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cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 00:39:01 Check this out...they sure did a better job than I have done with my LC 475-in-a-NES hack! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 My Site: http://cine.sytes.net My Hardware Page: http://cineware.sytes.net
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 06:16:12 quote: Check this out...they sure did a better job than I have done with my LC 475-in-a-NES hack! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 My Site: http://cine.sytes.net My Hardware Page: http://cineware.sytes.net Cool! Your hack is good... you did submit it to applefritter right? -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 11:39:54 quote: Your hack is good... you did submit it to applefritter right? No, I never finished it. It still needs a way to mount the PSU and hard drive, and maybe get the original NES power/reset buttons in there to power it up. Plus, I'm selling it to Clinton in the hopes that he can finish it and submit it himself! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 My Site: http://cine.sytes.net My Hardware Page: http://cineware.sytes.net
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 20:07:05 but can his natively run Marathon? i think not! -------------------- master of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ and figure-head of the Peoples' PDS Republic --------------------
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 20:36:52 hehehe.... someone should invent a way to use those cartriges for storage on a mac... except maybe with a newer one like the N64 Official 68k videographer
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 21:20:49 Bungie released Marathon 2 for the PC and Aleph One has also been ported to the PC so both of these would run fine. Converting The SNES and NES cartridges to be used as storage would be a complete waste of time IIRC their capacity is about the same as a floppy disk. N64 ones must be higher but I'm nor sure by how much. The question is why bother? Some hack are worth bit but some aren't. There is hardware for PC's that lets them read and copy the informatino from the carts though. I seem to remember seeing one for a SNES which worked like a gamegear to mastersystem adaptor and sat between the cart and the slot and copied the cart to floppy. I might be mistaken though. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
The Lightning Stalker Full Member USA 747 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 22:01:16 The cartridges are ROM and therefore not writeable - as far as I know. N64 probably hold up to 100 MB, but I'm not really sure either. The biggest SNES game I know of is like 12 MB. With lots of soldering and trouble, I don't see why you couldn't adapt a 40-pin IDE notebook HD into one of those cartridges. The Lightning Stalker Performa 631CD, 7.5.5 LC III, FPU, 20/80/enet, 7.5.5, Mail Server 6400/180 40/1.6G/512k L2/enet/video-in/TV 7600/120 '604/233, 80/1.2G & 1G/512k L2, 9.2.2 (Main Mac) Lady Smith Apples: Apple IIc 5.25" 2 Apple IIe
boredomconquersall Full Member Canada 613 Posts	Posted - 13 Feb 2003 : 22:19:10 hehehe! it has the contacts! you could get a really low-slung 3.5" drive in there...it'd even have the power things! MUA HA HA!! I smell a hack coming on! now... to get some sort of hotplug circuts in there, and some SCSI ports on the back... instant external drive! even rig it up so there is more than one cartrage port!!! AHHAHAHAHAH!!! RHnNXx "we are the 68K mac liberation army" 10000Th poster and 1000Th topic creator in lounge. and remember, if you try and install mac OS 10.2 on an early G3, you will go insane, and aquire a thirst for blood!
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 14 Feb 2003 : 01:24:49 I was going to call the SNES carts ROMS but I thought somebody might chirp up about the few that let you save games to them. Iomega made something simillar to what you describe. It was a docking station, available with either USB, firewire or SCSI. The station had a custom connector and you could buy HD's in special cases the slotted in to it. The idea was you could have an old machine with a SCSI machine and a newer one at work with a firewire station. But you could still use the same drive. It seemed pretty pointless though and I'm pretty sure it was a complete flop. I suppose something you could do is put a USB port at the back of the cartridge slot. You could then put things like compactflash to USB adaptors in the empty carts. This way you could swap in a card reader, USB hub, floppy drive, 2.5 inch HD with USB bridge etc. -------- LC 2, LC 3, Q605, Perf 638, Colour Classic (160 603e) 6100, 7200, PTP 225 (Quad 604), PM 9600, G4 Cube
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 14 Feb 2003 : 05:58:33 The largest Nintendo 64 cartridges are 32 megabytes. I think the largest SNES cartridges are around 3 megabytes but I am not sure. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 14 Feb 2003 : 06:19:03 Weren't the last few N64 releases on 512 Mbit cartridges? ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City v3.0
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 15 Feb 2003 : 05:21:47 Well I went and did a google search and you are right, apparently a few 64 megabyte cartridge games were made. I was basing my 32 megabyte claim on an article I read several years ago which said that the Legend of Zelda game came on a 32 MB cart, which the article said was the largest N64 cartridge made. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22
Clinton Full Member USA 700 Posts	Posted - 15 Feb 2003 : 20:10:36 damn, those programmers wrote tight code!!! CCC Lieutennant Commander (Pronounced Leftennant) 68k Macs Rescued: 2 Pluses, a 512KE, a Classic II, a Q650, a Q660AV, and a MacII Contraband rescued: Power Computing PowerBase 200, a PM 8600/300, and a PM8500/180 Apple //s rescued: Apple //e
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 15 Feb 2003 : 20:56:40 you could put nintendo emulation on there!!!! LOL yeah the nintendo cartriges weren't very big... neither were most of the games... PC is good because games have not too much of a limit to them Official 68k videographer
catsdorule Senior Member Canada 1627 Posts	Posted - 15 Feb 2003 : 22:30:24 LOL now that would be a sight to see a PC in a NES case Emulating a N64 or a cube . -danny You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0 ------- 68k Macintosh Liberation Army 68k Macs Liberated: 3
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 16 Feb 2003 : 05:28:36 Here is a crazy idea. What if someone got one of those single board, embedded PC's and hacked it into an NES cartridge. I know I have seen embedded PC's with PC card slots, you could install a flash ram card, which would eliminate the need for an actual hard drive. You would have to put the power supply outside the case somewhere, maybe use an NES as a type of docking station and run the power and video through the original NES connector. Then someone could install a NES emulator on it and they would have a Nintendo inside of a Nintendo cartridge. AnubisTTP, Tank Commander, Bolo Division 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:22

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