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====== Famicom Disk System (WIP) ====== | ====== Famicom Disk System (WIP) ====== | ||
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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
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* Famicom Disk System Drive | * Famicom Disk System Drive | ||
+ | * Famicom Disk System RAM Adapter | ||
* QDC | * QDC | ||
=== Dumping === | === Dumping === | ||
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+ | In order to connect everything up you'll need to remove 4 screws from your FDS RAM adapter and pull it open. Once inside you'll see a cable plugged into the board, carefully remove the cable (and you might take a picture of it so you can remember how it went in) and pull it out. Now you'll take that cable and plug it into the QDC on the right side which is labeled "To Drive" | ||
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+ | Go ahead and hit " | ||
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+ | You'll see the other buttons light up as options now. First we'll click Read Disk. It will then pull up a save dialog box and you can name the file properly (Denoting Side A if there' | ||
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+ | Choose your RAW file (or files) you created and it will make FDS files. Lastly if the disk is two sided you'll need to manually combine them. To do this on the main QDC menu select DataConvert and this time select MergeFDS. You'll then be prompted to select your FDS files you want to merge into one. Once you've selected both sides you'll be prompted again but just hit cancel as your FDS disk will only have two sides. With that you should have a combined proper FDS file you can load up in an emulator and make sure it works! | ||
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==== Video ==== | ==== Video ==== | ||
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===== Verification ===== | ===== Verification ===== | ||
- | [todo] | + | Verification with FDS games is difficult because the hashes never match up due to the way FDS files work and are created. FDS headers contain a large amount of information that can be different from dump to dump despite the game being identical. Rewrite dates, or dates they were created along with the fact that disks get modified when read for the first time in some cases can make verification quite a chore. However to be sure it's best to submit them via the [[https:// |
===== Gathering Dump Info ===== | ===== Gathering Dump Info ===== |