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I was given a Dreamcast by a friend of mine. He told me that it sometimes would read discs. Upon trying it out it did in fact read one. I then turned it off and came back to it later on and it wouldn't read. It would make a rev up sound and then stop. I decided to open it and try to calibrate the laser like so many youtube videos suggest. I tried it out and it worked great. Played for a few hours with no problem. Next day I went to play it again and was back to the same problem. I have found that before I start it up, I need to push the laser back from the inner resting position for it to work at all. Is there an adjustment I am missing? It seems like laser is getting stuck when its all the in.

If you need to push the laser back, try putting lube on the rails for the laser.

Or try tilting the unit to help the laser move back home. I have to tilt my saturn backwards for it to play games.

Strange thing is that it has stopped doing it. Also, I made a couple backup games because I was going to buy a Revision 1 Dreamcast from a facebook marketplace listing. My Dreamcast is a 2 which isn't suppose to play backups. For giggles I put the backup in mine and it worked. Also it has stopped not reading CD's and plays everytime. The guy I got it from thinks its possessed.