Full details of how we use and store information can be found in our Privacy Page. As a Amazon Associates we earn from qualifying purchases. We may earn an affiliate commission by clicking banner ads and links within the website to any retailers or publishers. Modders Inc is supported by its audience and we thank you. Modders-Inc is all about PC case modding, PC hardware reviews, technology news, and PC-related articles. Note: Just before it was to be shipped Bethesda wanted a color change. Repainted to it almost stock color.Īll-in-all it was an awesome project to do and I am very proud of how it came out looking as if SEGA made this. Added more memory, an SSD, Windows 10 and more. Add some air flow ports that looked like it was part of the case from the factory and some redesign of the hardware location. Lighting all the things that lighted up before. Wiring to make the original start button be the new start button. I did have to do a lot of mods (it may not look like it, which is the whole point of the Dreamcast mod and over 100 hours of work) to the inside of the shell, made special plugs to go inside of the controller ports to make them look stock. To will try and shorten up the story/worklog and well truthfully I did not take that many pictures as there was a lot of work to be done. The rear of the shell needs to be cut to allow the redesigned I/O plate to sit perfectly flat in the shell. I made sure that the lid could be opened in case more cooling to the hardware was needed, plus you could see what was actually inside the Dreamcast mod. Again taking great care to make sure that it looked stock when closed. I had to remove the whole area that once was where the CD reader was. Off to the Alienware, website to buy one… if they still make them.ĪH! They had some in their old stock and one was on the way to the house within a week.ġ/8 of an inch doesn’t sound like much but more modding was needed to be done to the Dreamcast shell. I took mine apart, did some testing and unbelievably the measurements were almost right on the money – within a 1/8 of an inch. Out comes the tape measure and well it might just work. Looking just 20 feet to my right I had one sitting under my TV for an HTPC. Finally one day, after weeks of searching, one of the Modders Inc team members said “Hey what about the Alienware Alpha R2?” when he said that “DING! Winner, winner chicken dinner!” went off in my head. Searching and contacting all of the manufacturers we work with kept leading to “almost” or “not quite” endings. Trying to find hardware for a full system to fit in the tiny space was really becoming a challenge. So out came the Dremel and things started to disappear. I also realized that most everything inside the shell would have to go. Taking some quick measurements I soon found out that the maximum space I had on the inside was about 7 inches by 7 inches by 2.75 inches high. Now you must remember that the two major things about this project are that – I quickly bought one so that I could dive deep into this project. I did not realize that you could buy just the shell of the console, which made me so happy. I did not want to destroy a working Dreamcast, let alone my families. But I am a modder and I have been doing this for almost two decades. Needless to say, I once again said some choice words to myself. Taking it out I soon realized just how small this thing was its height and width. Believe it or not, I actually had an old SEGA Dreamcast in one of my closets. Thus the journey began to make this RAGE 2 Dreamcast Mod into reality.Īfter the shock wore off that I just agreed to create a one-of-a-kind custom Dreamcast PC I knew I had to get my sh#* together and get moving. Can you do this?” “No problem, it can be done” (thinking to myself what the hell did I just get myself into). Then this happened… “So, we would like to mod a SEGA Dreamcast, but it needs to be able to run RAGE 2 without problems and look stock. I was thinking it would be a fun project. It turned out that the team working on the RAGE 2 game wanted something special. A while back Tim Willits of id software reached out to me about doing a case mod for a new game that would be coming out.
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