1.44 Floppy Disk Drive onto Megadrive

Unidentified Assilant · Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:41 am

I have a spare floppy disk drive lying around the house and thought it will be cool to put roms on a disk, and make an interface for connecting the floppy drive to the megadrive, and load the games off disks, this will be great for programming, so I can test my games on the real hardware.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:08 am

Having a rom that can be erased or a cable that goes form your computer to the Mega Drive would be much better. The 3 1/2" disk drives are really slow you'd have terrable loading time and maybe lag.

Unidentified Assilant · Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:45 am

What if I overclocked the floppy disk drive... i'm sure its possible.

Unidentified Assilant · Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:15 am

Anyway I'm still gonna do this

It sounds really cool and will be nice to get a taste of loading times and amigality on my Megadrive

I wonder if I could port over A500 games.... like Superfrog (i think thats OCS)

Maybe i'll do a cartridge to IDE interface, which plugs into the Megadrive cartridge port, and that plugs into a floppy disk drive, that would be cool, its a bit like my VMU adaptor for Megadrive which I also making (which i've done a bit of research on)

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:31 am

Unidentified Assilant wrote:What if I overclocked the floppy disk drive... i'm sure its possible.

I dont think its possible to make it read or spin faster. Keep in mind two things one is that you want to work on a piece of technology that is about 2 decades old, the other thing is that load time is why Nintedo stuck with carts for the N64. Carts are like USB thumb drives you can access the info faster as its right there no searching.

I know its not the most optimistic thing to say, its just the most realistic.

goodie · Post by **goodie** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:30 pm

You could always use one of those LS-120 drives(I think that's what they're called). They are considerably faster, even if you use 1.44mb disks.