From: "ken lu" <ken.lu@canrem.com>
Subject: snes sf2 modify.
Reply-To: "ken lu" <ken.lu@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: alt
Date: 8 Nov 92 18:26:26 EST


MB>Questions: 1: how much is the MGD2 cost at your place?(I plan to buy one..)
MB>           2: how can you copy one games that is over 2 Mb in a disk?(because
MB>              the disk that we currently use can only store 1.44Mb
MB>           3: I know you can store it in a lot of disks, but then you have to
MB>              swap the disk everytime the machine request some informations
MB>              that is not currently in the disk ,.....right?

I think I know the answers.

The DROM size of the game cart usually use MegaBIT .
Where Eight BITs equal ONE BYTE. Therefore 8 MegaBIT game cart is
about 1 MegaBYTE usually. And yet the HD can store 1.44 MegaBytes.

The MGD2 use special Format for the HD disk which can store the 1.6 MegaBYTE.
So one disk can contain one 8megabit and one 4megabit games.
or 12megabit game in one disk.
or THREE 4 megabit games in one disk.
or A lot of games of 2 megabit in one disk.
The SF2 is 16 megabit and therefore you need 2 disks to store it.

The MGD2 costs about U$300 in Hong Kong. and Something to keep in mind
that is There are so many kinds of the Cart Copiers in Hong Kong
therefore the price vary a lot depend on the quality or function of the
Copier. The MGD2 can BACK-UP SNES or GENESIS console and other console
system as well ( Such as NEO-GEO , Gameboy .....etc)
You need to buy more DRAM for the MGD2 (16Mbit DRAM only for the Basic
setup ) in order to play NEO-GEO games.

While you can buy the console copier in Hong Kong without a problem.
You can not buy/SELL/TRADE the disks which contains the games.
but I wonder how many console game store owners actually obey that
rule. They may sell the disks to you privately in Hong Kong.

If You can READ chinese , then the SING-TAO chinese daily newspaper
have some column to discuss the Home-Video-Game console every day.
You can find that newspaper in Hong Kong, US or Canada.
The recently topics on that column are the MGD2 and some other Console
Cart Copiers .

Since the LAWs vary from Country to Country. In Honk Kong , it seems
to be the legal device. But , In US, there is no such device available
in the local video-game store. The MGD2 may be the legal Device in US
but right now not so many video-game store owners or Importers dare to
challenge the LAWYERs from the big N or SEGA. Yet , You can still get
it through your friends or Grey-Markets. But the Price may jump up to
$500 or even higher in US or Canada.

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