ctrl-alt-delete wrote:Games are small. Storage just sucks, even with SD.I know! I wish Nintendo would just admit defeat and come up with an external hard drive.
Modded Stuff, Got Any? Other Pirate Business
Also the ROM for VC aren't ROMs, they have the emulator software included on there, and who knows if they are even compressing the roms with anything. Nintendo said they would do something about the space problem and there are only two options. Direct SD access or a USB memory storage like a HDD.
Later on here I'll take a good picture of my favorite pirate item, my Super Famicom's "Game Doctor SF7".
Update: Here's pictures of my Game Doctor SF7, my favorite piece of all I think.
http://ninjagaiden4.thegaminguniverse.com/SFC_GD7_Front.JPG
http://ninjagaiden4.thegaminguniverse.com/SFC_GD7_Back.JPG
http://ninjagaiden4.thegaminguniverse.com/SFC_GD7_Top.JPG
The Game Doctor SF7 plays 99.9% of all SNES games released. There are notable titles that don't work on it, but the list is quite short. Since the SNES is perhaps my favorite library of games ever I really love this thing. I used to have the GDSF3 but it was more tedious and didn't have support for all the copy protections meaning you had to patch some games. The SF7 has no issues like that. =)
Darth Marsden wrote:I know! I wish Nintendo would just admit defeat and come up with an external hard drive.
I'm really hoping the homebrew community will come up with a way to open up the USB port, if they haven't already.
I have a 1 TB external harddrive.
I was figuring once Wii homebrew became open we would see the equivilent to the PS2's HD-Loader but for Wii using a USB drive. If the Wii has USB 2.0, it's certainly capable. If it's just USB 1.1 the rate might be too slow to keep up with some games streaming demands.
Woot! Just got a 2 gig Micro SD for my R4.
This is gonna make the 2 day car ride to florida much more fun.
I still don't understand why Nintendo is taking so long in terms of working out how to make the Wii load games from SD cards. Seriously, that functionality should've been available from the start. I know there's the issue of piracy, but let's face it, the Wii has already been hacked, so what are the so worried about?
Maybe it's related to them being cheap and not wanting to spend the money as it would cost them to have their programmers make the changes and then it has to be tested etc. And they've made it clear Nintendo is Profit First, everything else after that.
Doubt it. They throw money at minuscule things all the time. Large teams of people have to extensively test minute changes to things like the photo channel, despite no one screaming for updates to things of that sort. Thousands or tens of thousands of dollars go into testing even simple projects. With the amount of money sunk into programming and testing for things like that, it makes no sense why it'd suddenly be an issue for an important feature like more storage, which people actually do complain about.
it is taking time, because they have to make sure they can implement it in a way that pirated games can't be used 😉 and various other potential exploits. They are probably going to release a special cable that has a card slot on one end that only supports "Nintendo" flash cards?
I was working on getting my PSP to do a lot of cool shit... then I sold it, got sick of messing with it
franpa wrote:it is taking time, because they have to make sure they can implement it in a way that pirated games can't be used 😉 and various other potential exploits. They are probably going to release a special cable that has a card slot on one end that only supports "Nintendo" flash cards?
Nope. If pirates wanted to use the SD slot right now, they could. Piracy isn't the issue. Also there are no Nintendo flash cards, the Wii uses SD cards, an extremely common type made by a dozen companies, which does not include Nintendo. Nintendo has someone slap their name on some over priced SD cards for them though. It's certainly not a piracy issue.
I have yet to get the X-Box mod you told me about Mott. 😞 I thinking of getting a few cart rippers/copiers for the GB, GG, and Genesis, but I'm kinda in the dark on what's available and where to get it. I remember seeing something a while back for the Genesis and SNES, but after reading about it, it looked somewhat unreliable. (think it was maybe the ProDragonDouble or Twin Dragon something :shrug: )
The only hardware 'mod' I really did was hack my GB Game Genie's case down so I could plug it into my Super Game Boy. I have an extra SNES with may or may not work, as the AC adaptor was broken off, so I can't do much with it. I guess I could try to rip everything out and build a mini-barebones computer within the casing if the size limitations aren't...too small for anything. Or, I can try my luck at possibly finding parts to build a top-loading NES. I really don't know wat to do with it, except that it's been inked black.
My friend hacked his Game Genie to fit the Super Gameboy too. =)
You're thinking of the Double Pro Fighter I think, which supports Genesis and SNES. If you are interested in Flash Cartridges for Genesis or SNES they aren't hard to find. It's harder to find the old school copier units.
The AC adapter broke off? The SNES has a small jack for the AC adapter's input. How could that break off? If the power adapter is broken you can get a new one. Don't butcher a perfectly good SNES.
i believe it may have been plugged in then it snapped off, so part of the power plug is forever stuck plugged in? stopping new power plugs from being inserted...
I think I know what he means.
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Anyways, the AC adapter is that box in the middle. One end of it is a plug for the SNES to AC adapter cord, and the other is not a plug, but the wire comes directly out of the adapter. I think he means that either the adapter to wall cord or the SNES to adapter cord broke.
You can use a tool to yank out anything and plug in a new AC adapter. No reason to waste the SNES.
Well I have a fun story. Today I installed my first modchip byself myself that required soldering. Previously I only had two modded systems with chips before. One was a PSOne I have professionally modded. The second was an Xbox that had a solderless adapter that I was able to install. Well tonight I soldered in a PS1 modchip. It worked out fine but there were other issues with the system that really made everything quite a long night. But it's working now and that's the important part. It wasn't that hard for me to install it. I had minimal trouble with the actual modding part and more trouble with a bad CDROM.
Anyone else here ever install a modchip themselves?
No, I don't trust myself. Somehow, I know that if I tried anything like that, I'd screw it up and ruin both the chip and the console. I prefer to let people who know what they're doing screw up for me.
I was like you once, and perhaps still am for certain modding tasks, like the PS2. I'd like to have a modchip in my PS2, but you have to solder 20 or so wires to really tiny things. But installing a mod into some other systems isn't so hard.
Also I forgot, I installed a modchip in my Sega Saturn. But that one was easy, even you could do it Darth. The Saturn modchip plugs into the mix as if it belonged there, and then you solder 2 wires to very big targets, or you can actually tape or glue them.
Gah, looks I wasn't being clear. The part on the back of the system where the AC adaptor plugs into is broken completely off. It also looks like the previous owner tried setting the thing on fire a few times, too. Also to boot is that someone tried hacking the back of the system apart the hard way.
The guys at the game shop were going to throw it away, but I asked if I could have it to play around with, so that's how I got that one. I'll have to find time to get a few pics when i have the chance, but it smells of burnt nastyness. If I can at least open it up, I can maybe do some kind of wiring to an ac adaptor to see if it even works. At least I have my orignal SNES to play games on 😛
MottZilla wrote:Later on here I'll take a good picture of my favorite pirate item, my Super Famicom's "Game Doctor SF7".
Awesome, Mott! I've got a GDSF7 too! I also own:
a Supercard DS with a ram cart to play GBA games and use the Opera Browser.
a Krokodile Cart for Atari 2600
a Colecovision multicart and an Atari5200 multicart from AtariMAX.com
I've got a FDS hooked up to a NeoFami (Famicom Clone)
a Zodiac2 (palm-based emulation handheld)
a GP2X F-100 and an F-200 (linux-based emulation handhelds)
and a magic swap disk for PS1.
I'm about to order that PowerPak. I'm drooling already!! 😊)
Nice collection firebug. I'm not too big on clone Famicom's but the FDS is very cool. Were you aware that the PowerPAK now supports FDS games? It's very nice.
In total I've got:
GDSF7 (32mbit) for Super Famicom
M3 Perfect Mini SD for DS & GBA
PowerPak for NES and Famicom
SwapMagic for PS2
Chipped Xbox 1
1 Stealth Chipped PSOne
2 Chipped PS1 (Old Style)
Chipped Sega Saturn
PS2 with FreeMcBoot Hack
GameCube with SDLoader Drive Hack
I wish I had a Z64 for N64, then I might actually play it from time to time. I'd also like to get a Genesis flash cartridge as well as a GameBoy/GameBoy Color flash cart. But I think other than those 3 I have all the cart stuff I want. I would like to have a chipped PS2.
Well Mott, if you've got the $$, you can find genesis flash carts here:
http://www.tototek.com/
(sorry if you already know about them!)
and the v64/z64 can be found here:
http://www.hkgtoys.com/search.php?page=sfc002
I've seen gb/gbc flash carts every so often, but not recently. I really want an iQue, but I'm not sure how I would get games for it. :P
Happy shopping! :thumbsup:
I knew of Tototek and I think I came across hkgtoys before too but never ordered there. Have you? Are they reputable?
I ordered a GBA TV-out from them years ago, before the Gameboy Player came out for the GC. It arrived at my house pretty quickly (within a week) using the cheapest post. Paying them was a bit of a pain though, because they don't accept paypal or take credit cards at their site.
How did you pay them then?
western union.