Dreamcast Karaoke pictures, bandwidth warning.

[Papercut]

A few people have asked me about this recently, so I've added some pictures to my website:

http://www.debaser.force9.co.uk/

Before you start scouring e-bay though, songs have to be downloaded online; it doesn't work with Karaoke CDs. You get charged for the number of songs too...

The packaging. Sonic sings too. It has a 4000 Yen price label on it, less than ?30...


The contents, l-r software disk and microphone stickers, microphone with Dreamcast logo, AV loop through, manual and song list.


Back of the unit itself. The modem/bba plugs into the Drikara unit, and there are AV and mains loop though connectors.


Front of the unit itself, standard Karaoke fare. The case is similar to the Dreamcast Zip disk prototypes.


In action. Reminds me of the Mega-CD, nice but clunky looking.


Back of the setup. The mains loop through means it will only work with 110v Dreamcasts, the AV loop through only carries composite video and stereo audio.


Feel free to move this to Retro, I couldn't bring myself to post it there

[Crisp_Rapper]

wow... they really DO think of everything!

[C']

That looks truely hideous.

Still, nice thing to own though.

[Shez]

30 quid for the Karaoke machine.

Where from?

[Papercut]

I payed triple that ft: 4000 Yen must have been the shop price.

It was new though.

http://www.videogameimports.com/ have one in stock second hand for ?90:

http://www.videogameimports.com/get_hw.php?product=445

They are practically useless though. I don't even have enough Japanese knowledge to navigate the online sales bit either

[dave heats]

are there no songs on the software disc?!

[Papercut]

The software is Japanese heavy, but I tried every menu I could find. I don't think any songs come with it.

Sega run a network Karaoke service for bars and clubs in Japan, I think this is a home version of that. They also do a Karaoke kit for PCs.

Some links here:

http://segakara.isao.net/

- general Sega Karaoke info

http://www.segamusic.co.jp/drikara/product.html

http://www.segamusic.co.jp/drikara/qa.html

- Dreamcast Karaoke specific info

http://www.segamusic.co.jp/drikara/product07.html

- it works with the bba

http://sega.jp/release/nr010501_1.html

- original release info and prices

● 価格 : 9,800円(税別)
● 料金 : (1)当日24時まで何曲でも歌い放題で500円
　 　 　 (2)翌日の24時まで歌い放題で800円
　 　 　 (3)30日間歌い放題で2,000円
- (1) (2) and (3) look like the song download costs to me, probably 9,800円 for the unit itself.

If any Japanese speakers could help confirm that songs can only be downloaded, I would be grateful

[Papercut]

Oh yeah, I forgot:

http://www.segamusic.co.jp/drikara/product06.html

http://www.segamusic.co.jp/drikara/product08.html

I works with the Dream Eye as well. Plug it in and the Dreamcast will display video streamed from the camera. I have a Dream Eye and the BBA, if only it used Karaoke CDs...

[Madbury]

Awesome, if it played Karaoke CD's then I would be ordering one now. I think it looks really cool and unusual.

I'm so so envious of your DC collection m8.