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evulopah
msx addict
Berichten: 462 |  Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:07 |
On one of the photo's from Japan there is a very cool picture of an MSX game reader with hydlide 3 inserted.
Could someone give me more information on this nice hardware thingie. Is it specially made for personal computers?? Or is it only to be used in combination with the MSX PLAYer??
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Latok
msx master
Berichten: 1727 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:10 |
It's an USB MSX Game Reader. You can use it on any hardware device with a USB connection. Given the fact that there is software available for that device which can handle the MSX Game Reader of course.....And that software happens to be the MSX PLAYer, yes 
Ah well, I think in the future there will be more MSX emulators supporting the MSX Game Readers....
Please check our newsarchive, we have posted many many times about this new device. |
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wolf_
msx legend
Berichten: 4713 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:27 |
might be nice to write a tracker on pc supporting the opl4 in such a reader ..
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Latok
msx master
Berichten: 1727 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:38 |
Great thought, Wolf! That would indeed be VERY nice!
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Latok
msx master
Berichten: 1727 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:39 |
Which makes me wonder. Would it be possible to connect a slotexpander to it? Does it behave exactly as an MSX cartridgeslot?
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snout
msx legend
Berichten: 4991 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:52 |
The Game Reader does not support I/O devices. Sorry. As far as I know the Game Reader is more or less a ROM dumper. But I could be wrong  |
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Ivan
msx professional
Berichten: 885 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 12:59 |
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| Ah well, I think in the future there will be more MSX emulators supporting the MSX Game Readers....
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Really? The MSX Game Reader is copyrighted; ASCII/MSX Association. And they probably won't like other emulators than MSX-PLAYer supporting it. We'll see... |
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POISONIC
msx professional
Berichten: 883 | Geplaatst: 09 December 2003, 21:15 |
its a littlebit strange why they not made a 100 % backward compatible????
that would be better.............
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Berichten: 3048 | Geplaatst: 10 December 2003, 00:13 |
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| >>Ah well, I think in the future there will be more MSX emulators supporting the MSX Game Readers....<<
Really? The MSX Game Reader is copyrighted; ASCII/MSX Association. And they probably won't like other emulators than MSX-PLAYer supporting it. We'll see...
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Why wouldn't they?
The more software supports it, the more they will sell of it. Besides, it promotes using ORIGINAL software with emulators, so it decreases piracy.
I think there is not a single good reason to disallow other emulators from using it.
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| its a littlebit strange why they not made a 100 % backward compatible????
that would be better.............
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'backwards' has nothing to do with it. You CAN call it UPWARDS compatible. That means it has less features than a normal MSX cartridge slot.
I'm sure there will be a newer version some day with I/O and SOUND support.
Sound will probably need USB2.0 tho...
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Latok
msx master
Berichten: 1727 | Geplaatst: 10 December 2003, 11:21 |
Uhm, if it's actually a ROMdump device, then they probably will have problems with many exotic ROMcartridges....
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Berichten: 3048 | Geplaatst: 10 December 2003, 11:42 |
Most mappers are have memory mapped I/O (which is ofcourse supported). Only some indeed very exotic cartridges (korean pirate stuff) use real I/O for switch.
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snout
msx legend
Berichten: 4991 | Geplaatst: 10 December 2003, 19:20 |
Using an internal rom database (like openMSX does with romdb.xml), even the most exotic games should be runnable
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