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| The solution to all our
memory problems? Quite possibly.
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| 4 Meg Memory Card For the Dreamcast
This
new peripheral has more space, and can connect to a PC for
downloading game saves
September 17, 1999
One
of the biggest problems with the Dreamcast has so far been the small
amount of room in the VMU for saving games. Try to play through a
season of NFL2K, for instance, and you're going to fill up
your VMU, as the game requires a whopping 192/200 blocks.
Thankfully, a third party developer out there seems to have a
solution to the problem.
Known as the Dreamdrive, the new device by Ultimate Video
Accessories is like a VMU without the screen. It's made exclusively
for saving and retrieving game data from the DC, and it can't be
used for playing mini games. The sweet part is that the Dreamdrive
has four times the memory of the VMU.
There are other features, though. Here's what Ultimate Video
Accessories has promised for the product:
Connects to IBM-PC or compatible computer
Transfer RAM contents to hard drive
Send saved games over the internet
Receive saved games in Email
Transfer saved games from hard drive to the DREAMDRIVE
True 4 Meg Memory Card, NO DATA COMPRESSION!
Copies and re-formats memory cards
You can archive your game saves on the PC hard drive and Email
game saves to other gamers.
You can download game saves from web sites and newsgroups, or
transfer your saved games to other memory cards using your PC.
A slight note regarding the "NO DATA COMPRESSION!" thing. This is
an important feature, as previous third party memory cards for the
Saturn and PlayStation claiming to feature high memory capability
have actually been the same size as the standard memory card, but
used compression to store more data. This proved to be problematic,
as some games were incompatible with the unit, and the memory card
would often be corrupted, meaning you'd loose your data. If the new
card by Ultimate Video Accessories promises to feature no
compression, it's possible that these problems may be avoided.
The Dreamdrive will be available in October through the Ultimate
Video Accessories website at http://www.mp3psx.com/.
-- Anoop Gantayat,
IGNDC
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