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I used a Multi Game Doctor which with a special cable can dumps games into a raw binary format. Unfortunately it doesn't dump past the last file and the checksums are blanked out so the FDS game backups made with it aren't good dumps.
Using an actual QD drive is crazy! Nobody in their right mind today would hunt down rare and expensive hardware (which they won't use for anything but FDS dumping) so that they could modify the disks or the drive and attempt to dump them using equally hard to find ancient J software or writing their own.
Ahhehem! Well, I bought an MSX Turbo R + QD drive just for this purpose, as I heard people successfully used it to dump Famicom disks. I just need someone to tell me how! I don't know shit about how to use my Turbo R, so if there's anyvolunteers for advice, I'd love to hear from you.
Also, I bought a Sharp MZ-1500 for this purpose. It has a Built in QD drive, and I've seen a pic online of an FDS attached to this computer before....I just couldn't get a look at exactly how they connected it.
So again, if anyone has some advice, I'd love to hear it.
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The best way to dump disks is certainly through the RAM adapter. There is already a device that does this: the Pasodisk, but the hardware and software costs money and only dumps to the FwNES format.
Yeah, that and the guy that makes them refuses to sell them to you unless you are Japanese, the bigot (kidding, but have you ever seen a single YahooJ auction where they actually stated they'd sell outside Japan? Yeah, me neither). If anyone can hook a brother up, let me know. There's bonus $ in it for you.
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Maybe sometime there'll be my software I was working on to use. I've had a hangup though since NES emulators don't emulate low-level aspects of the drive correctly and right now I don't want to write a disk to test every other assembly.
Come on Kyuusaku, I'll give you an inspirational speech and everything if you'd finish this up.
-Rob