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Hey guys. It's been a while since I've posted. But I'm hoping to get more information from the community on this.

I have a buddy who's a big Dreamcast nut and collector like most of us here. He bought this particular unit on eBay a while ago, and had no idea what it was, or used for. He did his own research, reaching out to several Dreamcast aficionados on the net (including a former SEGA employee), and he found out that it is 1 of 4 units that were handmade for the sole purpose of testing beta versions of Shenmue at a corporate event at SEGA in Japan. You can see it came with a copy of 'What's Shemmue?'.

Supposedly, #1 and #4 were destroyed, somehow for whatever reason. As you can see this is #3 of "said" 4 units. #2 has yet to surface.

He also says there are some unidentified demo files on the VMU. I'm waiting for him to send me a screenshot.

Here is the eBay posting... http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dreamcast-de ... true&rt=nc

And here are some pics my buddy sent me the other day.





See how ports C and D are blocked off?

Does anyone recognize this?
More importantly, can someone please translate the Japanese text written on the console, controllers and VMU??

Thanks!

The white letters on the console say Dreamcast Trial Edition


The 2 red lines next to the phone say something about setting the dial tone to pulse for a network connection, the rest I have not idea as the picture is blurry

Trial web acces for japs

On the gamepad it says "Dreamcast trial version"
I dont see any text on the VMU?

Thanks fellas!!!

Strik3r91 wrote: I dont see any text on the VMU?

Check out the pics on the eBay posting.

Tell him to upload the VMU files to http://dreampipe.net/dpwww/upload right away

Edit: listing says;

Added free white VMU. Working as is

So it's probably nothing

Its sold. Did he back up the VMU saves?

Strik3r91 wrote:Its sold. Did he back up the VMU saves?

The saves are still on the VMU according to him. He'll be sending me screenshots soon.

Very interesting...Pity I found out about this topic 7 years late!
Has anyone kept the photos of this console? I'm very curious to see how it looked and all links are obviously not working anymore. That'd be also glad to read the story of it...cannot find anything on internet about it, nothing!

It's a store rental unit.
It originally came in a black hard case as a complete set of everything you'd need for a weekend to try it out.