SD-card or HDD replacement for CD drive?

[Bonknuts]

Well, it's so common on the interwebs.

I even made a demographic:

I'm a....vagina?

[ginoscope]

Well, it's so common on the interwebs.

I even made a demographic:

I'm a....vagina?

Vagina was the first thing I thought of when I saw that diagram lol.

[Dicer]

Well, it's so common on the interwebs.

I even made a demographic:

I'm a....vagina?

Vagina was the first thing I thought of when I saw that diagram lol.

A pussy pussy maybe, ew...

[Trenton_net]

To be honest, I would rather someone came up with a USB CD-ROM interface, than an SD card solution. The biggest problem to playing back games is aging hardware, not the inability to find game media.

[ccovell]

I'm a....vagina?

Don't be such a cu... so offensive, or I'll sic some dentata on you.  ;-)

[BigusSchmuck]

More than likely we'll see an ever drive that supports cd games before this happens.

[Bernie]

Ya never know......


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[NightWolve]

To be honest, I would rather someone came up with a USB CD-ROM interface, than an SD card solution. The biggest problem to playing back games is aging hardware, not the inability to find game media.

That's an interesting idea. Less difficult too. Add to that, modern CD/DVD drives can read CD-Rs burned at any speeds no problem.

[Trenton_net]

To be honest, I would rather someone came up with a USB CD-ROM interface, than an SD card solution. The biggest problem to playing back games is aging hardware, not the inability to find game media.

That's an interesting idea. Less difficult too. Add to that, modern CD/DVD drives can read CD-Rs burned at any speeds no problem.

Right! Modern drives have non of those CD-R issues for playing translations or homebrews. Not to mention, to get a replacement USB CD-ROM drive is dirt cheap. Getting a proprietary working CD-ROM2 for the PC-Engine? Considerably more expensive (more so as they age and replacement parts become harder to find).

[spenoza]

The problem is that the CD unit also has the ADPCM hardware and a little RAM built into it, so an SD mod would have to be on an existing CD unit unless additional hardware was added. Same for the EverDrive.

[thesteve]

well yes and no
the ADPCM hardware is in the interface unit, not the drive, so any drive replacement would require IFU/CD base/DUO, but not an existing drive
unless someone replicates the mapping chip and audio chips

[spenoza]

well yes and no
the ADPCM hardware is in the interface unit, not the drive, so any drive replacement would require IFU/CD base/DUO, but not an existing drive
unless someone replicates the mapping chip and audio chips

Yes, yes... What I meant was, it would be more work to come up with a CD-mimicking SD card device for a bare PC Engine or TG-16 rather than a CD-capable system. I was using CD unit to refer to the whole package, not specifically the CD drive itself.

[Groover]

I know of the 3DO USB mod and a Dreamcast and Saturn. I would love a PC Engine CD Modded for USB. Someday maybe we will find that yellow sliver. The closest tech I could achieve is installing the mod.

[Black Tiger]

well yes and no
the ADPCM hardware is in the interface unit, not the drive, so any drive replacement would require IFU/CD base/DUO, but not an existing drive
unless someone replicates the mapping chip and audio chips

Yes, yes... What I meant was, it would be more work to come up with a CD-mimicking SD card device for a bare PC Engine or TG-16 rather than a CD-capable system. I was using CD unit to refer to the whole package, not specifically the CD drive itself.

The problem with emulating the adpcm as well is that you are getting even further away from an authentic experience.

[Trenton_net]

well yes and no
the ADPCM hardware is in the interface unit, not the drive, so any drive replacement would require IFU/CD base/DUO, but not an existing drive
unless someone replicates the mapping chip and audio chips

Right. To be clear, when I mentioned the idea for a USB CD-ROM interface I was speaking merely from the perspective of a PC-Engine Core + IFU-30 + CD-ROM setup. The reason being, PCE-Core and IFU units are very easy to find in a working state. CD-ROM units are not. This also means that if one were to produce an adapter, it would be a simpler job since the CD-ROM unit is bare-bones. Another pro to using this setup as a base is that PCE-Core and IFU-30 components are modular. So you can swap them in and out as needed when one goes bad.