Fix a Dreamcast's GD-ROM Drive

My DC had trouble reading disks but I find a fix!

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• fix
• dreamcast
• laser
• GD-ROM
• drive

[locustskater]

Did you use the same screwdriver you used to unscrew the case to turn the dial? I find that it is a pain in the ass to get that thing to turn...

[MN12BIRD]

@locustskater Yeah it's hard to turn I had to use a tiny flat head and wedge it inside.

[kiltsonfire164]

@MN12BIRD I have a question, I bought a Japanese Launch Dreamcast from 1998 and it has a Yamaha GD-Rom Drive. I heard that Yamaha GD-Rom Drives last longer than Samsung GD-Rom Drives and have an Extremely low failure rate. Is this true?

[MN12BIRD]

@kiltsonfire164 I wouldn't have a clue but it sounds possible.

[trokeification]

P.S. What game is the opening music to the video from? Sounds pretty cool, I've heard it on some AVGN videos.

[MN12BIRD]

@trokeification Cool it's the boot up/BIOS music from a model 2 Sega CD system.

[PIKACHU49386]

My Shenmue disk 1 will not go past the Sega logo, it just goes there and back to the main menu then it'll say Please Insert Disk or whatever... will this be the solution, I just don't wanna do it and waste my time to it not working... All of my other games work except just the first disk of Shenmue

[egbduf]

sick side burns

[0zfer]

@kiltsonfire164 If the drives are the same quality as my 2 Samsung monitors they will DIE!

[hybridfury]

I tried this, and my Dreamcast has never read retail games better, but now it won't read cd-rs at all. Before I tried this, I had to get lucky for any game to work, including cd-rs. This fixed half my problem, but not all of it. At least it reads my retail games. Thanks.

[THEEDITAUR]

thank you.it worked

[mallpunk182]

@PIKACHU49386 I have this problem too!

[wingnut4427]

My 1st dreamcast had a loud squeeling sound coming from the drive. It finally froze up. I had to open it up like this & remove the top of the assembly. I covered the lazer eye with paper & regular scotch tape & jammed the edge of a straw down in the opening of the drive motor. with that in place & shot a little bit of STP Gear grease down in it & spun the motor with My finger. Put everything back together & it's still working to this very day ! :D And that was a 1st day release.

[sidran32]

Dang man, you're my hero! My Dreamcast died and I was almost gonna scrap it but I used your fix and it worked first try! Awesome! :D

[terrancesexton84z]

my dreamcast wont go past the dreamcast logo screen can you help?

[McSquidification]

Thanks for this. I was modding my DC to have VGA output and must have messed something up because after i was done it wouldn't play games anymore. I messed with that dial for a while expecting that i had just scratched the lens while working but one time it just worked perfectly. games load even quicker than they did before. If this doesnt work at first KEEP TRYING. it was like the 20th or so setting i tried that worked.

[UndeadS0lder]

omg i love you dude!! thankyou!!!!