Hi Folks,
I'm wondering if someone can possibly give me a hand with building a cable and pointing out the correct tools needed to connect an FDS drive to either a Mac or a PC (running XP or DOS as required) and write disks with it. I prefer the Mac route, but I don't know if any SW exists to do this from MacOS X, so I'll go the Windoze way if I must.
Before you even ask, NO, I don’t plan to pirate tons of FDS games, as I have almost every single FDS game that I want or can play, but I do have some problems that I need to resolve and I need a way of writing FDS disks to do that.
Problem #1: I don't speak and thus cannot read Japanese. This puts a big blockade in my way of enjoying FDS RPGs like "Deep Dungeon". Yet, there is hope, as TR-Patches exist for many of the games that I can't understand...and maybe even for games I shouldn't understand, such as "Dandy"...
I will even, once I have a working writer setup, be willing to let folks from nesdev send me (original) disks for TR patching as a bonus "Thank You" to the community for helping me out.
Patching the FDS images is fine, but I would like to put the patched game back onto the disk and PLAY IT ON THE REAL HARDWARE!
The same goes for hacked/modded games. Heck, I might e en want to make an original FDS game some day, too, so I need a way to write the disks from images.
Secondly, I have some disks that have bad sectors, or at least I assume so from the errors (in Japanese) that I've gotten while either loading or playing them. I have dups of some titles, but not all of them, and I’d rather not rebuy a game that has gone bad when I can re-write over the disk (assuming the media is not bad itself) or write over a known good disk (of a terrible game) as a backup.
Thus, I would really appreciate if someone can either point me to plans to build a cable and tell me what software actually works for doing this, of if someone has a cable and the software and is willing to sell me a cable or a complete setup for doing it.
If anybody has the parts and is willing to build a cable, I am willing to trade some extra FDS disks (random selection of my extras) for one.
I have a normal FDS and a red Sharp FamiTwin. I don't know the drive model numbers on the FamiTwin, but I can always mod the original FDS or grab another if I need to do that.
Additionally, does anybody know the true nature of Port 2 (the one with the sliding black cover on the side of the Twin)? Wiki claims that this port allows you to connect the Twin to another Famicom and use its DD there, but other sources claim that you can link it to another FDS via thus port.
Neither of these makes a lot of sense and both are unconfirmed. Does anybody know what this port actually does?
Thanks in advance!
-Xious
I'm wondering if someone can possibly give me a hand with building a cable and pointing out the correct tools needed to connect an FDS drive to either a Mac or a PC (running XP or DOS as required) and write disks with it. I prefer the Mac route, but I don't know if any SW exists to do this from MacOS X, so I'll go the Windoze way if I must.
Before you even ask, NO, I don’t plan to pirate tons of FDS games, as I have almost every single FDS game that I want or can play, but I do have some problems that I need to resolve and I need a way of writing FDS disks to do that.
Problem #1: I don't speak and thus cannot read Japanese. This puts a big blockade in my way of enjoying FDS RPGs like "Deep Dungeon". Yet, there is hope, as TR-Patches exist for many of the games that I can't understand...and maybe even for games I shouldn't understand, such as "Dandy"...
I will even, once I have a working writer setup, be willing to let folks from nesdev send me (original) disks for TR patching as a bonus "Thank You" to the community for helping me out.
Patching the FDS images is fine, but I would like to put the patched game back onto the disk and PLAY IT ON THE REAL HARDWARE!
The same goes for hacked/modded games. Heck, I might e en want to make an original FDS game some day, too, so I need a way to write the disks from images.
Secondly, I have some disks that have bad sectors, or at least I assume so from the errors (in Japanese) that I've gotten while either loading or playing them. I have dups of some titles, but not all of them, and I’d rather not rebuy a game that has gone bad when I can re-write over the disk (assuming the media is not bad itself) or write over a known good disk (of a terrible game) as a backup.
Thus, I would really appreciate if someone can either point me to plans to build a cable and tell me what software actually works for doing this, of if someone has a cable and the software and is willing to sell me a cable or a complete setup for doing it.
If anybody has the parts and is willing to build a cable, I am willing to trade some extra FDS disks (random selection of my extras) for one.
I have a normal FDS and a red Sharp FamiTwin. I don't know the drive model numbers on the FamiTwin, but I can always mod the original FDS or grab another if I need to do that.
Additionally, does anybody know the true nature of Port 2 (the one with the sliding black cover on the side of the Twin)? Wiki claims that this port allows you to connect the Twin to another Famicom and use its DD there, but other sources claim that you can link it to another FDS via thus port.
Neither of these makes a lot of sense and both are unconfirmed. Does anybody know what this port actually does?
Thanks in advance!
-Xious