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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.
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.
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.
@@Based_wrldWay more memorable games on Dreamcast than PS5. Look at the summer game releases for 2024 on ps5 vs DC in 2000. Sega had way more desperate it being a failed console.
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....”
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)
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@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 🤷🏻♂️
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 passes, and, wham! - they have their own R&D and original designs, with solid and very sensible engineering behind it. I have many Chinese things (mostly related to audio and video), and I can say that PCB layouts and components show a very no-nonsense approach. The major problem with Chinese stuff is that manufacturers often ignore firmware/software bugs that can be rectified by more thorough approach to code and testing, and prefer to produce new products that are improved - but, at that, are incompatible with previous iterations, and have their own sets of bugs and glitches. The best example here are probably Saramonic wireless microphones. Blink 500 is very reliable in terms of signal transmission, but it has a very noticeable delay. Blink 500 Pro is much better in terms of delay and is generally much more convenient to use, with displays, better button layouts, wind mufflers for built-in microphones (that are actually quite good) - but contrary to its predecessor it suffers from inexplicable random signal dropouts, as well as it does not produce enough plug-in power to pump up higher-impedance capsules like Sanken COS-11d, plus there are current leaks with charger box (you leave the system in it for a week and find out that the batteries all but ran out in either RX and TX, and the box itself). Instead of fixing that with firmware (and making that firmware user-upgradeable) they churned out Blink 800 and then, almost immediately, Blink 900, and discontinued Blink 500Pro. I didn't yet have a chance to try the 800 and 900 systems, but, well, Blink 500Pro is great by design and, mostly, implementation, so I don't understand why would they not provide better support for it. Indeed, they have a powerful rival in the form of RODE Wireless Go series that was the original super-compact universal wireless microphone system (not without its own problems though), and the cultural thing of (quoting here) “striving to provide the best product”... But, well, maintaining more reasonable product cycles and paying more attention to firmware anyway create better user experience...
Cos11d's are still king when it comes to quality lavs. I've had mine for 10 years now, no issues. With Chinese stuff you often buy twice. My Teclast tablet had some cool features but is pretty much garbage at this point and it's only a couple years old...
@@christophhelms4905 I have a whole suitcase, and not a small one, of Chinese microphones, wired and wireless. Among them are two Superlux TOP-248 and one TOP-258, as well as one BOMGE GX-450 dual-mic handheld wireless system, and I'm yet to find better dynamic handhelds in terms of either build quality, reliability and... price. For how they are working, they could cost as much as top-of-the-line Sennheiser or Shure, but all of those did cost me, at times I purchased those (wired in 2015, wireless in 2019), less than US$200 together. Some specifics of Russian second-hand market though, those were rather NOS/clearance than off-the-shelf, and bought via Avito (a second-hand buy/sell portal) rather than over the counter or directly from China, and I actually didn't know what I bought until I tried them (although I plugged them into a field recorder before money exchanged hands). But they are totally great, already worked at hundreds of events, some international TV live broadcasts (France 24, and some others, I occasionally loan them to colleagues... making sure these colleagues are not from Russian federal channels, particularly after the 24/02/2022) and sport event streams, countless voiceovers and whatnot. Not a single letdown. I and my colleagues had much more trouble with very expensive name-brand stuff than with those. Maybe it's my luck, but actually I see a tendency, watching Chinese audio and other equipment development as a professional user for about 20 years... I think that in the next decade many Chinese names will be known and have well-deserved praise as much as German, American, and Japanese.
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.
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 ?
I was really confused by the screen at first. First off, it looks great so I imagine it's using the Dreamcast's VGA signal. The aspect ratio of the Dreamcast using VGA is 640x480 but the output signal is DTV (720x480). To confuse matters more, displays interpret this DTV signal as 640x480 which ends up displaying an extra narrow (and incorrect) aspect ratio. At first glance, this didn't appear to be happening here. Even when the boot logo comes up, the entire screen is filled yet the logo does not appear stretched... Maybe ever so slightly... I guess if the screen on this device is 5:3 (I believe that's what you alluded to in the video), stretching it out to fill the screen would not appear as distorted as a 16:9 display. Because the Dreamcast's VGA signal is misinterpreted by all displays, this is why you get the black bars during game. Usually this would result in the aspect ratio looking too narrow within a 4:3 frame but, because it's stretched to fit the 5:3 display here, it ends up looking closer to the correct ratio. Having said all that, I think the developer of this device made the right call by selecting a screen less wide than 16:9 but wider than 4:3. There's no way it's pixel perfect but it looks better than it would have with a 4:3 or 16:9 display. One last thing is that, if it is using the VGA (which I'm 99.9% convinced it is), there are a small handful of 480i-only games that will not display on this device. Hydro Thunder and Last Blade 2 come to mind. In any event, thanks for sharing this oddity.
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.
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
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.
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.
This looks nice but for the price you could literally buy a steam deck and emulate or a switch, phone, PC, ps vita etc. If it was cheaper I would have got one but at $500 its just not worth it. Nice video and review 👍
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.
I have no doubt that the engineers was exceptionally intelligent in their design of this. However, how in the world could they have blundered so badly to make it widescreen and not 4:3? Perhaps they weren't Dreamcast fans and didn't realize that it wasn't a 16:9 machine. Or is it that 4:3 LCD's are harder to come by? I'd like to know the actual reason. In any way, I will pass on it unless they can come out with a 4:3 version.
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
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
I used a dreamcast emulator on my phone, it saved me from loads of boredom during car rides and school. My favorite games were Marvel vs Capcom clash of superheroes, Guilty Gear X and ikaruga
When I found myself idling in Davie,Fl. all the way from NYC(in the summer of 9/11 no less!), my newly gotten Dreamcast, and my bottles of Icehouse were all I really had. Finally a cop gave me such a hassle about "adjusting to my new surroundings" that I booked a flight back the next morning. Still have good memories of playing JetSetRadio though, that's 💯👌
I was today years old when i found out the Dreamcast controller and console design are meant to evoke eachother And I actually owned a Dreamcast that I bought on release day
I love dreamcast and this thing looks awesome, so long as the games actually run properly. Crazy Taxi, Tokyo Highway Challenge, Marvel vs Capcom... oh baby.
I'm not very familiar with Dreamcast, I've just played on emulator. That said, do the controllers have 2 sticks or just 1? I had to map 2 sticks on emulator.
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 bought my dreamcast earlier this year, CMOS battery issue, I bought my Giant Gram 2000 to play all of a sudden cannot be turned on, & now I'm seeing you buying this portable version :( This is cool btw...
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.
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.
The only thing o wish was changed is the ability to output to a TV. Maybe with a switch that allows you to turn off the built in display and use the original output plug? I dunno. Would have been nice.
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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
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
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
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
@@Based_wrldWay more memorable games on Dreamcast than PS5. Look at the summer game releases for 2024 on ps5 vs DC in 2000. Sega had way more desperate it being a failed console.
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
Dreamcast was one of my favorite consoles of all time. I used to binge on sonic adventure 2 like crazy.
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)
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.
3:18 I'm so used to playing on a tv, I find this funny:
"Huge screen right here."
"...Probably a 5-inch screen."
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!
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.
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First video I've ever watched that was able to do that.
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 🤷🏻♂️
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
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
I love the integrated VMU!
I wouldn't mind having this!
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?
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 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
1:17 "So this right here is Macarena" takes me back to Los del Rio's smash hit of 1996.
That things really cool. Like the explanation about the GDMenu, cause I thought "Oh, just an emulator" at first
I had a Dreamcast in the 90s as a kid, STAR WARS pod racer was my favourite game
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?
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!
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!
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.
The inside was very well constructed and managed, that was a surprise.
For the price I hope!
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.
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 passes, and, wham! - they have their own R&D and original designs, with solid and very sensible engineering behind it. I have many Chinese things (mostly related to audio and video), and I can say that PCB layouts and components show a very no-nonsense approach.
The major problem with Chinese stuff is that manufacturers often ignore firmware/software bugs that can be rectified by more thorough approach to code and testing, and prefer to produce new products that are improved - but, at that, are incompatible with previous iterations, and have their own sets of bugs and glitches. The best example here are probably Saramonic wireless microphones. Blink 500 is very reliable in terms of signal transmission, but it has a very noticeable delay. Blink 500 Pro is much better in terms of delay and is generally much more convenient to use, with displays, better button layouts, wind mufflers for built-in microphones (that are actually quite good) - but contrary to its predecessor it suffers from inexplicable random signal dropouts, as well as it does not produce enough plug-in power to pump up higher-impedance capsules like Sanken COS-11d, plus there are current leaks with charger box (you leave the system in it for a week and find out that the batteries all but ran out in either RX and TX, and the box itself). Instead of fixing that with firmware (and making that firmware user-upgradeable) they churned out Blink 800 and then, almost immediately, Blink 900, and discontinued Blink 500Pro. I didn't yet have a chance to try the 800 and 900 systems, but, well, Blink 500Pro is great by design and, mostly, implementation, so I don't understand why would they not provide better support for it. Indeed, they have a powerful rival in the form of RODE Wireless Go series that was the original super-compact universal wireless microphone system (not without its own problems though), and the cultural thing of (quoting here) “striving to provide the best product”... But, well, maintaining more reasonable product cycles and paying more attention to firmware anyway create better user experience...
Cos11d's are still king when it comes to quality lavs. I've had mine for 10 years now, no issues. With Chinese stuff you often buy twice. My Teclast tablet had some cool features but is pretty much garbage at this point and it's only a couple years old...
@@christophhelms4905 I have a whole suitcase, and not a small one, of Chinese microphones, wired and wireless. Among them are two Superlux TOP-248 and one TOP-258, as well as one BOMGE GX-450 dual-mic handheld wireless system, and I'm yet to find better dynamic handhelds in terms of either build quality, reliability and... price. For how they are working, they could cost as much as top-of-the-line Sennheiser or Shure, but all of those did cost me, at times I purchased those (wired in 2015, wireless in 2019), less than US$200 together. Some specifics of Russian second-hand market though, those were rather NOS/clearance than off-the-shelf, and bought via Avito (a second-hand buy/sell portal) rather than over the counter or directly from China, and I actually didn't know what I bought until I tried them (although I plugged them into a field recorder before money exchanged hands). But they are totally great, already worked at hundreds of events, some international TV live broadcasts (France 24, and some others, I occasionally loan them to colleagues... making sure these colleagues are not from Russian federal channels, particularly after the 24/02/2022) and sport event streams, countless voiceovers and whatnot. Not a single letdown. I and my colleagues had much more trouble with very expensive name-brand stuff than with those. Maybe it's my luck, but actually I see a tendency, watching Chinese audio and other equipment development as a professional user for about 20 years... I think that in the next decade many Chinese names will be known and have well-deserved praise as much as German, American, and Japanese.
When the editor knows more than the guy making the video! 😂. That’s a nice touch. We need to hear more from “The Editor”
It sure would be nice if they had more information about what country it was made in.
ABXY+Start will reset to the game menu. Doing it again will take you to the Dreamcast system menu
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.
First thing I thought when you said there was yellow bubble wrap I thought was is there a dog around here LOL
"Portable" isn't quite "handheld."
The VMU screen is really cool.
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 ?
wished they greyed up those triggers to match the rest.
Dreamcast (9.9.99) who can ever forget that?
"WELCOME TO THE POWERSTONE WORLD!!!" living rent free in my head for like 20 years
I was really confused by the screen at first. First off, it looks great so I imagine it's using the Dreamcast's VGA signal.
The aspect ratio of the Dreamcast using VGA is 640x480 but the output signal is DTV (720x480). To confuse matters more, displays interpret this DTV signal as 640x480 which ends up displaying an extra narrow (and incorrect) aspect ratio.
At first glance, this didn't appear to be happening here. Even when the boot logo comes up, the entire screen is filled yet the logo does not appear stretched... Maybe ever so slightly...
I guess if the screen on this device is 5:3 (I believe that's what you alluded to in the video), stretching it out to fill the screen would not appear as distorted as a 16:9 display. Because the Dreamcast's VGA signal is misinterpreted by all displays, this is why you get the black bars during game. Usually this would result in the aspect ratio looking too narrow within a 4:3 frame but, because it's stretched to fit the 5:3 display here, it ends up looking closer to the correct ratio.
Having said all that, I think the developer of this device made the right call by selecting a screen less wide than 16:9 but wider than 4:3. There's no way it's pixel perfect but it looks better than it would have with a 4:3 or 16:9 display.
One last thing is that, if it is using the VGA (which I'm 99.9% convinced it is), there are a small handful of 480i-only games that will not display on this device. Hydro Thunder and Last Blade 2 come to mind.
In any event, thanks for sharing this oddity.
2 controller ports and a TV out would make this even better
I love “House Of The Dead 2” it’s a great game!! Also crazy taxi was fun too.
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
7:07 "I wonder if they put everything on here."
32GB card, lol
Some guys are poaching legit consoles to sell their organs in order to make those weird chimera monsters.
The screaming face side speakers got me laughing!
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!
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
So cool! I just purchased a mint condition Dreamcast! But after that note from your editor Danny, I think I might try to install a GD Emu!
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 😢
He had one ad. scroll through it.
Pay for UA-cam premium like an adult and STFU..
Man just pay for UA-cam pro or whatever it’s called I never see ads it’s worth the $10
You can adjust screen ratio on these, seen it on another review
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
Easily one of the best portable consoles you’ve gotten!!
To change aspect ratio etc just press the side button in game to change this.
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!!
If you could put actual Dreamcast CD's in there it would be incredible
That would be awesome, but also a very large "portable" console lol
@@jrob0021
That is fine..lol
I seen a portable Dreamcast today on UA-cam my mind literally blown and I want one
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
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.
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.
This looks nice but for the price you could literally buy a steam deck and emulate or a switch, phone, PC, ps vita etc. If it was cheaper I would have got one but at $500 its just not worth it. Nice video and review 👍
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
What is the point of this vs. a Steamdeck if it only takes an sd card and not cd's?
I have no doubt that the engineers was exceptionally intelligent in their design of this. However, how in the world could they have blundered so badly to make it widescreen and not 4:3? Perhaps they weren't Dreamcast fans and didn't realize that it wasn't a 16:9 machine. Or is it that 4:3 LCD's are harder to come by? I'd like to know the actual reason. In any way, I will pass on it unless they can come out with a 4:3 version.
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 ^^
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
I got the Dreamcast on launch day when I was 20 years old. 9/9/99. It was awesome.
cool!
Now you can save all the CHU-CHUS! from the CAPU-CAPUS!
Hold ABX and Y, then press start to return to the title screen, then hold ABX and Y then press start again from the title screen to return to GD menu
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....”
Bro you didn't run a game for 20 seconds
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!
This looks awesome. Mars Matrix is my favorite DC game.
I used a dreamcast emulator on my phone, it saved me from loads of boredom during car rides and school. My favorite games were Marvel vs Capcom clash of superheroes, Guilty Gear X and ikaruga
I played a handful of Dreamcast games on my phone with an emulator, though I have a real console now and I wanna get a gdemu for it
for that price, I'll stick to my retro handhelds.
When I found myself idling in Davie,Fl. all the way from NYC(in the summer of 9/11 no less!), my newly gotten Dreamcast, and my bottles of Icehouse were all I really had. Finally a cop gave me such a hassle about "adjusting to my new surroundings" that I booked a flight back the next morning. Still have good memories of playing JetSetRadio though, that's 💯👌
I was today years old when i found out the Dreamcast controller and console design are meant to evoke eachother
And I actually owned a Dreamcast that I bought on release day
Is the berserk game on there? Gut’s rage was on the og dreamcast…..
Lol circus peanut grease on the buttons 😂
I love dreamcast and this thing looks awesome, so long as the games actually run properly. Crazy Taxi, Tokyo Highway Challenge, Marvel vs Capcom... oh baby.
that little emblem you see all over in your sponsor game is literally titanfall 2's logo
glad you bought this i thought you would like it and knew it was right up your alley
Things nice ain't gonna lie... But it's expensive 🤣
I thought you were playing overwatch for a second, man the dreamcast was seriously ahead of its time!
I'm not very familiar with Dreamcast, I've just played on emulator. That said, do the controllers have 2 sticks or just 1? I had to map 2 sticks on emulator.
There’s just 1 stick and a d-pad
He literally put a controller right next to the unit for comparison
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 🤘
Anyone else notice the Styrofoam that was pushed into the sdcard slot when he pulled it out
Jesus that price tag is outrageous I'll just get one from the flea market
SEGA: Dreamcast Mini would be too expensive.
Me: Yeah, bullshit.
I’ve never played Dreamcast nor played Dreamcast games, but I
Sonic adventure 1 & 2 seem interesting. Also hi to jacobs editor!
I bought my dreamcast earlier this year, CMOS battery issue, I bought my Giant Gram 2000 to play all of a sudden cannot be turned on, & now I'm seeing you buying this portable version :( This is cool btw...
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.
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.
IDK if it's been said, but the reset button for the Dreamcast is to press all four face buttons + Start.
The only thing o wish was changed is the ability to output to a TV. Maybe with a switch that allows you to turn off the built in display and use the original output plug? I dunno. Would have been nice.
Yeah. That would be nice
Take that thing on a plane. If that don't give off the bomb alarm. I'm never flying again
Do you have a link to buy one
Its the first search for dreamcast portable. there are several people selling them. All this model. The price looks like its creeping up.
I WANT one of these. How did you download more games onto the sd card??
Mannnnn, I still have my day one launch Dreamcast! Still in working order, but a handheld Dreamcast, I'm almost tempted LOL