N64 PC cart drive?!

anyone else besides me has ever seen one of these?:icon_bigg


Any info on the "Nintendo Bay" appreciated.

 

looks cool. youre sure this isnt just a stripped n64 inside a computer case?

 

Thats my first instinct.

 

That's exactly my feeling too

 

Judging from the cuts for the cart slot and the screws, looks very homemade. (But I've seen the same quality in "self made" studio equipment too )

Reminds me of the ghettoman(?) PSX/PC mod and also how that mod kinda made me want to try to take a PCI TV tuner and a Nes-on-a-Chip NES/FamiClone and build a computer CD cased NES that'd plug into my PC and leech power from the PC and display pic through the tuner.
(never happened, due to sudden lack of interest in homemade electronics)

 

..or a primitive cart-writer? O_O

 

It could also be some sort of backup device that's been modified to fit into a computer case.

 

That's what I think. Backup devices aren't very complicated, I've got a pick of one of the earliest (a competitor to Bung's Doctor V64):




Also, Barc0de, why did you watermark the picture? It's not like you're the only one who has it! ^_^'

 

Nice! any documentation on that? what's the name of the device?

Watermarked because I had found the picture long long ago (1999), but hadn't seen it ever since!

 

That's the backup card from the Supercom 64 aka "Wildcard 64" set.

 

Yup, that's correct. I have a full mirror of their original site, which is down right now. I can upload it tomorrow if anyone wants me to.

 

it would be great, thanks

 

Back from a long day of school.

Here's the mirror:
http://z64.emedian.net/mirror/wildcard64/

Enjoy.

 

ah..the memories. Very nice. Reminded me of the days of all at dextrose

 

damn, the ordering form doesn't work

thx for mirroring!

 

Hint: That's not the official site despite their claims, the HK manufacturer HiSpeed would have never made such technical fallacies much less sold competitors products (Gamars VCD player)

 

That is wicked. You probably could modify a n64 emulator run the rom off the cart if you had access to the card's driver source or dos tool.

 

subbie, are you thinking of hard-wiring that to the 64DD to start talking to the hardware?:lol:

 

I have wanted to do exactly this for (S)NES carts but lacking the hardware knowledge makes stuff like that a bit harder :-(

 

I have done just that with my FC emulator over parallel port (also ISA) there is simply too much overhead with both CPU and PPU to run at full speed.

N64 has very lax timing in comparison (muxed bus + snail speed access) but still, I don't think this approach to emulation is anything more than a short lived novelty.

The only way to ensure legal emulation would be to backup the game into system memory and run from there without giving the option to dump the game to disk.