View Full Version : Need a Dreamcast ZIP drive? Only $10,000.
dallow
09-15-2007, 12:04 PM
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250163670619
http://www.geocities.com/rabidsmily/Hardware/Sega_Dreamcast/DreamcastZipDrive.jpg
boyward
09-15-2007, 12:14 PM
Thanks! I was looking for one of those!
RAMSTORIA
09-15-2007, 12:25 PM
pretty crazy
CocheseUGA
09-15-2007, 12:36 PM
Kinda looks like something you could fab up yourself.
Tsukento
09-15-2007, 07:17 PM
Leave it to Dreamcast to start up even more things that become a standard in today's gaming even without bringing it out. One step ahead before Microsoft decided Xbox would have a harddrive built in.
If that's the only prototype available, like he says, then I'd be amazed to know how the hell he got that.
dallow
09-15-2007, 07:19 PM
Leave it to Dreamcast to start up even more things that become a standard in today's gaming even without bringing it out. One step ahead before Microsoft decided Xbox would have a harddrive built in.
If that's the only prototype available, like he says, then I'd be amazed to know how the hell he got that.Read the questions below. He worked for Iomega on the project making this.
raregamergirl
09-15-2007, 07:24 PM
Probably not worth $10,000, but it is worth a small fortune.
The better question is if it has ANY sort of benefits that work. The seller does not even seem to know of any.
Still, a 1 of 1 type prototype like that for unreleased hardware? kinda priceless in its own way. Not sure if is $10,000 priceless though, lol.
racketboy
09-15-2007, 09:27 PM
Kinda low feedback for such an expensive item, don't ya think?
Purkeynator
09-16-2007, 04:20 AM
only $10,000? Yet shipping is a modest $8! what a deal? I notice he is from riverton utah. He must have worked at the Iomega complex down the street from me in Roy. That place is sure a ghost town these days. I think they still own it because they have there logo out front but the place always looks deserted.
jer7583
09-16-2007, 04:39 AM
I imagine it was developed for use with the web browser/downloadable content in mind. The dreamcast was so ahead of its time.
Tsukento
09-16-2007, 10:28 AM
Seems more like it was developed for games with bigger save files since VMUs ended up getting full so damn quickly.
Vinny
09-16-2007, 02:09 PM
Seems more like it was developed for games with bigger save files since VMUs ended up getting full so damn quickly.
I'll say... I remember when I got my DC on launch day. I picked up Soul Caliber and NBA 2K with 1 VMU. Needless to say, I couldn't save both on one VMU (I think NBA2K took up 196 blocks leaving 4 left- not enough for SC). I think over the span of a year, I had 10 6 DC games and 4 VMUs.:lol:
Ah... those were the days... back when systems used memory cards.
BTW, a zip drive? Zip drives were such shit. Slow, expensive, and lacking in space when compared to CDs.
dallow
09-16-2007, 02:32 PM
Looks like he lowered it down to 4K.
Tsukento
09-16-2007, 06:48 PM
BTW, a zip drive? Zip drives were such shit. Slow, expensive, and lacking in space when compared to CDs. Perhaps, but you gotta remember the time this was being developed. This was before anyone thought of slapping a hard drive into a console. Plus this was back when zip discs were replacing floppy discs, before in turn being replaced by burned CDs.
Just about everything Sega made was ahead of its time.
Yaxley
09-16-2007, 11:11 PM
Sure, it's $4000 and has no discernable use...
but no payments until 2008!? Where do I sign up!?
whoknows
09-16-2007, 11:17 PM
Yeah...if this had some sort of use I bet someone would buy it, but there is absolutely nothing you can do with it apparently.
masterofdarkness
09-16-2007, 11:20 PM
Yeah...if this had some sort of use I bet someone would buy it, but there is absolutely nothing you can do with it apparently.
Well that's alie :P Go to a Dremacast homebrew forum they are planning on getting it(well maybe) making more so they could use it as a hard drive for the dreamcast.
ighosty
09-16-2007, 11:22 PM
that thing should be in a gaming museum
DaveD
09-17-2007, 12:15 AM
Its like the 64DD, except Nintendo actually made a few of those. If I had money to throw away, you bet your ass I'd buy that! But of course, I'm a Dreamcast-a-holic.
Tsukento
09-17-2007, 12:57 AM
Same here.
Except if it were only a little less pricey. :P
Richlough
09-17-2007, 02:15 AM
Well that's alie :P Go to a Dremacast homebrew forum they are planning on getting it(well maybe) making more so they could use it as a hard drive for the dreamcast.
They need to figure out how to make a cheap 3rd party Broadband adapter .
Nice thread , I have all of the ODC magazines I remember reading about this somewhere .
dallow
09-17-2007, 03:00 AM
They need to figure out how to make a cheap 3rd party Broadband adapter .
Nice thread , I have all of the ODC magazines I remember reading about this somewhere .THIS IS TRUE!
Hehe, still looking for a BBA for mine.
DaveD
09-21-2007, 01:19 AM
OH MAN, I wanted a BBA so bad, and it was on backorder from the Sega.com store FOREVER, and then the Dreamcast got executed. Damn, I wanted so dearly to play PSO with broadband speeds!
Ronin317
09-21-2007, 01:42 PM
I think over the span of a year, I had 10 6 DC games and 4 VMUs.:lol:
Yeah, 10-4 there, buddy.:D
banpeikun
09-21-2007, 02:56 PM
please post this in the video game deals forum
CocheseUGA
09-21-2007, 03:07 PM
please post this in the video game deals forum
Funny.
Tsukento
09-22-2007, 03:11 AM
please post this in the video game deals forum
Auction already ended. ;) Someone won with a $1k bid.
Vega$
09-22-2007, 03:33 AM
US $1,631.02
" The original purpose of the extension box was to save game scores to the Zip media and load additional players characters into the Dreamcast games. This is a rare collectible item for the serious gamer connoisseur. "
Thats it , please. For the sound of that, should be free.
phear3d
10-05-2007, 11:40 PM
that is a sick prototype. i would have loved to buy it. if i was the owner of this i probably would not have sold it for that much..
Tsukento
10-06-2007, 05:12 PM
US $1,631.02
" The original purpose of the extension box was to save game scores to the Zip media and load additional players characters into the Dreamcast games. This is a rare collectible item for the serious gamer connoisseur. "
Thats it , please. For the sound of that, should be free.
It means that the intension of the Zip Drive was to be a bigger VMU. That's what eventually became the Xbox's harddrive and somewhat of a standard in consoles today.
Apossum
10-06-2007, 11:43 PM
How did that not meet the reserve...how much was this douche expecting for a useless, outdated storage format on an outdated console? I'd be happy as hell to sell something I got for free for a grand.
Tsukento
10-07-2007, 06:59 PM
Well he did ask for $10k at first. I'd have settled for $1k, though I'm sure a one-of-a-kind prototype is really worth quite a bit.
Deadpool
10-07-2007, 07:14 PM
Must be really hard up for cash. You hold onto that it'll only increase in value.