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Title: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 14, 2010, 08:45:45 pm
Okay, so it's just the empty shell of a Dreamcast.

Basically, I had a sweet clear plastic Dreamcast shell with fried innards (never play PSO during a lightening storm, kids). I bought a used Dreamcast for $15 and swapped out the insides, leaving me with a smokin' sweet clear Dreamcast and a discarded plain Dreamcast shell.

What should I do with it? Post suggestions here! Whichever suggestion(s) I like best will be done and posted here in photo/video form.

:mrgreen:

ps- no destruction suggestions, I'm not taking a sledgehammer to the poor thing.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Sega Uranus on February 14, 2010, 09:08:07 pm
I think we all know the only thing you can do with it.

Buy the parts necessary to make it a Transformer. Bonus points if it transforms into another SEGA console.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: SMS Skull Leader on February 14, 2010, 09:17:54 pm
Make a custom electric guitar to play all that kickass music from Sega games!
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: George on February 14, 2010, 09:31:03 pm
Viking Funeral. (http://http://ui.thoughtbot.com/assets/2009-4-22-viking_funeral.jpg)
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: upsidedown fuji on February 14, 2010, 11:10:48 pm
Tissue dispenser? It could probably fit one of those boxless tissue bags in it.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Nathan on February 14, 2010, 11:37:30 pm
Quote from: "George"
Viking Funeral. (http://http://ui.thoughtbot.com/assets/2009-4-22-viking_funeral.jpg)


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: MadeManG74 on February 15, 2010, 02:36:12 am
Okay I got two ideas that I like and would personally like to do, had I an empty Dreamcast shell.

1) Make it into an Arcade Stick. Not quite sure how structurally sound it is, and how much space you have, but it would be awesome.
I was hoping to find a pic of someone who had done similar, but this is the closest I have

(http://http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/nes-console-arcade-stick.jpg)

You could even make it so the Start button was the power button etc.

2) Buy a second hand Saturn/MegaDrive/Master System etc and put the electronics from another Console inside the Dreamcast shell. That way, you could have a Sega Saturn disguised as a Dreamcast, or a Mega Drive disguised as a dreamcast. With the Mega-Drive you could make it so you need to open the disc tray to put in the cartridge! A sega Saturn would probably work the same way. Not sure how hard that would be, but I imagine it could work well, and if you managed to pull the DC guts out, you could probably swing it.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Orta on February 15, 2010, 03:23:44 am
Try to put a PS2 in there and pretend Yakuza was never released on that system.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Monkeroony on February 15, 2010, 03:38:02 am
Quote from: "Orta"
Try to put a PS2 in there and pretend Yakuza was never released on that system.


I like this one.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Sharky on February 15, 2010, 04:38:34 am
Quote from: "Barry the Nomad"
Okay, so it's just the empty shell of a Dreamcast.

Basically, I had a sweet clear plastic Dreamcast shell with fried innards (never play PSO during a lightening storm, kids).

The is basically word for word what happened to my first Dreamcast!  

I still have it, couldnt bring myself to throw it away!:afroman:
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: crackdude on February 15, 2010, 04:40:08 am
Quote from: "Orta"
Try to put a PS2 in there and pretend Yakuza was never released on that system.
This is a winner.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 15, 2010, 07:34:15 am
Quote from: "Sharky"
Quote from: "Barry the Nomad"
Okay, so it's just the empty shell of a Dreamcast.

Basically, I had a sweet clear plastic Dreamcast shell with fried innards (never play PSO during a lightening storm, kids).

The is basically word for word what happened to my first Dreamcast!  

I still have it, couldnt bring myself to throw it away!:afroman:

Looking back, I'm amazed that despite having fried my Dreamcast and being a poor high school student, I bought a new Dreamcast within the week. A PSO addiction can be a very strong thing. Sadly, I had to restart my character who was a level 20 at the time of death.

Thus far, sticking another system inside it looks to be my favorite option. Tissue box is a runner up. I have the FireCore Genesis from Sega Nerds, but don't really want to mess it up. Perhaps it's small enough to fit inside without having to take it apart. I'll give it a try tonight! :)
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: upsidedown fuji on February 15, 2010, 07:50:49 am
Oh snap. A Dreamsaturn! Make it happen! But isn't the saturn's motherboard like nearly twice the size of a dreamcast's?
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 15, 2010, 08:07:03 am
I'd love for a DreamSaturn, but I'm far from a techie (I can, however, make an awesome sock puppet). A DreamDrive (or MegaCast) is possibly doable, however :)
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: MadeManG74 on February 15, 2010, 02:48:12 pm
Hmm, I just remembered, I still have my first Saturn with a shot laser in my room wrapped in a platic bag... Maybe I should try something similar. I would hate to ruin it, but then again, what else would I do with a dead Saturn?
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 15, 2010, 03:07:52 pm
If it ain't a White Japanese Saturn, then I say go for it! It's not going to do much more than sit around if the laser is shot... you could fix the laser but whats the fun in that?
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: George on February 15, 2010, 03:10:13 pm
Lets put a Dreamcast into a Master System shell and we can act like retro snooty gamers.  8-)
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 15, 2010, 03:11:00 pm
A Dreamcast into a Game Gear would make us uber 1337 gam0rz.
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Cartman064 on February 15, 2010, 11:17:46 pm
Turn it into a very large portable CD player.

Or some how turn it into a carrying case and were it like a backpack, like they did in typing of the dead 8-)
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: crackdude on February 16, 2010, 07:22:06 am
A backpack, complete with front keyboard and all.. Great costume!

A less awesome but more useful thing to do is convert into a fancy cd holder. You pop the lid and a tower of all your dreamcast games slide upwards fashionably..
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 16, 2010, 07:36:13 am
I am really liking the Typing of the Dead costume idea.

I just bought a black suit last week, so perhaps I was on to the idea before I even knew about it!
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Sega Uranus on February 16, 2010, 01:58:57 pm
Let's be fair.

You can make it a backpack and a Transformer.   :P
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: Barry the Nomad on February 16, 2010, 02:40:00 pm
Check out this Typing of the Dead costume tutorial:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Typing_ ... d_Costume/ (http://www.instructables.com/id/Typing_of_the_Dead_Costume/)

Awesome job! However I don't see the brown backpack straps. It seems he cut holes into the suit (something I am not doing!) and had a metal harness.

I could easily do the same thing with 2 brown belts.

Also, it looks like the part on top is a massive yellow tube with a coil:
(http://http://games.softpedia.com/screenshots/Typing-of-the-Dead_1.jpg)

I could easily place tissues inside it as well :p
Title: Re: Decide my Dreamcast's Fate!
Post by: crackdude on February 16, 2010, 06:32:37 pm
It looks like a huge battery.

There were some Duracell plushes that might work for that..

I'm loving this idea! Maybe we could all do it, then take pics and make a montage with all our members :D