a) packed vmi

has someone gotten into that? I found one of those files on my upload
(nothing gets lost ;-). is the method of packing known?

b) FAQ answers

okay richard, you asked for it :-)

1.5
Yes, you can play vmu games on your computer. All you need is a VMU
emulator,
install it on your computer and download the games. You can get the
emulator
here (link to the tools part).

When downloading games, make sure you download the .VMS file and not
the link
file (also known as .VMI) which only points to the game file.

Some of the games may behave slightly different as on the real VMU as
the
emulator is usually faster than its real counterpart.

1.6
The VMU's central processing unit consists of a chip that is labeled
with the
the manufacturer, the product code name and some product identification
numbers. So if you open your VMU and have a look at the chip you will
find
some text printed on it that reads:

Manufacturer SEGA JAPAN
Product Code POTATO
Product ID 315-6124-03
5J49 8LGJ

As you can see the product code name is "POTATO" and now you have your
answer!

3.6
Most programs and data you can download from the internet is delivered
in so-
called packages or compressed archives. There are several types of
packages
and archives. The most common compression used in the Windows world is
ZIP.

A .ZIP file usually contains several files and in order to uncompress
these
files from the archive you need a program that can do the job. One of
the most
common for Windows is called "WinZIP" and can be downloaded from
http://www.winzip.com/. You can download an evaluation version there.

In case you want to look at other programs that do the job you might
want to
have a look here: http://winfiles.cnet.com/apps/98/compress.html

For DOS users there exists a program called pkzip/pkunzip and
UNIX/Linux users
can use the free zip/unzip utilities available.

After you have been able to unpack the files (make sure you put them in
a
separate directory!) you will find an executable you can click on :-)

--
no, i don't want to answer the rest of the booyaka questions ... and
for the
tools the coders should write something :-)

leo.