Treamcast: portable ? dreamcast with tft
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Evil_Cloud
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It's Hong Kong made, and an action by Sega was taken last year against it.
Lik-sang got hold of it a year ago - more pics inside : http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=2963.
It came with two controllers, build in mp3/vcd playback (+ remote), and car adapter, all in a custom bag labeled "Treamcast"... nice thing... They checked with Sega of Japan and confirmed it's illegality.
It came with two controllers, build in mp3/vcd playback (+ remote), and car adapter, all in a custom bag labeled "Treamcast"... nice thing... They checked with Sega of Japan and confirmed it's illegality.
Evil_Cloud
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I bet if they were to make another million Dreamcasts, they would all be sold out in a relatively short timespan.
Actually I believe Hollys are still produced on a limited production for NAOMIs and the Atomiswave... (either that or there's a small stockpile with enough avaialability to meet the meager production demands)...
In either case, if SEGA wanted to mass produce the thing again as a cheap box for China, it wouldn't be too difficult to restart production... The biggest difficulty would probably having to bother cracking down in piracy and such, otherwise it wouldn't be cost effective to manufacture the boxes for the software revenue (probably isnt' anyways since the system is so easy to hack)..
Lazy8s said:
I'm surprised - considering your worship of everything Sega and DC - you're not claiming the chipset is actually PRODUCING power!
Anyway, define what you mean by "low" please, because the expression has different meanings depending on if you mean a portable device or a stationary. A stationary low-power device could still be a greedy SOB if made portable, and with the number of discrete chips in the DC I very much doubt it could be considered low-power in that context.
They have low enough power consumption that a device like this Treamcast is even practical in the first place. While this is something that could be expected of the more modest hardware from the previous generation of consoles, you wouldn't see a hack like this made of an Xbox or PS2.
Actual mobile variants of the SH-4 and PowerVR hardware, like the MBX, would of course be the optimal way to go for this.
Actual mobile variants of the SH-4 and PowerVR hardware, like the MBX, would of course be the optimal way to go for this.
Lazy8s said:
Is MBX even compatible with the Neon250 chipset?
Anyhow, there are portable neses, the gameaxe. Don't think I remember anything like that for snes, genesis(besides nomad), or any other later systems though. Could be done with psone, n64 I think it's too big and gets pretty hot, and it could be done with gamecube. Does this treamcast even have a battery, I thought it was just a dreamcast with an lcd screen attached to it.
Lazy8s said:
Why would that be the case? It doesn't run on batteries from what I've gleaned, and even if it did its battery life would be horrible. It's just a DC in a different shell with a backlit screen attached, you could do that with any console, old or new.
You're such a Sega-worshipper!
Why NOT?MBX most certainly isn't software compatible, so that would be pointless.
The MBX was just used as an example to show that the PowerVR architecture can make for a solution competitive in power/heat efficiency in the mobile market as well.
As hacks, these Treamcast-type devices are obviously awkward for mobility, but you could supply your own battery and not get a totally impractical amount of drain. I'm sure the other systems could potentially be rigged to run in the car off a cigarette lighter, but my point was just that those two DC processors were exceptional for low power/heat and also for price/performance in their class.
As hacks, these Treamcast-type devices are obviously awkward for mobility, but you could supply your own battery and not get a totally impractical amount of drain. I'm sure the other systems could potentially be rigged to run in the car off a cigarette lighter, but my point was just that those two DC processors were exceptional for low power/heat and also for price/performance in their class.
I dunno, a gamecube with an lcd screen is cheaper than this dreamcast, plus more powerful, and potentially drains less energy. Not sure about that, but they did actually make batteries for gamecube, guess roughly the size of a labtop battery, last about an hour and a half, which is what high power labtops last.
Not sure if you could power a ps2 or xbox plus a screen(with speakers) though, they definetely drain more power than any labtop. Well, maybe not the ps2s if they've upgraded the design, but I think the nv2a on the xbox could push it over the edge. Actually, now that I think about, gamecube's time is pretty low too, unless those high drain labtops actually last an hour, but those labtops have to power a larger screen, plus a harddrive....which probably uses less power than a constantly spinning disk drive....but they have ram which uses more power per megabyte and a lot more of it.
Not sure if you could power a ps2 or xbox plus a screen(with speakers) though, they definetely drain more power than any labtop. Well, maybe not the ps2s if they've upgraded the design, but I think the nv2a on the xbox could push it over the edge. Actually, now that I think about, gamecube's time is pretty low too, unless those high drain labtops actually last an hour, but those labtops have to power a larger screen, plus a harddrive....which probably uses less power than a constantly spinning disk drive....but they have ram which uses more power per megabyte and a lot more of it.
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