Sega Saturn Hard Disk Drive...

[mick_aka]

I was reminded of this by a post over at Sega-16, that that the Model 1 Saturn manual lists a Hard Disk Drive in the list of upcoming peripherals.

Now I've heard several reliable sources indicate that this was, as twith the floppy drive, a way to backup save games and download content from the internet, but does anyone have any more info on this?

I would love to know how far development got, and wether it interfaced through the cartridge port or the communication connector...

[superdeadite]

I believe it was never released. Though I'm sure a proto exists out there somewhere.

[Dolph]

I've certainly seen something like this at a show in the past, and I'm sure somewhere published images of an official drive prototype, may have been Assembler actually...

[mick_aka]

*runs off to search the assembler games forum*

[ajmetz]

Any news on any mods, that hook up a hard drive to the Saturn?
Would be cool to just dump my games all on a hard drive, to avoid disc scratches, or having to change disks, plus of course the benefits of saving games.
Although am already using the Datalink USB for the latter function.

[mick_aka]

No, although this is technically quite possible someone would need to sit and write the software to enable access to the hard disk.