YOU CAN DISPLAY THE SITE IN ENGLISH BY CLICKING THE ENGLISH FLAG IN THE LEFT MENU. Dream Explorer 0.8.5

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Dream Explorer (a.k.a VMU Tool) is a mini OS for the Dreamcast that allows you to explore the content of your VMU, PC, and CD/GD, and open their files in the numerous bundled tools.



Among other things you can easily backup up VMU files to PC and vice versa, or download VMU files from CD. DCI and VMI+VMS files are supported as well as raw or DCM dumps.





The VMU menu lets you: browse your VMUs (includes hidden files)

unlock 44 extra blocks for your VMUs

compress/uncompress VMU files

draw your own icon for the VMU screen

defragment the VMU files

play VMU minigame on your TV with the VMU emulator

change the background image of the Dreamcast's boot menu

hexedit VMU files

view PSO screenshots

edit Gameshark CDX codes

and much more...

The PC/CD explorer lets your freely browse the directories of your PC's hard drive disk or the CD/GD inserted in your Dreamcast.





You can open BMP, JPEG and PNG images as well as PVR textures in an image viewer with many features such as zoom, rotation, flipping, slideshow...





There's also an audio player for playing MP3, Ogg Vorbis and Wave sounds with a timer displayed in real time.





And if you want to read text files easily from your Dreamcast you can open them in the text viewer. It displays formatted text with auto carriage return.





The GUI is fully themable. You can select a wallpaper from your PC or a CD/GD in your Dreamcast. The menus' background color and opacity as well as text's color can be changed in options or loaded from a theme file.



Menus texts are translated to English (fully) and French (mostly), and also partly to German, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Polish.



You can use the pad or the Dreamcast keyboard to browse menus and enter text, keyboard's keys position can be changed in options. Notes



Donations motivate me a lot and are greatly appreciated. If you want to help follow instructions described on this page.



Upload your files to share them with everybody and free your VMU safely: VMU uploader for DC & PC.



Please report bugs to speud@free.fr (try to explain them as clearly as possible, in english or french). Thanks



Thanks to TheGatesOfBill for free hosting at www.kitsunet.org.



Thanks for suggestions and bugs reports: Michael (also a generous donator!)

John

Sizious

Oggy Also thanks to everyone who offered to help. Credits



Dream Explorer for Dreamcast aka VMU Tool programmed by Speud.



Some of the images were made by WaCk0.



Original libraries used belong to KalistiOS http://gamedev.allusion.net/.



The VMU emulator SoftVMS was originally programmed by Marcus Comstedt http://mc.pp.se/dc/ (very helpful site) and ported to the Dreamcast from scratch by Speud.



Partial translations made by: law (german)

Captain Skyhawk (dutch)

WaCk0 (portuguese)

Bucanero (spanish)

Rastaman33 (swedish)

M@jk (polish)

Menus icons iCandy Junior � 2004 FOOOD's Icons.



Additional fonts found at http://www.1001freefonts.com and http://www.1001freefonts.com and converted with Celestia Font Texture Generator http://celestia.teyssier.org/ttf2txf/.



Files included in the CD:



VMU saves with agreement of webmasters from: http://blueswirl.shorturl.com/ © 2020 Blue Swirl (must not be released without VMU Tool)

http://dreamcast.planetweb.com/ (thanks to Ken Soohoo of Planetweb Inc.)

http://jeffma.51.net/dcgl/ (thanks to jeffma)

http://s91881033.onlinehome.(...)download.html (thanks to hrb2k)

http://www.geocities.com/purhaze5/vmu.html (thanks to purhaze)

http://fp.enter.net/~jkool/DCSaves.htm (thanks to Joe Endy) VMU games and icons from http://blueswirl.shorturl.com © 2020 Blue Swirl (must not be released without VMU Tool)

VMU games and demos by The Rockin'-B from http://www.rockin-b.de/

VMU Shenmue Goodies from http://shenmue.planets.gamespy.com/ (thanks to Kiyuu and LandDC)

old VMU Tool wallpapers by Amyoto, Blu3flame, Curt Grymala, Ian Micheal, Mickey242 and WaCk0

Dreamcast BIOS BG images by WaCk0, and by Extra BG Maker users: http://speud5.free.fr/extrabg/

VMU Tool musics by Ian Micheal

GUI VMU images by WaCk0

GUI icons by iCandy Junior © 2004 FOOOD's Icons Skies of Arcadia™ wallpapers © SEGA/OVERWORKS

Dead or Alive™ wallpapers © Tecmo/Team NINJA

Phantasy Star Online™ wallpapers © SEGA/SONIC TEAM

Shenmue™ wallpapers © CRI/AM2

Sonic Adventure™ wallpapers © SEGA ETERPRISES, LTD.

DC girl wallpaper by Half_Breed found at http://dreamagain.free.fr

Jet Set Radio™ wallpapers found at http://dreamagain.free.fr Shenua music from Shenmue™ Orchestra Version by Toshiyuki Watanabe

Revolution to the Origin Part 1 music from Phantasy Star Online™ OST by Hideaki Kobayashi

Yafutoma Dawn music from Eternal Arcadia™ OST by Saori Kobayashi

Seung Mina music from Soul Calibur™ OST Eye to Eye, Blade to Blade

Strider Hiryu music from Marvel VS Capcom™ OST

Ready Steady Go from Full Metal Alchemist OST by Arc en Ciel

Sakura Saku music from Love Hina OST by Hayashibara Megumi

Shizuku music from Great Teacher Onizuka OST

Opening music from Ghost in the Shell OST

Sega, Dreamcast, the Dreamcast logo and Visual Memory are either registered or trademarks of Sega Enterprises, Ltd.



DREAM EXPLORER - VMU TOOL SOFTWARE IS NOT PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA ENTERPRISES, LTD. Known bugs (october 14, 2006)



the screen freezes in some menus if you select german language, choose another language to avoid this problem (thanks to Christoph and Christian)

background music might crash the program sometimes, disable it in sound options if you often notice this problem

if you boot the program from DC Hakker some menus won't be displayed (1st screen, theme selector, audio player, image viewer, VMU emulator, codes editor, text viewer), try another program to boot Dream Explorer or use the selfboot image (thanks to Minti)