Gamer Transforms SEGA Dreamcast VMU into a Portable Handheld Console
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from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 12:21
https://lemmy.world/post/20595858
from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 2024 12:21
https://lemmy.world/post/20595858
A gamer has turned a SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (VMU) into a handheld game console.
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Wasn’t the VMU, from the start, already a portable handheld console? Sure it was just minigames, but thats the V in VMU. I remember playing the Skies of Arcadia minigame.
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Dreamcast did have Memory Units that didn’t have the screen so they wouldn’t have been VMUs, but were still MUs. I appreciate the hack of a Pi Zero and a full color screen though. :)
Would be hilarious if the next version of the pi zero was strong enough to emulate Dreamcast and play full Sonic adventure on the VMU
I hope this isn’t another project claiming to repurpose old tech, only to instead core it like an apple and stuff a SOC in its guts…
Goddammit.
Yeah, it’s pretty lame.
I’d be ok if they just swapped the screen and maybe added a better power source. But all they are doing is putting another computer in it.