Excellent!
I do hope will we have success with this soon.
It's been way too long having to use these "ancient" CD / GD drives now. lol
Doesn't look like Duenan will ever get around to releasing / selling his boards.
Maybe he never actually got it to boot retail games? (just giving him a "challenge". hehe)
I think the IDE adapters are a nice idea, but I'm sure your FPGA design will be the best way to go.
Most people would pay the extra for your plug-and-play SD card solution (only have to remove the lid and GD drive then, instead of soldering a BIOS).
(The IDE adapters can still be used with Dreamshell without soldering though ofc. Just need to boot from the CD instead).
Best of luck with your board.
I'll send you the latest GD Emu Verilog code when you next get time to work on it.
(can't remember if I sent it to you a few months ago?)
Regards,
OzOnE.
P.S. No word on the adapter PCB's yet, but they said it will take a couple of weeks.