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jassin000
@Mitsurugi-w made my TDR dongle, I sent him a dongle to sacrifice/convert and payment for the job.
Was that the one the one that popped up around $200 a while back ?
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jassin000
200$ for a conversion? Jesus Christ! Who would pay such a price? Who would sell a conversion for such a price? I was just trying to be helpful and answer your question.
My mistake I thought you were talking about the multi dongle . It was late in the night and I misread. I’ll message him and ask him if he is willing to help me out . Thank you .
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jassin000
Oh yea the Multi Dongle (I like to just call it the re-writable dongle) is 200$ yes.
I don't have it, I collected most of the 2x6 games I cared about before it was an option.
My TDR dongle is the only converted dongle I've got, all my others are legit/originals.
I do use the ODE however (my drive was failing and I couldn't get a replacement that worked with everything, most notable Soul Calibur 2).
I don't have it, I collected most of the 2x6 games I cared about before it was an option.
My TDR dongle is the only converted dongle I've got, all my others are legit/originals.
I do use the ODE however (my drive was failing and I couldn't get a replacement that worked with everything, most notable Soul Calibur 2).
Franco23444
Grand Master
Yep the rewritable dongle is $200 but it’s pretty neat. Even though just like @jassin000, I have all the games I want, I still have one of those dongles for the extremely rare games or to play the Japanese versions of the games I own.
Ahb
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jassin000
Honestly for me... The ODE is more valuable than the re-write dongle.
I might feel differently IF I didn't own the majority of games/dongles I care about for the system tho.
These disc drives are failing (faster with always streaming stuff like Tekken-DRs FMV/attract mode) and since you can't get anymore (that work with special ASPI calls) I say getting that ODE ASAP should be top priority.
Did you try to extract a known/working image from MAME CHD and burn that?
chdman extract -i gamename.chd -o gamename.iso
I didn’t think of that . Since my buddies was working I just made a direct copy.
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jassin000
Yea, I mean it might not be the issue... Just thought I'd suggest it (some of these original discs are pretty scratched up, making bad reads more likely).
Franco23444
Grand Master
Burn the image as a CD instead of a dvd. Even though the actual disc is labeled as a DVD, it’s actually a CD. In other words, .cue .bin instead of .iso.
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jassin000
I'd extract it and test for you, but I don't have a DBZ dongle (or that re-writable dongle). 
Franco23444
Grand Master
no need to worry, I have already tested that out and still have the CD file. The CHD does in fact work, just needs to be extracted as a .CUE .BIN file instead of .ISO.I'd extract it and test for you, but I don't have a DBZ dongle (or that re-writable dongle).
skate323k137
Enlightened
Limited edition Dong-L.E. version coming soon!"Dongle" count...
32.
Jokes aside there are a few people who can reprogram individual dongles, before the reprogrammable one was around I recall the going rate being 50-ish USD.
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jassin000
It really seems like more advancements are just waiting to be put together.
The PS2-Memory card project (MC2SIO) has shown with the right redirection binarys can be loaded and executed directly from the Magic Gate itself.
What IF we didn't need a ODE at all? Just a dongle image patched to look for the binarys in port 2 of the Magic Gate.
The PS2-Memory card project (MC2SIO) has shown with the right redirection binarys can be loaded and executed directly from the Magic Gate itself.
What IF we didn't need a ODE at all? Just a dongle image patched to look for the binarys in port 2 of the Magic Gate.
