Dreamcast controller turned into decoration for iPhone dock

by JC Fletcher { Oct 6th 2009 at 2:00AM }

Deciding that the Dreamcast controller had too many input methods and not enough screens, Flickr user jayhauf removed the D-pad from the device and made the whole thing into an ornamental iPhone dock.

We're pretty sure you can try this one at home, if you've got a (preferably broken) Dreamcast controller: just pull out the D-pad and the cord, and thread your iPhone connector through. Just like that, you've got a telephone sticking out of the left side of your controller! It's certain to be a conversation piece, inspiring questions from your friends like "Why did you do that?" and "How are we going to play Power Stone now?"

[Via Engadget]

Tags: controller, dock, dreamcast, iphone, iphone-dock, mod, sega

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

questionmarked @ Oct 6th 2009 2:05AM

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Blank-Mage @ Oct 6th 2009 2:38AM

As a Final Fantasy vet, ellipses is practically a second language.

And really, "first?". For shame.

MystileArmor @ Oct 6th 2009 2:54AM

Blank-Mage, I need you with me when I chat with women on the interwebz, cause they usually respond somewhere along the conversation with a:
"......"
at first I thought they just ignored me cause I I ask them to rub chokolate pooding all over, but now I understand they speak a different tongue.

[ArchiGamer] [Featuring GRATIOUS ALIEN NUDITY] @ Oct 6th 2009 2:54AM

I thought he was expressing his distaste of such mods with controllers and people who do weird and useless modifications to them?

Of course, I really suck at reading ellipses....

Jampirow @ Oct 6th 2009 6:14AM

So, you've been playing some Golgo 13, eh?

Dot dot dot dot

Tom Kalinske, CEO. @ Oct 6th 2009 2:06AM

Umm...okay?

GoldN @ Oct 6th 2009 2:10AM

I don't get it. That's not even a good/clever/practical mod. I feel like there are much more interesting things to be done with a Dreamcast controller, like (as the article mentioned) playing Power Stone.

herbaceous border patrol @ Oct 6th 2009 8:14AM

I saw this on Engadget yesterday and thought it was crap.
Now it's today and Joystiq, and I'll let you guess what I think.

Winner gets a cookie.

Archon (PSN: Archonik, XBL: DarkARHN) @ Oct 6th 2009 8:47AM

@herbaceous border patrol:
You think that someone will get the answer right sooner rather than later.

Can I get my cookie now?

Christ-ian @ Oct 6th 2009 9:30AM

Ummm.... why not just use the VMU hole that already exists?

TDiddy @ Oct 6th 2009 2:10AM

That is the most boring controller mod ever...

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 6th 2009 10:41AM

What a waste of a Dreamcast controller. It would've been better if they modded it to take the Iphone in the VMU slot and made an app for the Iphone to act as VMU.

Add another Joystiq on the right hand side, change it to USB and make it compatible with Xbox360/PS3/Wii then this guy could have sold me on a modded controller...

Hunchpunch @ Oct 6th 2009 2:16AM

Just more proof iphone owners have no real value of technology, just image.

ClarkyAC @ Oct 6th 2009 2:22AM

This matt controller needs more shine!!!!

CaramelZappa @ Oct 6th 2009 2:18AM

What a waste.

Giroro @ Oct 6th 2009 5:35AM

of what? the dreamcast has the worst controller ever made.

Rudy van DiSarzio, Jazz fusion guitarist. (I go by many names...) @ Oct 6th 2009 7:13AM

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Boo this man!

Boooooooooooooo!

whylekat @ Oct 6th 2009 8:19AM

Boo indeed! I still marvel at the technology that is dreamcast.

Best. Console. Everrrrrrr.

bm @ Oct 6th 2009 9:12AM

The Dreamcast controller -is- a horrible hand destroying piece of crap. That said, the Dreamcast overall is a great console and the iphone doesn't deserve to stand in its shadow, let alone sit in some kind of terribly made dock fashioned out of its controller.

CheeziePotato (PSN: talic10 | XBL: InfiniteMovie) @ Oct 6th 2009 3:08PM

The Dreamcast was great, but SNES was the best console of all time.
Super Mario World, Zelda A Link To The Past, Street Fighter II, Super Mario RPG, Donkey Kong Country 1, 2, and 3, Final Fantasy VI, Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario Kart, Super Metriod, and much more

CaramelZappa @ Oct 6th 2009 8:42PM

Well, the SNES certainly had some of the best games of all time. However, the console itself was made special only because of it's games. Otherwise it's improvements over the NES were not that special. More buttons and better graphics.

The dreamcast, as a console, was really special because it pioneered online gaming, browsers and mouse/keyboard on the console. It was amazing because of how ahead of its time it was. It's also impressive that even though it eventually got crushed by the PS2, it still managed to pump out some really fantastic games in it's short time. No, they might not be as memorable as some of those SNES classics, but the Dreamcast was still one of the most impressive consoles launched.

[Tre (TM), who is forever confused] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 6th 2009 2:21AM

Yeah...

I'll stick to my normal iPod dock, thanks. Our Dreamcast controllers are pristine and we do not plan to put that in jeopardy anytime soon.

Besides, that looks a bit... odd.

[Tre (TM), who is forever confused] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 6th 2009 2:24AM

Besides, this one is a bit more appealing to me because it doesn't waste a poor controller.

http://www.iphonesavior.com/2009/09/this-ipod-bread-dock-takes-little-dough-to-make.html

MystileArmor @ Oct 6th 2009 2:58AM

I challenge anyone to make the turd-dock. A piece of shit that'll hold your iPhone.

[ArchiGamer] [Featuring GRATIOUS ALIEN NUDITY] @ Oct 6th 2009 3:02AM

Shit holding shit? I....that's a paradox where dealing with here...

gobo @ Oct 6th 2009 4:35AM

If your Dreamcast controllers are pristine, you aren't using them enough. New ones are a dime a dozen, go nuts!

dark_inchworm (stronger than never, ever before) @ Oct 6th 2009 9:01AM

Mystile, would you hold my iPhone for a sec?

...

EPIC BURN KEKE +9001 POINTS

DeepFriedSushi @ Oct 6th 2009 2:21AM

JC, i'm sorry but that is dumb as hell, not funny, not cleaver, ugly, effortless(both the modder and you for posting this waste of time).

ClarkyAC @ Oct 6th 2009 2:24AM

I think you'll find you waste your own time. Considering you don't have to read the damn thing. Prehaps posting will get your time wasted back.. oh...

Sev @ Oct 6th 2009 2:31AM

Such a waste of a good controller...

[Tre (TM), who is forever confused] [blogs at trespeak.tumblr.com] @ Oct 6th 2009 2:35AM

May that Dreamcast controller live a happy life in the next world.

CH3BURASHKA @ Oct 6th 2009 2:36AM

The VMU comes home from a long, hard exhaustive day's work. The boss was being an asshole, but he made it through the day. He calls out to his wife, the Dreamcast controller, "Honey, I'm home!". He hears muffled sounds, and he knows something is wrong. He runs up the stairs, turns the corner and busts through the door, ready to apprehend her attackers. Instead, he sees another man, the iPhone in bed with his wife.

Silence.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!" VMU says in a loud, steady tone. The Dreamcast controller is trembling, "Honey, I'm sorry, I didn't think you'd come home so soon!". "I said," the VMU is trembling in anger, "what the fuck is he doing here." The iPhone stutters out, "Come on now, VMU, let's calm down. Let's not do anything we would regret later." The VMU looks up at the iPhone, briskly pulls the police-certified pistol and takes a single shot. iPhone, taken by surprise, clenches at his broken screen, looks deep into the Dreamcast controller's eyes and utters his last words, "I love you...".

That's what I imagine when I see that picture. What about you?