Naomi net booting

Came across a person who does all sorts of arcade stuff, and he had a Naomi 2 with a net DIMM running games off of his PC into the system.

I came across the video of this being done, so I posted to get some feedback.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKSOjLiJiI&feature=related

enjoy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WessgSfvOGg&feature=related

I saw this a few weeks ago. Same thing and the guy even loads VF4. What exactly do you need for this? A Naomi system and a high end PC?

 

You need a network dimm board, a net boot keychip and the tools to transfer the files.

This has killed the software market for Naomi.

Compact Flash/GD-ROM is the only offical method I recommend.

 

i'm actually looking to get a naomi 2 + vf4ft very soon.

right now i just have a copy of the original ggxx, so if i were to use that security chip, it would work just fine with any other game?

and what's this about compactflash cards? that sounds incredible.

 

I believe I got a copy of VF4 FT GD-ROM and chips, and also a VF4 Evolution cartridge.

Compact Flash is offical GD-ROM replacement method, the game loads from CF card instead, loading time is around the same on Naomi (maybe a small % faster) - the system doesn't use DMA on the ATA interface.

Compact Flash does require a network dimm board as it needs to update the firmware to 4.01, but VF4 FT requires dimm 3.17 firm or higher anyway.

 

Hey... Thank you AndyGeezer for coming in, and taking some time to answer in our forums.

I always wondered why SEGA went the compact flash instead of other mediums like SD or some other medium. Even DVDs could have been used as an alternative. I am sure the same things done with CF could have been done on alternate media. I just don't like how easy it is to bend one pin when inserting CF cards, and do you think that anyone would be willing to develop a reader to replace the GDROM drive in a Dreamcast.

Keep up the great work.