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> It'd be really cool to have a hard drive with all snes roms on it to go along with the dx2. How can you connect a hard drive to it? (without buying the diskdual.)
The only practical way is to use a parallel port cable to the PC and transfer from your PC HD. Otherwise you'd have to make your own Disk Dual which would be much more expensive than just buying one. It has a parallel to IDE interface chip inside of it.
Buy the Disk Dual, you'll thank yourself later. Read some of my Disk Dual replies in this message board because I think that most of the current large disk drives may have a problem working in the DD. I'd recommend a Maxtor 10-15 Gig drive because I know these have cylinder limit jumpers on them that allow them to work with the DD. I don't know about other makes of drives.
> I see a few people got it from ACS, and I'm wondering how long it took to arive, and maybe how much shipping is. Does he have a bunch of systems sitting around waiting to be sold, or does he have to order more from somewhere outside the country?
Just mail him and ask. Mike's a good guy, he'll tell you what the supply situation is. I think sometimes he has some in stock and sometimes he doesn't. I recently ordered a second DX2 from him. I prefer dealing with a business in this country rather than ordering from Taiwan.
> What cartridges can be backed up just by plugging them in (sa-1, s-dd1, c4, can't, you have to take the cart apart,) like can I plug in doom, yoshi's island, starfox, stunt race fx, and mario kart and back them up without any troubles? How about games that have more than one rom chip, like tales of phantasia? Will it dump that perfectly, or do you have to take it apart and dump the chips individually?
I think it will back up all games without the special chips which is most of them. For the few games that have special chips just go to www.cherryroms.com and download the backup from there. One note about Doom: the latest GoodSNES rom of Doom US is scrambled. There should be an update the next time GoodSNES is released.
Many carts have more than one ROM and the DX2 will handle most of these transparently. The only carts with multiple ROMs that will have trouble are ones with special chips or games bigger than 32Mb. Again, there are only a handful. Go to Cherryroms to get those.
> Where does it save the games' save rams and stuff? Can it cram several save rams onto one save ram chip in a cart (mario paint and sim city have 256k save rams.) Or can it put them all onto a floppy disk, or even a hard drive.
I don't think it can cram several onto one chip but it can save them on a floppy or hard disk and reload from there (I think).
> What's DSP that copiers have? It's not the dsp1 chip right?
Don't know.
> Well I'm pretty much set in buying one of these in the next several days, I just want to know a little more ahead of time so I can want it even more :)
It's a good unit. I'm happy with mine. Probably the only one that comes close to the DX2 is the Game Doctor SF7 / Professor SF2 and these are no longer produced.
TD
