VMµ - RetroPie Gaming Handheld Inside a Sega Dreamcast VMU

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[@Halu_Miodis]

Playing nintendo on a sega, has science gone too far?

[@familyguyfan4208]

top 10 questions science still can't answer

[@iluvmyswamp7948]

Not yet

[@MrYakumono]

Already done... 25 years ago....Super boy for the Japanese /Korean Master System.

[@riconuts]

and Super Mario World 64 for the Genesis

[@bizzie337]

You were so preoccupied with whether you could but, didn't stop to think if you should.

[@MegaManNeo]

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.

[@waytostoned]

Always buy an aftermarket case... I have a bunch round here somewhere with the Treamcast branding...

[@OnigiriSuiko]

This is one of the most badass mods i've ever seen. Legendary work dude. :3

[@felipecosta9632]

You kicked "Ben Hecks show" out of the stadium.

[@LeObsidianCraft]

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.

[@Hijynx87]

Leave my Wisconsin nerd alone!

[@deleteddeleted5674]

nope he didnt

[@dr4gon5oul]

not quite yet

[@y0mgi3d]

No way!

[@ShankMods]

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!

[@Terreur_rose]

I screamed when you put it in the controller that is so rad! 💚💚💚

[@pablo5425]

do ppl still say "rad"?

[@ORBS.]

@@pablo5425 no

[@Dyynex]

Where are the custom parts for this?

[@lilbsad]

I really love your vids man. Please ignore all of the little kids asking for prebuilt mintypi and keep making projects like this

[@tuff_lover]

lil kids...y u salty?

[@fpscanada3862]

Lol they rather pay $300 for a Game Boy Zero

[@darealduck6945]

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

[@sueshi7383]

Lol id like a premade mintypi but i dont go begging for it

[@vgrepairs]

@@sueshi7383 they make kits with everything you need for $120.

[@DS-os4hr]

Sega switch!

[@sadladcinn]

oxford Schultzz yeah but backwards

[@Halamix2]

You plug game console into the controller in this one

[@molo-molo5103]

sega switchcast

[@solidust573]

This gentleman is a certified genius.

[@Angultra]

I've seen many awesome RetroPi builds, but I think this takes the cake! Kudos man.

[@mattc420]

Angultra this one def easy takes the Cake. This is fucking amazing.

[@my_master512]

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

[@allisonmichelle8587]

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

[@servantbyday]

ben martin YES

[@cpevida309]

ben martin so your making a Nintendo switch dock built into the joycon grip, oh no Sega isn’t going to like this!

[@allisonmichelle8587]

Carlos Pevida no I am not making this I was suggesting an HDMI pass through for the pi

[@smoscar]

HDMI has 19 pins alone, the vmu connector only has 14 (minus the ones used for charging and USB)

[@weihanchen8280]

1:30 it has wifi could be able to screen sharing to smart TV, the power consuming is not a problem after joystick combined.

[@coldschooI]

Make me one? I'll buy it! 😍

[@benwyness148]

But can it run doom?

[@zackschilling4376]

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

[@aarongreenfield9038]

But does it still save Dreamcast games?

[@floppydisk4500]

Aaron Greenfield well he killed it to do this so I'm guessing no...

[@arand4]

only the RPI 3 is somewhat capable of running a Dreamcast emulator

[@Arachmana]

No, it saves SNES, NES, GBA, GB, GBC and I wanna say Doom.

[@chizukichan]

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.

[@SianaGearz]

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.

[@vermillioncatus1539]

*Hey man, I was wondering what did you have to study for knowing all this stuff.*

[@wermy]

I majored in computer science in college. Other than that: google. :)

[@NyrkSaron]

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!

[@trashmann3809]

You didn't do a full in depth guide because you didn't think a lot of people would want to do this?... what is wrong with you?! This is one of the coolest raspberry pi zero mods I've ever seen! Of course I want to do it.

[@BambinoPinguino]

Super impressive! I've always wanted a Pi Zero inside a Gameboy Micro, but I hear the Micro is too small for a zero :(

[@N0b0dyh3re]

Qui-Gon Jinn:he is the chosen one he will bring balance

[@learrus]

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.

[@jyjori]

Next, he’s gonna put one in an Altoids tin. This is crazy enough

[@d.o.e.]

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!

[@DC-go4nv]

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.

[@MDPToaster]

Make an in-depth guide please.

[@1109rna]

Where can I buy a memory card, a VMU with a micro5 pin terminal, and a JoyPad with a VMU flower? I am Korean. I wanted to buy it, so I searched the internet, but I found the old black department store. 메모리카드 사용하고 마이크로5핀단자가 있는 VMU랑 VMU꽃아서 사용하는 조이패드 이거 어디서 구매하나요? 저는 한국사람입니다 구매해보고싶어서 인터넷뒤져봤는데 옛날 흑백화면 인것만 나옵니다

[@MY3DCO]

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.

[@zero-theaveragegamer1159]

I would totally want one of these. I wouldn't really need to controller but just a modified vmu play some NES and Gameboy games on the go.... I don't know why considering I have a Vita on me at almost all times but I would totally be stoked to rock this.

[@shahlegno5890]

Sure, this is genius way to make old console can revive back to a new glory.

[@lifehackertips]

you can put retropie in any 3d printed case, you shouldn't destroy what few remaining VMUs that exist. And there were several games for the VMU kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4fWm6OLZrl-oLs

[@ev4n5eli0n01]

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.

[@ironicparadise2289]

what the fuck that is awesome

[@octavinadinugroho3476]

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

[@agonleed3841]

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.

[@JaNKeeeZ]

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.

[@WickedGamerCollector]

Really cool project :D !

[@projects6610]

But can it run Crysis?

[@FezSauce]

Yea. Decent but need to overclock a bit

[@RestoreTechnique]

This is awesome, so cool. What a squeeze to fit everything in, but you still managed to get the microSD card slot to line up. I didn't think you could use hot air on the Pi to desolder, for risk of damaging components, obviously not. Loved the Dreamcast.

[@miojogamereviews7099]

Dreamcast, the first Wii U

[@benjaminbodewig3572]

Why didn't you use the "sleep" and the "mode" button for x and y?

[@duncanrathband5492]

Brilliant pun in the title!

[@akpokemon]

Does "micro" reference something related to Raspberry Pi too, on top of referencing the device's size?

[@GlensRetroShow]

wermy .. I have the adafruit max98357a and have sound in the emulation station menu.. but not in any mame or emu.. did i miss something?

[@jdude61]

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.

[@axemanracing6222]

This is the best mod I've seen in mobile retro gaming. Just 1 thing you should add: a hdmi out on the dreamcast controller to play at your friends tv...

[@onetwo6039]

This is totally awesome, but beyond my understanding to build. Please make me one. Name your price.

[@GarageLoot]

One Two I wish I had more time to learn this stuff. I know some basic builds, but this is really cool.

[@mattc420]

Yeah... I have built several rasberry pi builds but I would love to be able to build this. This is god level shit.

[@night-shadevirgo2104]

i fricking adore this omfg scrubscribed :3

[@xDakem]

Please, stop killing VMU. I'm still using them!

[@ozmond]

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.

[@leonidas4378]

You're a fuckin genius!!!!!!!! great job!

[@saito9099]

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.

[@agonleed3841]

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.

[@Thommybee-85]

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

[@MrJonnyp107]

Because he can and wanted to.

[@ArtbyJuliaBlakita]

Very awesome thing! I really wish to play it! Great work and great video, thank you! P.S. Dreamcast was amazing 🌀

[@thatoff-roaddude9515]

This is sick .....like a dream come true 😍😍😍😍

[@galaxys2419]

Can you give the material list links?

[@jackjeanblanc4472]

Very cool! I'm working on putting a pi in a snes controller!

[@BuckoBean29]

This is one of the coolest mods I’ve ever seen! Amazing video!

[@neo2kx7]

Man please give me an email to communicate with you. I definitely would want to buy one.

[@jonnyhill8749]

Same

[@XXIIXIIIXXXIXXXIX]

AMAZING! This is a wild project, great job on it....kinda jelly.

[@SwankeyMonkey]

3:30 attach a *SEGA Game Gear - Super Wide Gear* screen magnifier to your DC controller and you're ready to go!

[@macelius]

You ruined a perfectly good VMU! j/k, this is awesome.

[@JohnnyProctor9]

This would also be GREAT for playing Atari, Game & Watch, and Pokemon Mini games...how much processing power does this have, could it emulate the Sega CD and/or 3DO? That'd be pretty cool...

[@MajinGouki]

LEVEL = GOD OF ELECTRONICs looks like STALLONE 'sTHE SPECIALIST just you need SHARONE STONE to reconfort you after this video ;)

[@poisonericthebeast3966]

That’s so coooooooooool that little Dreamcast is so cool I like the mini games

[@dulcepimentel8812]

me to

[@JohnnyProctor9]

Hey, something else fun that you could do with only 2 buttons...SCUMMVM, and maybe even DOSBox?

[@menelmacar3]

Oh my gosh I loved it when you put it in the controller!! I want to play that so bad!!!

[@canceledglmm3362]

They need the dreamcast data savers on newer consoles, as a gamer, i had deleted so many saves by accident so having extra saves, being able to trade saves with other people, would be amazing and would really benefit every gamer/game enthusiast

[@Nohiro.3D]

now go back in the past and show that to sega xD

[@Goofballdgr8_]

I don’t know how the fuck this shit works, but I wanna learn. This is really cool. Would love for a video more in depth and the to make it and the basics on how it works. You probably won’t make it this video is old. But cool nonetheless. I HAVE A MIGHTY NEED

[@thetoythief8940]

It would be cool to hook something up so you could hook it up to a biger screen

[@karstenstiner5972]

Amazing project, I always love to see what you make, and I hope to someday be able to build this. Just wondering if you could install some sort of HDMI or AV into the controller. I'm not someone who knows an awful lot about this stuff, so I don't know if this is possible, but it seems like it would work.

[@InkCityClothing]

Any chance you’ll have a tutorial on how to build a teensy-based game controller?

[@Davedarko]

About that cheaper charger, you can change one resistor to set the charging rate to a lower setting. At least if its the TP4059 or something

[@Timmymantwo]

I have 2 of those and I wanted to do something interesting with them. Thank you

[@alfredovasquez774]

if you can, you could probably mod the controller even further to work as a docking power unit, like the Switch's dock, and connect a USB-C to HDMI.

[@chrisd8458]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I MUST HAVE THIS!!!! Tell me this is something that can be purchased. I am nowhere near skilled enough to do something like this.

[@raymondsalazar4562]

Your an EVIL FREAKING GENIUS!!!!!!!!!! Holy crap I wish I could have modded mine into that back then... Jealous much?... Damn fine work.. I will totally grab a kit if you can add some sort of screencast feature or display output.

[@michaelmayrhofer5553]

Where can buy this?

[@johnclark926]

450k views, but only 2 likes? I would’ve assumed this was dislike bombed had this not been such an innocuous video, either youtube’s crapping out or the reception to this video is awfully neutral.

[@jmontyme]

I'm never going to do anything like this, but I know enough to be impressed. Nice work!

[@iurabordei933]

Really cool mod Wermy!! Starting with the GameBoy Zero to this one, just amazing!! Keep it up man!!

[@joshweston436]

Hey. I want this. I. WANT. THIS. Seriously, when I said "I want this", I need you to understand what I mean by that. I don't mean "hey, that's kinda cool. I'll forget about it and move on." NO. I MEAN I WANT THIS. I have no technical skills whatsoever though. WHEN CAN I THROW MONEY AT YOU TO BUY THIS!?!?!?!?! I'll send you topless pictures of myself to get it. I'm a dude so it's a hate crime if you say no.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

The technology was there to make those things better in the old days. The VMU was just a shite design is all. Look at the size of it. They could have put a way bigger screen the entire length of it on that, all along the back. Then make the dreamcast controller "gap" bigger to fit it. Way more pixels would have been cool, and a better little CPU. Stacking them like that could have made for a mono "sort of" nintendo DS system with two screens. Like a game-and-watch but not crap. As an aside, I think it is a pity you destroyed that VMU, even if I do think a VMU is a flawed device. I'm not nagging you. You can do what you like with your stuff. Just saying, you could have sent off to get a PCB made (a whole stack costing 20 pennies each), or you could have etched your own one at home using light transfer method or printer method. But basically you'd surely just send off for them to get a stack done for 20 pennies each.

[@KibSquib48]

Cant wait to try to play super mario 64 if i ever try this

[@nassourmarc5449]

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. ❤🎉

[@Karnage233]

I really wish there was one of these for sale 😞

[@kiryukazuma6995]

You still can buy it amazon still sells sega dreamcast have a fun kyoudai

[@yabbaso]

Stunning - well done! I'm looking at my unused VMU that's been sat in a box for far too long and considering if I wanna go through with it :) I've also got a Dreamcast Arcade stick ;) it'll be even more ridiculous than your mod! :-D

[@retro-sm64]

It would be cool if the controller could be connected via a wire to a computer or console And if this controller would be vmu on retro pie Thus, you could play either games from gamecube where you needed a gba or gba games with a friend

[@josepablo2311]

Have u sold any?? Got the controller and vmu.. but i could never pull this off.. would buy one off you.. great job...👍🏽..

[@jaygreenn92]

He’s right vmu was a head of it’s time because ps5 & next Xbox maybe putting displays on controller mind u this came out on sept 9 in 1999 Sony & Microsoft now thinking of this idea

[@ranieri7x]

The VMU we were promised. I just loved it! I miss Dreamcast times so much.

[@videojuegosarcade]

Creo que prefiero usar mi celular de 6" con un emulador... (mucho trabajo para jugar en 2" y solo con control digital)

[@TheFlatEarthChannelcom]

Please do one with the iPhone X gameboy case!!! I was going to consider doing it myself but would be cool if you did a video on it. You seem like a real pro! It’s an amazing case you can get on amazing for $20-30 Canadian. It has 36 nes games on it already. But a raspberry pi would be nuts!

[@retropulse03]

That's pretty amazing man. Where do you learn how to do this stuff? I watch people working with circuitry and it just seems awesome; more importantly it seems like something I should be doing.

[@pizzachu2281]

Oh! Hi wermy! I had a question: are you ever going to sell *full* kits fir your projects?

[@1anre]

You have blown my inner mind. Not just my regular mind! Why hasn’t Atmel, Intel or Qualcomm employed you yet?

[@osga21]

Why. The VMU is way too small to do anything, yet you went and stripped apart one and stuffed a raspberry pi inside one. Don't cannibalize oçd hardware, it's pointless, just print a new case or something. There's already hundreds of these retropie projects, this isn't even new, just stop doing this shit.

[@AshenTechDotCom]

now, i want to see a Duke/original xbox controller turned into a plug and play console using a pie...... i was thinking... it could even have a screen where the X logo is, and replace the useless memory carts with batteries in the same housings/connectors, could even cut small micro usb ports in each battery for a charge port...or just set it up such that the whole thing could be charged off usb, i was considering something similar to this www.amazon.com/MT-Smallest-Lightest-Capacity-Charging/dp/B07FTLX34J/ref=sr_1_90 for a project a friend of mine was asking my help with... was thinking of building it so that we could just plugin one of those to charge/power it, and swap them out as they needed a charge, (just an example, we have some others that may serve better depending on what case/housing he settles on) he wants to build a mobile gaming system thats got a screen built in, and can run for more then a few hours at a time, but thats also not huge and clunky, i talked him down to 7" screen, he has a source for a "next gen" TN panel that, and i have seen these first hand, are easily as good as cheaper ips pannels, both viewing angle and color reproduction(true 10bit, not 8bit with afr...), honestly i was blown away by the demo screens i tested, they even had one that was an optical touch screen, that was great....accurate no matter what or how you touched it... hes trying to decide if he want to go with a PI style board or just go silly and build something thats gonna need a bit more juice using a panda board, (or similar he actually has a few last gen boards, he is considering a current gen board from a few of these companies, hes even contacted one asking about a couple products they have on their site but arent selling yet, and if they would be suitable to the project, and, one of the companies, was quite interested in the idea... wonder if i could cram a full on PI into a duke if the card slots where removed.... that could be interesting, usb, nic, hdmi, all on the back of a duke... with the controller wired up internally, always connected.... that could be fun.... and a fun project...

[@trynottodie5352]

Amazing job man! I’m speechless

[@swordcrafted]

I like the transparent blue and green :D But im not actually a big sonic boy But seriously, this mod is the proper final epic form of the Sega VMU

[@SianaGearz]

You can reconfigure TP4056 charger boards, the cheapy ones, to any current you like, by replacing one resistor. Want help figuring out which one it is and which values you need?

[@MegaKirbySuperstar]

Funny but so impractical lol. I like seeing people make tiny consoles even though I would never want to use them myself. The tiny screen and my little hands all bunched up to hold it. No thanks xD Funny though.

[@SotaTheGreatX]

If you wanted to. you could make some good money off of this, especially with alot of Dreamcast fans. (Myself included) I would have loved to seen some Mame Gameplay of MvC though but wow. I would totally kill for one of these.