But a well-made photoshop image of that design would be funny.kevtris wrote: The entire system is the size of an NES cartridge, so mounting connectors to it would look silly with them being bigger than the system itself.
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Hojo_Norem
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Im not 100% on this but I'm fairly sure the the Mega Drives's Master System compatibility was used quite a bit over here in the UK. A decent number of people I knew who had a MD also had a MS converter to go with it.MottZilla wrote:Atleast in my opinion the Master System support was not widely used or beneficial to the Genesis. I'm not really sure what the total extra costs were for Master System only components in the design. But I'm sure it wasn't free.
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Kevtendo Disk System
Other than what color the bits are. Your product can't be used without ROM images, and without an adapter to make those ROM images by backing up cartridges, all it can run are homebrew games and infringing copies of commercial games. Advertising a product's infringing uses is illegal where you and I live; it's called "inducement to infringe". MGM v. Grokster. But if the user can connect a Retrode or other external cartridge adapter, your product suddenly has a substantial noninfringing use. Sony v. Universal. I'm just encouraging caution so that Nintendo doesn't shut down the NESdev community.kevtris wrote:there's no reason to have a cartridge port.
A cartridge adapter for the Kevtendo could be an external device not unlike Retrode. I don't see how it would look any sillier than a Famicom with FDS attached, Sega Genesis with Sega CD, Super Famicom with Satellaview, or Nintendo 64 with 64DD. My HP OfficeJet printer is much bigger than my Mac mini computer. The Wii Balance Board is bigger than the Wii console. The Guitar Hero guitar controller and the Dance Dance Revolution controller are bigger than the PlayStation 2 console (slim version).kevtris wrote:mounting connectors to it would look silly with them being bigger than the system itself.
Right. But as I said in "most markets" the Master System didn't do well at all. My point again being that they should have focused every last resource put into the system to focus on the 16bit new platform. The SNES may have suffered if it had NES support tacked on.Hojo_Norem wrote:Im not 100% on this but I'm fairly sure the the Mega Drives's Master System compatibility was used quite a bit over here in the UK. A decent number of people I knew who had a MD also had a MS converter to go with it.MottZilla wrote:Atleast in my opinion the Master System support was not widely used or beneficial to the Genesis. I'm not really sure what the total extra costs were for Master System only components in the design. But I'm sure it wasn't free.
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Re: Kevtendo Disk System
Don't forget about Lock-On Technology!kevtris wrote:mounting connectors to it would look silly with them being bigger than the system itself.
Re: Kevtendo Disk System
At which point he can point to copynes to point out that he in fact made a device so these roms can be legally transferred. Now stop overanalysing and enjoy the device when it comes out.tepples wrote:Other than what color the bits are. Your product can't be used without ROM images, and without an adapter to make those ROM images by backing up cartridges, all it can run are homebrew games and infringing copies of commercial games. Advertising a product's infringing uses is illegal where you and I live; it's called "inducement to infringe". MGM v. Grokster. But if the user can connect a Retrode or other external cartridge adapter, your product suddenly has a substantial noninfringing use. Sony v. Universal. I'm just encouraging caution so that Nintendo doesn't shut down the NESdev community.kevtris wrote:there's no reason to have a cartridge port.
SD card will definitely make this device really awesome. Also if Kevtris wants to add cartridge functionality I'm sure Retrode would be a good way to go. Matthias is always looking for more devs maybe the projects can help each other some how? Other wise he can just point out like most devices do that obtaining roms is something you need to do your self (via Copynes, kazzo, or Retrode) and just leave it at that.
This maybe a stupid question but is there a thread where kevtris's progress on this device? Would love to order a couple when it's all ready.
This maybe a stupid question but is there a thread where kevtris's progress on this device? Would love to order a couple when it's all ready.