Be honest... have you ever used a VMU? Also, huge thank you to BetterHelp for making this video possible! Let BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you - all from the comfort of your own home. Visit betterhelp.com/chaomix and enjoy a special discount on your first month.

Fun fact, I was playing Yakuza: Like a Dragon last night, and one of your party members, Zhao, has an optional conversation where he reveals he had a Dreamcast as a kid, and laments that his VMU broke. Seeing this video after seeing that in Like a Dragon is pretty cool tbh

I can always trust chaomix to explain the history of sonic dohickeys and whatnots

The VMU is the most Nintendo thing Sega has ever done

My grandpa died of cancer at the start of this month and he was my best friend. Thank you for helping me through this all this time. Please don't ever stop creating.

Fun fact: Maekawa also wrote the Chao Adventure stuff.

The Dreamcast really was such a cool and creative console. The fact it flopped is just too sad.

Only chaomix can explain interesting and obscure Sonic stuff and yet make it interesting lol

My wife and I actually have a small group that still regularly play Chao adventure ! To answer your question in the video, both players do get the eggs when you choose the breeding option !

Great video but you should stop accepting sponsored from better help. They did some really bad things. Maybe you should watch soggy cereal’s video on it.

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A freesia flower represents innocent love.

17:10 how Chaos are afraid of Amy? She loves them.

The thumbnail for this video looks AMAZING btw

I miss taking my Chao for a walk. The VMU card mechanic in Sonic Shuffle was innovation Nintendo could be envious of

The Pocketstation for the PS1, which released only a few months after the VMU, was also capable of saving data from a PS1 game and then using it for interactive funtime and keeping track of various stats for your games and the characters you were taking care of. Surprised it wasn't mentioned in the video. A couple of games that were compatible were Crash Bandicoot 3, Final Fantasy VIII, Metal Gear Solid: Integral, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Ridge Racer Type 4, Rival Schools 2, Rockman Complete Works, Street Fighter Alpha 3, to name a few. An example is in Rockman: Complete Works (PS1 ports of the NES games), where you could take any of the NES Mega Man bosses and Mega Man himself, and raise their health and attack power, and it would later be reflected into the PS1 ports where you can fight bosses with more health and attack, but it could also make Mega Man be stronger and survive longer too. Each of the PS1 ports also granted you two mini games each that you could download to the Pocketstation, which were all unique.

I love vmu. Also recommend no one using sponser. I get having sponsers etc but for anyone that really needs the help better help has been known to do more damage.

Bro you might wanna do some research before getting sponsor💀1:32

7:54 he knows what you did to the chao care taker before you adopted it. I keep getting reminded of Senshion's comics.

the vmu is one of my favorite (if not my favorite) pieces of SEGA history, something about it reminds me of the Pokémon Mini, and it is also just a small little guy that does small little things. its cute

Not only have I used a VMU, but I actually used to bring one of mine to school in my final year... In 2018-2019... I really like the Dreamcast.

I'm such a sucker for screen on your controller type gimmicks, there's so much cool stuff you can do with it

Imagine if they had a modern chao garden app? I would play the heck out of it

I found the way the VMU was implemented in Sonic Shuffle was super interesting! The only downside to it is that it makes porting the game to any future consoles really difficult since they would have to completely rework how people see their cards without others seeing them.

Chao Adventure 2 can only store up to two randomly-selected quests at a time. The next time Chao Adventure 2 gets overwritten a new set of two quests appear in the game. Speaking of the quests, you get nothing for bad endings, and a random tree seed for a good ending. Some quests lack a good ending, and I tried everything I can in the "Pumpkin Hill" quest, but no matter what path I pick, I'm always presented with a bad ending.

16:39 I like how this and Cheese’s response to Cream after the Egg Albatross clearly shows Chao were once intended to speak.

11:03 "Neither" omg, enby rep in 1998?! THAT'S NUTS! 😄 So cool!

Fun Fact: a freesea flower represents innocent love

I just bought a modded Dreamcast and was playing SA last night watching the VMU, it’s awesome. Always wanted a Dreamcast as a kid, happy to finally have one

That Big sprite art looked like the scene from the intro where he's looking into the sky

The Dream Cast was way ahead of its time.

The Chao Adventure VMU thing reminds me of the Pokewalker.

The VMU is the most Y2K thing Sega has ever made.

I always loved these little details, I’m glad someone actually documented them

Always a good day when mix uploads

Keep up the great work and videos chaomix love the video

another banger!!! i actually had no idea this existed and it was super interesting to learn about

POG video, per usual!

I like how the GameCube ports/remakes..? couldn't have VMU support so they just made you use the Game Boy Advance with a game of Sonic Advance to bring your Chao on the go

I remember playing Chao adventure 2 and I was able to clone my Chao. Also you can breed Chao in adventure 2 as well as I had the ability to.

Great video! Always like to see the Dreamcast get some love. One more little VMU thing with Sonic Adventure is that if you have a second controller plugged into port D with a VMU in it you can play the Chao puzzle game while somebody else plays the main game. Presumably waiting your turn or something.

I didn't even didn't know this existed , thanks chaomix

Yay more Chaomix. My main memory of the VMU is the battery always dying...

Both players get an egg if you breed Chao with the VMU. I don't know if the stat transfer and appearance stuff work the same way as in game but I'm guessing probably, just both players get an egg.

You know, you're one of the people I trust when it comes to Sega's line of consoles.

Well timed. I got a Dreamcast recently and have Adventure 1. I really need to replace the VMU battery as well as the RTC battery but I'm pretty proud of it. If only Adventure 2 wasn't so expensive, then I could've found out whether or not the freesia flower truly represents innocent love.

1:57 simmilar to digimon or tamagotchi

Amazing Video.

On the steam deck if you emulate the Dreamcast you can choose to display the vmu while you play. Brings me right back

Been playing Dreamcast sonic Adventure for years and I’ve never realized the VMU chao animations reacted to your characters actions

Oh yes, some VMU love!

I want a VMU. I never had any SEGA console, but the VUM is such a cool and cute idea! Sure it was gimmicky as all hell, but it was also the early 2000s. Even PlayStation thought it was a fun idea, because they did the same thing for the PS1 (which I also missed out on) PocketStation... which sadly never left Japan. Actually, fans managed to bring the VMU back with a crowdfunding campaign; I haven't managed to find a way to buy one myself, though...

Nice, but can the VMU run DOOM?

The VMU looked really cool

the "neither" gender selection in the sa1 chao game is so sick

Tiny Chao Garden is the poor mans VMU experience. (I've never used a VMU before) I actually had a interesting experience a while ago playing the Sonic Adventure games. I was playing in a multi-tasky way where I'd get the Chao boxes and raise the Chao stats every stage...in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. Sonic Adventure DX on the other hand makes it really hard to multitask with many roadblocks through out the story preventing you from visiting Chao garden, and barely any content beyond the story, it really did give me the impression the game was maybe intended to be played alongside the VMU. Also keep in mind you don't really get access to Tiny Chao Garden in the HD ports either. I really wish they did more with the HD ports like letting people trade and battle Chao online or releasing a Sonic Advance port collection and letting you transfer between the games.

Sick long sleeve bro

Yuji Naka is one of the greatest minds in video game history

As convenient as console-integrated save memory is, I’ll always prefer memory cards for being more versatile and having cool console save file icons and animations. Also I never knew until now just how much of the Chao Adventure content was remade in future games (Vs. Bully Chao is a precursor to Chao Karate and the fruit matching game remade in Sonic Advance)

19:12 I thought it was flipping us off for a second lol

I remember the VMU! I had all three of these games, but I think the only one I ever really used the VMU with was Sonic Shuffle... I did train a chao to max stats in Sonic Advance and transfer it to SA2:B though!

This makes me want a chao adventure mobile game with the story elements of chao adventure 2 and a little chao garden to manage like the zen garden from the first PVZ game.

Imagine a Chao Adventure app for Sonic Adventure remake that would be cool, and with QR codes it’ll definitely be easy to do in a modern game.

11:03 chao garden supporting enbies since 1999

Yo! I wanted to know if you're going to continue developing your sonic adventure engine. I really liked that video, (Since I dabble in game design lol), and I wanted to see you finish and polish it to (maybe) near perfection!

12:10 THE perfect place to add the FBI meme!

I remember these, but could never figure out how to raise my chao with them. How in the world were you even able to capture VMU footage without just having the camera fixed on your controller the whole time?

the punching/kicking chou + the chou garden in adventure 2's chou lobby in the English translation on GameCube and pc there was a lick or lyric that made me laugh it sounded like "something" then "something" then I clear remember hearing the words "THEN HIT IT IN THE SACK" or what sounded like it. i might have found something here fr. O.B.T.W thanks for your vids makes me feel SOOO much less cringe for enjoying sonic to the degree that I have in my childhood which was in the 1998 till now and i had to quit because the new games hit me in such a weird way and i was super hyped for unleashed and still enjoyed it despite the very las level you have to play LITERALY Took me 5 HOURS TO GET ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH!!!! then see this... SONIC AND THE BLACK NIGHT. over the shoulder out the window into the pool then eaten by a bird and shit in crocodiles' mouth CAUSING IT TO GAG AND PUKE ON IT. would be my only description of that game. YEEEEESH... peace.

A new Sonic Adventure 3 game and a Chao app for your phone would go so hard

6:40 looks like a chao fruit

I hope when they make a Remaster of Sonic Adventure one and two you can't shoes between the two Chao adventures. Cool video by the way.

I just bought a Dreamcast today what great timing! Still looking for both sonic adventures though

Los Chao te preguntan tu tipo de sangre porque es una trivia común en Japón Asi como la gente sabe de memoria su número telefónico, dirección o fecha de nacimiento, sabe de memoria su tipo de sangre Cosa que deberia volverse popular en todo el mundo, te obligan a aprenderte tu numero de seguro social cosa que usarás 3 veces en tu vida y puedes perfectamente escribir en una nota para llevar en la cartera, pero nunca te dicen tu tipo de sangre, cosa que LITERALMENTE te salvaria la vida Saludos desde México, gran contenido Chaotix!

6:39 maybe its a fruit from chao garden

I remember downloading a vmu emulator when i played sa2 on a mobile dreamcast emulator just so i could raise my chao

I always wanted the ability to control the VMU mini games with the dreamcast controller. It would help with comfort and save on batteries. Is there any homebrew that does that?

6:05 chaomix has Amibo Collection?

My SA1 Chao, was 999 in all his stats until I forgot to put him back into the chao garden before changing the battery in my VMU. Poor T.K.B., lost to the void beyond the Chao Walk forever.

I have never heard of a vmu lmao

This is reminding me of the Pokewalker gimmick from HGSS.

Chao Adventure 3 when, Sega? ...eh, that's somehow even less likely than a hypothetical Sonic Adventure 3. In any case, 'twas nice looking back at how the VMU was utilized with regards to these games!

I can't believe that chaomix is able to drag me to a video topic that I dont care

5:51 Or maybe they used unreleased art as samples for the sprites. It’s more likely since the rest aren’t new.

1999 was like a totally different dimension man.

You forgot to talk about the vmu features for sa3

How do you have a new hairstyle like every single video

CHAOMIX we need your opinion on knuckles

15:56 Actually, you could increase the luck and intelligence stat by giving the chao animals in the gamecube port. There isn't any way to check it, though.

My battery always died right before I got to play any of these cool VMU games 😩

I’m surprised sonic adventure 1 and 2 didn’t come out for PlayStation 1, 2 maybe frame rates couldn’t be able to be compatible for ps2 and ps1 when this games came out

I missed out tremendously, I never had a VMU that actually worked as a secondary handheld In hindsight, it's probably cuz I never put the battery in...

The Dreamcast era truly was Sonic's last great era, at least for the game series.

Sony did that with the ps1

Can you talk about the history between the babylons and aliens?

Why do I kinda want a dreamcast now

Will you post more to game garage?

I think conceptually the vmu is awesome and something we'd unfortunately never see again because of phones (also unrelated plese don't advertise betterhelp, ironically their help would be worse than anywhere else)

Is it bad that I still wear my clear red VMU with my favorite chao?

banger console, and it even has the best THPS2 graphics

Hey Chaomix where did you get that shirt from?