VMµ - RetroPie Gaming Handheld Inside a Sega Dreamcast VMU
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2018
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You are a genius!
Granted, I wouldn't want to tear apart any of my VMUs or Dreamcast controllers but this is really amazing.
Too bad you couldn't reroute HDMI somehow because you'd receive some sort of homemade iQue this way.
Always buy an aftermarket case... I have a bunch round here somewhere with the Treamcast branding...
This is one of the most badass mods i've ever seen. Legendary work dude. :3
I screamed when you put it in the controller that is so rad! 💚💚💚
do ppl still say "rad"?
@@pablo5425 no
This is one of the most creative and coolest pi mods I've ever seen. Dreamcast is my favorite console ever so this was absolute bliss for me. Keep on rockin' man!
Insane! This is one of my favorite types of projects. It brings a kind of sudo-nostalgia and raises it to another level. I love RPi mods! Great video.
The Dreamcast is an amazing memory, and I never forgot how innovative the VMU was! I'd say you did that innovation justice with some cleverness of your own, because this is a unique and fantastic mod!
This build is really well done! I wanted to look into doing this myself, but I shouldn't have been surprised that its been done many times. Personally, your build is my favorite, even over the all in 1 PCB. I may wind up making one of these one day, but right now I'm backlogged with other too many other portables. Thanks for the great video! Keep up the good work!
Wow...my dude this is by far my favorite build yet. You have went above and beyond. This is amazing!
Playing nintendo on a sega, has science gone too far?
top 10 questions science still can't answer
Not yet
Already done... 25 years ago....Super boy for the Japanese /Korean Master System.
and Super Mario World 64 for the Genesis
You were so preoccupied with whether you could but, didn't stop to think if you should.
I've seen many awesome RetroPi builds, but I think this takes the cake! Kudos man.
Angultra this one def easy takes the Cake. This is fucking amazing.
The Minty Pi was such a huge learning experience for me, not to mention a lot of fun. This however impractical it might be, is something I NEED to build now! This little thing is amazing.
WOW I mean the VMU by itself is cool but when you put it in the controller you blew my mind! What an awesome idea. It would be nice to get rid of that d-pad shield and put a regular d-pad in there. Great work man - subbed
This gentleman is a certified genius.
I really love your vids man. Please ignore all of the little kids asking for prebuilt mintypi and keep making projects like this
lil kids...y u salty?
Lol they rather pay $300 for a Game Boy Zero
The joy of having a minty pi is that you built it yourself and most of the fun comes from building it. If you can outright buy it that kinda defeats the purpose and ruins the novelty of having a small retro game console in an altoids tin
Lol id like a premade mintypi but i dont go begging for it
@@sueshi7383 they make kits with everything you need for $120.
This is utterly brilliant. Huge congratulations on a stunning and highly functional build.
You inspired me to get my own kit. Great videos-keep it up!
I lost my mind when you showed how it plugged back into the control pad.
I loved my VMUs back when the Dreamcast launched, so rad; annoyed no one has done anything like it since.
Brilliant pun in the title!
Does "micro" reference something related to Raspberry Pi too, on top of referencing the device's size?
This is one of the coolest mods I’ve ever seen! Amazing video!
Oh my gosh I loved it when you put it in the controller!! I want to play that so bad!!!
Sure, this is genius way to make old console can revive back to a new glory.
You kicked "Ben Hecks show" out of the stadium.
Felipe Costa in its hay-day The Ben Heck Show was a great place to learn about electronics and to see cool projects being put together, and overall I enjoyed it very much. But this past year it has been filled with more of a "let's become a business" mindset instead of "let's hack together a cool prototype/project" this shift has had a big impact on their viewer base and many people including me were disappoint with the result. I hope that The Ben Heck Show will be able to swing back around to more interesting content but for now it doesn't seem likely.
Leave my Wisconsin nerd alone!
nope he didnt
not quite yet
No way!
Gadgets like these are really cool. Love your work, dude.
I'm never going to do anything like this, but I know enough to be impressed. Nice work!
Super impressive! I've always wanted a Pi Zero inside a Gameboy Micro, but I hear the Micro is too small for a zero :(
Sega switch!
oxford Schultzz yeah but backwards
You plug game console into the controller in this one
sega switchcast
Dude this was awesome!!! I was a little confused about 3/4 through but I think it was amazing that you accomplished this. : )
Really cool mod Wermy!! Starting with the GameBoy Zero to this one, just amazing!! Keep it up man!!
Should add an HDMI pass through to the controller and connect some wires to a port in the vmu so when you connect the vmu to the controller you could plug a mini HDMI in an go to the tv
ben martin YES
ben martin so your making a Nintendo switch dock built into the joycon grip, oh no Sega isn’t going to like this!
Carlos Pevida no I am not making this I was suggesting an HDMI pass through for the pi
HDMI has 19 pins alone, the vmu connector only has 14 (minus the ones used for charging and USB)
1:30 it has wifi could be able to screen sharing to smart TV, the power consuming is not a problem after joystick combined.
Where are the custom parts for this?
This is so awesome that you still made it work with the controller like that. good job.
Amazing job man! I’m speechless
dude, I hate how stable your hands are. Coming from someone who has naturally shaky hands, yours are unnaturally stable. I had to stare a few times to make sure you weren't just editing the screen.
*Hey man, I was wondering what did you have to study for knowing all this stuff.*
I majored in computer science in college. Other than that: google. :)
AMAZING! This is a wild project, great job on it....kinda jelly.
I love your work you're kind of the whole reason why I started learning about emulators in the first place so thank you
Make an in-depth guide please.
Do you think it would be possible to also put video out through the controller? The pi Zero has composite video, which would only be two pins on the connector, and could be activated by a second switch.
This is amazing! I love the amount of functionality it has!
You will never fail to amaze me! Keep it up, man!
I am impressed and sad at the same time...
Sad because you just kill one Joystick and one VMU. considering this is a rare thing now.. :( at least at my places
Octavin Adi Nugroho rare. Sure. But who cares? Like....when would you ever use it? It's over. They aren't coming back. And a Dreamcast isn't going to be in a museum. We have too many great techs.
Agon Leed it is going to the museum for being sega's last console. The most powerful console from 1998 to 2000. And it can run half life.
Dreamcast, the first Wii U
Amazing, another great build! I loved my vmu growing up
Dude this is sick, the DreamCast was my favorite growing up. I'll have to find the parts to make this. Im subbed, thanks.
But does it still save Dreamcast games?
Aaron Greenfield well he killed it to do this so I'm guessing no...
only the RPI 3 is somewhat capable of running a Dreamcast emulator
No, it saves SNES, NES, GBA, GB, GBC and I wanna say Doom.
Is that a feature that could be emulated? Could one use some storage on the MicroSD for an emulated storage device compatible with the pinout and protocol of the Dreamcast? Maybe an Arduino clone could be used to save RPi GPIO pins by acting as a sort of buffer and serial interface for the VMU to the RPi running software that emulates the screen and memory management of the VMU.
RPI has enough GPIO pins, only a handful of pins are actually in use on the connector. It's using the same Maple bus that the controller connects to, the controller contains a hub. The interface should be possible to emulate using just a kernel driver, no additional hardware needed. That is, i understand, with the purpose of emulating the original VMU functionality on the modified VMU - savegame storage, controller LCD, VMU minigame emulation - we can skip direct transfer from one VMU to another, because let's face it, when are you going to ever run into another person with a VMU hanging around their neck, especially one with a Linux single-board computer inside?
Unfortunately some games crash with cards that have more than 100KB of storage space, and i really doubt more than 128KB would work just about anywhere, but perhaps there's an elegant solution to extend the useful space. Many games have unique VMU splash screens, so you could make the VMU swap card images automatically depending on the first unique LCD write after the reset operation, so essentially most games would have a virtual memory card of their own.
This is totally awesome, but beyond my understanding to build. Please make me one. Name your price.
One Two I wish I had more time to learn this stuff. I know some basic builds, but this is really cool.
Yeah... I have built several rasberry pi builds but I would love to be able to build this. This is god level shit.
came here from dunkey's console tier list, what an incredible mod! awesome work man, i gotta get myself a raspberry pi for emulation
Impressive mod! Thanks for recording and documenting the process.
But can it run Crysis?
Yea. Decent but need to overclock a bit
Please, stop killing VMU. I'm still using them!
xDakem you can still buy brand new ones in box for cheap. I just did recently when I got my dream cast. Honestly, I'm disappointed though. I don't really understand the love for the system.
Holy Sh*t wermy, you took the VMU to a whole new level with your additional Controller idea, really great to see what you did on top of the other builds!
For years I really wanted a Pocketstation, but being younger, I really couldn't afford them. Thankfully VMUs became so easily accessible and I've picked up several over the years. This project is really a "dream" come true. Thanks for sharing!
Can you explain the point of this? The screen is too small to be usable and all you did was destroy perfectly functional vintage hardware.
saito9099 you make no sense
The screen was ALREADY used. So it's not Too small to be usable. Cause we used it. We actively used the little screen thingy lmao. He even showed how we used it. And explained why he tore it apart. Cause it wasn't as great as it should've been then.
What he did, is the idea they had then. But they didn't have the technology. To download, upload, etc etc. Basically they created the idea we use now in cellphones. They did it with a sort of two way that only worked in short range as well.
They were truly ahead of their time.
there were 9 million dreamcasts sold. There must have been similar amount of VMUs sold. who cares its not like its a gold Nintendo world championship cart
Because he can and wanted to.
OMFG easily one of the best handheld designs EVAH!!!! Bravo! (stands and applaudes)
Not a comment guy but bro you creativity is amazing, the VMU itself such a wonderful project and the controller expansion.... just genius!
I sincerely admire this project
Wow. I have been waiting forever for vmu upgrades. I would be happy with an mp3 player but that was insane! Tight fit! Great build. Would love to try it myself one day.
I just want to buy one of these honestly. You guys got me addicted to collecting handheld emulation consoles and this just has me now.
I was thinking that exactly thankyou wish you live 100 years buddy
This is too amazing!! I wanted to do the same. You just made it way easier for me! Thanks for the video!! I love it!
This is an amazing project! Very well done! It also helps that the Dreamcast is my all-time favorite console.
*Subscribed.
Dang this is so nice I would love this! Amazing job!
You took an idea that for the most part has been pushed to its limits and by integrating a docking system completely revolutionize those limits!!!!! The Ingenuity behind this has to impress those four words lbvs
Thankfully youtube thought this could be interesting for me. Instant Subscribe!
Keep up the good work, and the Dream alive!
This is mad! Great idea, really fun video as usual!
One of the greatest mods I have ever seen.. The controller mod is freaking awesome.. Very!!! Creative
This is an incredible build. Feel like I need a degree in electrical engineering just to understand what exactly is going on inside that. Seriously though, awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Such a great accomplishment!! Congrats. Earned a subscriber here!
WOW.. That is amazing. VERY nice work. Congrats.
Great build! Good job. I love the small size.
Very awesome thing! I really wish to play it! Great work and great video, thank you! P.S. Dreamcast was amazing 🌀
Although it is small i think its great. You did a hell of a job with this one
We need more People like you in the gaming industry.that came up pretty good what a briliant idea. Is lit super dope.
Wow honestly amazing 😱definitely one of the most awesome things I have seen to data 👌🏾 as the dreamcast been my favourite console ever created (growing up playing it through secondary school) this has blown me away that's such a thing is possible to create 😧 you are a genius 🤓
Very cool! I'm working on putting a pi in a snes controller!
Dude this is amazing, im currently working on modding my old GBA with all the best that 2021 has to offer, and in the middle of a video i was just watching, for some reason, the crazy dreamcast memory card with the buttons on it beamed into my brain from the memory lazer gun and I immediately had to search youtube to see what mods there are today. We are currently on a new frontier of combining new tech with all the old game consoles we loved and grew up with. And we are now able to update these things to a system that new kids will want to play, and we will be able to give them a taste of how we use to game back then, but in a much better and cleaner way. Its like now that we are adults with the right education. We can finally fix all the tech that was offered to us, and fix all of the shortfallings,making it into the successful system that we all dreamed it would be. In a way, we are making dreams come true. Casting our dreams out into the future! The Dreamcasters
Bro....bro...this is insane. Awesome job!!
Your still the king in 2023… i do not have your soldering skill on such tiny device to give a second life to my DC controler/VMU. ❤🎉
Absolute beauty! Congrats.
Noooo waaayyy!! You are a genius man!!! Great project!
I'm totally blown away by this.
This is what I live for. I love small yet complex hobbyist projects like this.
Really cool project :D !
You are a genius this is so cool...didn't think it would be possible for me to even love DC even more haha
This is sick .....like a dream come true 😍😍😍😍
You sir... are a genius.... absolutely love it. dreamcast is my favorite console of all time
this is REALLY cool! I would love to see more projects like these, but I do know they're hard to do
This is astonishing. Thank you.
Amazing work dude. Insane.
Awesome work dude! Greets from Germany!
This is gold. Love it man!
Cool!! Great adding L and R on the back!
this is the sickest mod ive ever seen. Congrats dude
This is amazing man!
You sir are very talented well done man.
Awesome job bro!!!
Awesome. Simply awesome!
this is amazing good job!
AMAZING!
I would never of thought of doing this...
Awesome build! Love it..
Dude, this is fucking cool. This is exactly what i wanted from this memory card as a kid. Nice work man