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A gamer has turned a SEGA Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (VMU) into a handheld game console.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

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.

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. :)

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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