I have 7 Dreamcast VMUs and 3 Rumble Packs--POLL ADDED!

[phaxda]

I know this is a silly topic, but I am feeling silly. Getting ready to sell a Dreamcast I yard-saled this morning and kind of automatically took the VMU out of the controller. I always do this because I think VMUs are cool so I never sell them. Just for fun I like to see the saves on them, what games people have played, etc. Plus some of the mini games are kind of fun, when I remember to keep batteries in them, that is.

 

Hmmm, I have never played with the poll settings before and this seems like a nice random topic! Vote away! Poll is set to PUBLIC.

[shadow460]

LOL!! I think there's one for each Dreamcast controller here, and there's enough controllers to play close to or the maximum number of people per game. So that's either 3 or 4 stock pads, a Stinger and a Starfire Light Blaster. Plus there are probably some of those things lying about.

 

Some of them have batteries, but that's only because I haven't pulled them out yet. And they're dead. And they'll stay that way because I don't ever pull the VMU from the controller. All my House of the Dead 2, Confidential Mission, and other light gun saves are "on the Stinger", so to say. I think all the Smash Pack saves are on the Stinger also.

 

My PocketStation's battery still works great, though! Too bad it doesn't have the memory capacity a VMU does, though.

 

I rarely sell systems, and I never sell the memory devices with them. It's one thing to spend $20 on a memory card and maybe sell it for $5 a few years later, but memory devices for my Saturn, PS2 (official hard disk), and PSP simply cost too much to resell at a price I'd expect to buy them for today. Even said PocketStation falls into that category. If I sold all my PS1 and PS2 gear, I'd be keeping both PS2 hard disks (probably the LAN box, too) and the PocketStation.

 

Someone ought to do a poll like this in the 2600 forum for the Save Key.

 

EDIT: Let's give out bonus points for those who have ever traded Dreamcast game saves with just two VMU's or played a standalone game on one!

Edited April 4, 2010 by shadow460

[phaxda]

I love the standalone games--it's one of my favorite parts of them. Thanks to everyone who responded to the poll--I might make up more of these because they are kind of fun.

 

 

EDIT: Let's give out bonus points for those who have ever traded Dreamcast game saves with just two VMU's or played a standalone game on one!

[2600Lives]

Well, I have 4 standard pads, one of the Madcatz controllers with the rubberized buttons, 4 of the Performance rumble paks, and at last count I had 28 VMUs 5 of the Performance memory cards, and one Performance multi-memory card. I worked at a pawn shop during the DC's heyday, and everytime we had one drop out, I'd snag the VMUs for like 99 cents. I've got a buttload of DC stuff, actually. Mouse, keyboard, 2 light guns, all sorts of crap. But, I love my DC, I'll never part with any of it!

[+GroovyBee]

You could always write VMU homebrews :-

 

http://www.deco.franken.de/myfiles/myfiles.html

[jeremysart]

I only have one, so I could save for Shenmue, and play with my Chao from SA. There are some pretty sweet things that can be done with them, lot of downloadable mini games out there. I bet there is a Doom port for the VMU even

[phaxda]

Cool! I had never seen that before. Silly me, I thought I was the only VMU freak around.

 

You could always write VMU homebrews :-

 

http://www.deco.franken.de/myfiles/myfiles.html

[Ze_ro]

Back in the days, I had a regular VMU and a Nexus Massive Memory Card Plus, which was one of those 8-bank deals with a button on the side to change banks. Out of 1800 blocks worth of space, I probably filled about 1500. Damn things don't hold much, and playing sports games just eats them alive.

 

I really think that anyone who plans on getting much use out of their Dreamcast probably needs at least 3 VMU's... unless they plan on beating one game at a time and deleting their saves often.

 

Keeping batteries in the things is a huge bitch though. Thank god you don't need batteries in there to maintain the save data!

 

--Zero