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system64
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mrforever
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2022 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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wow it's gorgeous and impressive unit!
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Mystic_Merlin
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Very interesting stuff! Thanks for the share!
I came across a couple of Famiclones, with mouse and keyboard or with built-in CRT and floppy drives but this looks much more advanced.
As I recall China was banning the import of game consoles at the time so manufacturers would "hide" these functionalities in common VCD players.
I doubt many of those survived but that would be fun to try out.
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system64
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 2:44 pm Post subject: |
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Mystic_Merlin wrote: | I came across a couple of Famiclones, with mouse and keyboard or with built-in CRT and floppy drives but this looks much more advanced. |
I agree, this is the most advanced Famiclone I've ever seen.
Do you know a Chinese plattform where people sell used hardware, something similar to Ebay?
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mrforever
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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eh i looking too for marketplace websites for find those oddity units
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Mystic_Merlin
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:52 am Post subject: |
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You can try your luck at taobao, carousell or ruten.
These sites have local market places in Taiwan, HK, Singapore..
The problem is most won't deal with international buyers. Either you can use a proxy service or a proxy person is the best.
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mrforever
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Mystic_Merlin wrote: | You can try your luck at taobao, carousell or ruten.
These sites have local market places in Taiwan, HK, Singapore..
The problem is most won't deal with international buyers. Either you can use a proxy service or a proxy person is the best. |
THANK YOU MATE
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CZroe
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2022 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Great to see the CD loading demonstrated with Contra since that game used a custom mapper. Mapper support has been one of my big questions about the Bung Doctor PCjr this whole time. That means the backup loading is more advanced and it isn’t going to be limited to a bunch of NROM games from the CDs. Anyone know if it can handle FDS titles? …perhaps when cloned on standard 3.5” diskettes somehow? Does it support the most common one from Nintendo, MMC3?
I’d love to get my hands on one of these… or a Bung Doctor PCjr. It seems clear to me that the Doctor PCjr is basically a Doctor V64 with no N64 interface… and an additional floppy drive. As we all know, the V64 plays VCDs and uses Famiclone hardware for the OSD with some hardware for video blanking and pass-thru/overlay. You can clearly see this hardware use the same functions when it switches between the MPEG decoder and the PPU output.
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NorQue
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:20 am Post subject: |
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From what I could find out the Doctor PC Jr is basically a Game Master from the copier side, I doubt it can load FDS games, since it still needs the Famicom RAM adapter to load games from FDS as a standalone unit. To load games from 3.5" you needed a MGD1 and its floppy interface, from what I could find out. There were a bunch of people around here who must've owned one at one time or another and can probably say more, but I haven't read anything from them in a long time.
I've been on the lookout for one for a Game Master a while, but no luck so far.
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system64
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Mystic_Merlin
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 11:42 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for that! Funny timing as I just came back from China and got some interesting gear I'll post more about in the near future.
Regarding those Sega VCD/DVD players, they're a dime a dozen over there. Few FC based, lots of MD based.
Some guy even developped a SD interface for the MD ones.
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system64
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | Regarding those Sega VCD/DVD players, they're a dime a dozen over there. Few FC based, lots of MD based.
Some guy even developped a SD interface for the MD ones. |
would love to collect these devices Shipping is very expensive though.
btw, I found the software 'genCD' to create custom Sega Game VCD's:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AYtZMY18JqQwnKq2dqPbvvoYujAf-0NI
It's inside the Shinco zip folder and should be compatible with all Sega based VCD players.
This is not my shared folder, so I don't know how long it will be available.
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Mystic_Merlin
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Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2024 8:31 am Post subject: |
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Great, I always wondered how these CDs were made, eventually I'll dive into it once I get one of these machines.
Ironically I noticed the link you posted on archive.org was mentioned on this github page that was on my browser's tab for a few weeks:
https://github.com/pengan1987/fceux-bbk-yuxing
A fork of FCEUX for these Chinese computers. There are some disk images you might be interested in in the starter kit.
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Mystic_Merlin
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