Gamer Transforms SEGA Dreamcast VMU into a Portable Handheld Console (www.retronews.com)
from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 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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partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 13:36 next collapse

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.

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3328c32a-6c15-42a6-b2ae-8e2db9da801c.png">

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. :)

MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world on 07 Oct 14:53 next collapse

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

sundray@lemmus.org on 07 Oct 19:25 collapse

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.

M600@lemmy.world on 08 Oct 03:31 collapse

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.