I Bought a PORTABLE Sega Dreamcast from Aliexpress… 😬
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- Опубликовано: 30 июл 2024
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When's the last time you played a Sega Dreamcast? More importantly, when's the last time you played a PORTABLE Sega Dreamcast?? My guess is never... This thing is pretty cool. It came from Aliexpress (pretty similar to Wish) and it actually works pretty well. The Portable Sega Dreamcast is pretty well put together (well, at least from the outside it is), and it also works pretty well. Let me know down in the comments what you think about this portable sega dreamcast from China!
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0:00 Unboxing
1:08 First aid kit??
2:55 Closer look at the console
6:27 Testing the console
11:28 Console teardown
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how long it took u to get this?
@@kazukyo5980 the console? Like a month from when I ordered it I think
@@jrob0021 I oder from Phoenix RetroMods last year and nothing yet...
@@kazukyo5980 hmm it sounds like they took your money
don't mean to be rude but you NEED to cut down on the ads, it feels greedy to have so many ads every minute
Use a ad blocker
Same i miss 2005 😢
This is one of the first ones I've seen for the Dreamcast that I would LOVE to get. It's not horribly priced either. Such a great console and it's cool that the SD card replaces the CD-drive.
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised. So far so good. It’s not as nice as a normal controller in the hands, but it’s solid
@@jrob0021 ive been scared to buy one since there wii portable wasnt safe.
@@stpworld wdym
@@stpworld not safe?
He ded
Imagine how many people died because of the Dreamcast case being a first aid kit.
three, but two only died bc crazy taxi gave them a heart attack
Well i mean if I'm in s life or death scenario i would love to play some sonic adventure 2 or tony hawk
I'm sure they did the responsible thing where they took the contents of the first aid out and put it into like some other conveniently available container.
Probably like a small cardboard box or something. I like to think they just poured it out wherever it was and just left it in a pile where it had been. Or maybe it was just salvaged out of somewhere which would be my hope.
Imagine how many people died before first aid kits were invented 😮
@@wolfnation100 finally someone mentioned crazy taxi
One of the most underrated systems of all time! A sleeper hit that I personally liked is toy commander!!
Phenomenal Game. Family had so much fun with that one. And it was challenging. No Cliche’ had a lot of fun developing that and the soundtrack was great too. “This is your mission....”
Jet grind radio will forever be one of my favorite games
YES
So 500 to 550 dollars US.
That would be a controller, VMU, Dreamcast unit for about 100, and 70 to 100 for the GDMU. Screen, Batteries and charge and the mod work could be worth and case would be worth 200. And the shipping and profit would be in the last 150. That actually all seems fair for the price.
Nah get a ps5
For when you inevitably have to pull this apart and repair it one day, when you lift the front cover off, twist 180 to the left and you'll find the cables now have slack, its actually pretty common in some devices.(The top of the front cover is soldered to the bottom of the lower case and vice versa for the lower portion of the front too)
Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles of all time. I used to binge on sonic adventure 2 like crazy.
I purchased a dream cast complete open box back in twenty nineteen and a couple of games that many recommend and I had a great time with it. It is a fun console that I enjoyed. Much better titles on that system then when games have on current consoles on my opinion.
I dont think so, not even remotely close. Close off the indie scene completely and just focus on video games made for say the switch and ps4, it still completely curb stomps the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast was like the N64, best played with friends, I don't understand why people have such a weird overpowered hard on for the Dreamcast.
@@yeahyeahwowman8099 Rose tinted glasses to some extent. But there were relatively few games for it, circa 250 in the US and Europe, so because of that there was a lower shovelware to decent game ratio. Also lots of people love that same screen multiplayer thing.
@@yeahyeahwowman8099 the Dreamcast is a God tier system. It was ahead of its time in every way. If you think games these days hold a candle to the DC, you're delusional. 90% of PS4/PS5 games are snooze-fests with pretty graphics. Dreamcast games are legendary and most importantly, FUN.
Rose tinted glasses be damned, I still play and have more fun with the Dreamcast than the Switch or PS5.
@@yeahyeahwowman8099 I don’t have any nostalgia for Dreamcast, but there are a bunch of racing games I love playing on there. I bought one in 2020
@@zonicable the Dreamcast is not a God tier system, its a party machine basically. Machine is decent, thats about it. It is fun to play with friends over, the Dreamcast basically gets curb stomped in every other regard, even with its life cut short.
Yes, Dreamcast! It was my first console. My favorite games on it have to be... Sonic Adventure, Space Channel 5, and Spiderman. I played the heck out of them!
1) 8.4V is one of standard voltages, 4.2V×2, 4.2V being a charging voltage for 3.7V cells that you see inside (I believe they are two or even four pairs of standard 18650s). I would not be surprised if the thing actually accepts everything between 5V and 16V because Chinese devices quite often have very unscrupulous power circuitry. In some cases it's openly written, like “6.8 to 19.2V, 1A”, and sometimes it's some specific voltage that isn't necessarily the only right one. It is not that common for 8.4V devices to be burned or even overheated by the voltage increased by 0.6V.
2) Teclast is actually quite prominent manufacturer of weird tablets and laptops, they are around since at least the early 2010s, when they (and Chuwi) made rather buggy but not completely pointless netbooks and tablets based on either Android, or Windows 8 (later 10), or both Windows and Android. They still do, actually, but the quality became much better.
So it's actually a kind of a brand already. Chinese companies are often like that, they start by making cheap knock-offs under incomprehensibly random names, then some time
I love the integrated VMU!
I wouldn't mind having this!
The screen issue is due to availability, many of these handheld units use whatever screen is available and within price range of the builder. Most use just phone screens since those are the most widely available.
You can change screen ratio in settings
I would have issues about the insulation between the VMU/Controller/LCD boards and the main Dreamcast board.... as there is none. These could touch each other. And I could even see the nickel strip for the battery flapping in the breeze; dangerous to have this so exposed. Clearly a 8.4V (2P2S) setup.
What would be a good fix for those who have this?
@@icurnvs776 kapton tape is often used to provide some protection, but this is quite a large surface. Think the open space is to cope with the airflow. Insulation around the battery terminals with kapton or heat shrink would be a first thing to tackle. This is where a short circuit would be a big issue. For the boards it might help to add some plastic strips as dividers to lock them more in place, or standoffs to add clearance or prevent the boards to slam into each other.
@@gbraadnl is there even enough space in that case to do all of that?
Sweet Jesus I can’t believe they didn’t even bother to try to clean it up before they sent it to you
That’s really awesome but holy crap, 500$ to play a handful of Dreamcast games. Just well out of my budget.
That's why I have an Odin Pro.
You could easily load the whole library onto it with a bigger memory card
At 12:12 if you open this up again, unplug the bottom left connector before you put strain on the wires. The wiring looks pretty good, and keeping these distances short is beneficial, but it's designed in a way that needs unplugging before you open it up like a book all the way. Otherwise you risk breaking the solder joints on the right hand side.
There's a nickel strip floating at 12:06 _hoo boy_ lets hope that's not a hazard waiting to happen.
That things really cool. Like the explanation about the GDMenu, cause I thought "Oh, just an emulator" at first
3:18 I'm so used to playing on a tv, I find this funny:
"Huge screen right here."
"...Probably a 5-inch screen."
You can reset without having to use the power on and off. There is a soft reset by holding all the buttons and triggers down. Should take you back to the Dreamcast boot up and to the GDEMU main menu.
I wonder if there might be a way to change the aspect and setting also via another shortcut?
No need to hold triggers, just all 4 face buttons, same as the Saturn by holding ABC+start to soft reset. It first resets to the game's main menu, then if done again will return to the boot menu of the system.
Unfortunately both you and @dertbag are a little incorrect. It's ABXY+Start, although he was right about the stages; hit them once for game menu, twice for a system menu
@@SiggsGBR I said "its the same as Saturn", which required abc+start, but instead its all 4 face buttons on DC. So I wasnt wrong.
@dertbag OP said buttons and triggers and you responded, no triggers just face buttons. I kind of read it as you were mentioning start when specifically referring to the Saturn. Let's call it a difference in how we read the comment I guess 🤷🏻♂️
Kudos. Your ad made it passed Vanced auto skipping of embedded ads.
First video I've ever watched that was able to do that.
Awesome to see another review of this product.
Thanks for the teardown it's great to see what they updated.
Love your vids ... specially the ones with the weird stuff you buy from Ebay 😅
What do you do with those horrible modded console anyway ?
This is nice! Good find.
I pre-ordered my Dreamcast from Software Etc. Still the only console I’ve ever pre-ordered.
My favorite game was Resident Evil Code Veronica. It had other great titles like Sega Rally 2, SoulCaliber, and Shenmue, and multi-player games like Power Stone 2 and Virtua Tennis which are great fun too.
I got mine on 9.9.99
Best gaming day of my life
@@themollymachine Hell yeah! I forgot that it came out on 9/9/99. Those were good times!
When the editor knows more than the guy making the video! 😂. That’s a nice touch. We need to hear more from “The Editor”
First thing I thought when you said there was yellow bubble wrap I thought was is there a dog around here LOL
Space Channel 5 and its sequel were my favorite Dreamcast games. I have a Saturn now, and I really feel the best Sega games were on the Saturn and the Dreamcast.
I find these quirky hand made Shenzhen things fascinating, thanks for the post :) The factories must be GROSS though - they are always SUPER dirty.
The air in that part of China is so bad that you can practically look at the sun without squinting. (I don't recommend that as there's no telling how much UV light is still making it through)
The screaming face side speakers got me laughing!
It's crazy that so much went into making this thing and the VMU and buttons are dirty. I thought about getting one of these a while back to make a video just like this but you beat me to it! Great video man!
glad you bought this i thought you would like it and knew it was right up your alley
The heat is from the GDEmu, if you don't have the proper voltage/PSU it'll get hot. DreamPSU and PicoPSU are replacement PSU's and they run at 12v. They help with the GDEmu's heat issues.
The heat was coming from the opposite end of the console from the gdemu
@@jrob0021 the heat is from the power supply caused by the gdemu not drawing as much power as the optical drive. You can change out the power supply or mod the factory one.
@@Justsevenwords No, it isn't. That's an issue in stock DCs with a mains input but this won't have an AC to DC conversion going on.
@@kurbeco weird. Everything I could find when I modded mine says without a constant load on the 12v line from the optical drive the voltage can go up to 14v
@@Justsevenwords I'm not disagreeing with that, just that this portable version won't have a AC to DC PSU in it, likely won't even generate a 12v line.
You are 100% correct about a 'standard' Dreamcast and this is the reason I remove the 12v regulator in mine when fitting a GDEMU
The selection contains 2 games developped by Sega (Outtrigger by Yu Suzuki and JetSet Radio by Smilebit, the Panzer Dragoon team), two 2K sports titles that were published by Sega but made by a Californian studio the Japanese company had bought, and the rest of the games belong to Ubisoft, Activision, Capcom and other 3rd parties. They could have used Naomi to save space or compress the disc images.
1:17 "So this right here is Macarena" takes me back to Los del Rio's smash hit of 1996.
I had a Dreamcast in the 90s as a kid, STAR WARS pod racer was my favourite game
The inside was very well constructed and managed, that was a surprise.
For the price I hope!
When you took it apart, I noticed the LCD board had some sort of port, (maybe HDMI output?) but no cutout in the top of the casing to access it.
If that's what it was, can it be used?
It's an HDMI input. This is a common multi-function LCD panel that they would normally be installed in a portable aftermarket vehicle display.
One of the best portable consoles I’ve seen. It’s such a cool piece
There are many GameShark codes (and hex edits) that convert Dreamcast games in 16:9 widescreen. It’s worth checking out.
also some games like rayman 2 have native widescreen
Can you get the Gameshark working with the GD EMU?
Lol circus peanut grease on the buttons 😂
I really like the Sonic games on Dreamcast but I love Crazy Taxi Driver!
ya i remember getting the dreamcast the first game was the sonic adventures i think it was called. ..super fun to play all the different characters
actually the dreamcast and controller when they came out gen 1 where eggshell white so allmost white ,i have this one in my display case ^^
wished they greyed up those triggers to match the rest.
Thanks for the review! I was blown away that someone made these!! My only issue is that you don't get a bigger collective of games for the price!!
We had a dream cast in a house I was living in a long time ago. We only had a few games, one of them was crazy taxi. It was a pretty fun game. Also had resident evil and some monster truck racing game, but it had a king of the mountain side game on it. That was really fun. We'd always have 4 people on that one, talking smack to each other lol good times 🤘
I didn’t get a dreamcast until this year but my favorite game for it is super magnetic neo! Also mr driller runs so nice on it!
I seen a portable Dreamcast today on RUclips my mind literally blown and I want one
7:07 "I wonder if they put everything on here."
32GB card, lol
Some dreamcast games were VGA compatible and had a sort of higher resolution option available that I believe also affected aspect ratio. Been a while since I plugged mine in but that might explain the differences in aspect ratio between games.
This was interesting... It would've still been cool to load up a disc into it
Would’ve also made the console absolutely massive if the disc drive was attached lol
I love “House Of The Dead 2” it’s a great game!! Also crazy taxi was fun too.
Cool !! 😊 have fun buddy ! ❤
It Sucks that the VMU can't be charged so if you run out of blocks on the VMU you can't save game progress or stats in sports games without sacrificing other saves or stats.
This looks pretty cool , will have to check out 👌👌
Easily one of the best portable consoles you’ve gotten!!
I did not know I wanted this until I started playing Skies of Arcadia on my home setup, been longing to play it on the go. Not bad compared to the cost of buying the entire physical library
This is good content! Very interesting about Aliexpress custom portable consoles
It sure would be nice if they had more information about what country it was made in.
at a glance my one big irk is that the SD card sticks out, if they had been able to make it flush with the press in spring release style it would have been perfect.
Overall though the device in general reminds me of the old Ben Heck portable builds.
Yeah, but how do you swap out vmu files? The sd card is read only. What happens when you fill it up?
cool!
Now you can save all the CHU-CHUS! from the CAPU-CAPUS!
that little emblem you see all over in your sponsor game is literally titanfall 2's logo
I’ve never played Dreamcast nor played Dreamcast games, but I
Sonic adventure 1 & 2 seem interesting. Also hi to jacobs editor!
"WELCOME TO THE POWERSTONE WORLD!!!" living rent free in my head for like 20 years
Man, when I saw this.. I was praying it had a better price tag based on all the other ali express consoles I buy. Sadly no. But understandable a little bit why. For this money though I can get a new handheld pc..
I need this to work properly and I need to own this.. 🔥🔥🔥
What is the point of this vs. a Steamdeck if it only takes an sd card and not cd's?
I WANT one of these. How did you download more games onto the sd card??
Imagine opening that First kit .. in an emergency .. 😂 in case of emergency play Dreamcast
for that price, I'll stick to my retro handhelds.
Toy Commander is my favorite for the dream cast its an odd puzzle shooter game with you environment being different rooms in a house you advance through and you can play with a wide variety of toy vehicles
“This is your mission....”
2 controller ports and a TV out would make this even better
Does this have a video out port? i.e. can you play it on a big tv as well as portable?
Just needed and hdmi out and it would be both great to play at home and at the go.
I hav ethe GD EMU on my dreamcast, with a RetroTink and it's AMAZING!!! Highly rec. Great video. Looking into getting one.
Looks nice and seems to play good also. Is it made in China by any chance? (LOL). Every side of the console seems to have one of those stickers on there too; as well as the outer packaging. (Didn't see it mentioned on the inside though).
Take that thing on a plane. If that don't give off the bomb alarm. I'm never flying again
This is freakin dope, I need one
ABXY+Start will reset to the game menu. Doing it again will take you to the Dreamcast system menu
Those buttons look like they maybe came from the Sakura Wars DC Controller. At least the A button does lol.
the 😬emoji in the title made me think this would be a piece of junk, but it actually seems like a solid product. if it was closer to the 200 dollar price range i'd probably buy one.
It looks kind of muddy.. does it output in VGA? Looks like it’s using the composite signal
Damn, it’s real? I remember seeing some discussion in /r/Dreamcast about this a while ago and the general consensus was it was most likely a scam, I’m shocked it’s legit. I would never have thrown away $300 on something so suspicious.
I mean if it doesn’t show up, just file a claim with Aliexpress and you’ll get your money back. Worst case you file a claim with credit card and get your money back. I’ve had to do that with Wish before
@@jrob0021 great video
This is so freaking incredible that finally something reminds me of the Turbo express I tried to get when I was a kid 💫🏆🛋🦍
It definitely does!
I kinda actually like this. I have a portable device to play emulated games, but having a device that actually looks like the system would be cool. Expensive though.
portables made out of real consoles are always pretty expensive tbh
To change aspect ratio etc just press the side button in game to change this.
how are you supposed to remove the VMU without opening up the console? do you just not?
would be cool if you could access the memory card as well, there were some memory cards games you could play in the memory, very cool feature dreamcast had.
I would love to play Phantasy Star on this portable!
Is PS any good offline though?
@@SomaCruz29 Of course it is. I played it several times on PC emulators. The character progression in this game is fantastic and the fun doesn't depend on other people.
I have seen others make these handheld mods and think they are okay for personal projects, even if they are chopping up original parts, but it is a really scary thought that somebody out there is making a production line out of old Dreamcasts.
Why is it scary?
@@hectorg5809 eventually, there will be no more original Dreamcasts, only modded ones.
@@hectorg5809 because someone is buying up and wrecking original Dreamcasts
You can adjust screen ratio on these, seen it on another review
Dreamcast (9.9.99) who can ever forget that?
This is the best handheld you have bought so far and the price is very fair. What's the battery life on a single charge?
I’ve used it for like 2 hours on a charge without an issue so far. My guess is that it’ll maybe last 3 hours? I guess I’ll find out soon lol
@@jrob0021 Nice!
Jesus that price tag is outrageous I'll just get one from the flea market
Is there save games stored to the SD card? Otherwise, are you limited to the one built-in VMU for all save game data?
Correct, the installed VMU is the only VMU you have access to.
I got the Dreamcast on launch day when I was 20 years old. 9/9/99. It was awesome.
Can it connect to WiFi? Is the VMU replaceable? Those things fill up FAST
Dang that's a pretty hefty price for it but man it's cool af man color me jealous lol I'm glad I got my dream cast still
The left bottom corner gets hot cos they put there a bridge rectifier, that thing can get red hot.
Mannnnn, I still have my day one launch Dreamcast! Still in working order, but a handheld Dreamcast, I'm almost tempted LOL