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Sega Saturn Floppy Disc Drive on E-bay
Action Replay - Oct 4, 2005
  Action Replay Oct 4, 2005
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...AMEWA...

I´ve been keeping an eye on this item on e-bay,and I´d sure like to get my hands on it if it wasn´t for the cruel and fearsome price tag... :yum

Anyone knows somewhere else you can get one of these?

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 slinga Oct 4, 2005
More useful might be the pinouts of that thing. Maybe someone could homebrew a USB cable with the connectors. Besides no one uses floppies anymore. I haven't had a floppy in the last two PCs I built, so circa 2001. Don't miss it yet

 Action Replay Oct 6, 2005
:agree BUT even if the floppy disc drive in itself perhaps is something that you don´t have much use of( I have´nt used a floppy on a computer since back in 98 and I don´t hink I´d use any on a saturn either),it would still be a nice"collectors"thing to have standing next to your saturn

I am currently feeling a strong and burning desire to get one :devil ,but from my experience that kind of "must-have" feeling usually flyies away after a couple of days,and hopefully it will in this case as well (not that I don´t want one ot these but it wouldn´t be suitible for my economy right now )

if someone offered me a Saturn floppy drive at a fair price I´d probably give it s shoot though :thumbs-up:

 link343 Oct 6, 2005
I read somewhere on the forums that Dezaemon 2 uses the floppy for to store games.I also read somewhere that there was also a Saturn Word processer that used the floppy to store the files. I say go for it.

 Action Replay Oct 6, 2005
yeah,I´ve read that too,I´ve also heard that some other games like Panzer Dragoon Saga uses the floppy

I hardly do not know anything at all about the Word processor but it´s most likely to be one of the aplications that uses the Floppy Drive AND perhaps the Printer Cable? :huh

I have only heard rumors about the Printer Cable,that(supposely)was sold togheter with a printer from Canon,if anyone out there has some pictuers or anything else that confirms the existence of the Printer Cable it would be great to see those

 dj898 Oct 6, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Action Replay@Fri, 2005-10-07 @ 04:16 AM



:agree BUT even if the floppy disc drive in itself perhaps is something that you don´t have much use of( I have´nt used a floppy on a computer since back in 98 and I don´t hink I´d use any on a saturn either),it would still be a nice"collectors"thing to have standing next to your saturn  



I am currently feeling a strong and burning desire to get one :devil ,but from my experience that kind of "must-have" feeling usually flyies away after a couple of days,and hopefully it will in this case as well (not that I don´t want one ot these but it wouldn´t be suitible for my economy right now  )



if someone offered me a Saturn floppy drive at a fair price I´d probably give it s shoot though :thumbs-up:




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Yes wordprocessor does support FDD.

I have Koei set inc. brand new ink jet printer... now come to think of I'm not sure why I have these thing... O_O but then I can't explain to myself why I have two FDD units either... :x

I will see whether I can dig up the printer cable and u/l the picture...

 Pyrite Oct 6, 2005
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...Y_BID...

This one has a better (starting) price.

 Action Replay Oct 7, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by dj898@Fri, 2005-10-07 @ 04:13 AM



Yes wordprocessor does support FDD.



I have Koei set inc. brand new ink jet printer... now come to think of I'm not sure why I have these thing... O_O but then I can't explain to myself why I have two FDD units either... :x



I will see whether I can dig up the printer cable and u/l the picture...




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wow! you actually OWNS a printer cable? How cool! There can´t be many of those around so they must be worth a lot of money?

It would be awesome if you could ut up some pictures of it! :thumbs-up:

Have you ever used it? How does it work?Do you have to use a special printer or can it hook up to any standard printer with serial plug?

BTW You have two FDD units... ever thought about selling one of them?

 Action Replay Oct 7, 2005
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			Originally posted by Zher@Fri, 2005-10-07 @ 07:02 AM



http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...Y_BID...



This one has a better (starting) price.




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Yeah,I´ve got my eyes on that one too

It´s really cheap compared to the other one( 315$)

Too bad it´s un-boxed... :/ I would really like to own the box

I´ll be watching the auction and if it stays in that price range I might grab it! :thumbs-up:

 KuKzz Oct 7, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Maybe someone could homebrew a USB cable with the connectors.


And be able to use it in like 5 games that supports it.

I also missed some units at ~200$ price range - still too expensive if you ask me.

 dj898 Oct 7, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Action Replay@Sat, 2005-10-08 @ 04:22 AM



wow! you actually OWNS a printer cable[question_mark]  How cool! There can´t be many of those around so they must be worth a lot of money[question_mark] 



It would be awesome if you could ut up some pictures of it! :thumbs-up: 



Have you ever used it[question_mark] How does it work[question_mark]Do you have to use a special printer or can it hook up to any standard printer with serial plug[question_mark] 



BTW You have two FDD units...  ever thought about selling one of them[question_mark] 




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I got the set years ago for the reason I no longer remember...

no I never used and they are still shrink wrapped...

I will see if I can dig them up from storage room and take some photo if I cannot find ones I took earlier...

for FDD can't be bothered with selling at all due to lack of time...

besides I still need to get rid of my other stuff before move to bigger items - FDD, Dev saturn and etc...

 Action Replay Oct 8, 2005
When ever it gets time for that FDD to get sold,you know where to turn

I´ve been checking out your auctions at VGA and I might put a bid on some of your stuff ,I´ve never used the site though so I don´t know how it works,is it like e-bay?,and how safe is it?

 dj898 Oct 8, 2005
yea it's bit like ebay...

it came about to answer the short coming of eBay anyway...

 crazygoat Nov 9, 2005
i just bought the floppy from ebay hit japan lowered it to 100 and i grabed it

now im gonna try to find EG word for it

 dj898 Nov 10, 2005
good luck on EG Word...

haven't met anyone outside Japan with the full set inc. Ink Jet printer..

Remember it comes with EG Word in thick CD case plus printer interface, ink jet printer and bundh of paper and other crap... ditching ink jet printer will make them quite compact...

haven't seen one on even Yahoo Japan in recent time - last time I saw was like 1.5 years ago...

 Kuta Nov 10, 2005
I recently saw a floppy drive for the Genesis on Ebay. Does anyone know if it is the kind of thing which is considered valuable? I'm not sure what use it could have anyway.

 crazygoat Nov 10, 2005

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Kuta@Thu, 2005-11-10 @ 06:18 PM



I recently saw a floppy drive for the Genesis on Ebay. Does anyone know if it is the kind of thing which is considered valuable? I'm not sure what use it could have anyway.




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isnt there backup devices that use floppies? it might be a backup unit to play genny roms u got a link?

 dj898 Nov 10, 2005
For Genesis yes that's for backup (naughty) as SEGA never made one for MegaDrive nor Genesis... And why would they...