October 8th, 2025 - VMU #2 by CMA THE DOPE MAN You are currently on: PAGE 1 Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 Howdy folks. On today's post, we got a good one. If you missed the previous post, click here to give it a good read. We have a clear blue Sega OEM VMU, model HKT-7000. I found this one at a GameXchange store in Lexington, KY back in May 2025. The guy at the counter had no fuckin' clue what this thing was when I went to buy it lol. I told him it was a Tamagachi. Disregard the white label with the number on it, that is something I added as I'm trying to be better about keeping track of VMUs (I have created a spreadsheet to keep track of them). The clear translucent blue shell reminds me of those rock candy things on a stick I used to see all the time as a kid. I believe this particular color (along with pretty much all the ones that are not the standard white) were ones that were sold individually rather than bundled with a console, as seen here: I'm using my standard Dreamcast test setup. This consists of a Sega Dreamcast Sports console with a GDEMU w/ 512GB SD Card + DreamPSU + BBA, using my "COPY VMU" which I will explain shortly. I am using an HDMI adapter and a USB capture card for screen grabs. Anyways, let's cut the bullshit and dig in. Here's the money shot: On this VMU we have: - Phantasy Star Online Guild Card + Main Data (!!!) - Shenmue - Grandia 2 - Crazy Taxi - Crazy Taxi 2 - Sega Swirl - Dead or Alive 2 - Virtua Tennis - Virtua Cop 2 - PlanetWeb Browser Favorites - DreamSNES SRAM Save Below is the full metadata from VMU Explorer: Okay, there's a lot to unpack here. We got a PSO character + guild card, some web browser favorites/bookmarks, an emulator SRAM save state, and some absolute banger games on this one. It looks like this VMU was last used in November 2002. I like the cool moon icon that they used, as well as blue VMU icon that they used. Blue VMU icon for a blue VMU, makes sense to me. For the PSO character, I'm not sure if this is a V1 or V2 character. We can decrypt the save files to get the full character details, then re-encrypt it with a SNAK (Serial Number & Access Key) that I own to give the long-lost character a test drive on Sylverant. For the sake of suspense, I'm going to do PSO last. See ya on the next page.
