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Is this possible? I like FDS disks, and I have a Turbo Game Doctor 6+
I know a powerpak would be easier, but I wanna know.

Since you mention the PowerPak, I'm assuming you want to play games, as opposed to just storing a backup on the discs. The answer is "technically yes for a subset of games, but hundreds of hours of effort and so definitely not worth it"

No, the pirates dumped and hacked the games themselves and then distributed (sold them) the hacked games on disks. I'm pretty certain none featured any sort of backup feature, due to cartridges having no useful internal information on critical things like Mapper and ROM size. Playing bootlegs with these old devices isn't very fun. The Doctor PCJR might be interesting since it has a regular floppy.

No FDS backup systems actually performed backups of carts. They could backup FDS games, but carts were hacked like crazy to work, sometimes shittily on them.

-Rob

Anything in $E000-$FFFF, for example, had to be relocated to $6000-$7FFF.

Just thought I would ask. Game Doctor images are damn near impossible to get, and people that do have them seemingly guard them with their lives.

Why? They're crap. I recall hearing some of the hacks to get games to work were really awful with glitches. I know it has a novelty factor but really it's not worth it. Just use a modern flash cart, or maybe look into the Doctor PCJr. It used a floppy disk and I think someone figured out how to convert roms for its format for games that lineup with one of the supported mappers.

It's still very tedious and alot more expensive than using a PowerPAK or one of the upcoming flash carts.

I mostly want game doctor FDS images since I am a collector. I do have a PowerPak, but would love game doctor FDS images. Dr PC NES JR is too expensive, if you can find one, and is not RGB capable.

This Game Doctor seems interesting, if it can rewrite FDS disks with your own files and allow development that way.

There are other ways to write FDS files. With the right Disk Drive and PC you can write disks with a FDSLoader cable.

I already have all I need to write disks, but I don't have game doctor images.