I once had an undumped SNES cart (I think some Asterix game?) - sent it to Badge and he dumped and released it
clem
> For the purpose of backing up a card to play it on an emulator you are fine with > even a cheap and simple backup unit. > > My first machine was a Super Pro Fighter from CCL with just 16 megabits of > memory to store a game, but I was able to dump even the biggest and newest games > onto up to 4 1.6 meg disk and then join them together with a programm like > ucon64 to get an image that worked in Zsnes. > > The problem starts with wanting to play the games from disk. First of all the > memory of the machine must be big enough to hold the game. With 32 megabits your > good for every game but Tales of Phantasia (it's 6 megabytes). Then it depends > on the additional chips inside the copier. SuperFX games won't run on most > machines. I never got them to run on my Super WildCard DX 32. DSP games like to > loockup or don't even run at all. Some games even sport a more or less powerful > protextion against being used in a backup unit. While Killer Instinct runs > perfectly from disk on my WildCard it displays a "don't play this on a copier, > copiers are illegal" message when play directly from the card through the > WildCard. > > So if you just want to backup your fine, if you want to play the backups on the > copier you might run into bigger problems. > > Try your local flea markets or second hand gaming stores for backups sytsems. > I'm quite sure that they got banned from eBay, but you can try. I bet you will > still find some units on Hong Kong markets so there might be some import sites > on the net who cary a limited amount. > You better check the list on the page RoushiMSX provided when you consider to > buy a specific copier. I guess it is no shame to spend more than 100$ on a > WildCard DX or DX2 maybe even 200$ but some copiers (especially the early 90s > ones) aren't really worth that kind of money compared to the features they > provide. > > By the way does anybody know if the WildCard DX2 32 can be upgraded to 64 Mb? I > might consider it if it ain't to exensive. >
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