4 ms·

I really think this is the best way to enjoy retro games. Original hardware + cart/cd emulation with games loaded on sd card. Access to every single game in eve

I really think this is the best way to enjoy retro games. Original hardware + cart/cd emulation with games loaded on sd card. Access to every single game in every region for the entire console that runs flawlessly. The hiccups and bugs you experience with emulation totally ruins immersion. Also best played on CRT. I still remember there used to be a Hong Kong vendor that sold these flash carts and you could load N64 roms on a CD drive attached to the console. V64

bdowling 4y ago
Probably Lik-Sang. [0]. RIP. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang
- pezezin 4y ago
  Most likely it was Bung Enterprises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bung_Enterprises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bung_Enterprises
asveikau 4y ago
I remember in the late 90s reading about a device that sat in the N64 cartridge slot and loaded games from a zip drive. I think it may have been called z64. I remember similar units for SNES that loaded from floppy disk.
- Bluecobra 4y ago
  When the network adapter came out on the PS2, you could stick a standard IDE hard drive into the console and use a special boot disc CD to FTP games to it and load it from the hard drive. It’s pretty wild that in a span of ~10 years or so you had these devices go from floppy disks > CD drives > ZIP drives > hard drives.
  - moepstar 4y ago
    This was also done before on the Dreamcast - it had a "BBA" (broadband adapter) peripheral that could also be used to read / write disc images to / from network locations iirc... so that was around 22 years ago :)
    - johnwalkr 4y ago
      I think you are remembering Gamecube, which could load disc images using an exploit in Phantasy Star Online (PSO). You could point it to your local PC instead of Sega's servers, where a server could inject code (in this case to load games over ethernet). It wasn't a good experience for any game that had CD audio streaming or FMV (so most games). Funnily, this exploit was based on a previous exploit in PSO for Dreamcast, which was used for cheating. Back in the day a serial cable was used to rip dreamcast games, and people removed copy protection and FMV to get games working on CDRs (dreamcast discs held more than a CD but the drive could read both types). Someone also got the BBA for dreamcast working to rip and load games, but I think this was only about 10 years ago.
      - moepstar 4y ago
        AFAIK, this has been the go-to method by scene groups to do their rips - this thread goes back to at least 2007: https://dcemulation.org/dumpcast/viewtopic.php?t=153 https://dcemulation.org/dumpcast/viewtopic.php?t=153 Edit: but yeah, you're probably right about the early dumping ways...
        johnwalkr 4y ago
        Oh cool, goes back farther than I thought!

bdowling 4y ago

Probably Lik-Sang. [0]. RIP. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lik_Sang

pezezin 4y ago
Most likely it was Bung Enterprises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bung_Enterprises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bung_Enterprises

asveikau 4y ago

I remember in the late 90s reading about a device that sat in the N64 cartridge slot and loaded games from a zip drive. I think it may have been called z64. I remember similar units for SNES that loaded from floppy disk.

Bluecobra 4y ago
When the network adapter came out on the PS2, you could stick a standard IDE hard drive into the console and use a special boot disc CD to FTP games to it and load it from the hard drive. It’s pretty wild that in a span of ~10 years or so you had these devices go from floppy disks > CD drives > ZIP drives > hard drives.
- moepstar 4y ago
  This was also done before on the Dreamcast - it had a "BBA" (broadband adapter) peripheral that could also be used to read / write disc images to / from network locations iirc... so that was around 22 years ago :)
  - johnwalkr 4y ago
    I think you are remembering Gamecube, which could load disc images using an exploit in Phantasy Star Online (PSO). You could point it to your local PC instead of Sega's servers, where a server could inject code (in this case to load games over ethernet). It wasn't a good experience for any game that had CD audio streaming or FMV (so most games). Funnily, this exploit was based on a previous exploit in PSO for Dreamcast, which was used for cheating. Back in the day a serial cable was used to rip dreamcast games, and people removed copy protection and FMV to get games working on CDRs (dreamcast discs held more than a CD but the drive could read both types). Someone also got the BBA for dreamcast working to rip and load games, but I think this was only about 10 years ago.
    - moepstar 4y ago
      AFAIK, this has been the go-to method by scene groups to do their rips - this thread goes back to at least 2007: https://dcemulation.org/dumpcast/viewtopic.php?t=153 https://dcemulation.org/dumpcast/viewtopic.php?t=153 Edit: but yeah, you're probably right about the early dumping ways...
      - johnwalkr 4y ago
        Oh cool, goes back farther than I thought!