It uses a normal external floppy drive. Looks like white rectangular box with a power and pin input on the back. All the first copiers used the same set up until they started to build in the floppy drives. I had a Super UFO, Magicom and the first Pro Fighter which all used the same drive.
Yup. There's no such thing as a normal external floppy drive, not even across computer brands. UFO and Pro Fighters both have internal drives, Magicom do not. The only non-FFE copier that uses the drive is the CCL "Supercom Pro", which is a Magicom rebranded for the HK market. The FFE floppy simply wires the drive to the disk controller, it doesn't have any custom logic in it like pretty much every computer external floppy, especially those also with DB25 connectors meant to interface with a PC parallel port. Basically don't use a computer floppy with it, there's 0% chance it'll work and a reasonable chance something will fry.
Sorry for not being technical. The drives are not built in to the actual copier so to me they are "normal" external drives that connect to the copier via a parallel cable. In the early days of "Back Up Units" when the standard UFO came with only 8MB of memory it had an external floppy drive. I'm 100% sure of it.
Noooo ??? I don't know what you're thinking of but every Pro Fighter and UFO model contains an internal drive. The Magicom/Supercom Pro is the only dedicated SNES copier to use an external floppy, and I'm quite sure it's also the only dedicated SNES copier to ever be offered with only 8M of RAM, since it was released in 1991 when 8M still covered most games. When the Super Pro Fighter and Super UFO 6 (it's a Magicom clone) were released in 1993, 16M was firmly standard with 24M or 32M offered preemptively (they struggle with large games for reasons they couldn't anticipate).
My units say 16mbit, so back to the topic... How the hell do I use these? lol. I need a drive or can I connect the com i/o to a pc and use transfer?
AFAIK, the COM I/O cable is the same as used with the Super Magic Drive (which I use a 25-pin M-M extension cable for, as commonly used for A/B switches) and connects to the parallel port. You can use it with RBDUtil or likely uCON64 but you'll need to make sure you can access the LPT directly if you're running an NT-based OS (personally, I just keep an old box running Win9x around for this purpose).
Right get a straight-through male-to-male DB25 cable and use uCON64. Hopefully you have an XP machine around because I'm not sure if any of the kernel mode LPT driver DLLs support Vista/7/anything 64-bit. I used to just plunk inpout32.dll in the directory and it'd work.
