From computer to VMU?

GyroVorbis · Post by **GyroVorbis** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 4:00 pm

I downloaded something from sega that lets me make some interesting VMU animations. If I wish to get those mugs on there I need a VMU cable. I'll get one for Easter. Could you put a .txt file on a VMU and have it readable? Also, couldn't I just buy a dreamcast cord from DC to computer and somehow get a file from my computer through the dreamcast and to the memory card?

GyroVorbis · Post by **GyroVorbis** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:02 pm

Waita sec. See, I am ignorant. You can't just directly hook your dear VMU to the pc. But, if I bought a NEXUS 4MB card with the PC link and put my goods on that. Then turned on the DC. Copied all the goods to the VMU. (Would that work?)

And what I really want to work. Would the DC linker cable that links DC to PC have any way of putting junk on the VMU?

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 5:19 pm

Check out the VMU tool (in the Dreamcast Homebrew Apps discussion). I am not quite sure exactly what it does, but it may help.

speud · Post by **speud** » Wed Mar 24, 2004 4:22 pm

curt_grymala wrote: I am not quite sure exactly what it does

if you have a codder cable or a bba you can upload files from your PC to your VMU, these files need to be in VMI/VMS format, the VMS file is the content and the VMI file the header.

you may need to create a new VMI if you only have the content or rename the VMS file for example, here is a tool to edit/create your VMI files: http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmieditor/

you can also backup a file from your VMU to your PC, it will only save the VMS file in its original name for now, so when youll need to upload it to your VMU again youll need to rename it with the VMS extension and create its corresponding VMI file.

if you dont have a bba/coder cable you can still burn your saves or minigames on a CD so you can delete them from your VMU and download them again as much as you want, it uses the VMI/VMS format as well.

it has also plenty of other functions, the one people seem to be interested in the most is the one that lets you unlock 41 extra blocks so your total number of free blocks become 241 instead of 200.

make sure to read the readme into the archive for more infos, and dont hesitate to ask your questions in the topic mentionned above.