear for the N64 at least. I had their memorycard plus. had 4 cards in one. Never failed on me. They also had the tremor pak, a rumble pak with memory card pass through (and later made a plus version with the memory card built in)

1:45 I've never seen someone smash a CD with so much force Also are your fingers okay

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

i am slightly damaged now but i will recover thank you for your concern though

Even as a fan of optical media, I loved this xD. I've been dying to get one of these mods for my own Dreamcast! Since I have more than one.. I can leave one unmodded and another modernized for some practical fun!

@NottJoeyOfficial

8 ай бұрын

I have been considering picking up one with a broken disc drive for a while to try this out with it, seems like a great idea.

I like optical media. There’s just. Somthing so beautiful. About having a slim disk on a shelf, and being able to play a game immediately upon sliding it into the computer. Rather than. Needing a 2 terabyte SSD

gee whiz bambino, this sure looks neat but that white on the sd card thing looks quite odd compared to the grey-ish beige on the dreamcast

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

I know I thought that same thing. It was between a black one or a white one and I wasn't sure what would look better. Black had the benefit of looking like the original drive but I was hoping the white would blend in with the rest of the shell better... which it kinda didn't

I LOVE the idea of ODE in systems, I really do! But I DON’T like the idea of completely disabling using discs on a system. If maybe there was a way to have BOTH in one system…🤔

Do you have a parts list to make this work? I don't see it in the description. Thanks for the video!

gee whiz bambino First time seeing this channel and this is some great content, definitely gonna check out some more of your stuff

I like optical media for video, i refuse to subscribe to 10 streaming services just to watch a few series now and then. I've been moving the same way with music as their software gets suckier by the day, and they keep removing albums at random, just like in video streaming.

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

Yup I'll agree with that, dumb subscription services < optical media < digital copies

I collect optical media and I'm not joking

@user-rt2dy7ge2p

2 ай бұрын

You bad because optical media + you = bad

@SEGANERD85

Ай бұрын

I prefer the original discs myself.

btw also do you have links for the accessories used in the video? thanks

No the worst part of burning DC games was that most of the best games had to be modified to fit on 750mb discs, since GD-ROMs were bigger. It was never anything game altering iirc, but it did lead to things like music being turned into mono, video files being compressed, stuff like that iirc. That was okay in 2000, when you were playing on a CRT and were just happy to get free games off the net because you were poor, but today, why compromise?

I know it's a gag/joke but optical media good.

@SirNarax

3 ай бұрын

When it works.

As a proud 2003 hifi user, I love cds (I love it except for sony's copyright protection so I can't write anything to it)

@vanjavicko20

8 ай бұрын

Also did I say optical media good? Optical media good!

@vanjavicko20

8 ай бұрын

I am not infected with opticaltitis

I think they make those holes when the cow has an issue digesting food. And fun fact guts are usually just pushed in and they'll go back into place by themselves.

Where did you buy your shizzizle to do this swap? I wanna do this

I love optical media it’s so sool🥰

This whole video you dunk on optical media, but have you ever considered that having a pile of shiney circles is fun?

I love optical media, recently got a lot of 50 GB BD-R as well.

Gee whiz bambino!! That was a cool video😎

Oh optical media bad you say? well lucky for you lots of games today aren't getting physical copies! ... Good luck preserving them.

@tahahaider5836

7 ай бұрын

Wdym? They will be saved in the hdd

@SirNarax

3 ай бұрын

The preservation method for digital games or a game on a piece of optical media is actually identical. You are not preserving a game by putting it in a case on a shelf because they degrade naturally and if you want to actually use that media you move it closer to the grave with each use. Both digital games and physical games have DRM and you have to circumvent that if you want to preserve them. Which is actually illegal. So in either case to preserve games long term you have to circumvent their DRM and be a pirate. Once you do that you can back them up onto as many drives as you want and that is how all games that will be preserved are preserved. So if you are not preserving the actual software you are really only preserving the action of using a disc and frankly, optical media sucks.

@randomcrap7682

3 ай бұрын

@@SirNarax you’re degrading naturally.

yeah digital is better than fragile discs

@ThisWillCharacter

8 ай бұрын

There’s no flawless way to store games but digital is the worst out of all of them. I’d say cartridge is better as it’s more robust than a disk but the flash dies. The thing with optical is that it doesn’t degrade. As long as you treat the disk well and keep it in a case it’ll keep it’s data.

this is like dankpods but for retro and PC gaming nerds instead of audiophiles and with 100% more TF2 references

gee whiz bambino I can not believe I haven't subscribed until now! Your videos are just too funny! Also, I suffer suffer from the Optical Media Bug

i love your videos! they really make me go gee whiz bambino! anyways optical media makes me want to commit neck rope. i remember snapping a just dance 2017 xbox one disc in half not because of the game, the opticalness of the media

mmmmm disks 😋😋

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

4:57 This is a nice way from sega to swearing to anyone trying to mod the system

gee whiz bambino that is very cool bringus

honestly, your hatred of optical media stuff makes me really concerned and upset. like i understand that it's kinda obselete and it saves space. but, without optical media, alot of things can end up like lost media. it's really sad that you are dunking on it but, i kinda understand ig

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

The primary reason I don't like discs is how easy it is to lose the data that's on them. I'm 100% for dumping discs for archival and preservation, that's why I've moved a lot of my collection over to digital

@ninjasr

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudios This is only true of the older disc formats (CD, DVD). Blu-Rays have special coating that makes them practically impossible to scratch.

Optical media good

@BringusStudios

8 ай бұрын

untrue and false this is not the way

@aryoxk06

8 ай бұрын

@@BringusStudiosno optical media good

Very cool vid! also GEE WHIZ BAMBINO!

top tier content, subbed

Gee whiz bambino! This is a really cool video with great humor.

I love swapping all of my totally definitely purchased optical discs into a rom format.. thanks 👊

About the PSU situation: You could basically just create a dummy load like a 1k resistor to have a minimal current flow at the 12V rail. Dunno if approx. 12mA would be "enough" to stabilize the PSU, but one could put maybe two or three 1k resistors in parallel to increase the current. 12mA at 12V equals 144mW of heat dissipation, so next to nothing.

Your videos are fun as hell, been watching the entire videochannel and vids all day ❤

i'm surprised that i refused to leave in the first few seconds, nice video

The only problem I see is that now that when the drive is removed you don't get that iconic dreamcast motor noise when loading happens.

oddly enough when I play dreamcast I HAVE to use CD's. The whole charm is hearing that grinding laser move back and forth during those loading times. I could never install an SD mod in my dreamcast or anything like that. Heck I remember as a kid playing Sonic Adventure, I would always scratch my disks as a kid, and I remember listening for the loud laser sounds to tell me it's still reading the disc lol. Or I'd remember the exact pattern of the laser grind sounds. Like I know exactly the sounds and pattern the laser makes before it loads the title screen :3 I got a big binder of burned Dreamcast discs and I wouldn't have it any other way

But you can get rid of the yellowing if you put the housing in a container with hydrogen and irradiate it with a very strong UV lamp. The hydrogen then reacts with the UV light and bleaches the yellowed plastic and it looks like new

gee whiz bambino! (I always pause for text, I'm just weird like that) this was a fun video to watch, I love learning new things and your humor is amazing. I have a love-hate relationship with optical media.

Gee whiz bambino, that one hecken good video

I think they could make a plug in disc drive for when you want to use the disc drive, like you plug it in and it disables the SD card temporarily, and then you have an external enclosure for the Disc drive

Did all of this a couple of years ago, well worth it for the Mancave...my son loves the Dreamcast too.

bringus: optical media is infectious sony: *sweats in ps5 disc version*

gee whiz bambino, this was definitely one of the videos I've seen. All jokes aside, this was really cool.

10:17... That song is from The Legend of Zelda! 😀 Spirit Tracks specifically, Aboda Village 🙂

I will never forsake my dvds, they will live on forever