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- From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
- Subject: Re: SEGA Genesis on Amiga?
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 07:39:12 GMT
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- Daniel Frost (Daniel_Frost@arkham.bbs.bad.se) wrote:
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- : Mark> about a group of hackers who produced a mechanism for copying a cart's
- : Mark> ROM to disk - they called it a "back-up" system, so whether if the
- : Mark> resulting disks can (somehow) be used on a Genesis/Megadrive, or if the
- : Mark> resultant code can be used on an Amiga is anyone's idea.
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- : Most of the models are made comercially, but they are "back-up systems", you
- : copy your cart to disk, and you can use the "back-up system" to load the game
- : again. But using the games on Amiga? Naah.. I would not count on that.
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- : You do not need your cart to play the game, just the "back-up". So, one would
- : be stupid to say there are no piracy on those consoles, however, most people
- : do not know about this.
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- : --- Xenolink 1.0 Z.3, EmacsXL.4
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- Where can I get said backup systems? How much do they cost? Are there
- any made for SNES? And how the hell do they compress all the stuff from
- a cartridge to fit on a 880 (or 720) disk? Or do you use HD? Still, wouldn't
- that be more than one disk? How does the backup system work? When you put
- a disk back in that you had backed up a game to, does it just read the game
- into the backup system's memory? Or does it (gasp) read the game from disk
- as it needs it?
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