Must have (and Cheap) mods for any Sega Dreamcast

This time looking at mods that are worth doing to your Sega Dreamcast games console. It doesn't matter if you are using an original GD drive or a GD emu. The Dream PSU mod doesn't require any soldering and gets a lot less hot then the original power supply.

If you want to get your soldering iron out then the other mods covered here are replacing the original internal ML2032 with a holder that allows you to easily replace the internal rechargeable lithium battery when the original one no longer holds a charge and instead you get that annoying prompt to enter the time and date every time you start your Dreamcast.

The other mod is a resettable fuse for the game controller board. If you short out the control board in your Dreamcast then there is an internal fuse which looks a lot like a resistor that once blown, needs to be de-soldered and replaced. The resettable fuse will also blow if you put a faulty controller in there but just turning the console off and on again will reset it... making sure you've unplugged the faulty controller first of course.

The Dream PSU board I bought complete on AliExpress for around £20 which came complete with instructions and the necessary power supply. Lots of different sellers of this but I got this one from MOJ bag store on there. No affiliation with these guys but just the store I used and took a week to arrive. All of the AliExpress boards also seem to be marked with a website called retropsu.com which at the moment leads to a holding page.

Link to the Dream PSU board I bought from AliExpress here:
https://it.aliexpress.com/item/100500...

As for the rest of the components. I bought these on eBay from a seller called Digital Delights, again no affiliation and lots of other people selling similar kits on eBay. All these items cost £3.99 with free postage in the UK. The link to this item is here:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264448750067

This kit also came with a blue LED to replace the original one and a 47uF capacitor to replace the one on the controller board. These don't need to be fitted but while I was there I thought why not.

There are also other kits that allow you to use a non-rechargeable CR2032 battery instead but I believe the only difference is a diode that stops the Dreamcast from being able to charge it.

00:00 Introduction
00:15 Dreamcast Dream PSU Unboxing
02:04 Unboxing the Dreamcast battery holder and resettable self- healing fuse
02:30 Removing the Original Power supply
02:56 Removing the Controller PCB board
04:10 Desoldering the battery and fuse from the controller PCB board
06:05 Soldering the capacitor on to the Dreamcast controller PCB board
06:45 Soldering the Resettable self healing fuse on to the Dreamcast controller PCB board
07:38 Soldering a New LED on to the Dreamcast's controller PCB board
08:45 Replacing the existing battery for a new battery holder
09:54 Reassembling the Sega Dreamcast
11:02 Installing a Dream PSU replacement power supply, replacing the original Dreamcast Power supply
14:12 Setting the time and date on the Sega Dreamcast
15:00 Testing it all works by playing some Heavy Metal Geomatrix
15:39 Testing how hot a Dream PSU power supply gets with a GDEmu fitted
15:56 Using a Testo 872 thermal imaging camera on the Dreamcast to see how hot it is getting
17:10 Comparing the new blue LED on the Dreamcast to its original Orange LED