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Dumping the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive with GNU ddrescue

Nix McRetro // 16th April 2016 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

At the time I was still confusing ddrescue with the separate program dd_rescue. My original forum post names dd_rescue; the later update below records my GNU ddrescue preference. They are different programs, so the surviving notes do not establish that GNU ddrescue alone produced this dump. Despite the confusion, I... Continue reading

Dumping the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive via GUI and dd

Nix McRetro // 9th April 2016 // Sega, YouTube

Everyone loves WSB2K2! World Series Baseball 2K2! In this part I try imaging the HKT-0120 SCSI drive with R-Studio for Linux and ordinary dd. The results are not terrible, but there appears to be a small amount of unreadable data. A raw copy with dd is useful when a disk... Continue reading

Preparing to Dump the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 Dev Kit SCSI Hard Drive

Nix McRetro // 8th April 2016 // Devkit, Sega, YouTube

This is the preliminary setup for preserving the SCSI hard drive from the Sega Dreamcast HKT-0120 development box. Before making any changes to the development kit, I wanted a raw copy of the existing disk in case there were any goodies hiding on it. Or, to use slightly more archival... Continue reading

The Dimplex DC15RCBW Reverse Cycle Air Conditioner

Nix McRetro // 6th April 2016 // YouTube

You might all remember this review from early March. Not the most glowing review, because my Dimplex DC10RC was either faulty or, in my original highly scientific terminology, a complete hunk of junk. Let me show you the MEGA edition, the Dimplex DC15RCBW Reverse Cycle Air Conditioner. In my actual... Continue reading

Status Update - April 2016

Nix McRetro // 3rd April 2016 // Hacks, Sega, YouTube

We’ve got a few videos to crank out this month and I think I may be working on too many projects at once. I guess we’ll find out if I burn out and set fire to all my way past cool hardware! Continue reading