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Sega Dreamcast’s iconic memory card is making a (fundraised) comeback. A crowdfunded 2023 product made for the 1999 Dreamcast console. It’s the same design but with modern features like a ...
T he Sega Dreamcast wasn’t the first home console to store game saves on a portable memory card, but its virtual memory unit (VMU) stood out with a built-in screen, controls, and playable mini ...
The Sega Dreamcast's VMU was a technological marvel in its day: a memory card with its own screen and control setup that hosted its own basic minigames. Well, one modder decided to take its ...
The Dreamcast VMU was a curious piece of hardware. Part memory card, part low-end LCD gaming toy, its fate was sealed once SEGA abandoned the console platform on January 31, 2001.
It’s a modern micro console/computer stuffed into the shell of a Sega Dreamcast VMU. The Dreamcast was a game console released in the late 90s, and it was designed to be used while plugged into ...
The Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit (known to most Dreamcast players as the VMU) was a great piece of innovative tech. Instead of just being another memory card, Sega created a self-contained device ...
----- The Unofficial Dreamcast VMU PC to DC File Transfer FAQ! by Daniel Green-Lee (AKA DCStriker) [email protected] 12/16/2004 For Sega Dreamcast Table of Contents 1.Introduction 2.Needed ...
The Sega Dreamcast launched in North America 20 years ago, on Sept. 9, 1999. ... The VMU, you may remember, was the tiny, Game Boy-looking thing that slotted into the controller.
The Sega Dreamcast wasn’t the first home console to store game saves on a portable memory card, but its virtual memory unit (VMU) stood out with a built-in screen, controls, and playable mini ...
It was the memory card for Sega’s last foray into the console market, the Dreamcast, and unlike those of its competitors it formed a tiny handheld console in its own right.