Removing Cooling Chips from the Dreamcast

These cooling chips that we put on the Dreamcast cannot be placed here if you're using this piece, as it could be altered by making a few cuts. I'm actually shocked that they include them, knowing that this could be a problem because it physically is a problem. I cannot put these pieces back up here, probably all right, so I removed the two heatsinks to see if I'm absolutely correct.

I don't know how hot this thing gets, so that'll be down the road further to understand how this all works when I do a review on what I've done here. So just basically, I just want to know that it's actually all going to line up and without those parts, lines up perfectly. So I'm going to screw it together and continue doing it as the instructions tell me.

Fold your ribbon cable this way just so you don't have any excess cabling in your way. Line up the holes pretty decent how they built it. I just wish that someone had thought of putting a cut in it, if you're going to put heatsinks on, and if it does get hot like if I do find this is getting really really really hot, I will alter it, I will take a dremel and cut these areas right here out just to make sure. But for now, until I do the review, I will just leave it like this.

So now we have basically our new optical drive in an OOPS situation. You know what? Just so you know, so that you don't make the same mistake I made, you might want to put the reset button in the hole first okay so now we're past that really dumb move of mine, my reset button works.

I'm going to take one of these heat sinks actually and I'm going to put it on on an angle here because it can kind of cool on the chips there if it doesn't get in my way. I'll take it off but right now I'm just doing it for silliness because it's there, I want to use it.

Now we're at the point where we need to mount it so let's take a look. I don't think there's anything here to tell me about that oh no. Here we go so we don't need these this is if you're just using the board by itself you use these standoffs, so if you're using it this way, the 3D printed thingamajiggy takes care of everything.

So now we're going to use the long screw. Now I know is for right here and is for here remember the three screws and it's down so well it's only the three. So now you can see that my new GDU ROM PD Muu ROM is in reset button works let's put the cover back on very, very simple to install no doubt about this.

So we'll just put the cover back on I don't want to over tighten anything because if I wreck this shell then I ain't paying 250 or whatever they're going for right now that's ridiculous. And I apologize to anybody that wants that uh they are not cheap to get anymore.

Okay, I'm not just gonna put the modem on right now but there we have it we have a full installation of the GDU ROM or GDMU ROM in an i keep saying that wrong and it looks as original as the CD drive did. So now I'm going to put it through the paces in another video tell you what I think of it, and go from there but that's how easy it is.

Removing Your Optical Drive

To remove your optical drive in a Dreamcast, one method is using this approach because maybe your optical drive is bad and you ordered a brand new one and you want to drop it back in now. You know what? One way you can use this is that you just pull out the cable after you push the button here on the side. Same thing with the modem you just pull out after you press the button here.

The Ultimate Dreamcast Build

This is part one of the series, I hope you guys enjoyed it, and I'm sure you're gonna love how far this machine goes so anyway, guys until next time thank you for watching game over you.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwelcome back to the channel guys it is time to do some dreamcast love as that is probably one of my favorite consoles of all time and today we're going to do part one of probably three or four different parts because there's also going to be a review of what i'm about to do and a bunch of other things that are going to be changed in this system i'm ordering everything in doubles as i'm doing a friend system as well and i just said oh my god this is going to be the ultimate dreamcast now i've already started years ago many years ago when these cases were actually 30 dollars now they're 250 to 160 or 140 dollars to buy a colored shell ridiculous i am so glad that i did this about poof 10 years ago that this is one of my original dreamcasts i had bought two one that stayed sealed and one that i changed the shell on unfortunately i don't even know what happened to my old shell but oh well so i have a couple little things ordered for this as well to finish it off and that'll be like the last part just doing that little finisher so guys sit back relax if you're not subscribed to the channel i suggest that you do because if you're a dreamcast fan you're going to love this okay so in this part we are going to do a dreamcast mod where we're going to remove the optical drive now we're going to remove the optical drive and i know you're going to say oh my god you're wrecking a dreamcast no we're not so when you remove the parts that we're going to remove this does nothing to affect the unit in any way other than save your actual original hardware so i can put this original hardware in static bags and put it away and i won't have to worry about anything although i do have a black sports edition something went wrong with the optical drive and i may take the drive from this one and put it in that one just to fix things up as i said this one will probably never go back to being an optical style system again it's going to be a gdu rom unit so in here is the housing to make this complete and look like the original kinda and then in here we have the new motherboard that's gonna go in that replaces the optical drive acts like an optical drive but runs on sd cards what we're going to do now is we're going to take the dreamcast apart get ready to put in these parts and go from there what we're going to do now is we're going to take the dreamcast apart um one thing you will need is a good phillips screwdriver something with a bit of length on the shaft so that you can actually go down in the the holes can be pretty deep on the console in certain places and it is very necessary to have a decent screwdriver i was going to use a smaller bit but i see i felt that it was actually slipping on the screws and the one thing you don't want to do is actually damage your original screws because that would just suck so right off the bat if you ever want to see a full teardown of the dreamcast please leave a comment below this will kind of be close because as over the the duration of what i'm going to do to this system there is a lot of tearing down so at this point we're going to take it apart first so now you'll see how the console comes apart it's actually fairly easy i did this 10 years ago i'm sure i can remember first things first of course you want to remove the modem and that's a clip right here and you just basically pull it out okay so the clip pull out don't slide it it's just to pull out as you can see that my mod had even included of course the new cover for the modem and there is a network adapter out there i'm going to try and hunt it down as well because that would be absolutely sweet on this unit so there's going to be i believe four screws so you have one where the modem was one here here and here so it's pretty straightforward as far as that goes now we have the screws removed this should just lift off and voila so there's no connections to this whatsoever the light is actually in the unit everything is in the unit that this will just come right off now we are looking at the inside of the dreamcast you can see that it's a very compact system you'll also see that the power supply takes up a lot and i mean a lot of the uh interior of the unit also making the unit hot this is going to also be part of the mod moving forward i won't get into that right now first we're gonna replace the optical drive and replace it with the sd emulation board and uh get this taken care of as far as i know on this unit here there should only be three screws i think one two three not a hundred percent if there's a screw over here but i will find out in just a moment there we have it so now the whole entire laser assembly unit is removed from the dreamcast as you can see here and it was pretty simple there's no ribbon cables nothing to worry about in this part of the mod because it just plugs into the bottom part of the board here okay so we're not removing the motherboard in this setup so just plugs in here this is what we removed three screws very very simple this is the nice thing about this it's actually a very simple i think it should be a very simple build but we're going to find out now so now there is the getting this stuff out taking a look at it and finding out how this goes together to go in here so first we're going to take a look at the housing so we can make it look like a kind of a a replica of the optical drive still being there so that's that some screws looks like we may have a manual here and we have whatever this is okay so this should be the reset button there's a sticker here i think this would go right underneath here if you're going to install um a reset or something like that so right now i'm going to take that sticker off because i definitely think that is a option i want to have um let's take a look at what this is okay so there's some sort of doohickey bracket here we're going to call it a doohickey because at this point it's all i know what it is it's a doohickey okay so let's see what's in here so this should have an sd extension cable and there it is so the sd extension cable is needed because what we're going to do sd extension cable is needed because we're going to modify the actual um placement of this here so what's going to happen is this piece here it looks like an sd card is going to plug into the gd rom and then it's going to bolt up in here and you'll have your slot in right here for kind of like a cartridge and then you have an extra one here for putting an extra uh memory card if you have multiple memory cards so you can have like so many games on one put a bunch of games on this one and they're right there okay when in doubt of course always refer to whatever manual they give you because i've never done this before and you just don't know and in this case ain't much of a manual all right so what we need to do first is install this you got to take two screws from here and they're going to become stops i guess is the best way to put it so that it stops this from falling out it says to use the shorter one which is a two by uh five so you're just going to look here and find your shorter screws so it is there's only two screws that are actually the smallest one didn't come out of my package which made me worry a little i was like um these really seem like they uh are too big so here's something else you need to know so you need a smaller screwdriver after all it's a small screwdriver after all because it uh has a different phillips head on this where it's a small screw and again i recommend a magnetic one and if it's not magnetic and you have something like a magnet all you need to do is rub your screwdriver on that magnet and you will magnetize your screwdriver definitely needs to be magnetized i can't see how you can get your fingers down here to do this okay so now we have this sd reader mounted you'll also notice when plugging in the sd card to screw down one way it has to be forced in don't force it turn it around and you'll find that it just slips in okay that's very important because it would suck if you break things simple as that so this doohickey that we were wondering about your motherboard or main board here is going to bolt to this and that board then this will bolt to the side i'll show you in just a second so let's get this main board out take a look at it never leave any screws like i did just a minute ago just making sure now one nice thing and the reason why i ordered this kit over another seller was he gave me a copper heatsinks and i know it's probably not something that gets too hot but you don't know i don't know anything about this so i said i'm gonna go with the guy that has a good deal and has heat sinks for these two chips right here these are your two main chips that are that literally control this so i would suggest always keeping everything anything that can run cool you you want it to run cool so in this gdmu i want to make sure that everything is cool as possible so we're going to take these out we're going to mount them and that way we know it's done oh 3m sticker or thermo stickers that's good at least they didn't cheap out there not that 3m is the win all because sometimes 3m stuff has let me down but most times 3m just works basically you're just going to put them on so that you got a nice you know square as possible because i'm a little bit of a neat freak um but looks really good not much to this board actually you have a reset which is what i'm hoping this here button goes down on you have your sd reader which you would normally use if you didn't have this extension mod so that's something important if you don't buy this extension mod it i mean it adds up a bit i mean you're looking at probably uh about 120 or so dollars canadian by the time you you buy everything here but it's well worth it looking professional and having the proper mods instead of having to reach in put your hand down inside the system trying to take out a card or whatever the case may be so now that we have that done i need to mount this to this when you're mounting this just because i was just messing up you have a slope right here make sure that's the part that's down on the your table and this side up so their screw holes there will line up perfectly and it tells you that they are a three by five 3d print quality on this is absolutely phenomenal i gotta say i'm very very very impressed uh don't make it tight all the way until you get everything and just make it snug don't over tighten it because it was warping it was actually pulling when i was trying to put this together just then and that is something you don't want i was just trying to figure out why the screw wouldn't uh tighten and the hole was bigger than the screw because right there you don't actually put a screw my bad should pay more attention so now that we have that all mounted up you can see that i did what i said the heat sinks and everything are to the top and the curve is right here so that is the right way to mount this and now we want to take this and we want to mount it to this okay so again it is this way with the slope going this way just like i had showed previously the instructions kind of throw you off but that is the way so now we want to mount this to this and before you do that you want to take your cable put it down put this in place kinda because you need to plug this in none of this is making sense none of this is making sense none of this is making sense okay so there is a flaw here and the flaw is it looks like these cooling chips that we put on cannot be on here if you're using this piece here now that could be altered of course by making a few cuts i'm actually shocked that they include them knowing that this could be a problem because it physically is a problem i cannot put these pieces back up here probably all right so i removed the two heatsinks to see if i'm absolutely correct i don't know how hot this thing gets so that'll be down the road further to understand how this all works when i do a review on what i've done here so just basically i just want to know that it's actually all going to line up and without those parts lines up perfectly so i'm going to screw it together and continue doing it as the instructions tell me fold your ribbon cable this way just so you don't have any excess cabling in your way line up the holes pretty decent how they built it i just wish that someone had had thought of you know if you're going to put heatsinks on put a cut in it and if it does get hot like if i do find this is getting really really really hot i will alter it i will take a dremel and cut these areas right here out just to make sure but for now until i do the review i will just leave it like this so now we have basically our new oops you know what just so you know so that you don't make the same mistake i made you might want to put the reset button in the hole first okay so now we're past that really dumb move of mine my reset button works i'm going to take one of these heat sinks actually and i'm going to put it on on an angle here because it can kind of cool on the chips there if it doesn't get in my way i'll i'll take it off but right now i'm just doing it for silliness because it's there i want to use it okay so now we're at the point where we need to mount it so let's take a look i don't think there's anything here to tell me about that oh no here we go so we don't need these this is if you're just using the board by itself you use these standoffs so if you're using it this way the 3d printed thingamajiggy takes care of everything so now we're going to use the long screw i now know is for right here is for here remember the three screws and it's down so well it's only uh the three so now you can see that my new gdu rom pdmu rom is in reset button works let's put the cover back on very very simple to install no doubt about this so we'll just put the cover back on i don't want to over tighten anything because if i wreck this shell then i ain't paying 250 or whatever they're going for right now that's ridiculous and i apologize to anybody that wants that uh they are not cheap to get anymore okay i'm not just gonna put the modem on right now but there we have it we have a full installation of the gd rom or gdmu rom i keep saying that wrong and it looks as original as the cd drive did so now i'm going to put it through the paces in another video tell you what i think of it and go from there but that's how easy it is to remove your optical drive in a dreamcast so you can take that in two different ways here in this video one you can use that because maybe your optical drive is bad and you ordered a brand new one and you want to drop it back in now you know how to remove it you know that it's not no cables at all it's just three screws after you get the case off pull up because it's just on a pressure connector same thing with the modem you just pull out after you push the button here on the side so now we have started the ultimate dreamcast build this is part one of the series i hope you guys enjoyed it can't give away anything else at this point but i'm sure you're gonna love how far this machine goes so anyway guys until next time thank you for watching game over youwelcome back to the channel guys it is time to do some dreamcast love as that is probably one of my favorite consoles of all time and today we're going to do part one of probably three or four different parts because there's also going to be a review of what i'm about to do and a bunch of other things that are going to be changed in this system i'm ordering everything in doubles as i'm doing a friend system as well and i just said oh my god this is going to be the ultimate dreamcast now i've already started years ago many years ago when these cases were actually 30 dollars now they're 250 to 160 or 140 dollars to buy a colored shell ridiculous i am so glad that i did this about poof 10 years ago that this is one of my original dreamcasts i had bought two one that stayed sealed and one that i changed the shell on unfortunately i don't even know what happened to my old shell but oh well so i have a couple little things ordered for this as well to finish it off and that'll be like the last part just doing that little finisher so guys sit back relax if you're not subscribed to the channel i suggest that you do because if you're a dreamcast fan you're going to love this okay so in this part we are going to do a dreamcast mod where we're going to remove the optical drive now we're going to remove the optical drive and i know you're going to say oh my god you're wrecking a dreamcast no we're not so when you remove the parts that we're going to remove this does nothing to affect the unit in any way other than save your actual original hardware so i can put this original hardware in static bags and put it away and i won't have to worry about anything although i do have a black sports edition something went wrong with the optical drive and i may take the drive from this one and put it in that one just to fix things up as i said this one will probably never go back to being an optical style system again it's going to be a gdu rom unit so in here is the housing to make this complete and look like the original kinda and then in here we have the new motherboard that's gonna go in that replaces the optical drive acts like an optical drive but runs on sd cards what we're going to do now is we're going to take the dreamcast apart get ready to put in these parts and go from there what we're going to do now is we're going to take the dreamcast apart um one thing you will need is a good phillips screwdriver something with a bit of length on the shaft so that you can actually go down in the the holes can be pretty deep on the console in certain places and it is very necessary to have a decent screwdriver i was going to use a smaller bit but i see i felt that it was actually slipping on the screws and the one thing you don't want to do is actually damage your original screws because that would just suck so right off the bat if you ever want to see a full teardown of the dreamcast please leave a comment below this will kind of be close because as over the the duration of what i'm going to do to this system there is a lot of tearing down so at this point we're going to take it apart first so now you'll see how the console comes apart it's actually fairly easy i did this 10 years ago i'm sure i can remember first things first of course you want to remove the modem and that's a clip right here and you just basically pull it out okay so the clip pull out don't slide it it's just to pull out as you can see that my mod had even included of course the new cover for the modem and there is a network adapter out there i'm going to try and hunt it down as well because that would be absolutely sweet on this unit so there's going to be i believe four screws so you have one where the modem was one here here and here so it's pretty straightforward as far as that goes now we have the screws removed this should just lift off and voila so there's no connections to this whatsoever the light is actually in the unit everything is in the unit that this will just come right off now we are looking at the inside of the dreamcast you can see that it's a very compact system you'll also see that the power supply takes up a lot and i mean a lot of the uh interior of the unit also making the unit hot this is going to also be part of the mod moving forward i won't get into that right now first we're gonna replace the optical drive and replace it with the sd emulation board and uh get this taken care of as far as i know on this unit here there should only be three screws i think one two three not a hundred percent if there's a screw over here but i will find out in just a moment there we have it so now the whole entire laser assembly unit is removed from the dreamcast as you can see here and it was pretty simple there's no ribbon cables nothing to worry about in this part of the mod because it just plugs into the bottom part of the board here okay so we're not removing the motherboard in this setup so just plugs in here this is what we removed three screws very very simple this is the nice thing about this it's actually a very simple i think it should be a very simple build but we're going to find out now so now there is the getting this stuff out taking a look at it and finding out how this goes together to go in here so first we're going to take a look at the housing so we can make it look like a kind of a a replica of the optical drive still being there so that's that some screws looks like we may have a manual here and we have whatever this is okay so this should be the reset button there's a sticker here i think this would go right underneath here if you're going to install um a reset or something like that so right now i'm going to take that sticker off because i definitely think that is a option i want to have um let's take a look at what this is okay so there's some sort of doohickey bracket here we're going to call it a doohickey because at this point it's all i know what it is it's a doohickey okay so let's see what's in here so this should have an sd extension cable and there it is so the sd extension cable is needed because what we're going to do sd extension cable is needed because we're going to modify the actual um placement of this here so what's going to happen is this piece here it looks like an sd card is going to plug into the gd rom and then it's going to bolt up in here and you'll have your slot in right here for kind of like a cartridge and then you have an extra one here for putting an extra uh memory card if you have multiple memory cards so you can have like so many games on one put a bunch of games on this one and they're right there okay when in doubt of course always refer to whatever manual they give you because i've never done this before and you just don't know and in this case ain't much of a manual all right so what we need to do first is install this you got to take two screws from here and they're going to become stops i guess is the best way to put it so that it stops this from falling out it says to use the shorter one which is a two by uh five so you're just going to look here and find your shorter screws so it is there's only two screws that are actually the smallest one didn't come out of my package which made me worry a little i was like um these really seem like they uh are too big so here's something else you need to know so you need a smaller screwdriver after all it's a small screwdriver after all because it uh has a different phillips head on this where it's a small screw and again i recommend a magnetic one and if it's not magnetic and you have something like a magnet all you need to do is rub your screwdriver on that magnet and you will magnetize your screwdriver definitely needs to be magnetized i can't see how you can get your fingers down here to do this okay so now we have this sd reader mounted you'll also notice when plugging in the sd card to screw down one way it has to be forced in don't force it turn it around and you'll find that it just slips in okay that's very important because it would suck if you break things simple as that so this doohickey that we were wondering about your motherboard or main board here is going to bolt to this and that board then this will bolt to the side i'll show you in just a second so let's get this main board out take a look at it never leave any screws like i did just a minute ago just making sure now one nice thing and the reason why i ordered this kit over another seller was he gave me a copper heatsinks and i know it's probably not something that gets too hot but you don't know i don't know anything about this so i said i'm gonna go with the guy that has a good deal and has heat sinks for these two chips right here these are your two main chips that are that literally control this so i would suggest always keeping everything anything that can run cool you you want it to run cool so in this gdmu i want to make sure that everything is cool as possible so we're going to take these out we're going to mount them and that way we know it's done oh 3m sticker or thermo stickers that's good at least they didn't cheap out there not that 3m is the win all because sometimes 3m stuff has let me down but most times 3m just works basically you're just going to put them on so that you got a nice you know square as possible because i'm a little bit of a neat freak um but looks really good not much to this board actually you have a reset which is what i'm hoping this here button goes down on you have your sd reader which you would normally use if you didn't have this extension mod so that's something important if you don't buy this extension mod it i mean it adds up a bit i mean you're looking at probably uh about 120 or so dollars canadian by the time you you buy everything here but it's well worth it looking professional and having the proper mods instead of having to reach in put your hand down inside the system trying to take out a card or whatever the case may be so now that we have that done i need to mount this to this when you're mounting this just because i was just messing up you have a slope right here make sure that's the part that's down on the your table and this side up so their screw holes there will line up perfectly and it tells you that they are a three by five 3d print quality on this is absolutely phenomenal i gotta say i'm very very very impressed uh don't make it tight all the way until you get everything and just make it snug don't over tighten it because it was warping it was actually pulling when i was trying to put this together just then and that is something you don't want i was just trying to figure out why the screw wouldn't uh tighten and the hole was bigger than the screw because right there you don't actually put a screw my bad should pay more attention so now that we have that all mounted up you can see that i did what i said the heat sinks and everything are to the top and the curve is right here so that is the right way to mount this and now we want to take this and we want to mount it to this okay so again it is this way with the slope going this way just like i had showed previously the instructions kind of throw you off but that is the way so now we want to mount this to this and before you do that you want to take your cable put it down put this in place kinda because you need to plug this in none of this is making sense none of this is making sense none of this is making sense okay so there is a flaw here and the flaw is it looks like these cooling chips that we put on cannot be on here if you're using this piece here now that could be altered of course by making a few cuts i'm actually shocked that they include them knowing that this could be a problem because it physically is a problem i cannot put these pieces back up here probably all right so i removed the two heatsinks to see if i'm absolutely correct i don't know how hot this thing gets so that'll be down the road further to understand how this all works when i do a review on what i've done here so just basically i just want to know that it's actually all going to line up and without those parts lines up perfectly so i'm going to screw it together and continue doing it as the instructions tell me fold your ribbon cable this way just so you don't have any excess cabling in your way line up the holes pretty decent how they built it i just wish that someone had had thought of you know if you're going to put heatsinks on put a cut in it and if it does get hot like if i do find this is getting really really really hot i will alter it i will take a dremel and cut these areas right here out just to make sure but for now until i do the review i will just leave it like this so now we have basically our new oops you know what just so you know so that you don't make the same mistake i made you might want to put the reset button in the hole first okay so now we're past that really dumb move of mine my reset button works i'm going to take one of these heat sinks actually and i'm going to put it on on an angle here because it can kind of cool on the chips there if it doesn't get in my way i'll i'll take it off but right now i'm just doing it for silliness because it's there i want to use it okay so now we're at the point where we need to mount it so let's take a look i don't think there's anything here to tell me about that oh no here we go so we don't need these this is if you're just using the board by itself you use these standoffs so if you're using it this way the 3d printed thingamajiggy takes care of everything so now we're going to use the long screw i now know is for right here is for here remember the three screws and it's down so well it's only uh the three so now you can see that my new gdu rom pdmu rom is in reset button works let's put the cover back on very very simple to install no doubt about this so we'll just put the cover back on i don't want to over tighten anything because if i wreck this shell then i ain't paying 250 or whatever they're going for right now that's ridiculous and i apologize to anybody that wants that uh they are not cheap to get anymore okay i'm not just gonna put the modem on right now but there we have it we have a full installation of the gd rom or gdmu rom i keep saying that wrong and it looks as original as the cd drive did so now i'm going to put it through the paces in another video tell you what i think of it and go from there but that's how easy it is to remove your optical drive in a dreamcast so you can take that in two different ways here in this video one you can use that because maybe your optical drive is bad and you ordered a brand new one and you want to drop it back in now you know how to remove it you know that it's not no cables at all it's just three screws after you get the case off pull up because it's just on a pressure connector same thing with the modem you just pull out after you push the button here on the side so now we have started the ultimate dreamcast build this is part one of the series i hope you guys enjoyed it can't give away anything else at this point but i'm sure you're gonna love how far this machine goes so anyway guys until next time thank you for watching game over you