Rare Sega Dreamcast Katana dev kit on ebay!

[Harrison]

There seems to be quite a lot of rare older gaming hardware on ebay at the moment and I just discovered this auction.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEGA-DREAMCAST...QQcmdZViewItem

It's for an Original Sega Dreamcas Katana HKT-01 development kit, as used by the games developers. It also comes with the never released source code for ECCO II: Sentinels of the Universe.

Currently it is only selling for £107 which is a bargain for such a piece of gaming history.

[Demon Cleaner]

Hoho, I like this very much. But what to do with it?? I'm curious for how much this will go away.

Also the PS2 development consoles were the yellow ones, I want to grab one like that, if you find one on the net, contact me.

[Harrison]

What about the Sony Playstation Net Yaroze? The black home dev kit one. I always wanted one of those.

[Demon Cleaner]

What about the Sony Playstation Net Yaroze?

Don't know that one. I once saw a yellow PS2, did miss it to buy it (idiot me), and then later Oz told me, that these are developer consoles.

[Harrison]

The Net Yaroze was released by Sony for home games development around 97/98 I think. It was a completely unlocked Playstation so could run copied games, but it's main use was the fact it could be connected to a PC and code could be passed to the Yaroze for testing.

[v85rawdeal]

I did have the opportunity to get a Yaroze PSX, but declined as I had heard that they would only supply replacement parts to registered users... ie, the dev companies. Would have been able to pick it up for just under £50, but i was concerned that at that price it was not a working one. So I ended up declining.

Maybe I should have got one and swapped the case with my old PSX, just to look cool, if it didnt work.

Well, hindsight is such a great tool, now all I need is a time machine to go with it!