Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy BETA?

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posted by djandy76 on Sep 7, 2009:

Hi graphique,

Now there's a good idea! Makes me wish I had a whole box of these things and a writer to go with it...
 

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posted by kammedo on Sep 7, 2009:

djandy76 said:




I'm still on the lookout for someone in or near Germany to help me check the contents of this disk. If you know anyone with the right equipment, please drop me a line.

There is some NES disk documentation (unofficial) around, made by some japanese guy back in the days. With a disk system and a GDSF7 you could easily dump it. All you would need would be a monitor program to read the data from the disk.
If you want once you get the disk in hands I could help with the monitor program.
 

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posted by MatthewCallis on Sep 7, 2009:

kammedo said:




There is some NES disk documentation (unofficial) around, made by some japanese guy back in the days. With a disk system and a GDSF7 you could easily dump it. All you would need would be a monitor program to read the data from the disk.
If you want once you get the disk in hands I could help with the monitor program.

Do you have any more info about this? I've never read anything about this.
 

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posted by kammedo on Sep 8, 2009:

MatthewCallis said:




Do you have any more info about this? I've never read anything about this.

Are you kidding me?
Has been around for ages. Check nestopia's source for example.
 

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posted by MatthewCallis on Sep 8, 2009:

kammedo said:




Are you kidding me?
Has been around for ages. Check nestopia's source for example.

Nothing in nestopia's source talks about a GDSF7 or how to interface a Famicom Disk System with it... Where are any images, is there any proof of concept that actually works?
 

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posted by kammedo on Sep 8, 2009:

Ah damn my boozedays! GDSF is for SNES. I apologize publically for this huge mistake ;_;

But still, the concept is the same.

EDIT : http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=36
with this you should be able to do the trick.
 

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posted by djandy76 on Feb 17, 2010:

I've come across a new problem in my quest to test out this mystery disk - I was all set to buy an original Famicom and a Disk System when I visit Japan in the next few months, but have since discovered that they are tough to get working on European TVs. Does anyone have any advice on what's required to make the picture appear properly?

I'm anticipating having to replace the drive belt and so on, but the possibility that the thing might not even produce a picture on my (semi-) modern TV has knocked me for six! Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
 

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posted by graphique on Feb 17, 2010:

djandy76 said:




I've come across a new problem in my quest to test out this mystery disk - I was all set to buy an original Famicom and a Disk System when I visit Japan in the next few months, but have since discovered that they are tough to get working on European TVs. Does anyone have any advice on what's required to make the picture appear properly?

Just get a Twin Famicom, that has composite output. Of course, you'll have to be careful to find one with a working disk drive, but that's another story.
 

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posted by randyrandall on Feb 17, 2010:

Im not an expert on the FDS but I guess it just outputs NTSC. Any modern TV should be able to handle it really.. I'd guess anything within the last 15 years even. All our TVs handle an NTSC signal (PAL region) and one of them is el-cheapo.. or, they might produce a steady picture, just in black and white (due to colour encoding differences)
 

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posted by djandy76 on Feb 17, 2010:

Hi graphique. That's a very good idea, thanks. One question though: if the drive does turn out to be broken, is the band-replacement procedure the same as for the standard Disk System?