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| dieseldogpi:
--- Quote from: mvsfan on September 13, 2009, 03:54:25 pm ---also i dont know much about oem systems with a compressed hard drive but if its possible to somehow put that image onto a compact flash or something like it it will change catastrophic failure into a simple remove and replace operation provided youve made backups. also the cards dont fail as much. --- End quote --- I heard this was possible, any one have any more info on it? Mainly the adapter to connect the ribbon connector on the jamma harness to the flash drive? |
| Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: dieseldogpi on September 14, 2009, 12:58:30 pm ---I heard this was possible, any one have any more info on it? Mainly the adapter to connect the ribbon connector on the jamma harness to the flash drive? --- End quote --- Not much to the hardware side of things....... the adapter plugs into the main/mother board where the hard drive ribbon cable used to go and the CF card plugs into it. And a connector from the power supply also plugs into the adapter no different than the original hard drive. Here's an example and some explanation. (I hadn't read through it to see how much info is there) http://www.multigame.com/CF.html |
| dieseldogpi:
If I have another working hard drive, does any one know where I can get the image if I can't pull it off of the old drive? |
| Necroticart:
unfortunately we really can't give you the answer to that one as it is a grey area legally and also any info on aquiring roms is not permitted on the forums just seach around i'm sure you will find the CHD your looking for |
| dieseldogpi:
gotchya, sorry, I didn't think of the chd's in the same group as the console emulators, my bad. |
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