Anyone heard of this. I'm digging through some old Sega (of Japan) Newsletters/Doujinshi and stumbled across this in one of the articles. According to said article, the diskettes would be 2" in size (as opposed to 5" or 3.5") and would hold .8 megabytes of data. They would be used in conjunction with cartridges, presumably not only to backup data, but presumably for other data that might help in playing. Price and release date were TBA. And, I'll be posting the issues on gamengai soon. Really cool shit. About halfway through they switch to a doujinshi format, and feature manga strips (mainly Phantasy Star) written by the staff of various PS games.
Sega kicked the idea around then decided to go with the CD unit. I have a few Mega Drive magazines (boxed away...) that have photographs/drawings of the FDD unit and the usual speculation about its benefits.
I have pictures of it and a prototype version on my Harddrive at home. I'll post them in this thread as soon as I get back later tonight. Yakumo
here are the pictures I have. none of the discs I'm afraid. The 1st prototype version The final version complete with keyboard. Yakumo
I recall reading some sort of official dev doc that mentioned the FDD.. don't remember too many details though. In fact, none at all, which I blame on excessive drinking
In the doc of SOA scan by Rex Sabio, in one of the "Genesis Tech Builtin" it's listed in the usage of the IO member of the header.
Probably where they got the idea to release one on the saturn to bad it never made it to the us because the japanese one costs alot as far as floppy drives go today you could pick up 50 used for the price of a saturn one
