The Custom VMU Icon Thread

[OlivusPrime]

I couldn't see an existing thread for this, so I thought I'd start a thread for anyone who's created their own VMU icons!

I'll kick things off with a few I've created. I thought it would be a fun idea to have each of my VMUs themed to a specific Sega game (usually with that game's save located on the same VMU). Thus far I've created icons for ChuChu Rocket!, Sega Rally 2 and Sonic Adventure, and I have a couple more on the way for The House of the Dead 2 and OutRun. I've attached each of these files so that you can download them to your own VMU (I usually do this through an SD card and Dreamshell)!

ChuChu Rocket!

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Sega Rally 1

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Sega Rally 2

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Sonic Adventure 1

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Sonic Adventure 2

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It's also worth noting that VMU icons are sized at 32 x 32 pixels, the same size as VMU save file icons. This makes the save file icons a great template for making your own VMU icons (my ChuChu Rocket! and second Sonic icons used save icons as a basis). This great GitHub page has a repository of memory card icons you can use as templates.

[Londinium]

Nice art!

[Sega1Dream]

Nice work. I really dig this. Need some PSO, and sports ones I have plenty of VMU's with those files. Lol

[-drez01-]

Here are mine!

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There is a great tutorial by killbot80k on how to do this here:

https://www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/vi ... 62&p=72923

[Nico0020]

Very nice! Always loved custom VMU icons

[fafadou]

where we have to put this image in VMU please ?

[OlivusPrime]

where we have to put this image in VMU please ?

The images in the thread are just previews of the icons - you will need to download the zip files as these contain the actual ICONDATA_VMS.vms icon files. The easiest way I find to get them on a VMU is to use an SD card reader with software that can access the VMU, such as Dreamshell.

Here are a couple more I made - OutRun and The House of the Dead!

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[fafadou]

where we have to put this image in VMU please ?

The images in the thread are just previews of the icons - you will need to download the zip files as these contain the actual ICONDATA_VMS.vms icon files. The easiest way I find to get them on a VMU is to use an SD card reader with software that can access the VMU, such as Dreamshell.[/quote

So i have to copy them as a normal save with dreamshell ?
I believed, i must copy them with an hex editor in my vmu dump.

Here are a couple more I made - OutRun and The House of the Dead!

There are fabulous !