How would you get data from your computer onto the blue 64dd cart? Is there some special drive you put the cart into? Can a retail (not a dev) 64dd read/write to a blue cart?
not only that if you insert the blue disc into the retail 64DD will get the content of disc gone for good~
because nintendo says so in the dev docs, with a huge warning in caps. Damn, it might even be true, no? Feel free to try it out though if you think the reasoning behind our advice is flawed, we d be very interested in the results, honestly!
nope. I never understood why nintendo did this, possibly to prevent piracy or force dev to use a dev kit?
....and luckily you said you wouldnt do that! It cant because both disks are formatted in different ways! If you want to experiment using dev disks you have to get a development kit for DD! Which means you need : a) a modified KMC N64 (have a look at the DIY N64 http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15105) b) a partner N cart, which means flash cart + interface cart c) a dev drive, the one witht the blue hazel (retail has grey ones). d) some blue disks. e) The debugger for formatting and running the software you put on your Disk! You see, its not that easy .
I would suggest, if you're only interested in finding out what's on the carts and don't want to go to a whole lot of expense, perhaps try sending them to someone who DOES have the equipment to take a look at. Who knows, it may have something special on them.
From what I hear, Kammedo is about the only one that could help with this, judging by the M3 disks saga. -Rob