Dreamcast Upgrade!

[kevro]

I was thinking how the Dreamcast might be upgraded if the market where viable back when. The obvious way would be the modem port but it is notoriously not well documented.

Now, today with cheap consumer computing like the Rasberry Pi, could there be a way?

A way to integrate the Rasberry Pi right inside the case. The goal would be to have all original Dreamcast functions available, yet have much more power for emulators, the possibility of a hard drive interfaced, and new games that could take advantage of a PI Dreamcast hybread.

Would a upgrade like this be possible, so that new far more powerful programs could run though it and still make use of the Dreamcasts existing processing power?

[dodge2461]

I always thought they were going to release a Sega DVD of some sort, because of the little clips on the bottom. Sadly, that never came to be.

[Jenkins]

I always thought they were going to release a Sega DVD of some sort, because of the little clips on the bottom. Sadly, that never came to be.

Yeah, something like the DreamKara but with a DVD drive. Would have been awesome... or at least the planned ZIP-Drive with USB-Port.

[zahne]

I think you need to put the DC innards in a new box entirely.

[Barrys_Bapz]

in my Atari 2600 I've added a Android mini computer about the size of a pen drive and it and play youtube and tell me the weather, but all the original hardware is inside and everything is controlled on the android by Bluetooth so its a multimedia Atari heavy sixer.

I will add photos pretty soon its nothing special and very easy, drop the thing in their and that's it there is room in the back AV hole for the HDMI out.