A power base converter might work on it since it's mainly just a pass through and you'd just be copying data. If it contained SMS circuitry like the Atari 2600 to 5200 adaptor then I'd say probally not.
A power base converter might work on it since it's mainly just a pass through and you'd just be copying data. If it contained SMS circuitry like the Atari 2600 to 5200 adaptor then I'd say probally not.
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It is definitely one of the nicest homemade devices I have seen.
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Originally Posted by Daltone
Pm me a price shipped to V8z 6L8 (canada) and I will take it.
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That is pretty damn nice looking, and the functionality seems like it would be very handy as well. I'm gonna have to consider picking one of these up in the future. Hopefully he'll start doing the controller options as standard or something.
I thought all interest in this thing died with my thread good to see someone else with it.The guy that made it is thinking about making other pass throughs like....
http://www.retrode.org/wordpress/2010/01/2600-adapter/
and
http://www.retrode.org/wordpress/201...ed-i-say-more/
So if the power base is just a pass through it might work.
There's just a little more to it than a simple pass through. It takes the Genesis's main processor out of the picture and runs the code on the Z80. Since this will just be accessing memory it should work though. There's really only one way to find out for sure.
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Matthias from Retrode said this, "Maybe, but not in the current firmware."
Ok, so it loads save files to and from SNES carts in addition to dumping SNES and Genesis roms. However, can it send save files to and from for Genesis games too?
-Rob
The moral is, don't **** with Uncle Tim when he's been drinking!
I will report back when I play with it more... Right now is hockey time
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This is why i don't ship to canada...I will report back when I play with it more... Right now is hockey time
I don't need an extra broken xbox prog
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the tekeen 2 game has already been dumped for the snes (doesn't emulate perfectly though) might want to check one of those goodsnes sets for it.
I was just about to say that myselfDragon Ball Final Bout hasn't been dumped yet though. Not even the Genesis version. What rental store is this anyways? I'm surprised there's anywhere out there that stil rents SNES games.
So, is tranfering Genesis saves possible on this too?
-Rob
The moral is, don't **** with Uncle Tim when he's been drinking!
I believe so. I just got my unit in last week and have spent a couple of hours playing around with it tonight. The save files appear to be read/write on all the carts, so you can copy them off the carts using the device and copy them back on the same way. The Retrode shows up as a drive letter in Windows, so getting files off of it is a matter of dropping and dragging.
You know, I forgot to post back here a day or two after I made that post. I wrote the creator of the unit and he said it is *not* possible. Apparently, he simply isn't sure how to do it. I think he said it is not as standard as SNES saves or something.
-Rob
The moral is, don't **** with Uncle Tim when he's been drinking!
I guess that chalks up an advantage of the Mash Mods device over the Retrode then, as it can write to SRAM on snes carts.
<Evan_G> i keep my games in an inaccessable crate where i can't play them
The Mash-Mods device can't write Genesis saves either, so no, that's not an advantage. :P
I will probably never buy a Retrode, because I have the Mash-Mods unit and I like it, but if I were buying such a device for the first time now, it would definitely be the Retrode.
I just wonder if the Retrode works with Street Fighter Alpha 2/Zero 2 or Star Ocean (i.e. S-DD1 carts). The Mash-Mods device does not.
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