The neomyth stuff isn't very good though is it? Certainly, their N64 solution is poorly realised. Fair enough, if that results in game loading from SD. That just leaves the PS1 and the Saturn. Most people want these solutions for convenience I would imagine. Having all your games on one device is highly desirable. If there are others like me who are willing to pay a high price, then it's going to be profitable for someone.
I just don't see what someone like Krikzz would do in terms of emulation for a CD based system? Especially the Dreamcast, which was felled largely by the fact that it had no protection from burned-media. I see no point in a Dreamcast product. For many of the optical systems, it also requires modding of the consoles to get things like this to work. As the most advanced cart-based console, N64 is really the end of the line I think.
a drive emulator for dreamcast would be nice since it would enable you to use true 1:1 backups rather than having to chop the game down to fit on CD-R (shenmue 2, D2, etc etc)
Indeed. Plus the all-important convenience factor. Not being able to see the benefits of such devices is pretty short-sighted.
It would be pretty interesting to be able to replace the PS1 CD-ROM assembly with a device using mass storage of some kind. Eliminating the mechanical nature would as mentioned make it better for portables but just in general would make it much more reliable.
Offtopic: a few years after the psone was release there was a a modchip came out that had a socket that covered the bios ic and tapped into 6 other pionts on the motherboard, it would then load a custom/homebrew exe where you could select cheats from , that would probably be the best place to try execute your own code to redirect "cd reads" instead of building a whole cd drive replacement. A similar thing was released for the old scph-7500x or less consoles,and used the parellel port(later removed on newer consoles 900x or slimlines), called action replay+ or Game shark, both of these circomvented the cd drive as well and could play backups... Its not going to be easy but probably its not impossible. PS allmost forgot to mention, a lot was done back in the early ps1 days by the "scene" to reverse the parelel port some of the documents are still availble online
No they didn't. They let the user stop the CD motor. This allowed them to do the Swap Trick without the hassle and dangers of doing it with the CD motor spinning the disc and while the disc was actually being read. This is all they do, stop the motor and facilitate loading the game after changing discs.
Krikz will become a millionaire if he makes a CD hardware emulator for the Saturn and DC! That is a dream for many Sega fans!
I think it is partly due to it being used from the start, when the idea was to stream the cartridge from CF, and CF had lower latency than SD. Until: In addition to:
Although KRIKzz's will be cheaper than marshall's, marshall's cart will be superior, I'm sorry, but from what I've seen of KRIKzz's work so far, it wont stand a chance against marshall's cart.
Which of his carts do you own, and what issues have you had? Seems like most people have been pretty happy so far.
??? You know as well as I do that both cards are still in development, so I wonder why you make that bold assumption! And do you think the Everdrive carts are inferior compared to other available flash cards? You must be an authority with cards. :lol:
It's not about which cart is the best it's about having a choice. People that are happy with their Everdrives will most likely also buy an Everdrive64. I personally would most likely buy both =D
64drive is obviously much closer to completion (at least I hope it is), and Krikzz is still in the early stages. Marshall's project, like the perpetually stalled SNES sd2snes, has a really cool cart menu, and he seems to be unwilling to release until every possible feature is ready. Feature wise I think he may set the bar pretty high for Igor, but it's likely the 64drive may cost TWICE what Krikzz comes up with.
ahm.. what ?! Can somebody link me up to that IDE 3DO solution ? EDIT: just founded it: http://3do-renovation.ru/IDE_for_3DO.htm this is not what I had in mind, I was thinking about a IDE to HD, so you can have the entire library of 3D0 games in a single unit. Well, this will only keep your 3DO alive forever.
Yeah, it's the same situation with the Dreamcast. The current solution is entirely inappropriate for game loading.
Dreamcast / Saturn CD emulation, I think you're completely confused. blank CD-R media is perfect, there is absolutely no reason for any emulation of DC or Saturn, as they are already done "basically". Saturn = modchip (plays ALL games) DC = selfboot If the Everdrive64 is built, I will buy. I'm beyond happy with my everdrive-MD, I just wont buy from the Ukraine again, as it took like 2months to get stateside. lol. Thanks KrikZZ Wynd
