transfer saves from emulator to dreamcast hardware

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androiddreamcast
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transfer saves from emulator to dreamcast hardware

Post#1 » Sat Oct 24, 2015 9:01 pm

So the story is I don't own a dreamcast YET anyway and I've been playing dreamcast games on the reicast emulator on my samsung galaxy s3 (which isn't the ideal way to play dreamcast games ) but I have a few save games in sonic adventure (completed windy valley with sonic ) , soul calibur (unlocked yoshimitsu), shenmue (just started exploring dobuita) and skies or arcadia (looking for shrine island to recover the moon stone after nearly 4 hours of gamepaly EPIC) , I was wondering if it was possible to transfer my save files from the reicast emulated vmu1 and vmu2 to an actual vmu to continue playing on a real dreamcast when I do eventually get one . Would transferring save game data to a real dreamcast vmu also be possible from other emulators like null dc and chankast and if so how ?

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scaryred24
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Re: transfer saves from emulator to dreamcast hardware

Post#2 » Sun Oct 25, 2015 2:20 am

It is possible since Reicast actual VMU save data is the same that the Dreamcast saves onto. All you need is a way to copy the saves onto your PC and a way for the Dreamcast to access your PC. There is more than one possible way of doing this, but this is how I would approach it.
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