Sure thing!
Went out to the local flea market as usual when I have Tuesday off or don't work until the evening (as today). One of the random junk dealers had far less crap than he usually does, but it's always just total garbage anyway. Years ago he'd occasionally have something decent, but not lately. Off in the corner of his lot I came across something one doesn't see all that often...
What's that, you ask? It's a Multi-Game Hunter, a backup device. Now what's different about this backup device in the crowds of Super Wildcard's and SF Game Doctors is that it works with both the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis.
It came with the passthrough boards for the SNES and Genesis as well as the Genesis cartridge deal which I believe allows Sega Master System ROMs to be played if I remember correctly - it's been a long time since I've dabbled in backup devices. It also came in the original box with styrofoam insert but sadly both have some heavy dirt and moisture saturation and had to be tossed. No power adapter but it works with a Genesis 1 / SMS adapter no problem.
I remember reading somewhere that it doesn't like if your Genesis is connected to a SegaCD. As my "Genesis" is a JVC X'Eye I didn't bother trying it out for Genesis games. I have a Genesis 1 out in the shop that I'll be modding soon so after that's taken care of I'll check out the Genesis backup stuff. I did, however, set it up with my SNESII. Grabbed a game at random - Lagoon. (I know I know, I actually like it, no matter how frustrating it may be) Popped it in the SNES slot, plugged the SMS power supply into the back - light came on red showing it's getting power. Flipped the SNES power switch, light turns green, and the MGH sprang to life. Put a blank floppy in the drive, selected format, and amazingly the disk began to be formatted. I say amazingly because this stuff never works when I find it, that and I dropped the whole thing as I was leaving the flea market.
Format done, time to copy. I copied the cartridge to floppy disk which was insanely simple, the well laid out onscreen menus make it a breeze. After the copying was complete I shut the system off and replaced Lagoon with another game - a game is always required for these to run, I believe it uses the standard chips inside to get around lockouts and to shift the MGH into the proper display frequency. When the menu came up I loaded the Lagoon backup from the floppy and was greeted with the Kemco logo a few seconds later. Out of curiosity I copied the Lagoon backup onto my computer and tried to load it with ZSnes - no problem at all. Don't tell me this thing supports bi-directional native formats.
I don't have much time to mess around with it right now but I may sit down on Friday (when I'll have some time) and explore its features further.
I need to find a spare Genesis 1 / SMS power adapter as the one I used to test the Multi-Game Hunter was out of my boxed complete SMS, which is packed away once again. Oh, and what really kicks ass, the whole thing was $5. I probably could have gotten him down to $2 or so but I was just glad it was still there as I stupidly passed it up the first time until my lapse of judgement was overcome. Dunno what the hell I was thinking.
Also a couple other finds. Seller here was making different prices based upon game title, although they were all in a mash. Ended up saying $8 for two, which is kinda high but one of the games I'd been looking for. I got him to take $10 for three, which is a great deal. I love talking people out of stuff like this.
NES - The Blue Marlin
NES - Metroid
NES - Super Mario Bros. 2
Been looking for a copy of The Blue Marlin for awhile and amazingly I had yet to have a copy of Metroid. As for Super Mario Bros. 2 I'd been trying to get a copy for my girlfriend for almost a year now. When I do come across them the sellers usually want $10 - $15 for beat up carts. Now, since it's for her, I wouldn't have been opposed to $10, but every time I come across one it has something suspicious wrong with it. Don't need to worry about that any more though.
Also picked up a Genesis 2 power adapter for $1, pulled away from a beat to hell Sega Pico that I left in a junk pile. In addition I grabbed a GameBoy Advance SP power adapter / charger for $1. Never hurts to have parts.
Alright guys, now time to make me jealous.