Hi,
I just got a dreamcast for Xmas.
With it I got House of the Dead 2 & Quake III.
Great

But, although I can see icons on the vmu representing HOD and Quake, I can't seem to load them.

The Sega display says it can see / recognise there is a vmu in place but when the game starts - it's always at the beginning again.

I have 1 VMU and 2 controllers if this makes any difference.
(The VMU is always in controller 1)

Any ideas ?

Many thanks
d.

Do you mean the VMU came with game saves already on them and it won't load them? It's possible the data on them has become corrupt or something if it won't load. The games should definetly recognise a VMU in the 1st Control pad in the 1st slot.

If that's the case, you might have to format the VMU to get it to save data.

Hi
Thanks for getting back to me so fast.

No, I meant that I bought the VMU brand new from eBay.
It's branded as SEGA.

I've inserted it into the controllers and the guns and although it now shows Icons from both games - it doesn't appear to load them.

I always end up at the beginning of the game....?
Help
d.

Hmmm, sounds like it should be working then if it brings up the icons. I would try formatting them, I seem to remember having to do that for other memory cards. If there's no data on them anyway there isn't anything to lose by formatting. You can do that by loading up the Dreamcast with no games in and going to the VMU menu on the screen I can't remember the exact way of doing it as my Dreamcast is packed up at the moment

Hey, thanks for that.
I did get some sort of response after formatting the VMU.
(Which I thought I had done correctly previously....)

At leaast this time SEGA said (something like)

"Recognising VMU in port 1 preparing to save data press start to continue...."

Which is further than I've gotten previously.

The only thing is - when I 'died' and started again ---- I was back at the beginning!!!

Am I supposed to save periodically?
Or is it automatic?

I don't have a user manual.....

If I die in a game - perhaps the game isn't saved?

I've only tried it with House of the Dead tonight. Will try with Quake tomorrow - but if anyone has any ideas in the meantime.....

PLEASE HEELLLLLLPPPPP!

Cheers all
d.

I'm pretty sure HOTD doesn't save your progress, at least my HOTD2 game didn't, I'd always have to start from the begining again if I died. I don't remember whether Quake III Arena did or not though. It's a shame you don't have a game I could remember the save points on like Shenmue or Sonic Adventure 2 ^^;