This is episode FORTY of Punching Weight! I can't believe we've made 40 freaking episodes of this show! Thanks so much everyone!!

@MonsieurWatcher

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, your videos are very entertaining. Been watching some after I first found the ones about those two developers that extracted milk out of rocks on the gbc and gba. Your videos are also legit funny, both you and the lady

@akalyx

4 жыл бұрын

punching weight is my favorite series from your channel

@krisc1684

4 жыл бұрын

Binged watched Punching Weight when I discovered it in 2017. It's a gem.

@MrAlex-vm4gf

4 жыл бұрын

I really like your videos. Congratulations on coming so far and let's hope your career will countinue this way because you deserved it!

@dylanjordan3138

4 жыл бұрын

Stop Skeletons From Fighting we go dad

People say Nintendo is the most innovative video game company, but no one can touch the wacky inventiveness of 90's Sega.

@Tenchigumi

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the main difference is that Nintendo sometimes struck gold with their wacky systems and accessories, so at least they had some precedent to keep doing crazy shit, whereas Sega almost never succeeded, but god bless em', kept trying anyway, right to the grave.

@Pookie2112

4 жыл бұрын

And guess what company still makes consoles. Big oof

@EpicMarioPlayer

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, Nintendo plays pretty safe all things considered. Not that it's bad or anything, but people overhype their supposed innovations way too much. A lot of said innovations were merely popularized by them, and sometimes didn't even live up to their full potential. They have some pretty neat unique ideas, but it's not nearly as often as people say.

@kappuru

4 жыл бұрын

this is so true that it made me cry

@jr2904

4 жыл бұрын

@arbereshe lol

If Death Standing were released in the DC's heyday you KNOW that BB would be a virtual pet you would have to carry around and take care of on your VMU.

@Dogy0909

4 жыл бұрын

Thy Name Is P! I unironically want a tomogotchi-style BB mini game now.

@ninjacat230

4 жыл бұрын

death stranding for dreamcast when?

@giannidescalzo2101

2 жыл бұрын

I always wished they would do that for mags in PSO. That would've been sooooo cool.

*"IT'S SONIC ADVENTURE, NOW AVAILABLE AT KB TOYS!"* Won't lie, that hurt me a little bit.

@socksfelloff

4 жыл бұрын

NOW AVAILABLE AT TOYS 'R US oh wait...sorry

@GreyWolfLeaderTW

4 жыл бұрын

Right in the childhood.

@Tenchigumi

4 жыл бұрын

@@socksfelloff I was gonna say something about Babbage's, but apparently they still live on through GameStop... so not all is lost!

@socksfelloff

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tenchigumi GameStop will be gone soon enough lol

@mario-man3588

4 жыл бұрын

Thought this was a Chris Chan reference

VMU: Beep. beep. Derek: "stop beeping." Also VMU: *BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-*

@AssaulteedOne

4 жыл бұрын

I always wondered why my old Dreamcast would scream at me every time I turned it on lol

@Minnevan

4 жыл бұрын

AssaulteedOne they’re feisty consoles

@rocketrunner8063

4 жыл бұрын

That last *BEEEEEEE* was his VMU's last words

Always good to know when you're playing Illbleed

@jasoneatscake

4 жыл бұрын

I put this video on to make sure Derek meets his Illbleed quota.

"Is this a good way to play Silent Scope on the Dreamcast? Absolutely not! But you CAN do it, which is good enough for me." I love this.

The word "Chao" caused me and a friend to have a massive argument about it's pronunciation. He insisted it was "K.O" because it was just "chaos" without the S (like Chaos Emerald). We got ridiculously angry with each other 😄

@apispraetorium3275

4 жыл бұрын

I still can't fully get behind the proper pronounciation and often read it as "K.O." before correcting myself.

@JohnnyProctor9

4 жыл бұрын

@@apispraetorium3275 - Same here, just makes more logical sense...

@BrokamaGay

4 жыл бұрын

Same here

@earthbound9999

4 жыл бұрын

I had a friend who pronounced it "cow."

@Jared-cm2wv

4 жыл бұрын

Wasn't it pronounced in the game itself though?

Derek's face when Seaman rejected him 🤣

@peytonblanscet6035

4 жыл бұрын

You can go away.

@noneofyourbusiness4616

4 жыл бұрын

fun fact: Seaman went on to become the KZread video promotion algorithm

@Fighter_Builder

4 жыл бұрын

@@peytonblanscet6035 :(

@plasmaoctopus1728

4 жыл бұрын

@@noneofyourbusiness4616 I think a lot of people would prefer Seaman's AI being the algorithm rather than what is currently used.

@noneofyourbusiness4616

4 жыл бұрын

@@plasmaoctopus1728 I wish Leonard Nimoy was still with us to voice the KZread algorithm.

"i love you" "you can go away" BLOCK 100

Just imagine what you could do with a VMU style gadget with today's tech.

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

That would be cool, and with a battery that at least lasted a few hours before needing to be recharged.

@MattiKoopa

4 жыл бұрын

So a smartphone?

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

@@MattiKoopa No not really, we are talking about a memory card with a 1 - 2 in color screen, that slots into a controller, with physical buttons, maybe 1GB of RAM, Micro SD card slot for storage, and some basic physical controls like 4 mini face buttons, along with a d-pad start/select, and a small rechargeable battery. I would not want anything that small as a phone, but would be cool as a modern style VMU for a game console.

@blackravenX

4 жыл бұрын

So the Wii U?

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

@@blackravenX No the Wii U game pad could not work without the Wii U being on, and only worked within a few 100ft at best. we are talking about a little device we can pull out of the controller, say put in a bag, and play a mini game, so more like a mini game boy with downloadable content for say an RPG where you level up on the go, then get home, sync it with the console by sticking it in the main controller, and you are further ahead. not a Switch either because that's a much bigger device. Also maybe even a carry case you can even clip onto a bag.

The VMU was so unique. It would’ve been really cool to see the evolution of it, but RIP Sega hardware

@Alianger

4 жыл бұрын

Took 15 years but it's the Switch

@PlooferFish

4 жыл бұрын

The wii u

@SuggestiveGaming

4 жыл бұрын

Does a thing the Wii U wasn’t potable though

@PlooferFish

4 жыл бұрын

@@SuggestiveGaming not that part more the second screen aspect

@dreamcast3607

3 жыл бұрын

Would have been cool if they had a second version that was like a Gameboy color

Alternate title: How to Enjoy Your VMU with Enough Space for Your Illbleed Save! Keep up the good work, guys!

@SmaMan

4 жыл бұрын

There is a way to expand the space of the VMU slightly via Homebrew. Some games may have issues, but you can get 44 more blocks! That's like 6 more Illbeed saves!!

I remember having my dreamcast in 2001/2002, and I signed up for a Dial-up ISP just so I could play Phantasy Star Online. But when I wasn't hunting, I was using the web browser! It was my first exposure to the internet as a whole, as I didn't have a computer at the time. One of the websites that I randomly found while browsing GameFaqs was a VMU Homebrew website, and I downloaded TONS of games- card games, Pac-man, racing games, pet simulators.. SO much. I used to take it to school with me and play it, raising my Chao on some days, playing Tetris on others. The VMU was incredible.

If Sega ever makes a Dreamcast classic, we need a sticker on the box that says "The Official Console of Punching Weight." It'll let the people know exactly what they're in for.

@plasmaoctopus1728

4 жыл бұрын

I'm curious how they could handle vmu's for a Dreamcast classic, would they just recreate them,not bother, or just make it emulated off the console itself?

@jordanmynes2638

4 жыл бұрын

Mobile VMU companion app?

@plasmaoctopus1728

4 жыл бұрын

@@jordanmynes2638 yeah, probably.

"Godzilla game on the VMU" *Matt McMuscles screaming from Montreal*

So you’re telling me that when the VMU is inserted into the controller it turns it into a Wii U Gamepad? NINTENDO WHO?

@PScoopYT

4 жыл бұрын

SEGA in a nutshell. They have some forward-thinking ideas but introduce them way too early with the technology it needed.

Man, zombie's revenge is one of those games I played as a kid and never really knew if it actually existed or it was just my imagination

@destynova4512

4 жыл бұрын

Oh it existed, many hours of fun with friends

@plasmaoctopus1728

4 жыл бұрын

nope, all of you imagined it.

The Dreamcast is the bet console ever. Nothing can change my mind and I have no bias whatsoever.

@fangoram29

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe because I was overtired but this comment made me laugh really loud. Like worried I disturbed my neighbours loud

@bransonstevens5914

4 жыл бұрын

"No bias whatsoever." *Sees name* (X) Doubt

@plntpls

4 жыл бұрын

@James Brincefield I've been playing a lot of Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox. I didn't realise what I was ordering and got a Japanese version. It's been a blast figuring it all out. I would of loved the Dreamcast as a kid, and I bet it wouldn't of died like my original Xbox did either.

for all you VMU mini-game enthusiasts out there, I'm pleased to inform that the PSP Power Stone Collection includes the VMU mini-games preserved authentically in their monochromatic pixel glory. They even include a cute little Game and Watch style handheld border around the screen.

The VMU is a little mysterious for me: I had a Dreamcast but inexplicably had a memory card with no vmu! Learning about it through vids like this tell me it might not be all it's cracked up to be, but I cant deny just how charmed I am by it (just like with everything dreamcast)

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

Having never had a Dreamcast when it was launched, and only getting one a few years back in a Goodwill find in it's original box, and with the keyboard in it's original box, I can say the Dreamcast is great, but flawed console, and I can now fully understand both why people to this day love it, and why it ultimately failed in it's time.

@joechristo2

2 жыл бұрын

That memory card is probably a third party one with multiple banks

@justanotheryoutubechannel

11 ай бұрын

@@joechristo2Or the official Sega one released later on with no screen.

It makes me really happy how you have so much fun with your videos.

FYI, both the VMU and the PlayStation 1 memory cards have 1 megabit of memory. Not 1 megabyte.

Ha! When you started talking about playing a game with just the VMU screen, I immediately thought: Virtua Tennis. Because I actually did that some times.

1:13 Ah yes, my favorite game: SoulCalibuR SOULCALIBUR

I cannot believe you did something about the Dreamcast VMU... This is why we love you

"Look At Chibi Ivy Swinging Her Chibi Heart Out." Aw, so adorable! 😊😊😊

A VMU only has 128k of memory. Only way you'd have a megabyte would be having 4 controllers plugged in with 2 VMUs in each controller.

@Nezuji

4 жыл бұрын

That's OK, because the PS1 memory card also only had 128KB of storage, so it kind of still works out, in a weird way. Both Sega and Sony insisted on saying that their cards offered "1Mb" of storage, hoping that everyone would confuse "megabit" with "megabyte" (which most of us did), even though the actual storage size didn't matter to consumers.

@HoudiniFontmeister

4 жыл бұрын

Yea I noticed that mistake as well. The PS2 is 64x the VMU size because the PS2 is using the proper Byte In it's marketing.

I always hope the VMU would return in newer systems, imagine making one this gen with new screens and rechargable batteries. I could see new games unlocking bonus features with minigames on a VMU that you play on the go. So much potential!

I'm glad you're never stopping. I love you guys!

Cool video! I've always been curious about these little things, and getting such a detailed look at them is why I love Punching Weight so much! xxx

VMU has 1 megabit of memory which is 128 kb, like ps1 memory card. So, ps2 memory cards had 64 times more space for saves. Never had expirience with VMU games, because i never changed batteries inside :D

I find the BEEEEEEEP oddly soothing. Reminds me of the days when Dreamcast was all new and amazing.

Listening to you guys research, write, and talk about the outer fringes of gaming is just my favourite thing. I hope you guys get to do everything you love, but you're so good at this. Thanks for everything you've made so far.

I was really excited for this video and it did not disappoint!

1:10 That is some Scott the woz editing and humor. I like it.

@sconrey7

4 жыл бұрын

You can not un see this. There are multiple parts where i thought scott was talking

great vid :)

There was one great use that wasn't discussed, so... NFL 2k1 had the ability to pick your plays on the VMU so that you could keep your plays completely private. It was awesome! Awesome video!

Great Video, never had a Dreamcast so it was neat learning all about the VMUs.

Just a little behind the Vita, the Dreamcast is my second favorite console of all time. All the stuff like VMUs and others made it so unique and special

Damn bro, you got a hardcore hater on you. A dislike 18 seconds after the upload. For sure he watched it.

@yeetleslaw8529

4 жыл бұрын

bots or it could be SSFF stealing satisfaction from wouldbe haters

@Unexpectedstuff

4 жыл бұрын

I actually discovered that I disliked the video. Misstap, I guess.

@JazGalaxy

4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think any of the time elements are exactly accurate.

@ryuail

4 жыл бұрын

Thankfully it doesn't matter thumbs up or down, YT registers it as engagement either way so it helps the video get noticed.

@awesomeferret

4 жыл бұрын

Probably someone who was ticked off at his embarrassing "megabyte" flub. Unlike what he said in the video, there is nowhere close to a megabyte in the VMU, he meant to say megabit.

Nothing better than going on KZread and seeing an SSFF vid is up

Great video as always guys. Keep it up!

Hey, it’s me, Adam Sandler. I am a fan of SSFF.

@WaddleDee105

4 жыл бұрын

When's Jack & Jill 2?

@montlejohnbojangles8937

4 жыл бұрын

I'm Adam Sandler and this is my favourite store on the Citadel. ❤️

@montlejohnbojangles8937

4 жыл бұрын

@@WaddleDee105 Get oooouuuuuut.

@adamsandler2275

4 жыл бұрын

Evan Holtz, While I appreciate your inquiry, I’m not at liberty to divulge that information, sorry.

@adamsandler2275

4 жыл бұрын

Adam Osborne, if you’re Adam Sandler, then who am I? Please try watching my movie ‘Jill & Jack’.

Sorry to be that guy, but the VMU and PS1 were only 128k in size.

I used to download vmu homebrew games via the dreamcast's browser. This led to a 3 hour coach trip playing a fan made version of Outrun. No regrets.

Awesome as always!

I remember stealing batteries from my mom's T1 calculator for this thing.

This comment is here to support SSFF for the algorithm Edit: i remember being fascinated by the VMU when i was younger. Also Vitrual On. I heard it (i think) You should cover it if you can

You rock. Thank you for another vid. It was great as usual.

Im so happy you brought up zombie revenge and its VMU mini game! that game always gets forgotten, but its one of my favorite games on the dreamcast

Did... Anyone catch the "hey I'm Derek, it's me Derek?"

I'VE BEEN WAIT ING FOR THIS FOR EVER THANKS I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS

@GrumpySylveon

4 жыл бұрын

Ye I am super duper early. Really excited

Love your channel, it's great to see weird tech like this

I've been waiting for this video and i'm SURE it's gonna do numbers. fingers crossed!!

I need that Sonic T-shirt. Where can I buy?

VMU:beep Derek:Stop beeping VMU:BEEEEEP!

Man, i love so much your content, its just so interesting and weird at the same time

Just wanted to say I really love these videos keep up the great work!

This is literally the earliest I've gotten here before.

@StopSkeletonsFromFighting

4 жыл бұрын

hope you like it!

@fujin27

4 жыл бұрын

@DrTheKay all comments help with the algorithm

@beameyzed

4 жыл бұрын

@DrTheKay Who shit in your cereal this morning dude holy crap. It's not like I said "LOL OMG FIRST" I was just surprised KZread notified me this early.

You figure they would have made the batteries rechargeable and charge when you put them in the controller... you know, just some ideas 20 years later lol

Straight up , this is the video I was looking for !

fantastic video! Love your research

Could you imagine if SEGA Perfected the Dreamcast and waited until Sony and Nintendo released their next systems.

@mynthon0

4 жыл бұрын

They would've gone bankrupt before that. Outside of Japan, the Saturn was totally dead by early 1998. Nowadays most don't seem to realize that the DC didn't even sell that badly, Sony just pretty much destroyed the GC and Xbox in sales as well, but unlike Nintendo and MS, Sega had basically ran out of money by 2001.

Shenmue had help for moves on the vmu, a thing that's missing on the remasters

@shadow1w2

4 жыл бұрын

Be nice if they remade these too. Makes the remaster incomplete. Wouldn't think it would be hard to recreate it but clearly they had a low budget for this when Shenmue deserves so much more.

God, I love your channel so much. Hi from France btw !

Another awesome video! I remember being in grade school and seeing people with VMUs. I never had a Dreamcast so I missed out!

Can confirm, I had one of the VMUs and one of the non-VMUs. The best thing to do was to save all of your data onto the non-VMU because they could hold way more storage, and then use the VMU solely for the VMU minigames you could download.

Hey, dude!!! I'm the developer of ElysianVMU, thanks for the shout-out! I've been super hard at work on ElysianVMU2 with a bunch of new features and stuff... and let me tell you, we found out even more crazy VMU secrets in the scene in the last few months. First of all, the thing gets overclocked to 6Mhz when it's plugged into the Dreamcast, so it can keep up with communications. It was only now discovered that this 6Mhz clock can be enabled IN STANDALONE GAME MODE, meaning we can now run games at like 10x the speed we used to be able to. Yes, batteries will die rapidly, but there are now mods for AAs and stuff that will take care of that. With the 6Mhz clock, active, and how powerful the VMU's instruction set is, I would expect CPU performance to be on-par with the original GameBoy! We also have a guy who is doing crazy stuff composing music for the little thing and recently discovered a semi undocumented sound mode where the single-tone VMU can generate dual-tones simultaneously. He's playing around with trying to make some crazy music using multiple overlapping tones. EDIT: Oh, a few other things... I was able to contact an old VMU developer rock star who has been missing from the scene for well over a decade... He agreed to release the source to Tiny3DEngine to me, which I've posted on GitHub, along with his BMovie encoder/decoder for playing full grayscale video on the device... So that's a little 3D engine and video playback we now have access to. Want to at least integrate with the BMovie encoder to let you encode videos and export them in ElysianVMU. You can follow the latest news for this kind of stuff on my twitter: @falco_girgis. Anyway, thanks for the awesome video. Subscribed!

that disc loading noise when a battle is about to happen in Skies lol

@d3v1lsummoner

4 жыл бұрын

And then you immediately go into the menu to untrigger the loading to avoid random battles.

@UltimaKeyMaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@d3v1lsummoner Holy shit that's just like the Wii Fatal Frame games that let you avoid the stupid ghost hand by paying attention to the spinning disc.

@AndrewThomasSpecialEffects

4 жыл бұрын

Lol the best of times. Game cubes version didn't have it lol

@halo3odst

4 жыл бұрын

ZRRRT ZRRRRRRT *shatered glass whirlpool* BUUUUUUUUUUUU BA BUUUUUU BUUUUU BUUUUU BE BAAAAAAA *chorus of violins*

For me, the most interesting feature of the VMU is the ability to hook two together and use the VMU's controls to initiate file transfers! A feature which, a few years earlier, would have been mind-blowingly innovative. In the pre-internet era, imagine how cool it would have been to just carry around the VMU and trade things like characters or racing game time trial 'ghosts' with friends.

@montelhelem8707

3 жыл бұрын

So basically, are you able to transfer game saves between two vmu's??

This is like, peak Punching Weight. I've been waiting for this so long! ❤️

Everyone always calls it "Pinta's Quest," including you in this video, despite actually being called "Pinta Quest," as shown in this video.

Holy crap. I probably put hundreds of hours into Soul Calibur and never noticed the little character on the VMU screen. That's amazing. I think I just never looked at it past the initial logo on boot for any game. So this is all wild to me!

Thanks for making this

Commenting for the algorithm. Love your content as always SSFF

I am engaging with this content to promote it to the algorithm.

wait, has he always said "Hey, I'm Derek. It's me Derek" ?

@montlejohnbojangles8937

4 жыл бұрын

I feel like it's a more recent thing? But I want to believe.

@SeanJTharpe

4 жыл бұрын

He only started saying that these past few videos. But I love it.

Waited in line till midnight to get my Dreamcast back in the day. Awesome system and great video Derek! Keep on truckin' brotha !

I was waiting for this since soooo long and I'm not disapointed. 💕

Man, makes me wonder what you can do with a Mini-console with today's tech...

@marafolse8347

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the Funkey S!

Don't like to be THAT Guy, but the VMU (like the Playstation Memory Card). has only 128kb Memory or 1MBit. Sadly you can only access 100kb, 28kb are for the System.

@lordeilluminati

4 жыл бұрын

With a homebrew like VMU tools you can unlock the reserved space to use, but there are some games which will not work with a VMU unlocked for more saves, like Metropolis Street Racer. I recommend having more than one VMU and keeping one of them unlocked.

@DengekiGamer

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordeilluminati I tried this once, with mixed results on my Games. In my Opinion, its not really worth it.

@halo3odst

4 жыл бұрын

Vmu tool by speud?

@lordeilluminati

4 жыл бұрын

@@halo3odst yes

I'm incredibly glad that you mentioned the homebrew scene and Guacasaurus Mex, specifically. He's got so many good homebrew games out there for the VMU.

This is honestly one of the best retro channels on the platform

Yo im still just here for the Engagement TM

I thought I was gonna be early for this one :(

@KRAFTWERK2K6

3 жыл бұрын

We ALL did....

I'm new to the channel and never owned a dreamcast but damn am I excited to hear about this thanks to binging the other peripheral vids

That silent scope VMU feature is actually insane. Like, open your mouth wide and say "what???" out loud insane. I really can't believe they did that.

The Dreamcast is amazing

6:28 Stop VMUs From Beeping

I loved playing Chao Adventure as a kid. Great video

Been looking forward to this!

wasnt the ps1 memory card 128kb instead of 1mb？

@halo3odst

4 жыл бұрын

You have that backwards, the VMU was 128kb.

@wizzgamer

3 жыл бұрын

1mb is 128KB aka 1 megabit megabyte is 1MB though PS1 and Dreamcast cards where both 1 megabit (128KB) though PS1 had more memory available for saves though could usually hold a lot less saves than Dreamcast due to the way the blocks work.

PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT THE SHIRT

@zeldakixass

4 жыл бұрын

I must know as well

@zerodollarbird

4 жыл бұрын

Seconded.

@BathoryQueen

4 жыл бұрын

Third

Love Your Shirt!

I love your videos!

Best feature of the dreamcast before the modem!!!

I'm so early I didnt get checked got uniform at the gate

I love your videos guys!

I remember when I was in my teens we got a Dreamcast and a used vmu, and it always seemed cool, but I never had batteries so I could never play any of the mini games. Great video, keep up the great work!