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7/18/2025, 6:53:08 PM
>>11878526
>I tell you if that came out, that generation would have been extended for several years.
I doubt it. I used to think that way because I assumed it was like the SegaCD, but then I learned otherwise. It was basically just a CD-ROM in place of a cartridge, that's it, absolutely no additional hardware or features whatsoever. This would have killed it off pretty quickly like the FDS was, and the FDS actually added extra audio channels to the Famicom. The SNES absolutely thrived on expansion chips, it used them more than any other console by a mile. While yes some of them were used for graphics compression that you can just brute-force with the space of a CD, most of them were co-processors adding additional features or processing power that the SNES could never do on it's own, and just simply having a CD drive bolted in place of the cart would not have helped with either.
>>11878574
>Is it not the analog nature of the laserdiscs that's the problem? Sure, cart dumpers can dump each cart bit for bit identical every time and verify it's correct, but for laserdiscs there is no "correct."
I thought that anon was talking about dumping Genesis carts. I guess it makes a bit more sense ifi t's from an analog source like a Laserdisk, though still a bit excessive considering how many LaserActive disks there were and how likely rare and expensive they are nowadays. As for ripping the data, the Domesday Duplicator can do a near-perfect job with a compatible Laserdisk player, at least for the analog data, not sure if it can read any digital data/code off the disk or if they even contained any code.
>I tell you if that came out, that generation would have been extended for several years.
I doubt it. I used to think that way because I assumed it was like the SegaCD, but then I learned otherwise. It was basically just a CD-ROM in place of a cartridge, that's it, absolutely no additional hardware or features whatsoever. This would have killed it off pretty quickly like the FDS was, and the FDS actually added extra audio channels to the Famicom. The SNES absolutely thrived on expansion chips, it used them more than any other console by a mile. While yes some of them were used for graphics compression that you can just brute-force with the space of a CD, most of them were co-processors adding additional features or processing power that the SNES could never do on it's own, and just simply having a CD drive bolted in place of the cart would not have helped with either.
>>11878574
>Is it not the analog nature of the laserdiscs that's the problem? Sure, cart dumpers can dump each cart bit for bit identical every time and verify it's correct, but for laserdiscs there is no "correct."
I thought that anon was talking about dumping Genesis carts. I guess it makes a bit more sense ifi t's from an analog source like a Laserdisk, though still a bit excessive considering how many LaserActive disks there were and how likely rare and expensive they are nowadays. As for ripping the data, the Domesday Duplicator can do a near-perfect job with a compatible Laserdisk player, at least for the analog data, not sure if it can read any digital data/code off the disk or if they even contained any code.
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