Who knows anything about this? Dreamcast

[Asylum Seeker]

Sega Katana GD-Writer

First I heard about it was today but not sure what it is or what it looks like :(

[Asylum Seeker]

Ahh not so knowledgeable are we :roll:

[moycon]

Sounds interesting....
What is it???
and
What's it look like????

[digitalpress]

It's part of the dev system for Dreamcast developers. You hook it to the DC Dev system and use it to burn your beta copy to a disc.

The "Katana" was an early working title for the Dreamcast.

[dsullo]

BOW to the all knowing JOE !!!

[Zaxxon]

Whatever happened to that Yaroze-like DC dev system that Sega was supposedly working on? It was featured in one of the last issues of Next Gen before they bit the dust.

[Asylum Seeker]

Got any pics Joe of the GD-writer?

[digitalpress]

The GD-writer... I'll have to dig. As I recall it looks pretty much like an ordinary external CD-ROM drive.

I do have pics of the Dev System that you need to plug the writer into, however. Even a nifty diagram showing you exactly where it goes.

http://www.digitpress.com/images/dreamcast_dev_unit_front.jpg
http://www.digitpress.com/images/dreamcast_dev_unit_back.jpg

[NoahsMyBro]

That's really neat! I wouldn't have the first clue how to get it to do anything, even a Hello World, but I'd love to have one of those to play with! With the GD-Writer, of course. :)

[GENESISNES]

what did it do?

[digitalpress]

what did it do?

It's a development system. It's used to develop software for Dreamcast. This PC-like hardware would sit on designer's workstations as the conduit between them and the final product.

[PriestJPN]

I challenge you to actually find any writable GD-ROMs tho!

These devkits are sometimes sold on ebay... I've seen a few on there.

[Asylum Seeker]

Any idea as to what these normally go for?