Adding a hard/opitical drive to your old NES?

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Anyone have any luck adding a hard or optical drive (ie- one that
could contain your legally backed up ROMS). I know little to nothing
about the NES hardware, but would attaching a drive be really that
difficult? Of course you'd need a launcher on the drive that could
interface with the NES hardware to allow you to pick which ROM you'd
use. I also wonder if it would be possible to partition the drive to
allow some space to save game states.

Maybe this would be run through best using Windows CE (which, in all
probability, would require a separate processsor)? Which reminds me- I
am aware of the "Ulimate NES Mod," where you put a Dreamcast in the
innerds of a NES. It's a cool idea, but I don't know if you'd be able
to fit the whole NES game library on a single CD, and again saving the
games becomes an issue (plus there's something cool about running the
roms using the ORIGINAL hardware). And yes, it DOES make more sense to
just use an X-Box, but just go with me on this.

Thoughts?

 

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"brimley@gmail.com" <brimley@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Anyone have any luck adding a hard or optical drive (ie- one that
> could contain your legally backed up ROMS). I know little to nothing
> about the NES hardware, but would attaching a drive be really that
> difficult? Of course you'd need a launcher on the drive that could
> interface with the NES hardware to allow you to pick which ROM you'd
> use. I also wonder if it would be possible to partition the drive to
> allow some space to save game states.
>
> Maybe this would be run through best using Windows CE (which, in all
> probability, would require a separate processsor)? Which reminds me- I
> am aware of the "Ulimate NES Mod," where you put a Dreamcast in the
> innerds of a NES. It's a cool idea, but I don't know if you'd be able
> to fit the whole NES game library on a single CD, and again saving the
> games becomes an issue (plus there's something cool about running the
> roms using the ORIGINAL hardware). And yes, it DOES make more sense to
> just use an X-Box, but just go with me on this.
>
> Thoughts?

There was a thread on this several years back. Generally, it falls
under the "too much trouble to be worthwhile" category. Or, you could
flip the project on its end, and make an NES-PC.

http/www.mini-itx.com/projects/nespc/

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