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Post by superfamiking on Jan 29, 2008 21:21:15 GMT
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Post by rossi46 on Jan 29, 2008 22:22:14 GMT
I ain't never heard of one. I dunno that much (ie none) about Jap stuff, though. Probably worth having from a curiosity poit of view, but I can't think of a use for it.
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Post by mick_aka on Jan 29, 2008 23:38:37 GMT
I have a shed load of pics of this already, It was part of the online hardware relased in japan, I could be wrong but I was told it was for saving internet content onto?!
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Post by Yart on Jan 30, 2008 0:08:09 GMT
That, and Dezaemon 2 (shmup maker) supported it. From what I hear you couldn't insert a floppy made for the Saturn into just any computer. Probably something to do with the filesystem it used or something.
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Post by superdeadite on Jan 30, 2008 4:59:44 GMT
The Saturn Game Basic pack supported it as well I believe. In my Japanese Saturn manuals, there is also an external Saturn Hard disc drive listed. I'm not sure if it was ever released though.
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Post by Madroms on Jan 30, 2008 8:27:04 GMT
The Saturn FDD lets you back up your save games, nothing more. Only a few games support it directly, like Deza2 and Game basic as already mentionned, but also Azel PD, some internet software and one Koei simulation game (maybe some other but I don't remember them at work). The FDs are not readable on PC. A FD is like a big memory card with 2 parts: FD1 and FD2. It came with the Sega Saturn FDD Operator. On the box, this is what is written: "Backup your Sega Saturn Networks or sega Saturn CD data on the floppy disc. Just one MF-2HD floppy disc can hold 50 times as much data as your Sega Saturn Internal memory!" Without the FDs, you can't really share your Dezaemon 2 works for example, as sending memory cards is way to expensive compared to sending a MF-2HD. This is how I got all the Deza2 save games for dumping for the D2SGM project released on Xmas 2007. You can find a somewhat big picture of the box here: www.satakore.com/sega-saturn-game,,HSS-0128,,Sega-Saturn-FDD-Operator-JPN.htmland you can download the sega saturn FDD operator at segaxtreme (but useless without the FDD): www.segaxtreme.net/index.php?p=satdev at the end of the Saturn Development Tools part. For a Hard disc drive: none were released, too bad  |
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Post by mick_aka on Jan 30, 2008 11:49:36 GMT
Would be usefull to have a circuit diagram for something like this, see how easy it would be to make one myself as the software is readilly available.
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Post by neptune on Mar 26, 2008 15:15:10 GMT
I'd forgotten that this existed. I want one now. Pointless owning it I know, but how collectable.
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Post by mick_aka on Mar 26, 2008 15:45:33 GMT
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Post by RealBlue on Mar 28, 2008 23:44:56 GMT
ouch... i see what you meen |
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Post by thegardentool on Mar 30, 2008 19:10:05 GMT
And from what I remember reading a long time ago, you must get an official floppy disk because you cannot use a computer to format the disk to properly read on it. I don't know if anybody ever figured out or developed a program to do it. There has been one on eBay for at least a year that doesn't include the disk. Plus its $315 USD. |
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