23rd October 2016, 4:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 24th October 2016, 3:42 PM by A Black Falcon.)
This was really cool yes, but this news is actually over a year old: http://tcforums.com/forums/showthread.ph...laystation
A newer find somewhat along these lines is that a few months ago, someone found a real, working (presumably) American N64 Disk Drive! Yes, a production version of this cancelled-outside-of-Japan addon actually was made, to everyones' surprise, and a Youtuber found it. Obviously a few of them were made before the final cancellation happened. Probably the most important result of this is that and now the BIOS from it has been saved and, I believe, made available. Unfortunately, last I heard there were no American-formatted 64DD game disks out there anyone knows of. Of the handful of US 64DD disks the guy and others have found, there was one disk with a test application on it, but the only other US 64DD disks that were found are blank. So yeah, it's an incredibly rare thing which mostly is only useful for emulation, where that US 64DD BIOS actually has some uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Bx0WKh7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-fs1COgr0
A newer find somewhat along these lines is that a few months ago, someone found a real, working (presumably) American N64 Disk Drive! Yes, a production version of this cancelled-outside-of-Japan addon actually was made, to everyones' surprise, and a Youtuber found it. Obviously a few of them were made before the final cancellation happened. Probably the most important result of this is that and now the BIOS from it has been saved and, I believe, made available. Unfortunately, last I heard there were no American-formatted 64DD game disks out there anyone knows of. Of the handful of US 64DD disks the guy and others have found, there was one disk with a test application on it, but the only other US 64DD disks that were found are blank. So yeah, it's an incredibly rare thing which mostly is only useful for emulation, where that US 64DD BIOS actually has some uses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Bx0WKh7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe-fs1COgr0
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