Dreamcast wont boot. (yes, I did drop it)

[Sketcz]

I have an oldish PAL DC that will load up, but wont boot any games.
It just hangs at the menu screen, and says it doesnt recognise the discs.

I did drop it sadly, well a "relative" dropped.

Anyway, I bought a new DC, but would like to get the old one up and running again.

Living in france, I can buy shampagne for 50p a bottle, but sadly a second hand DC in crappy condition costs around 40 euro. Wrong priorities, or just not enough DC's to go around, you decide.
Anyway, I dont have enough cash for another one.

But Id really like the little guy to work again. Reckon I might make this my dedicated NES emu system, whilst using my other for proper games.


I did use it alot for emus before, so perhaps I wore the lense out?


Do I need to clean the connector pins?
Or is my drive out of alignment?

Is it easy enough for anyone to reallign or fix the drive, or would I need a new one?

Thanks for any help, much appreciated




EDIT:
I did a search, but only found in depth info for a resseting DC problem. Just in case anyone thinks Im clogging up the boards.

[Blu3Flame]

Try the DCEmulation forums, there is a big thread about fixing and repairing dreamcasts. Hopefully you might have some luck using the methods outlined there to get it back up and running again.

[Sketcz]

silly me, I forgot about DCE

Thanks, I did the pin cleaning and its up and running again.