There's been backup devices for all these systems since when they were new. A company called Bung made the one for the NGPC and I'm pretty that's what everyone who ever dumped games used. That Bung linker does use a parallel port connection, so I guess that'd make it more complicated than one of these for a lot of people.

Exhaust, a compilation of them are particularly worthwhile.
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Posted by 25-Pin Bung Hole and Opa Opa on March 04, 2023 at 15:39:14 EST in reply to He'd have been doing this sort of thing well before it was this easy, too! (n/t) from Paleface.

There's been backup devices for all these systems since when they were new. A company called Bung made the one for the NGPC and I'm pretty that's what everyone who ever dumped games used. That Bung linker does use a parallel port connection, so I guess that'd make it more complicated than one of these for a lot of people.

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Ah yeah the Pocket Linker. Too bad about the parallel port requirement! I wonder if there's any chance it would work via a USB-Parallel adapter. I think when I searched for an NGPC ROM dumper years ago I didn't know what terms to use and all I came up with was a breadboard kit thing, maybe like the one in the video inside. Also I think I got a video of Flavor talking about his stuff.

(Paleface)

(15:41:43 03/05/23 EST)

I'd say that anyone who messes with stuff like this probably ought to just get an old computer to do it with instead of trying to make it work with a modern computer. I keep an old X series Thinkpad that I rescued from an e-waste bin to use in these cases. It's got all the old ports on a docking station and I have MS-DOS, Win98Se, XP, a few versions of Linux, and some other OSes all on a GRUB menu. Actually, it's a pretty nice little computer and I often end up using it as my main computer.

(ThimkPad and Opa Opa)

(15:35:37 03/20/23 EST)

Yes. Absolutely. A working period PC makes a lot of things easier. A few years ago I acquired a PhotoCD (Kodak’s thing…) and wanted to view it and holy shit, it’s way hard if not impossible on new stuff since the drives themselves aren’t compatible. On my PowerPC Mac Mini from 2004 though…no problem. BTW: PhotoCDs aren’t super high quality. Another example would be making direct copies of games for PCE CD, Neo CD, Mega CD, 3DO, etc is absolute cake (“copy this CD”) whereas new drives and new OS make it several more steps since they can tell those aren’t audio CDs and won’t pretend they are.

(SignOfZeta)

(10:12:12 03/21/23 EST)

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