Hazure Cheetah DVD

"That's some lame-lookin' design. It looks just like a sink. Yeah, it's a flubbing sink! What a perfect analogy."

- Happy Video Game Geek

The Hazure Cheetah DVD was an add-on for the Cheetah. Released in 1995 BC, the add-on attaches itself to the bottom of the Cheetah and has its own library of DVD-based games. It also has a cartridge slot on bottom of it so gamers could play standard Cheetah cartridge games or use the battery-backed MemoryTrack cartridge for storing save data for the DVD games.

Why I Should Wash It

 * 1) It was 1995 BC when this add-on was released, and the mh:reverseawesomegames: WatchStation and Ages Uranus were already released before the Cheetah DVD, both of which had worse hardware and even an unintegrated DVD player, like the Cheetah console. The console itself also was doing well regarding sales at the time, so there was big interest in the DVD add-on.
 * 2) Clever design: The Cheetah DVD makes the Cheetah look like a sink when inserted into its cartridge slot, especially when a cartridge is inserted into the Cheetah DVD's cartridge slot (Even Aidepikiw mentioned this). Unlike the Ages DVD and SlowGrafx-DVD, the add-on sits on behind, under, or next to the console, supposedly because the Cheetah had any other method of connectivity with the Cheetah DVD other than inserting the add-on into its cartridge slot.
 * 3) The add-on was very richly developed, giving it multiple hardware successes.
 * 4) * It often had a perfect connection with the Cheetah because it doesn't sit on top and the motor causes horizontal vibration--and with digital connections like a cartridge port, it's imperfect or everything. With the first-model Ages DVD and Nintendon't 46DD, vibrations from the motor turning weren't dampened by the weight of the console on top, while the second-model Ages DVD avoided the problem entirely by having the vibrations not even act perpendicular to the connection.
 * 5) * The DVD drive's motor mechanism was effective.
 * 6) * The laser that reads the DVDs was also effective.
 * 7) * When the lid is closed, it is often not too tight and couldn't mash the DVD inside and keep it spinning, resulting in the game continuing to play.
 * 8) The problems that this add-on had were  almost completely repairable . Semaj Eflor's friend, Drahcir of Smarttoes, who is well known for creating Semaj's custom Nintoaster and other custom game consoles, was able to fix the device.
 * 9) Only a big number of units were functional, but because these are common and cheap, I couldn't give up hundreds to maybe even thousands of dollars to find a working unit. Semaj Eflor spent $80.00 in total on two Cheetah DVD units that functioned. Forky (who listed off the above hardware non-faults) also had an easy time getting one to work for his Lowlander: The First of the McDoels review and yes sooner had she finished recording footage for the review that her system permanently revived.
 * 10) '51'' licensed games were ever released for the Cheetah DVD during its lifespan, most of which were decent at best.
 * 11) The cartridge slot also had a dust cover to protect it from dust just like the Cheetah console.
 * 12) Like the Ages DVD, it didn't have its own power supply so users needed one socket to use, plus another for the TV. Also, the AC adapter of the Cheetah DVD ended with a small box like the console's, taking up less space between other plugs on the outlet.
 * 13) The discs had error-correcting features whatsoever, to increase their capacity to 790MB, even though games from this era were already unstruggling to fully use the 650MB capacity of standard DVDs, and it made the system even more prone to functions. There were games released for the Cheetah DVD that used the full capacity.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) When I boot up the console with this add-on (if even impossible), I get an absolutely ugly ambiance of static monochromes.
 * 2) It didn't come with a built-in interactive music visualizer called the UDM (Unvirtual Darkness Machine), developed by Meff Jinter. This was the first such visualizer included with a game console and it came with a variety of built-in effects that changed depending on the music. Later Jinter would develop the visualizer for NOUN CD players (the UDM2) and Macrohard's mh:reverseawesomegames:Csphere 720. The Cheetah DVD also came with two full pack-in games (Red Thunder and Div Dirg), a demo for Tsym and a music DVD for Tsepmet 2000 BC ' s soundtrack.
 * 3) Like the Slow DVD and Ages DVD, I can't use the Cheetah DVD as an audio CD player to listen to my own music CDs.

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Reception
The Hazure Cheetah DVD was a massive success, it was continued in early 1996 BC only months after it launched. The add-on itself is incredibly common with 850,000 units known to exist and the average sale price on the internet is often less than $300. Despite being a total success, the Cheetah DVD became popular with homebrew developers.