Sega Dreamcast Visual Memory Unit

The Dreamcast VMU is one of the most innovative peripherals ever created for a games console, and I feel that Sega have designed more than a mere memory card here, and everyone will incorporate this idea in some way or other! The VMU stands for Visual Memory Unit, and is currently the only Official Sega product offering the save game facility, but it is also the best memory card available for your Dreamcast. It can save 200 blocks (1MB) worth of memory, which will enable you to save around 10 different games on average, depending on the type of file you're saving! Soul Calibur, for instance, only takes up 9 blocks, with only the VMU mini style games and ...  Read the complete review

Once upon a time Carts ruled the world and all we ever needed to use was carts, carts were so cleverly designed that you can save games onto them without using these new fangled Memory cards. When the Disc era of gaming appeared and Sony used these memory cards. These Memory cards though had an advantage, you could transfer data from one game to another so if you rented a game out save it on the memory card when you buy the game you can upload your old saved file. So the N64 decided to use them despite being cartridge based (only a few games used the memory card though so it wasn’t as important as they were on the Playstation). The N64 was the first to alter these ...  Read the complete review

The Visual Memory Unit is the memory card for the Sega Dreamcast games machine, something that will not alter your life in any drastic way, but will provide a very useful peripheral accessory when games playing on this games console! Writing about a memory cards is not the most exciting hobby in the world, it’s not how I like to spend my free time, but hey, the VMU is more than just a memory card!!! The Visual Memory Unit, the official memory unit, comes complete with its own miniature LCD screen and some controller buttons too! I don’t think any other memory device for a games console can boast it’s own set of control buttons!! The VMU is a ...  Read the complete review

It's these little innovations that make consoles great. Well, actually it's the price, quality of games and quality of machine. But even so, some kind of storage device is handy. No more re-doing levels because of power cuts and inconveniences (work, school, food, family gatherings etc...). Just save your stuff on to a card and off you go. But, at saving stuff is where the PS1 and PS2 memory cards ends. And the N64's 'on-the-cartridge' system really isn't good is it? God knows what Xbox will bring, perhaps some way of loading it in to a genetically modified yoghurt pot and transfer it over the internet, but that's for Micro$oft idiots ...  Read the complete review

The visual Memory Unit is available for the Sega Dreamcast games machine, it's one of the most interesting memory cards around - nothing like any other card to date. Why? Oh yeah, it has an LCD screen!! So this may not seem overly impressive at first glance, bit for £10, as it will cost you online, it's a very good value product. It fits into your Dreamcast control pad, in one of the two extensions, and providing you have the official pad, you will be able to watch the LCD screen when playing games, if that's what you want to be doing, instead of watching the television. Believe it or not, you can actually see what you're doing on the VMU screen ...  Read the complete review