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    Dreamcast You're not dreaming: Custom portable Dreamcast is the real deal



    An intrepid Sega fan going by the name Bacteria would like you to see what he's spent the last four months building: a portable Sega Dreamcast -- complete with a built-in VMU (Visual Memory Unit, should you have forgotten). Called the IntoDream, the handheld is actually comprised of some non-Sega components, specifically a 5" LCD screen for the PSone and ... a third-party N64 analog stick? The full specs are listed on his blog.

    Bacteria says the rest of the buttons and innards came from a PAL Dreamcast console, and that it "was primarily made to play Quake 3 and also Unreal Tournament on the Dreamcast, and it does it very well indeed." Just not for long -- the IntoDream's six amps of battery juice powers the device for just over two hours on a single charge. Still, for such a commendable custom carry-along, you take what you can get, right?

    Check out two videos -- one a making-of, the other of the IntoDream in action -- after the break. Oh, and in case you're wondering, it's not for sale.

    http://moddedbybacteria.wordpress.co...cast-portable/

    http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/15/yo...the-real-deal/

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    That looks very homemade... I like the VMU slot.

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    It's nice to see a VMU slot, but the whole thing looks very meh.
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    Honestly, if it were a different color, it would probably look a lot better. Still, nice custom portable.

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    must be really heavy

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    Interesting...

    ...speaking of FPS', I wonder if anyone has tried to reverse the lay out of a Dreamcast Joypad so that the analog is on the right and the buttons on the left. In this way I'd actually be able to play Quake, U.T. Kiss and the like, almost as if I had dual analog.

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