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. With a limited ...

One intrepid Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit homebrew developer takes it upon themselves to bring Pokemon GO over to the device, with a VMU port of the title in the pipeline. Although Pokemon GO has ...

----- 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 ...

The Dreamcast is a somewhat forgotten console today, but for a shining minute in the late 1990s, it was possible to believe Sega were still in the fight. Regardless, their hardware lives on, lovingly ...

Marcus Estrada is a Contributor from USA writing for the Digital Publication Hardcore Gamer. His favorite genres include horror, visual novel, rhythm and platformer. Dreamcast fans are well-acquainted ...

You might be surprised to learn that the Dreamvast Visual Memory Unit (VMU) gaming scene is actually quite expansive, with a ton of ports of popular games to the nearly two-decade-old memory card with ...

For those of you who aren’t rapidly hurtling towards their forties or indeed already there, the VMU (Visual Memory Unit) was a fascinating take on the memory cards of the time, making them interactive ...

It’s hard to forget when the Dreamcast hit stores: Sept. 9, 1999. But Sega’s failure to light the industry on fire with its ambitious console is the narrative that most remember best. Less than two ...

What it fails to mention is that a VMU eats through 2 lithium CR2032 coin cells per hour, after a days worth of playtime you've already had to spend the dollar equivalent of 14 brand new iPhones and ...

Editor’s note: I had no idea that the Dreamcast VMU played games. I’m surprised by the variety of these games. Sounds like Sega had a pretty good idea. Matt details his favorite VMU games for the ...

When removed from the controller, the VMU becomes a mobile game device. A few games came with minigames which could be loaded onto the VMU – though only one game could be stored on a unit at a time.