Earthbound 3 for N64/DD64

tape disks??? picture, picture

 

Tape disks, eh? I have about a dozen different DAT tape readers laying around. I second the pictures request.

 

Here:
http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7202

P.S. I didn't want to get the whole thread off topic. ;-)

 

Why off topic? Its still Mother (well at least probably) - and rare stuff related ;-)
Besides, did you ever get a chance to have a look on what's on them at all?

 

I pretty much doubt it's Mother, but who knows? I don't have any hardware that could read the disks :crying:.

 

Uhm....ebay? Akihabara?

 

Huh, that kind of sucks... I have a reader for those, but it's locked up tight in my facility. Considering the nature of the business, i can't even take a floppy disk out of the area without filling out a bunch of paperwork. I can just see the look on their face

Me:"Uh, yes sir. I'm trying to see if these DAT tapes have the long rumored prototypes for Mother3."

Guard: "Is that one of our titles?"

Me: :rambo: matrix style....

Don't think i can help on this one

 

Hi everyone...rbudrick here. Long time lurker of Assemblergames, but I'm almost always on at the DP boards.

Since this seems to be the thread where any news would be posted and the starmen.net threads appear to be dead on this, where is this project right now?

Has any progress at all been made?

-Rob

 

i think nothing 'll come up. hope i'm wrong

 

Ok...but why do you feel that way? Because of the lack of updates or was there a setback I didn't hear about?

-Rob

 

The lack of updates is due to several reasons. I can't find a blank Flash cart for sale. I thought I had one tracked down but he sold it to someone else without letting me have a chance. I also need to find a complete Partner 64 setup to make my own IPL4Rom cart or someone who can flash the cart for me.

Several of the people who I believe know what they are doing in this area will not respond to my inquiries. And the people who send me offers (who I assume know what they are doing) also aren't responding.

So until I get the remaining equipment or find someone who knows what they are doing there isn't much I can do.

 

Now that you tell me.....as far as i remember virtual alan was selling a "complete" (not sure on that tho) 64dd dev kit some time ago.....maybe you could get in contact with the buyer (if va, of course, agrees to tell you who it is...)?

 

Did Assembler ever dig out his dev stuff? Or was it not the equipment needed to read the disks?

 

Oh, gotcha, sorry to hear that, Corey. I thought you found these for some reason.

I wonder if someone at the digitpress.com forum would have these. The site is down today for some reason...

-Rob

 

The site has been down for over a week (I think) now. In fact, everytime I try to visit there, it's down, meaning I've never been there. :-(

 

Rumor is that they got hacked.

 

Well, it's only been two days. Yeah, they probably got hacked. There's a backup forum for DP, but I forget what the location is. Weird thing is, they got a major update recently that was supposed to make it extremely difficult for hackers...I guess not difficult enough.

-Rob

 

I do believe the kit that Virtual Allen sold is identical to what I have so far. The complete N64dd dev kit does not actually include everything necessary to crack these disks. I'm purchasing a NU64 Flash Gang Writer along with the disks that contain the IPL4rom program.

Does anyone know what exact SCSI card and cables I need to hook up the Flash Writer? I need to locate them. I doubt I'd be lucky enough that the ones for Dreamcast Dev would work. But maybe.

Also I need a Flash cart still. There is one on ebay that I could reflash. Hopefully it doens't go too high. Edit: I was a little slow on the Flash cart. Still need to find one!

I'm getting really close to having all the equipment necessary. I might have everything by the new year!

 

Uhm i cant tell because the kit i have is the indy one.....if im not wrong, SCSI is retro compatible...so it should be ok with a new one at least....

Let's hope so!! cant wait to get some exciting news!!

 

There are different types of scsi plugs...25, 50, 68, and 80 pin. Some of these come in centronics and mini varieties too, I think. The 50 pinners were sometimes on 3 rows, sometimes 2. The 68 pinners come in vhdci and lvd/ultrawide varieties on top of all this (possible the 80 too). Also, internal scsi connections are often different than the external ones! Old macs even used an odd 30 pin scsi at one time. Any idea which one it is?

Basically, yeah, they are retro compatible.....it will just run at the slower speed of the older device and the plugs have to match up. I hope Big N didn't use anything proprietary.

-Rob