A Super Nintendo (SNES) Floppy drive?! How does it WORK?
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- The Professor SF II is a backup unit for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) that also adds quick Save/Load, cheat code support and other game enhancements.
SF Professor II SNES Floppy Disk Drive borrowed by Cooper Bates
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Always wanted to try one of these out, very cool to see your take on it!
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Lgr you’re here I watch your videos
LGR If you ever get one of these you will have to put it through some LGR fun. Plus I wonder if Duke Nukem would work on this? 🤔
You're literally the best!
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My grandfather picked one of these up in Hawaii in the 90's. Called the game doctor. His accepted super famicon in the top slot as well. There is one for the genesis too. Donkey Kong country needed 5 disks. It rocked, zero load time once the game was in flash. He combined these with an unlimited rentals agreement from his local video store. He was the original game pirate, at 70 years old no less. Loved going to gramas house!
Awesome Grampa
Feels like something my grandpa would do. One of the last times I saw him before he passed in 2010 he was copying his old reel to reel audio to his modern Vista computer. He had a usb vinyl player as well. He'd probably love that I'm interested in stuff like this
Yep. Local game shop in pucks alley allowed this on oahu.
When I was a kid, I had a kid neighbour. We used to lend games from each other. I lent one game from him and vice versa, but he kept coming back, wanting to switch the game to another. i suspected that he had one of those floppy disk copying machines I saw in a magazine. But I kept quiet and let it slip.
And now as an adult, I met the guy in the street, and I asked him if he used one of those machines back then, and just as I thought, he confirmed my suspicion that he did. He said that he copied so many games that he lost the urge to play them. Pretty tragic lol
Jowadays you could do the same With A library And a modded wii/ wii u
"Do you want to play some SNES?" "Sure, let me just grab my floppy discs."
Floppy Jesus Rocks
LOL
How did you know what nickname my wife's calls me!? ;)
MetalJesusRocks lol @ 2:51 subliminal message
Fox McCloud at least this one's not like the famicom disk I watched an Angry Video Game Nerd episode and it told him to insert the fucking disk
Fox McCloud floppy disks
**Here's a tip**
Format your diskettes to 1.6Mb directly on the copier.. this will allow a full 12 Megabits to be written to it instead of the normal 1.44. Now all 24Mb games, such as Earthworm Jim and Rabbit Rampage, will fit perfectly on 2 disks instead of spanning 3
You can run a utility on PC (in DOS anyway) that lets you use the 1.6mb format, too. Some games are still going to use 3 (or more) disks, though.
Oh woah 😮
So the copier can work on raw disks with no file system, so no overhead. Are floppies like fat 16?
You can also use the F-0 Falangi to decrease the GigaChads.
@@geemail1283 Very true, but to get the most out of your GigaChads (GCs), you should probably format the Blipconky to 989Studios. Now for faster data rate, input this line/// INPUT=c:..mkdir/IF MKBlaster to FarginBastage//THEN=04012023. Good Luck!
Some countries literally (unofficially) sold this as an addon for the super nintendo when you bought one. The game shops all sold games on floppies for about $3 a pop. Of course in some western markets with stricter anti-piracy laws this didn't happen.
Lol.
Actually Hong Kong 97 is intended to be played on these copiers
Yeah it's technically a homebrew game that ended up becoming VERY popular for no apparent reason whatsoever
@@MrDmoney156 internet basically
It's not real
it is real though
This is why in the main screen it says "you can send me floppy"
omg you showed Biker Mice. One of my favourite SNES games ever! Underrated gem. Would love to see you review it!
I love that game too. Saw the cartridge and thought I had to play it again!
such an awesome game. Also one of my favourites
Very cool! I didn't know this existed. I picked up a CD-ROM for the N64 at a Hong Kong electronics mall in 1999 - I should boot it up and see if it still works! And looking at this one I think it's from the same manufacturer - Bung
Lon.TV Probably is. Bung made the Doctor V64 and Super UFO made an very close copy (CD64). There are also Bung chips in the NakiTek GameSaver Plus, which has the slo-mo and save state functions that Bung Professor SF copiers have.
I think it is, there was the word Bung written on one of the boards. I'm not too familiar with the company, if it is a company, itself though.
KOSMOS1701A In the late '90s Nintendo successfully forced Bung underground even though they were an ISO-certified company/manufacturer. They got US Customs to seize their shipments and shut down the US distributors like Carl Industries. I know there was a distributor in New York and another in Florida and I can't remember who I got my first V64 from but I had to get my second from Lik Sang. Luckily, my stuff didn't get seized in US Customs. Bung started selling their products as "First Union" and the names changed (V64 became E64 and they changed the shell to be two-tone, for example). They were supposedly behind the first commercial GBA flash cart under yet another name. The thing is, their products were entirely legitimate for backup, development, and homebrew. The extra functions were quite compelling (VCD playback, save states, slo-mo, save backup, cheats, GB Camera image backup, etc). Nintendo's lawyers convinced US Customs to block imports by describing it as purely a piracy device... and most didn't even ship with the backup function (had to load unofficial BIOS or use 3rd party software).
Yes the Doctor V64 is the unit I have!
+Emmett Turner do you know where I can get one?
I used to have a Multi Game Hunter and a Super Wild Card back in the days. I also worked in a video game store at the time so I used to bring home games and copy them, but me and a buddy had a Paradox contact that supplied us with hard to get games so we had more than we could eat. I had a collection of 1500 games for the thing.
Looking back at it feels funny as all those mountains of 1.44MB HD floppies will easily fit a small memory card today.
me too i had mgh16 i bought off a guy for 450..ran genesis and snes..was on pirate bbs boards back in day..between rentals and downloads i had like 1500 games too..think was 2 or 3 tupperware containers was insane..ending up tossing them 10 years later..games in canada were like 90 to 130 retail guess loonie was really low back then.
Console Cracktros are all but forgotten these days
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lol feel ya there...128GB SanDisk microSD are a bargain these days!
I had one of these when I was a kid. A good friend used to visit Tiwan every summer. Mine had the input cartridge exactly above the normal one, not off to the side. The menu system was a lot more janky - just text. Mk2 needed 4 disks to load, lol!!!
Thanks for posting this!
This drive addon is extremely populate in South east asia. they play pirated game using this add on ^^
Wow that's really interesting
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My pc zip drive will destroy that thing. (am i doing it right?)
Equalizing Distort I
Back in the late 90s I procured a Wildcard 32m from my older brother's dodgy friend. It was mostly similar to this but black in colour and had the cartridge slot at the top, you were also able to use it passively so you never needed to remove the unit from the SNES, although I mostly did. Came with a 100 copied games, but one flaw was the ability to save game progress, it was possible, but I was young and never got the hang of it.
had the same unit as this guy explaines. no problems with save games.
you play a game with save function. when you stop you save progress to disk via swc interface so you can load it back.
whenever you played a new game the old sram is destroyed with new data.
That thing is awesome. Wish I had one back then. Rent then copy just like we used to the videos.
There were so many different devices like this. Back in the 90s I got one through a BBS called "Super Pro Fighter Q". And a friend got another one called "Super Wildcard DX" which played a SNES version of "Stereo MCs - Step it up" as background music in the menu xD LOL
BdR76 I had a super wildcard. £200 with loads and loads of games
Now You're Playing With Power, SUPER FLOPPY POWER!
But of course Nintendo would rather you didn't make copies with these yourself, and can only do it at specifically-designed kiosks at your local Toys R Us!
Told my ex that
Women don’t like floppy power
"I think devs deserve to be paid for their work"
I hear ya, but in the world of retrogaming this doesn't happen at all. If anything, there's a higher chance of a dev getting paid for a virtual console digital download than for the sale of a used cart.
25 years on, this stuff should be public domain if the copyrights weren't kept up, like in other media.
None of these guys will ever get paid for the resale of a used cart, Unless of coarse your buying the cart second had directly from the developer on ebay or at their garage sale.
not even that, its been so long, that the people involved in those game arent around anymore... not even the CEOs.. so yeah, i laughted so hard at the outdated antipiracy speech xD
lol...dude they are not that old...Considering the fact that we still have WWII Veterans walking around...Piracy is stealing...you can justify it in whatever way you want. Fact of the matter is its pirated.
if they want to keep making money from old games, they should keep them available for purchase. Otherwise, how do they expect people that missed out to be able to play them.
my buddy had one of these growing up and i remember when we tried to backup Killer Instinct and load it from the disk it gave an official looking error message from nintendo about being protected and unplayable except from the real cartridge
I owned several of these devices in high school. First one I got was from a tech swapmeet in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was called a Gamars. My next device was a Double Pro Fighter X with 32mbit of ram. The cool thing about the Double Pro Fighter X was that It supported both the SNES and the Genesis - you would switch out the cartridge adapter on the bottom. This was the best console backup unit I had. Currently I have a Game Doctor SF 3 my friend gave me in college - It works fine. Back then, the Super Wild Card models were the best. I remember getting utilities off of dial up 2400 baud modem BBS's - couldn't afford a US Robotics 9600 for 14.4 modem. I remember using a utility to edit my Final Fantasy 3 save games to max out all my characters, it was pretty awesome. These days I use a Retro-Bit Super UFO Pro 8 which uses an SD Card to store and load the rom files from. Of course, the best is made by krikzz - the Super Everdrive and the SD2SNES. Would love a SD2SNES, but it's $197. I do have an Everdrive N8 NES for my NES which is awesome. I love using these devices to play my game consoles on my CRT, but these days, I use RetroPie on my Raspberry Pi 3.
I had one of these in the 90s. Myself and 2 friends threw in and ordered it. We had every title we could possibly get, which was awesome before pc emulators took off. My only regret is I never got a lot of the actual carts as a result, which id still have today if I did. Now they're a bit too pricey for my taste.
I sold most of my SNES and Genesis carts to get mine. Now I pretty much just have Phantasy Star 4 which didn't save right and I bought afterwards anyway and SuperMarioRPG which had a special chip and extra pins in the cart connector so wouldn't work at all on it.
0:25 "Zelda" written on floppy disk with magic marker
Me: "Yeah, that looks legit."
Devs and publishers are not making money off of a used cart and I don't have the time to hunt down rare stuff. If it's no longer available to purchase. I'm pirating it. There are PC games made in the last 10 years that are just not for sale anymore. Wtf?! Not my problem.
yeah or some games banned in my country (Australia ) lol i love Soldier of Fortune but never played legal copy
in fact used games and game rents hurt developers as much as piracy hurts em and you had in the past stores like Gamestop trying to push used games as much as possible
used games hurt no one, they aren't entitled to get paid multiple time and they already got paid the first time. Don't be a fucking communist.
no they are not entitled , but also when you go to gamestop and they try to sell you a pre-owned copy for 5 dollars less while they make much much much higher profit and the developer + publisher make nothing out of it they hurt the sales and is not a secret how much stores like gamestop trying to push pre-owned copies instead of brand new games .
venix20 we'll see here's the thing with that, every new game you see on the Shelf at a GameStop, or Walmarts or what have you has been paid for by the retail chain (the retail chain is the customer making the initial purchase), so I turn the publisher and developers gets their money long before you come in and buy the game. So GameStop trying to sell you a used copy for $5 less or a new copy doesn't make any difference in what the publisher/developer gets.
Thanks for the video! More info than I ever knew about this device. :) If you want to hold onto it until PRGE, I will have a vendor booth this year, and we could meet there.
The funny thing about game copiers like this one is when you encounter games with copy protection routines which have ways of detecting devices such as these. Sometimes the copy protection is as simple as stopping the game from loading, other times it's MUCH more elaborate, with Earthbound having some of the most insane copy protection measures of any game ever, including one which will crash the final boss fight and erase your save data! :O
Woow, that's hilarious!
developer were really much better than denuvo ROFL
later copiers can break protections, or if not, you can patch the ROM.
+tbb033 True. In fact, the one Metal Jesus showed has patching abilities from the looks of it. But, when you're dealing with a game like Earthbound which has SEVERAL layers of copy protection, trying to cancel it all out without a proper debugger/disassembler would be like trying to shoot a specific spider with a gun, residing in a giant mass of spiders, from 100 feet away, at night, blindfolded, using your feet. ;D
+i64X Well, none of the checks will trigger IF the emulator is coded properly. If memory serves, there was a Kirby game which was having its copy protection triggered for the longest time in the emulation scene, though I don't know if it's because of the emulators or the ROM files out there, or even if it still happens or not. :P
Pretty interesting. Never even seen this before.
That's how most of the ROMs were created for the emulators.
Tommy Anomaly at least at the very beginning of SNES emulation - SNES96, SNES97, SNES9x.
Except dodgy grey market hardware, dodgy floppy discs, copy protection, ‘good enough’ reverse engineering ... all in all this isn’t exactly ‘archival quality’.
Some of these emulators still support the file formats produced by these things - Super Pro Fighter, Super Magic Card, Game Doctor
Love how the RAM slot says "2rd" expansion slot. lol.
Blitz - Simon
You mean turd
Jin-glish 😂😂😂
2rd?
@@someguystudios23 YEAH "2RD" PAUSE THE VIDEO LOL (AS THE DUDE UP THEY,RE^^^^^ SAYS ITS TYPICAL CHINGLISH ;)
With a company name like ‘BUNG Manufacturing Limited’, you know you’re getting a 2rd 😂
you are not stealing any money pirating snes games tbh...the only people who make money from them are the resellers...
there are some exceptions like games that you can purchase virtually, like EarthBound on the Wii Shop.
Nope! Phsyical copies aren't being made anymore, so it's not hurting anyone. Virtual is digital. Lost the digital copy? Just make another copy. or a few 100 more.
Unless the code is built from the ground up for the game, it's emulation every time. Even the game developers conference showed that Nintendo was using roms with the headers on their own virtual store. It's emulation.
are you fucking kiddin e? it's hurting wii shop?? ahahahahaahahahahah
You do realize that Nintendo still bitches about old games, right?
They have a page dedicated to it on their website.
Adam Foster See, I am not completely innocent. I have played the odd ROM or two, heck, Lunar Magic means I have played more SMW on emulator than my real SNES by a factor of ten. I won't judge you for emulating SNES games, but come on, that logic is flawed beyond believe. Sure, you cannot calculate lost revenue like the industry does citing a full price loss for every illegal download, but it is hurting the owners of the intellectual property financially. And sometimes they are even the original creators.
There is no way all people who illegally download / emulate a thing would not buy the product if the free option wasn't available. Those games are not abandonware.
It's not really stealing if they no longer produce those old games anymore.
but it is if they are accessible via virtual console markets.
You're not pirating Virtual Console games if you're using cartridge rips on a physical SNES.
That and they don't seem to have an interest in VC. The future is going to be a tailored selection of games, not necessarily every game...
Except this device was available when these games were sold new.
it is stealing to ask people to pay for the same game again 20 years later.
My buddy had one back in the 90s. We thought it was the most amazing thing ever.
Had one of these when i was a teen great device at the time getting all the games on rental and siting with a pile of discs lol
I rewound this 5 different times just to make sure u really made a "that's what she said" joke.
I'm dying. Lol
super magicom, pro fighter, Double pro fighter, wild card, super wild card and super wild card dx and dx2 were the back up Devices we used in the 90s. Also availible on genesis...
Yup, I had a Super Wild Card around 1997. I had a friend who had a Super UFO which was another SNES backup device you could find then. They were rare to find and there wasn't much of an internet back then to look for them. I remember finding mine through a ad in the newspaper.
kryptin420 got mine from Hong Kong, also through an ad in a german Video Game Magazin
Made by Front Far East
kryptin420 Do you happen to kinda recall the name of that magazine by anychance?
M NX Well you can say I'm very interested in types of research like these and the fact i already knew about this device on the video and the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of it (Super Magic Drive), but still wanted to learn/research more on the backup copiers and the like during that time period.
Thank You for the information btw! :-) and also are their scans of it online or is it a video of some sort?
Yeah I had the dual system - the MagicDrive with the additional Magicom adaptor in the early 90s.
I love learning about all these creative piracy methods from the 90's. To think that nowadays you can just put an SD card that didn't even exist at the time in a special cartridge and have almost every game at your fingertips.
One of my friends had one of these back in the day. We used to hate lending him games cos he'd rip them all and taunt us with his huge collection.........I was so jealous haha!
lol that frame with the text "thats what she said" after you said wiggle it it xD
at 2:38, it's not 64MB, its 64Megabits... around 8MB
full computers from early 90's barely had 16-32MB of RAM
I have that exact Mario wing-cap doll in your dog's mouth in the intro! I've had it since I was really little; it's still the best Mario doll I've ever seen on shelves. I always LOVE your videos MetalJesus, thanks for another great one!
I had one of these devices (received it with a second hand SNES that I purchased), had no idea what it was at the time so I put it aside and never used it (floppy disks were no longer available in stores).....many thanks for covering the device in this post!
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
Diepzeevis Was it really that funny that you felt the need to comment about it?
Lol
@PianoSteve Apparently
It's more 2:43 onwards.
2:49
Use to love hiring out games from the local video store and copying them onto my magic drive...now it's emulation..
UK RPGFan I get it man, I remember when I found out that you could buy flash cards for the Nintendo ds, I was the first kid in my school to have one and it felt so amazing to have access to all of that content for free, it does have the downside that the games feel less special when they are free, that's the one problem with pirating for me apart from the moral reasons, is that if you pay for a game you will feel obligated to play it to the end and enjoy it, but if it's free you can just move on to the next game if you get bored
Geert Bruineman Then again those DS flashcarts have weak anti-piracy protection meaning that you'll have to manually patch the games or wait for a better one later down the road.
Geert Bruineman exactly how I feel. Having all the games for free made them less enjoyable and even a chore. I really enjoy working and buying something that I know I will enjoy. Also I support the company I love while doing so. With old consoles like SNES or N64 as examples, I don't mind thou.
great point geert
My buddy's dad bought one of these during a trip from china. Once I got my hands on it I was pretty sure no one would ever see me again because of all the games he had on the floppy disks. He had like, 100 floppy disks. My poor little brain couldnt handle all the awesomeness. My buddy would never let me borrow it. It disappeared somehow when we got older. I wish I knew what happened to it.
I saw such device in Europe when I went to England in 93-94.
What was really surprising back then is that you could buy those in "normal" shop.
And as there were games rental in U.K. at the time, kids from the same neighborhood were "community renting" games for the week end so that everyone could get a copy!
Seing it working was quite impressive at the time... It seemed almost magical for a kid!
playing 25~30 year old games on carts isn't supporting the software devs. when you buy these at a game store or a flea market; the person doesn't call up the company and throw a buck or two back at them. they already MADE their money. pirating current gen games that are still being mass produced and sold at major retail chains is whats wrong. but hey if you need justification for hoarding hunks of plastic then more power to you. I love retro gaming but im getting so tired of this stigma.
You mean you don't give the original film maker more money when you buy a used dvd? for shame. NOT.
The one exception is if a game is being resold/released as a remastered edition, you should show your support there, but in general I agree with you. The only people being supported by reselling these carts are the original seller/the "retro" gaming community, the original developers/publisher were out of the equation long ago.
Imo you are 100% right. The snes had it's days, and made enough bucks for nintendo. And let's face it. It's mostly only old guys (like me) that still play that old stuff. If Nintendo allowed and loosely supported it with old code or hardware or whatever, they might make a lot of folks happy and even some more profit. The minis sold so good... Those also should've had a sd-card slot or usb-port for additional software etc anyways.
It is complicated, I will say. Nintendo and Sega are still selling these games on theyr retro collections or mini consoles, so they are still making money on them and they are active product in theyr line-up. Yes, many studios that developed these games are gone but there is still somebody who owns that IP. So it is piracy when you are playing ROMs. BUT. I am somebody who works in emulation scene, and I was one time contracted by SNK to work on theyr Neo Geo emulation for PS3. These games are corporate products, and when corporation says, they will be lost forever, like many arcade games from early 1980s. But with ROMs, there is no way this will happen. So I am cool with ROMs as means of preservation when original hardware isn't available. But on legal level, it is piracy, your or mine opinions aside.
@@jakublulek3261 that's not entirely the point though. They may be re-releasing games on modern systems and launching mini consoles, but we're not supporting them any more by buying old used cartridges instead of pirated copies, because those aren't sold by them
Using a floppy device like this is how Neill Corlett hacked Seiken Densetsu 3 into English back in the day. The game was completely translated and hacked into English BEFORE EMULATORS COULD EMULATE THE GAME! That's right, it was hacked on actual hardware! Also because it was hacked using a device like this for testing, Seiken Desnsetsu 3 didn't expand the size of the rom (which was common for hacks of FF4 hard type and FF5 at the time), but instead implemented its own text compression algorithm to keep the rom size under 4mbits! Neill Corlett only wrote the compression in because he didn't have a larger amount of ram available to simply expand the rom! WOW.
Hacked this massive RPG using actual hardware, didn't expand the rom size, didn't have a working emulator for testing... unbelievable and a true legend of game fan translation! The original website is gone, but it is archived on achieve.org (thank God that site exist).
Thanks for that tidbit of info. I was wondering how hackers got SNES ROMS onto their computers in the days before emulation based clone systems that ripped the ROMS to SD cards.
I had a friend who owned one of these for the Sega Genesis. He said his parents were approached while on vacation in Vegas buy some guy in an alley. All his parents knew was it was something the guy said they could only get there and it was for the video game console their son had. It worked pretty flawlessly for years and it wasn't long before he had a floppy disk for every game at every rental store in town. Still one of my favorite memories of video games as a child.
The coolest thing about this video is the "Interstate '76" box in the background. So many memories. :-)
interesting device but to be honest nowadays you go with something like the SD2SNES or the ufo pro 8 where you can backup your games on sd card
I used to have something like this that did both Sega Genesis and SNES and it supported game saves anywhere and also allowed cheat codes it had two bays on the top for each system and a removable bottom port to allow swapping between systems.
dear metal jesus, you have really inspired me to preserve gaming history and i want to thank you for that
I am as surprised as I was when i Found about the N64 DD Prototype
I've got one and a full snes floppy collection. Bought mine in Belgium from a guy like 20 years ago. Plus your not stealing games if the developers don't support the game anymore or even the company itself like midway, thq, working designs etc... don't exist anymore and the rights aren't aquired by other companies. There is a huge flaw in the law that allow you to pirate games if developers abandon it hence why Nintendo is so keen on protecting it's property because of that law.
well, these are abandonware stuff and they are more like a gray area. IMHO, it's infinitely better to make such stuff more accessible.
Well, Nintendo will most likely not exist by the time that the 2020s are over, and the same thing could also be said of Sega, and possibly Atari, as well as Capcom, Konami, EA, and all of the big name companies, and many small name companies as well, so they have hardly any room to argue for their rights when they are greedy as fuck, +Djinn!
abandonware stuff ? You ever read the legal page at Nintendo ?
I still have the Super UFO Pro 8 with 34m, It was a life saver back in the day. I don't think you can beat the SD2SNES though, Fantastic cart that makes life so much easier than having all of your carts out.
I love learning about weird stuff like this. I'm intrigued by this "N64 cartridge CD rom back up thing" you mention at the end. That would be a rad video as well :)
Nice comment that's awesome
Erin Plays They are called Doctor V64 or CDjr, there's videos about them on UA-cam already
Comments section on this video is great fun 😄
In brazil we had a lot of variations of this devices to most consoles (NES, SMS, SMD and SNES). This one have a well better interface than the ones I see here, thought.
This one would be nice with a floppy emulator, since you can exchange floppies pressing buttons in the front of the floppy emulator.
Daniel Menelkir Really? I've never seen one of those, now I'm curious! I wonder if I can find one in Mercado Livre or someplace like it.
Daniel Menelkir eu tive um aparelho parecido com esse aqui no Brasil só o driver de disquete que era externa ele tinha o nome de Magic computer nada a ver com aquele quero um tecladinho kkk
Finally... you got it! A legend for everyone back in the 90's!
I've never heard of this before! That's looks really cool! I wish I knew about it 10 years ago, even though I still have all my SNES games. I may have to invest!
Wasn't Hong Kong 97 developed for the system?
CAB1802 Yep! this was! and funny thing was that the unreleased beta version of it included a little short advertisement clip of these backup copiers with the photos and BBS info
HK97 was the first thing that came into my mind upon seeing this video, yeah.
When he said that he is not a hardware guy but more on the software side of this i was thing ben heck and then he said lol that was priceless to me. Hope that they will do a colab soon.
both of you overestimate Ben Heck. A lot of what you see on the Ben Heck show presented by Ben Heck was carefully prepared by his team and the help of element14. I mean: Ben is a great guy, but his projects are more work and team effort then the shows presents them as (this is not meant to talk Ben down, but to state we do not see the hard work from Ben _and_ his Team behind the scenes). I mean: a colab would still be fun to watch, but it would be more of a "Ben Heck Show" then the authentic MetalJesus in his own man-cave.
sarowie well said
I'm in the UK here, I bought something similar for the Super Nintendo, from a work colleague, about 10 years ago. It's called the Super Wild Card. I messed around with it for a bit, but if remember, there were certain games you couldn't backup on to disks. I think Super Mario All Stars was one of them.
The best use for these types of devices is to backup old save files in case the battery life on the cart dies, this way you can rest assured that you'll never lose your save data and you can replace the battery without worry of losing data.
the NTSC console is so ugly compared to the PAL version
maybe that's just me, the NTSC is actually pretty funky lol just different I guess
Two words 'Purple Buttons'. Not good.
idk about ugly but looks very plain compared to the fun pal version
"Ban Islam"
That came out of nowhere.
Keep it light mate.
"I don't support piracy but do condone a backup of games you own."
Says the man that has a MAME emulator arcade machine. I seriously doubt you own a pile of PCB's to go with all the games on your Windows XP box. Dr. MJR took the Hypocratic oath, LOL!
Its good to say for legal reasons. Im sure he doesn't care what youre doing
I mean its obviously for legal reasons but I wouldn’t be surprised if he did actually own most of if not all of his games. He’s been into retro games since they were new and many of them were dirt cheap for a long time until kids like you started making them popular. Lol
@MetalJesus, you had me at "Save anytime". Are you kidding me?!? This thing should be called the Super Dream Machine. Great pickup!
I used to have one of those for my SNES and Genesis called a "double game doctor" because it worked with both consoles. Saved a lot of money back in the day. It never worked with DSP games like Mario Kart or Star Fox though.
For the SNES the time to pay developers is long long over. No developer will get any money from me buying a used snes cart or even new cause they aren't made anymore. Piracy of obsolete tech and games is perfectly fine.
it looks really cool 😎
GHOST TOMBS STUDIO Youre everywhere!!! XD
in my country (philippines) back in the 90's this super disks is very common in every computer rental shop. never expect to see super disks in your channel MJR
Keep it up bro! \m/
My friend had one of these about a year and a half after the SNES release. His father would send him all the newest games in the mail every month. Needless to say a few of us spent a lot of time over at his place.
Bung Enterprises.
"I NEED A PROCESSOR FOR MY BUNGHOLE!"
"I AM THE GREAT CORNHOLIO!"
early flashcart/ everdrive
M NX yep pretty much the grandpappy of them all
Ah, i remembered my cousin having one of these back in the days. was a lot cheaper than the original carts and plays pretty damn well too, although the startup loading times could take a little while depending on the games.
You mentioned Ben Heck, I expect a follow up on your video soon!
Otherwise thanks for showing this to us also, they have one of these in the videogame museum that's in my city which is pretty cool.
Haven't seen one of those in action yet however, so thumbs up for that.
I see those at every gameswap meet. Never bought one though.
Where's the PSVITA thinkk?? I wanna know
Akmal Rahim these 2 comments are really confusing me
+Chinople What do you mean "confusing me"??
I use one of these to backup saves, super handy when changing battery in the carts, also you can "import" saves from your computer to the carts.
I remember this!! When I was a kid, SNES was not officially released in China, we could get the smuggled version SNES from Japan or Hong Kong, so the console was somewhat affordable, but the games were super expensive since there were no way to buy them in game store. So all SNES owners had the floppy disk drive, it was literally the only way to play SNES in China.
3rd party Chinese grey market area hardware stuff 😅
Before 1993, most of Mainlan Chinese did not know Nintendo! But Nintendo was most popular in Hong Kong and Taiwan!
But, but, just use a raspberry pi. I kid I kid.
A snes mini works better imo
@@anonimata760 Opinion, but in reality it doesn't. It emulates well the games it comes with, because the emulator was written ONLY for those games, anything else you throw into it might work, might not, or works badly.
Someone put it well in reddit I recall, along these lines: "the emulator itself is as good as the emulators were in the 90's" meaning it's nowhere near emulators today are.
Hi MJR! Here in Asia we had the Super Pro Fighter. And that's how I learnt to rip carts back in '94
I like the fact that the floppy drive looks pretty standard with IDE connectors. Increases their lifespan a fair bit if the part that's most susceptible to faults can be easily replaced.
So not exactly the Nintendo Playstation but a dead close clone
without actual 1991 prototype games the SNES cd is just an interesting piece of history. The floppy drive has practical uses like save states so it's much more interesting to me as I would have loved to have owned one (especially since I stopped buying games and rented them every week)
Kyler Kyler Closer than you might think. It supported expansion chips and several of the Bung Professor SF systems supported a CD-ROM drive, as Metal Jesus mentions in the video. I don't know if there was any functionality for SNES homebrew to access the CD-ROM, but there was for the V64 and V64jr on N64. Ironically, you can actually use a PlayStation as your N64's CD-ROM drive using other Bung hardware, like a Bung MGD^3 Multi Xchanger and a V64jr. I've done it.
Kyler Yes I did. If Bung designed it similarly to their other CD-ROM for the N64 then it was technically as-capable as the SNES PlayStation (SuperCD was just Sony's name for the disc format despite the prototype owner constantly referring to the thing as a "Super CD"). Homebrew SNES games could be written to multi-load off the CD-ROM and extra SRAM and coprocessors could be utilized through the unit's cartridge slot. This is exactly how the Professor SF already supports games with special chips and save types: you insert a cart containing that hardware into the top. For example, I could play Super Mario Kart by inserting another DSP game with SRAM or by using Bung's commercial DSP card. The N64 was the same way with lockout chips, save types, RTC, SRAM, etc (Bung DX256 Super Saver and DS1 Save Card). If you know anything about how the SNES PlayStation actually works you would already see the similarity. The Professor SF could rightly be seen as a make-shift SNES PlayStation, exactly as the OP of this thread implied. In the same vein, a Dr.V64 can be seen as an N64 CD-ROM drive and a V64jr + Multi Xchanger can be seen as using an actual PlayStation to load SNES games... assuming Bung's MGD^3 Multi Xchanger parallel output is compatible with their parallel port CD-ROM that the Professor SF used, which was precisely the point of the "Multi Game Device" series of devices. Again, if it does work like the V64 then this enabled CD-ROM-class content the SNES just like SD2SNES enabled huge MSU1 games on the SNES. The difference is that the homebrew community wasn't taking full advantage of it just like they never did for the V64. Heck, the V64 had an MPEG decoder and everything but no one made FMV N64 games and homebrew typically fit entirely into memory.
Kyler Listen to 1:27 and let the ramifications of that sink in.
Kyler Incorrect. It is "related" by platform (SNES), hardware capability (extra resources for software), and storage format (CD-ROM). That's exactly what the OP meant when he said it was "close." Read the OP you responded to a little more carefully next time before acting so smart, Mr. Internet Tough Guy.
Compensated? The developers won't get paid for a 1992 game in 2017! Stop it I know you made games but are you getting paid by me for a game you made in 90s? No. Pirate and back up for future
+Enemy of The state Developers get paid for old games. It’s called Royalty Points or percentages
MetalJesusRocks you are legend thank you for replying to me and your videos of info. However if I buy your 1992 genesis game you developed used on eBay or local retro shop you are not getting paid any royality or compensated any percentage especially if game company went bankrupt. That is impossible. Sorry. But I just won this debate.
This is so amazing because it can be used to backup roms for any game in existence, including really rare ones.
I first played a floppy on snes in summer of 95 in a Mexican flea-market. The owner was charging to play any game. I was blown away when he grabbed a floppy and the game uploaded
>25 year old games
>Pirating
It's called public domain.
That's not true.
Copyright duration is 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. These games probably won't enter public domain until after we're all dead. Is it ridiculous? Yes. Do enough people care to make a difference? No.
Why do all this when you can just play emulators........ ah I am just kidding. This is really neat to have been able to do back then (and now) on official hardware. I remember one of my friends talking about the N64 CD thingie back in the day and he almost threw down a grand to get it back then.
Also, thank you for the anti piracy message towards the end of the vid. Wish more vids did that.
there are better options now to play on official hardware (although nothing is perfect yet)
David Brailsford True. But I wonder if something like this would make development easier for a homebrew developer or something like that. Cool device none the less.
"there are better options now to play on official hardware"
Thank you based Everdrive, if only you were cheaper!
Back here in The Netherlands i had a couple of friends who had one when i was young. Now i have two myself for years. I used one for imports for a time
i had something called Super Wildcard that did the same thing and also recall there was a version that both worked for genesis and super nintendo. one of the things in this video you forgot to explain is the catridge slot can also be used for passtrough specific chips to a backuped game, like games with fx chip or DSP.
These systems were very popular back then in Hong Kong. Around 25 years ago, there were a lot of these types of systems for SNES, Sega Genesis, and even PC engine. If you took a look at the gaming magazines in that period, you could find full page ads for them easily
I love these weird quirky add ons and accessories for older systems.
One frame of "That's what she said". I love it!
WTF. I missed a MetalJesus video. And it was released month ago. What a nice surprise.
Wow i have never seen this before. To be able to load and save your games in the early 90s wouldev been awesome feature back then!!
You used to have to use the High density 3.5 floppy for this (hole either side). I remember a hack whereby I could use the demo disks given away free in computer magazines, that were standard 3.5 disks with only one hole, by drilling a second hole in the other side. Always worked perfectly without any errors!
Had you never encountered one before? I still have my Pro Fighter X floppy drive for the SNES from back in the 90's and it still works. Me and 3 friends all had one and we all bought, rented and borrowed games and copied them from one another. Thanks to that machine, the SNES is still the system that I have the most games for :-)
my high school friend's boyfriend brought over a NES floppy drive once, it was pretty cool, even had some x-rated home brews, lol. some of this stuff is real cool and I can see both sides on piracy/backing up expensive games... no matter what, still awesome!
Really cool. Quick save is awesome. Cheat codes is sweet too. Being able to play PAL is sick.