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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 ...
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 ...
8BitMods released the VMU Pro, an updated memory card for the Sega Dreamcast. It’s not just a memory card, but also a handheld emulation machine for 8-bit games.
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.
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 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 ...
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 VMU wasn’t perfect. It didn’t have a lot of storage, a problem for a memory card. It also used harder to find watch batteries and was prone to bugs and other issues.
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 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.