Modders give the Visual Memory Unit a second life as a portable that plays classic games on Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and more. Raymond Wong. June 2, 2020. Sega Week.

The Visual Memory Unit, or VMU, is a small, Gameboy-like device that slots into your controller. Whenever you play a game, different designs show up on the screen: ...

The Dreamcast lives on with a new ‘next-gen’ iteration of its iconic VMU memory card The Dreamcast never dies - and this latest project aims to bring its most significant peripheral up-to-date.

If you’ve got a SEGA Dreamcast kicking around in a closet somewhere, and you still have the underutilized add-on Visual Memory Unit (VMU), you’re in for a treat today. If not, but you e… ...

It stood for "Visual Memory Unit," and they were little memory cards you could save game data onto. Unlike other memory cards, these ones plug into your controller and have a little screen on them ...