A rusty car squeals to a halt in the 7-Eleven carpark. Out steps a tracksuit-bedecked man, boombox on shoulder. Sauntering over to the rival gang-leader, he presses a button on the boombox. Out filters Ecco The Dolphin’s ambient keyboard notes. More »
Doing one better than the endless console-to-laptop mods out there, this minimalist tablet conversion flattens an entire Dreamcast into a sleek, tray-loading LCD screen. Nothing is overlooked here—it’s even got batteries.
In my younger days, my “Macs are for douches” days, this Frankenstein of beloved-but-obsolete machines, brought to life by the black magic of modding, would’ve pissed me off.
Eurogamer has an enjoyable, relatively compact “forensic” detailing just why the Sega Dreamcast, a console years ahead of its time, failed. They argue that it wasn’t Sony who defeated Sega; it was Sega.
Tokyo PC shop Tsukumo built this custom Dreamcast computer. Its innards gutted, the system was “upgraded” with a new motherboard, Blu-ray drive, HDMI, and 160GB hard drive. The controller ports were swapped out for USB inputs and mega-sized fan was added to the bottom. Added up, these changes represent $US1000 in hardware modifications. You can’t see much of a difference here, but check out the flipside shots:
Ah, the Dreamcast. Just whispering its name brings thousands of fanboys to half-mast, so I can’t even imagine the number of popped tents this beautiful handheld Dreamcast is going to provoke.
Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega–the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform–is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember how good that was? Soul Calibur? House of the Dead? Typing of the Dead? Shenmue? Those were some quality games. Who else wants some of that action in the next few years? [Kotaku]
