Ofcourse you could just use FDSLoader to emulate the Disk Drive. You'll need to do this for both sides if applicable. At this point you will disconnect the RAM adapter from the PC and plug it into the modded FDS drive and then continue on the Famicom and it will write data and you will repeat this process of changing between the PC and the FDS drive until the entire disk is copied. It will load as much as it can into memory and then prompt you to change to the "target disk". Now on the Famicom tell it to begin copying. Start up the system and once at the menu, go to your PC and change the FDSLoader to the Disk image you want to write to disk. Load FDSLoader with an image of Disk Hacker II or other copy software and plug the RAM adapter into your PC. It works by swapping the RAM adapter's drive connector between your PC with FDSLoader and your modded FDS drive. One method is to use one of the copy programs like Disk Hacker II in combination with a modified FDS drive (they must be modified to rewrite the entire disk space) with FDSLoader. The Twin Famicom looks tremendously expensive on Ebay but if such a thing would be possible I might be ready to invest in this. This is really theoretical it would surely be complicated ! If you'd be somehow able to modify the console so that the disk unit is not completely disabled when switched on cart, and that I could use the PowerPak + a NES -> FC adapter on the cart side, it *could* become possible to rewrite a disk from the cart. I guess there is a switch that can select between disk or cart. (I remember I had to do something like that as a summerjob to "modernize" their systems some time ago).Īnother alternative that would be interesting would be to modify a "Twin Famicom", those systems made by sharp which are a compination of FDS + Famicom in a single unit. I'd be okay with it if it works on a recent (less than 10 years old) PC's parallel port and under Windows XP.Ī modern way to do would be to do a USB interface but it needs some kind of chip or board.
Now I guess the only way to have an easy 5V interface with a PC is to use the parallel port. (I know the powerpak has support for FDS, but I'd bet it'd be funnier with the real thing.) However if I'd somehow be able to rewrite disks and test sofware on it, it'd be a whole different story (or alternatively, emulate the disk drive and interface directly with the RAM adapter). Unfortunately, if I can only import disks from japan at a very expensive fee only to play games I could play emulated or with the PowerPak, there is only a very limited interest to me to buy a FDS. I think it's a shame it never made it here Damn Chinese pirates. I ask because I find the FDS to be very a fascinating machine. I know about FDSLOADR but it was made ages ago with terribly slow computers, and even then everyone had issues with it.
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