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Description:
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VMU Tool (a.k.a Dream Explorer) is an application 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:
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Donations motivate me a lot and are greatly appreciated. If you want to help
follow instructions described in the "donations" section of VMU Tool's official
web pages.

You can get VMU files, skins and in-depth help from official site:
http://blueswirl.shorturl.com.

Upload your files to share them with everybody and free your VMU safely:
http://bswirl.kitsunet.org/vmu/uploader.php.

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



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

Thanks for suggestions and bugs reports:
- Amy (my Dream Girl :))
- Michael (also a generous donator!)
- John
- Sizious
- Oggy

Also thanks to Fackue and other people who offered to help.



Credits:
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VMU Tool for Dreamcast aka Dream Explorer programmed by Speud.

Some of the images were made by WaCk0.

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

The VM 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 on http://www.1001freefonts.com and http://www.dafont.com
and converted with Celestia Font Texture Generator
http://celestia.teyssier.org/ttf2txf/.

Files included in the CD:

VMU saves from following sites with webmasters' agreement:
- http://blueswirl.shorturl.com/ © 2006 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.us/heezy/vmusaves/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 © 2006 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.

VMU TOOL - DREAM EXPLORER SOFTWARE IS NOT PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM
SEGA ENTERPRISES, LTD.
