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Mur di Aries
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject: Time to change, The Ultimate Megadrive copier. |
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Well, I belive Tototek needs to make the move.
It is true, maybe the price will go up, but in the end, the users who buys it for a 70$ would spend also 120€ for it.
And again, except from the fact I personally dislike the working method of them, why anyone here talks about Neo-Team? I'll tell you.
New Ahead Development Ideas.
Let's face it, future is not that crappy (and way too hard to find in most common motherboards) Parallel port. Or those time limited (memory worned out) RAM carts.
We need SD card support with USB connection, as well as a SCD RAM cart. Everyone really in will of buying something worth, would give you 150$ for this, because this would be THE Megadrive copier.
Fast, powerful and easy to use. |
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rbudrick
Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 373
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Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Tomy will need a USB expert for his team before any such things could go forward. Otherwise, the research may take him a very long time. Working with parallel vs. USB is like the difference between apples and oranges, to use an old cliche.
-Rob |
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MottZilla
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 765
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Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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I've heard that it's probably easier to make a cartridge with RAM in it as well as a CF (Compact Flash) memory card slot than to use things like USB or SD cards. CF from what I understand isn't as tricky or painful to work with as SD.
I think mainly what you are looking for (I am looking for this too) is something with mass storage capability and unlimited use with no PC required. I too would like something like that. While FlashROMs do take hundreds of thousands of flashes to die, I'd rather have RAM (which probably writes alot faster) which lasts forever unless damaged. Basically you limited to misc backup devices that probably require a floppy or pc parallel connection. However "Fonzie" of genny4ever.net is working on a "MegaCart". It is a 32 MegaBit flash cartridge for Genesis. However it is designed so that you can program it not only with a PC connected programmer, but your Sega Genesis/MegaDrive can program it if you have a SegaCD attached. So then whenever you want to change ROM you could just load the CD with your ROMs and pick whichever one you want to flash to the cartridge. You could even flash whatever game you want using your home system before going somewhere with your Nomad system. Check it out here. http://www.genny4ever.net/megacart
The only thing better in my opinion would be a cartridge containing 32MBits of RAM with a small Flash or Mask/PROM containing a bios to load your roms off a CF memory card inserted into your cartridge. You could just buy a decent size CF memory card and keep all your games in 1 cartridge. I'd buy something like that for any and ever console it would be available for. |
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Mur di Aries
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 5
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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You are Right, that's the way. |
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MottZilla
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Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject: |
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Now if only one of us had a clue how to design and produce something like that. I really wish I did, but I don't know much of anything about electronic design. I wouldn't mind learning for something like this. |
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Mur di Aries
Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 5
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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I bet tototek has many friends out there, that could help with this! |
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kyuusaku
Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 941 Location: .ma.us
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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If you guys didn't notice, the Megacart will be (is) a Tototek product. Fonzie wrote the softare, Tototek is behind the hardware. |
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rbudrick
Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 373
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, I didn't notice that. That's pretty sweet. These available yet?
-Rob |
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Xenepp
Joined: 14 Feb 2008 Posts: 35
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | If you guys didn't notice, the Megacart will be (is) a Tototek product. Fonzie wrote the softare, Tototek is behind the hardware. |
It still doesn't support mass storage without a Mega CD bolted on though does it?
Doesn't it bother you that a 17 year old device like a Super Magic Drive trumps the latest offerings with a floppy disk drive?
-Joel |
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MottZilla
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 765
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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The Super Magic Drive is HUGE. You might as well have the Sega CD attached. I know I'd rather have a 600mb+ CD-ROM to load games from than Floppy disks... |
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