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REDFLELD - Jan 3, 2004

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		REDFLELD		Jan 3, 2004
			Is it possible to connect a PC cdrom drive/hard disk to a Genesis/megadrive system? I once saw a floppy disk drive for the SNES for sale about a decade ago. I'm not sure if there's such a device for the Genesis. Have someone here heard of attaching a cdrom drive/hard disk to the Genesis?

		M3d10n		Jan 3, 2004
			huh... Sega CD?

		bugbeak		Jan 3, 2004
			oh...the disc drive...those days AFAIK, the disc drive was only an Asian thing where you hooked a modified disc drive and a certain unit into a genesis/mega drive. that unit was a game ripper -- you'd plug in a cartridge on the top and pop in an empty 3.5-inch disc into the disc slot, and you'd start ripping games into those discs. then all you needed were the discs -- pop them in, sit for about a minute while the device copied the data into RAM, and when it was done, you could pop the disc out and play until you shut your genesis off. for the SNES, it was called the "super wild card". i dunno what it's called for the genesis. i know for a fact that during those days, games in discs sold like wildfire because they were dirt-cheap.

		Ratamahatta		Jan 3, 2004
			I think it was just called the wild card for the genesis

		AntiPasta		Jan 3, 2004
			I have such a thing for the SNES, in fact there were lots of different brands and types of backup units: It's a lot more complicated than a disk drive with a cartridge connector though, as you can judge from the size. It also has a DSP chip to emulate cart games that use it, 4 MB of RAM to store the games, some SRAM to store savegames, a built-in cheat function and whatnot wned

		antime		Jan 3, 2004
			IDE is so simple (at the most basic level) that you can connect it to almost anything - a couple of years ago Elektor Electronics ran an article on building an interface for 8-bit microcontrollers and Google should give you links to similar project. You'd need to build the actual interface and then write the drivers, and to run the drivers you'd have to either make a ROM cart or boot from a burned MegaCD disc.

		Chiraz		Jan 6, 2004
			One of the game copiers that you're talking about was called "Super magic drive", I got mine about 11 years ago

		Mask of Destiny		Jan 6, 2004
			Someone did hack a hard-drive onto his Sega Genesis. I think he even added enough RAM to the thing so he could load ROMs off the drive and play them. http://devster.netfirms.com/...

		REDFLELD		Jan 7, 2004
			Thanks for the replies... not that I'm interested coz my NTSC J Megadrive broke long time ago(didn't use a stepdown adapter).

		Link Hylia		Jan 7, 2004
			actually, someone managed to run BASIC on the genny. with hard drive for loading rom images.

		DeV0		Jan 19, 2004
			Some company made a genny/pc combo, forget who it was but it was a 486 with a genny/md cart slot in the front. I have a disc copy unit for the snes with 36mb of ram, think its a super ufo 3. Great system although i need to mod the snes for multi region and a 50/60 switch. There is a copier available that works for both rhe md and the snes,,,

Curtis

Jan 19, 2004

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by DeV0@Jan 18, 2004 @ 11:50 PM



 Some company made a genny/pc combo, forget who it was but it was a 486 with a genny/md cart slot in the front.

That was the Amstrad MegaPC. It was overpriced and underpowered even for the time, packing only a 486 SX33 with 4(or 8?)Mb of RAM. AFAIK there was no interfacing between the MD and the PC - it was just two seperate units in one box.

		Kaneda		Jan 19, 2004
			Or the teradrive in japan (with Dos/V) some pics here : My Webpage... (scroll a little) you can also find a pic of the Genny FDD (don't know if it was released or not) Kaneda

		gameboy900		Jan 19, 2004
			ERm...Kaneda just so you know the "MD+PC Engine Hifi ?" picture you have near the bottom is just the three Pioneer LaserActive modules stacked on top of each other. You got the Genesis one on top, the TG16 one in the middle and the Karoke one at the bottom.

		Kaneda		Jan 20, 2004
			the karaoke!! yes of course... in fact i knew for the 2 others (Genny and PCE...like you can see 5 lines up) but the 3rd was a mystery for me I though it was another model of LaserActive...without the LD part.. something like the Aiwa stuff Thanks Kaneda

DeV0

Jan 20, 2004

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by Curtis+Jan 19, 2004 @ 07:06 AM-->QUOTE(Curtis @ Jan 19, 2004 @ 07:06 AM)