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Visited a retro game shop in Denver last week and noticed something weird about the modded consoles
They had like 6 different PS1s with ODE mods but every single one had the disc drive removed and replaced with a 3D printed tray. Is that just the standard now or are people actually keeping their disc drives for anything?
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taylorhunt1d agoTop Commenter
Gotta jump in here and gently point out that @harper_owens is actually mixing things up a bit. The Dreamcast used a proprietary GD-ROM drive, not a standard one, so you can't just swap in a PC disc drive without serious modding. Still cool people try weird stuff, but keeping that drive in a fish tank probably wasn't doing anyone any favors.
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morgan_butler3d ago
Whoa, that reminds me of a guy I knew who kept his Dreamcast disc drive in a fish tank for some reason.
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harper_owens3d ago
No way, that's wild. But I gotta say, I think the Dreamcast used a standard GD-ROM drive in the console itself. A disc drive for a PC or something else maybe, but not the Dreamcast's main one. I had a friend who tried to water cool his PS2 once, ended up frying the board. People do weird stuff with fish tanks and electronics, that's for sure. Just makes me wonder what he was trying to accomplish with it.
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