Earthbound 3 for N64/DD64

lets hope you dont corrupt what's on the disk

*Knocks on wood*

 

why do you think trying to boot a 64dd dev game 'll erase it ?

anyway if he don't try to boot it all he bought is a bit useless, isn't it ?

 

If he bought it, then it should have come with the IPL rom and all other neccessary stuff, otherwise he got ripped and is probly not what he thinks it is.

 

I've been busy getting ready and selling stuff at a local flea market. Haven't done much searching yet. Except I read the manula a little. It says it was supposed to come with an IPL ROM cart. Aswell as a DCC somethin or other. I have the DCC and it came with another chip that may be the IPL ROM cart? I think this one is unused though. I took a picture but it takes forever for it to load with dial up.

 

Dial-up. Arrggghhhh, the memories...

Anyway, thanks for the pics!

 

I'm going to go out on a limb here but don't get your hopes up.

The game was to have seasons that affected the gameplay, so they had to have 4 versions of the game in each season... you have 4 disks.... However, the KM in the middle throws me off. It could be thats its just part of the game thats on those disks in 4 different seasons or something entirely different. I know for a fact that they did label their disks with M3, thats why I acted like I did in my first post in this topic .

 

good luck so

 

Well, there's the precaution that's stated in the Dev 64DD manual to never try and mix dev disks and retail systems, or vice-versa for fear of disc corruption - always a good thing to keep owners of potentially unreleased material mindful of, in my opinion.

Have you tried asking anyone at Starmen.net for advice on this, coreycorey? I think they had a member or two that were trying to get their hands on a 64DD dev system for this sort of thing as well. Another website to go to for advice is http://web20.emedian.net/64ddnet/, as they're dedicated to the 64DD itself - not sure if they really deal in the dev side of things, though. I think KR155E is a mod there, or the founder, or SOME position of authority.

 

damn, what strikes me as odd is how these disks got leaked, still i hope there is a way to get the game to boot some how, since sadly no one has been able to dump dd games due to the way they are formated. Im guessing this is why they didnt use zip disks.

 

there is already a thread for that in 64dd.net forum

http://web20.emedian.net/64ddnet/board/viewtopic.php?t=251#1933

he needs a partner for sure (or a flashrom) but i think (my opinion) that it'll miss the specific ddrom (as i think it's not generic). May be i'm wrong on that point. and i hope i'm wrong.

good luck

 

Assembler has a Partner flash carts, even partner systems (different bios than retail n64) and that he's selling. However, I'm not sure he has the flash cart up for sale. If thats what you need, then try to get your hands on them. And if you are able to boot them, try to dump them .

 

I have no clue what the KM stands for either. I haven't had time to do much looking around on the net yet. Hopefully I can do some more at work tonight.

No I haven't asked anyone at Starmen.net yet. I will try to contact someone tonight. I've read most of the topics about the 64dd on 64dd.net I didn't find anything really useful. I think the key to this may be the n64dd dev manual. I wish I had a scanner so I could post it for everyone.

I know assembler has some stuff for sale. I've tried talking to him about a few things. However since I am new it appears I get tossed aside. If I need something I am deinitley going to try to get it.

Something new that I noticed:
I have something called a N64Joint. I didn't see mention of it in the dev manual. I took a closer look at it. It connects the DCC board to the N64.

I just talked to someone who is interested in selling me other 64dd dev disks and an ipl4rom cart. If anyone else is in discussion with him about this please leave them alone unless you are also trying to get a system up and running. I just wanted to let everyone know that I am devoted to this even if I am really really busy.

I should post everything th emanual says I need
64DD dev system:
64dd drive with blue disk slot (HAVE)
5 dev disks (HAVE)
Memory Pak (I think this is just a regular memory pack)
Jumper Pack Ejector (shouldn't be necessary)
IPL ROM Pak (I need to find this hopefully I can get one from lingjr or my other source) (I have a cartridge that has a fatory label that says Disk on it) I figure it's either a flash cart or an IPLRom cart.
DCC board (HAVE)
N64Joint (not listed but HAVE)

Software N64 Developer OS/Library 2.0H (Lingjr has it for sale)

Partner N64NW or Partner64PC
refers to Partner N64 debuggers

If anyone has access or knows where I can find anything that I don't have please let me know.

Thanks everybody

 

Thats not true!
It is possible to dump DD games.
LaC one of the coder of the N64 Emulator NEMU64 did it but obviously he dont want to release them.
I know that because he was asking for a DD Drive and Games on the NEMU Page to do it.
I was stupid enough to sent my whole DD collection to him!
HE NEVER GAVE IT BACK TO ME UNTIL NOW!!!
thats over 2 Years ago. I lost 650 EUROS because of him.
Half year ago he made a post in the dextrose forum that he was sending it back and iam a Liar but the he is the Liar!

 

Now thats silly! Never lend strangers your stuff...

 

i don't think that Lac dumped 64dd games.

Anyway i heard that 64dd story. i'm sorry for you.

 

damn you nintendo for making such a low print run of the dd. In fact did any U.S. importers actually carry the dd, i remember when it came out the only ones i saw that had any were european importers.Its too bad a former 64 developer or any developer that has worked with a dd can help us out.

 

I'm not sure if Assembler wanted me to keep adding to this topic or start a new one. He said he'd sticky it for me! I feel special now. Anyways I started a topic at Starmen.net like someone suggested. Sounds like they are really interested in helping out. Or maybe they just want to buy it from me. You never know.

Here are links to the discussions on other boards.
http://forum.starmen.net/?t=msg&th=16292
http://web20.emedian.net/64ddnet/board/viewtopic.php?t=251

 

its still worth a check, hell it could be multiple copies for testing, its worth a shot,if worse comes to worse its another unreleased game that never was anounced. Of course hopefully this doesn turn into the fiasco that re0 did on 64.

 

Could be multiple copies or one copy set at a certain part of the game for quick debugging a certain area, but I could definitely be wrong.