Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

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Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#1 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:04 pm

16 bucks with prime shipping. Dunno if shared before. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TVYWFL6/re ... 2DbQ09CASW

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Re: Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#2 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:49 pm

Are they newly made or pulled from junk DC's?

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Re: Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#3 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 9:50 pm

deluxux wrote:Are they newly made or pulled from junk DC's?
Newly made I believe


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Re: Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#4 » Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:30 pm

PSA to anyone whose DC is having trouble reading games - a defective power board preventing the correct voltage from being distributed throughout the system can give the same symptoms as a dead laser, so your drive might be totally fine... worth checking if there's any bulged caps or something else obviously wrong with the power board when repairing the drive or thinking of replacing parts on the drive.

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Re: Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#5 » Mon Nov 25, 2019 8:40 am

Yeah those have been around a long time. I've ordered a few of them and could never get any to work.
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Re: Replacement Dreamcast disc drive Lasers back on amazon

Post#6 » Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:48 am

Just my 2 cents but I have repaired 2 systems that would not start by replacing the entire GD rom assembly. The third system that would not start, I dropped in a GDEMU and never looked back. I did try replacing just the laser once with a new laser and just wasted a few bucks. Never worked.

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