Saturn HDLoader

Discussion in 'Sega Saturn Programming and Development' started by iCEQB, Feb 21, 2014.

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  1. petterk

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    A modchip is cheap, and as this is no REPLACEMENT for the cd-rom, i would get it modded anyway.
     
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    My guess is that unless this thing can patch images on the fly (or you prepatch the images) having a region-free BIOS installed is going to be useful.
     
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    Yeah it could be possible to do that since the Action Replay cart could do so & also has the ability to use the 1MB or 4MB RAM features.
     
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    no actual useful info so far? or picture of the thing running open?
     
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    It's probably vaporware like the soon to be PSIO.
    I would really like to see an ODE, but such a thing will require a lot more people to give a damn.
     
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  7. karsten

    karsten Member of The Cult Of Kefka

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    altought i would not bet a cent on it it seems the psio is not vaporware. The guy managed to find good helpers in his task
     
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    what is this on the back? an SD card slot?
    bleh , why not make it usb.... :\
     
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    I don't really care much about the USB because I never used it on any of the flashcarts i owned. What do you need USB for?
     
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    For storing and loading isos. The saturn is not a snes/megadrive that you can store the whole system's library in a 8GB SD card.

    @Druid II

    there are still 3rd party cheap 2.5" HDD cases that provide their own psu to power the hdd , it would add one extra cable to the setup but it beats having to buy several expensive atm sd cards to store data... at least I wish usb was an option :)
     
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    I'm sure a 32 GB SD card would suffice. I stored almost 80% of all my favorite Game cube games in one library of games I would want to play. And besides you're not going to put every possible variants of the same game of the entire system library would you? For me personally I would just put the games I like to play and I believe I can fit all that within 32 gbs.
     
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    More updates to the pcb chip. They got some photo of the v1.1 model.

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    Sexy.
     
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    Niiiiiiiice!
     
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    Looks expensive.
     
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    It is : fpga at the center of the front picture itself is USD20-ish, microcontroller on right side is USD10, and it looks like PCB is a 4 layers one, which is 2-3 time more expensive than a 2 layers one.
    Let's hope it is just a prototype and that final version will use simpler (cheaper) parts :)
     
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