Broken CD32 drive. Can I replace it

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LEIRBAG28!

That has to be the most bonkers thing I've ever heard...

:-D :-D :-D

I think it's best not to cut holes and put in other CD-ROM drives on
the IDE interface because that will completely wipe any chance of
loading a CD32-specific game.

I would reccommend buying another CD32, they're just £30 on eBay. If
Vesalia sell the original Commodore lense units then go that route but
surely they'd want more than £7 for then?

Bare in mind what has been mentioned down the list, laser alignment
could be an issue, smoke or dust on the lense (why not try a
laser-lense cleaner first) or your drive motor might be dying.

Sometimes with the Playstation you can tip it vertically to test if a
laser fault is causing your loading errors.

But before you do anything else, try vacuuming inside the CD well and
running a laser cleaner disc for a minute to clean off any impurities
that may have gathered on the lense in the last 11yrs (!)

Also, make sure too that the disc you are trying to load has no
fingerprints or scratches!

:-o

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I spoke to this cool guy who has a CD32 in New Zealand connected to a
satellite dish and he gets pictures and stuff down from Noah I think.

He had a souped up SX32-Pro, they seem to get everywhere don't they?

:-D

What I was wondering though, if the SX32-Pro has an IDE interface then
what is stopping you from plugging on the Dataflyer IDE->SCSI adaptor
and having a SCSI scanner on your CD32?

SCSI allows up to 7x devices to run at the same time, so you could
theoretically cut a thin, postage-stamp shaped slot in one of the
CD32's chasis grooves and have a Compact Flash disk drive loading
Workbench in seconds...

Another thing, if you could connect a CDRW to the CD32 via this
Dataflyer method (or even with just IDE) then the CD32 could be the
world's first console you can program games for...   on itself!

Do you get me? Code the game on the console, burn it on the
console.... then play it on the console!

:-o :-o :-D

Any luck with Ruff 'N Tumble leirbag28?

:-) Let me know if you find a spare... ;-)