Valve’s new Steam Machine features a long-forgotten Sega Dreamcast element that could give it a unique selling point once ...

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 ...

Did you know about the N64 Secret Screen? It’s not anything new to see peripherals get announced before being tossed aside. This was especially true for older consoles but one peripheral that was ...

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 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 ...

As far as retro gaming consoles go, the Game Gear Micro, not "Mini", is probably one of the most peculiar ones out there. It might be the only one that can even be played on the go thanks to its ...

Since the Raspberry Pi range of boards first appeared back in 2012, we’ve seen them cleverly integrated into a host of inventive form factors. Today we bring you the latest offering in this space, ...

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.

----- 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 ...

Memory cards are something we don’t really need anymore. The Switch does use SD cards, but these are universal storage items that can be used on PCs, phones and other hardware. No, the days of ...

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