$40 SNES game copier worth it?

[QBert]

Should I buy it?
I dont know much about them, but a guy is selling one and Im about to go look at some games hes selling right away here and Im cuirous...


Thanks for any help guys!



QBert

[NintendoMan]

I don't know? I really have NEVER trusted anything that wasn't Licensed for a particular system. It just seems like they always end up not working half the time.
As for a SNES game copier, sounds like crap!

[Sylentwulf]

Don't know anything about it, but sounds WELL worth $40.
Any cartridge copier/backup unit is ALWAYS worth the bucks.

[QBert]

Thanks for the replies guys, but I passed for now.
Who knows I may end up picking it up sometime from him.
I wasnt sure how much Id use it.
But I did get some NES systems and games..will post in weekkday find thread.

again thanks to those who responed so quickly.


Qbert

[petewhitley]

Keee-rist, dude if you're gonna pass buy it for me and I'll pay you $50 shipped. I just sold mine and would jump to get another for that price. Lemme know...

[Azazel]

I've seen some fo those copiers sell for more than that.

[suppafly]

i would definitely get it, 40 US is a great price! LOL

[hydr0x]

no matter which copier it is, get it, the best snes copier cost up to 300 bucks, i've got a good one, and they work really well

[QBert]

Yea, I dont know which one it is....cant get ahold of him now.
But I may get it anyways.....if not for me, for trading or for others who have asked me arleady for it.
If I do, you guys will be the first to know.

BTW, its $40 CAD too.



Qbert

[anagrama]

BTW, its $40 CAD too.


Christ, just buy it. You could sell it on here for twice that much in a second.

[Jive3D]

I remember reading about these things back in '95. One in particular was called the "Multi-Game Hunter" it was a copy device that worked on Genesis and SNES. copied the roms to floppy disks. MANY of these are made poorly and break easily from what I have read. but still, for $40, I don't think that you are missing out that much. As a collector, I'd go for it. As strictly a gamer - I would pass due to the availability of roms on the net.

[anagrama]

As strictly a gamer - I would pass due to the availability of roms on the net.

I'd say it's worth more to a gamer than a collector - with this you can stick the roms onto floppies and play them on the actual hardware, while a collector would prefer the original cart rather than a rom.

[Flack]

As strictly a gamer - I would pass due to the availability of roms on the net.

Right. See what these let you do is download those ROMs on the net, copy them to a floppy, and then play them on your SNES.

[QBert]

If he's still got it when I go home today...I'll def grab it.



Qbert

[Jive3D]

As strictly a gamer - I would pass due to the availability of roms on the net.

Right. See what these let you do is download those ROMs on the net, copy them to a floppy, and then play them on your SNES.

That's a good point about being able to play roms from the net on the actual hardware, I had not thought about that angle. Regardless, I'd pick it up for such a cheap price.

[Flack]

This is a page I wrote a long time ago. Excuse the formatting ... I need to update it to match the rest of my site.

http://68.12.156.214:533/consoles/snes/index.asp

[autobotracing]

Like it has already been said above.BUY IT


Make sure it works first :P

[SirDrexl]

Wouldn't this not work for some important games? A floppy only holds 1.44 megabytes, which is less than 12 megabits. Anything that big or bigger (Street Fighter II series, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy II/VI, Donkey Kong Country series) would not fit on one disk.

Does it have some sort of internal memory that you load the games onto from multiple disks?

[suppafly]

most of these copier machines have upgradable memory, you buy separate modules

[Flack]

Wouldn't this not work for some important games? A floppy only holds 1.44 megabytes, which is less than 12 megabits. Anything that big or bigger (Street Fighter II series, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy II/VI, Donkey Kong Country series) would not fit on one disk.

Does it have some sort of internal memory that you load the games onto from multiple disks?

From my link posted above:

"Do games fit on a single floppy? Depends. Some span 2 or 3 disks. They work the same way, except you are prompted to swap disks. Each disk takes about 30 seconds to load up."

What games work depend on how much ram the unit has. My Super Wildcard DX has 32mbit which will hold every game. I'm not sure if the UFO Super Drive I have is 16 or 32. Remember that these are bits not bytes, so divide by 8 (32mbit = 4 meg.)