I excitedly came home from work, because my package with Dreamcast mods from AliExpress finally arrived. I opened up my console and installed both the GDEMU and the DreamPSU. For some reason, the fan being held in with a metal mount and its connector having two pins instead of three didn't set of any alarm bells in my head. I just connected the system to my TV, turned it on, and...
Nothing. No image, no sound, just... nothing. The LED turned on, the VMU beeped and lit up for a second, but that was it.
It turns out the used Dreamcast I got from Japan is a VA0 model
But, this story has a happy end!
I found VA1 on Mercari through Sendico, a buyee-esque shipping service for buying stuff from Japan in case you didn't know.
Not only does it have a VA1 motherboard and its operation confirmed, but it already has the battery holder and self-resetting fuse installed
And it luckily wasn't that expensive, so I will eventually be able to play Cosmic Smash on real hardware
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