:banghead: They were for arcade hardware. I want Dreamcast 2 as much as the next person, but the dream of another Sega console is now dead. The Sega we all knew and loved is gone forever :crying:
Uhh, Why would they have a controller and memory card for arcade hardware? http://www.patentgenius.com/subpage.php?page=patent&patent=7556197&search=Search http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/7488254.html
The card one could be used in the arcade for those collectable card games. The pad is weird as it er looks like the Nights pad on the saturn, which er had a removable connector on the controller... in fact the connector on the patent looks like a Saturn controller port... Although it was filed 6 years after the death of the Saturn...