dreamcast peripheral question
okay me and my brother remember seeing a sears catalog that was selling an advanced vmu in it. The thing was supposed to have a 16 bit processor and all kinds of snazzy features. Since then (which was quite a few years ago) i have not been able to find any information whatsoever about this strange memory unit. If anybody knows anything please help me convince myself that i'm not just crazy.
Was it silver?
It might have been the VMU MP3 player that Sega showed but never released.
You could be talking about the special SEGAGA VMU (Which I've been searching for for ages).
It was black and red (same color as a Megadrive) and actually had the words " 16-bit " on it. I don't know if a VMU has a 16-bit processor in it (wouldn't surprise me); but this particular VMU had it on it because it was made to look like a Genesis.. way cool.
I want one of these SO bad!
I believe the VMU does contain a 16bit processor in it.
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just plain vanila VMU in different coloured case. that's all.
if you like I will u/l its picture
Yeah I know.. it's just a regular VMU made to resemble a Genesis.. but it's cool nevertheless. I've seen pictures many times.. but only saw it twice on evilBay in the last 7 years.Originally Posted by dj898
Actually, they say "8-BIT" since the CPU in the VMU is 8-bits. They are damned cool. I've wanted one ever since I first saw them, too, but wouldn't you know that they'd turn out to be one of the most uncommon LE VMSs out there. Screw!
...word is bondage...
Uploading a pic would be great...
I've got a prototype for the VMU MP3 player. Unfortunately they never got around to designing the guts, so it's just an empty display model with a minijack on top...
If you want an interesting dreamcast peripheral, look for a dreamcast zip drive, they were given to developers to play around with, but were never comercially released.
Here is the box from a great site for DC stuff.
http://www.dreamcasthistory.com/pics...gd/sgggvmu.jpg
I have not uploaded my scan/pic yet.
Yup.. that's the box.
HERE'S the VMU itself. (There are links to four different pics/views at the top of the page.)
Funk Buddy.. you HAVE one of these? I'm jealous. I've only seen two on eBay in 7 years! I could have won one for about $55 five years ago (the last time I saw one). I asked karlkablisk (The guy who joined DP forums recently and said he could get rare stuff from Japan) if he could find me one.. but he's never seen them.
If ANYONE has one for sale.. I'd buy
ok. I will take picture of mine tonight since I cannot find the one I u/l on the other forums...
Oh, that's it? It's just black with a red cap and the "8-BIT" written on it? Heck, the way you guys were talking about it, I was expecting something a bit more impressive than that...
--Zero
Well, see, the idea is that it's modeled on the Japanese Mega Drive, which used that same color of purple-red and said "16-BIT" in large gold lettering.
Personally, I wish that the buttons on the Segagaga VMS were the same blue color os the Mega Drive's reset button, but I think it's a pretty cool item as is. Especially cool if you have a Japanese Mega Drive to go with it.
This was released as part of the promotion for a Dreamcast game called Segagaga that was all about Sega history. They also released a set of paper models people could put together themselves for all of Sega's past consoles including a paper model of a really cool Segagaga Dreamcast that was also modeled on the Mega Drive, but said "128-BIT." I used to have a picture of that, but I don't know where it went. Looked pretty damned cool, I thought.
...word is bondage...
OT:
and they released two different Segagaga LE packages plus the normal release. For some reason the content of game differ between normal retail and sega-direct releases...
Well this will make you sick...
I bought it about a month ago from Gaijin Punch off of his sale thread here.
Huh? The actual game was different??? In what ways?OT:
and they released two different Segagaga LE packages plus the normal release. For some reason the content of game differ between normal retail and sega-direct releases...
don't you ever ever went down the path I did.Well this will make you sick...
I bought it about a month ago from Gaijin Punch off of his sale thread here.
that's collecting VMU.
It will consume a lot of your time, not to mention your money too to put together all the LE VMU and still there will be one or two elusive LE VMU like ones given out at the contest.
p.s. and then there are matching colour scheme contoller to go with LE VMU but that's another story...
Well then.. at least there's hope for the future. 2 months ago? No kiddin.. Is it boxed and does it have the ever elusive "end cap" (I swear those things are like socks to some people)?Well this will make you sick...
I bought it about a month ago from Gaijin Punch off of his sale thread here.
dj898.. I don't want to collect VMUs.. I ONLY want this one. Other than that.. All I've got is a stock one and a smoke one.
Which brings up another question? Did they ever make a solid black VMU to go with a Sports Edition or a R7? (That solid black Japanese one on that site is a beauty.)Every "black" one I've ever seen on eBay turned out to be smoke when I asked. Somewhere out there I know there's this "black" one with moire' patterns in it's finish.. but I'm talking about solid flat black.
It's new in the box.
@dj898
If I had your connections I'd buy more.
Right now I have:
Numbers
Strawberry
Dolphins
Chu Hatsume Boy
Marble
Ghedorah
Segagaga
and if you count the system pack ins
Hello Kitty pink
Hello Kitty blue
Code Veronica
Sakura Wars pink
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