Fixing the Dreamcast random resetting issue.

If your dreamcast keeps resetting id give this a go,its really not hard to do.

The funny thing is i think i may have stuck that drawing pin in myself many years ago as i have a vague memory of doing it lol,i think i heated up the pin and stuck it into the plastic,pretty funny to think that im learning from something that i myself did in the past lol!

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• amurphy245
• dreamcast
• random
• reset
• resetting
• issue
• problem
• solution
• fix

[DLiberator78]

Great tip, I did the bending the tips fix myself. The reset problem was a real pain in the ar*e especially if you got far in a game and forgot to save your position. I like these fixing tutorials as it is very helpful to the community. Very informative, I never thought of using a drawing pin for the lid swivel. Great vid.

[amurphy245]

@DLiberator78 Thanks dude,yeah its always worth doing a vid about fixing something to save somebody throwing any of their systems out.

[techromancer1]

wow cool tip mate ..i will try this when my dreamcast starts acting up ..lol when are you going to teach us how to speak british to us americans ...lol cool:D

[amurphy245]

@techromancer1 When you teach me your accent :D lol

[MrTechnoSqueek]

holy shit this has been happening to me recently and I didn't know how to fix it and yesterday I was playing Grandia 2 and it reset on me and I felt like crying lol but good thing I didn't get that far from the save point

[riscosmasterofall]

Just wanted to say thanks for this video, my Dreamcast is in full working order now with no more 15 minute (if I was lucky) gaming sessions LOL. Only odd thing is it no longer reads the few CDR discs I had (Quake 1, Halflife and other unreleased/Homebrews) I honestly don't care though as despite popular belief that CDR's don't wreck the DC that is where my problems began with crashes and restarts becoming consistent - when I started playing CDR's. Never again! DREAMCAST FOREVER :O)

[MentoGamers]

had this problem as a kid, always just hit it on top in rage :P, going to get the dreamcast out tomrrow see if i can fix it hope it will :D

[BladeCrashic122]

i just wipe the pins and it works fine for a few months

[BelmontNES]

I used to have this problem with my Sega Dreamcast, a good old smack to the right knee did the trick - about 18 months later and not a single reset lol, not kidding though it's one way to fix it I read somewhere years ago.

[Grcho420]

i feel so smart that i fixxed my DC after watching this video.. its Purrin' like a kitten

[ChaosXDarkness]

@amurphy245

Sheesh. The way how you bent them metal things. I was like "Oh shoot. He's gonna destroy his Dreamcast".

:P