I have a 16Mb unit, and a few possible compatible accessories (Mega CD Back-up RAM Cart, USB Floppy drive emulator, and a FlashPath floppy to SmartMedia card adapter), I dropped by Tototek for a zip-file-of-wonder, and confusement, after a search or two, since I didn't know it was called an Interceptor, since it just says "Mega Disk" on the case. I have no box, but I gathered up some pics, and a partial manual scan (ONE page, wah wah), I have figured out a few tricks involving the controllers, and successfully used the computer to put games on multiple disks, and single disks, depending on the size, using the Interceptor Mega Converter in DOS\Win98SE. I have successfully reversed the process, and all is functional, but many questions still remain, and I was hoping you might know some, or maybe all, of the answers. To answer your first question about why I didn't just turn it on and see the "Interceptor" part, it is because my unit refused to activate until I put a cartridge in the top slot for the first time, which I didn't do because I thought it might be broken. lol My hardware questions, There is a rom in my collection called the "TOTOTEK Sample Menu Program" and I want to know how to put games into it? Rom editor or something? With regards to the "Interceptor Specific Card" (I don't have one sadly), is the Mega CD Back-Up RAM Card the same thing? And can the BU card be used without a cd add-on? Mine doesn't AFAIK, since I don't yet have a cd add-on unit. Will my back-up card save games like I have read the Interceptor Specific Card does for development purposes? Any controller button combos? I figured out the 1st player button B and C are useful for copying and selecting games\programs\items, whereas 2nd player has the directions up and down to increase or decrease the size of the game data you want to copy. (don't ask me why they would have a feature that would allow you to copy less than the whole game, or more than the whole game for that matter!) Also, holding down the B button when powering up causes the memory map to be displayed for the current cart. As far as the software that was included in the zip file, Do you know what the files named fg.exe, gf.exe, mgf.exe, mfg.exe would do? The only possible explanation is that they somehow are used to make menus, but they don't show their command-line switches, when requested with /?, so it's a wild theory based on a filename search online, that only returned one result for any of those files!
The "Sample Menu Program" is meant for their Flash Carts most likely. Being able to change the size of the dump is useful if the auto detection method fails to recognize the real size. I don't know about the Backup RAM cartridge. Good luck finding information on the Interceptor. I don't think there were ever very many that ended up in English speaking countries.
Hi Do you still have the Mega Disk? I own one and recently coded a small program to handle disks using Windows (not only old DOS).
No mistake. I just wanted people to notice that the file is required, as not everyone speaks your language, so when they read the readme.txt they may not understand what needs to be done. I threw it into Microsoft translator online, and I got most of it pretty clearly. The added program for onboard floppy drives to have full capabilities in Windows is exactly what is needed to work with the disk's "sliding-sector" format. Thank you for all your hard work!
