I was offered this a while back. Way too much money for a useless peripheral. I am sure it will surface some day when someone decides it's worth spending
stupid sums for what is basically a floppy disk.
I was offered this a while back. Way too much money for a useless peripheral. I am sure it will surface some day when someone decides it's worth spending
stupid sums for what is basically a floppy disk.
I dont get it: it was a HDD? or a disk?
It's a HDD. Not sure what Assembler is talking about.
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What I was offered was a zip disk for N64. Not a 5gig hdd.
I misread.
Last edited by ASSEMbler; 04-14-2008 at 06:58 AM.
zip disk?like the one I have on my avatar?
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Was it a zip disk with some kind of adapter for the cartridge slot???
Yeah a zip disk. The guy wanted something like $5000 for basically all the iomega N64 stuff.
the original pre-97 Spaceworld design of the DD made use of an iomega-based Zip drive, very different to the DD released.
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And I bet it was much slower too.
Slower? why would a Zip drive be slower than a HDFloppy?
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Zip drives were pretty slow, and the 250MB (which I supppose were the ones N64 was going to use) was even slower than the 100MB version.
And lets not even talk about the click of death...
the N64 was always going to use the 64MB version , mainly due to addressing limitations (ie the version closest to ~64MB).
I don't see how you'd suppose they d use the 250MB version when console companies usually prefer older/more established/cheaper solutions O_o
Last edited by Barc0de; 04-14-2008 at 08:34 PM.
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You can ask for sheep and shavers
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Dude for something that was being delayed over and over I thought they were going to use a bigger media, since 64MB(512Mb) carts were getting cheaper by the minute.
Plus a custom 64MB Zip disk would've been more expensive that the 250MB since that last one was mass produced by many companies like verbatim and fujifilm, while a custom smaller disk would be produced for nintendo-only, and therefore in smaller quatities at a higher price.
Of couse they can just use the 100MB version and leave those extra 36MB aside, but what a waste that would be.
Last edited by Shadowlayer; 04-14-2008 at 09:36 PM.
Bah, they had no interest at all in releasing anything anyway, so why care?
The just did the "hey look we could do it but we wont"-notloosingmyface thingy.
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Oh, BTW : Computational power is obvious today. Long-lasting gameplay not anymore.
My two cents...
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The N64 iomega peerless drive never existed, it was a mockup to show that the drive could be used for videogames (not specificly the N64)
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