cartridge to rom

[AXmichigan]

yea, how do u get a n64 cartridge to become a rom?

[spooki]

You can do it with the Doctor V64, You just plug the cartridge into the top and press a couple of buttons and it transfers it to your PC via a parallel cable. You also need to be running a program on the PC to receive the incoming data, Bung electronics created one called TPC which works with the V64

[AXmichigan]

dude thanks, but also when i was lookin for the doc v64 i also found cd64, and 64dd, and other stuff. do u know what kind of output file each of these makes?

[spooki]

The CD64 is a similar device to the Doctor 64 and creates files of the same format, with it you can

2. Backup & Developing Feature :- By linking to PC, ( you need to buy the Parallel Port Adaptor from us, it is optional ) you can back up your own game to your computer hard disk or store on CDR by using the cd-writer. Once you need to play the game. You can upload the games data from your PC through Parallel Port Adaptor to CD64 and run on N64. or boot from the CD-Drive of CD64 ( while your files data is store in CD ). The software developer also can write or modify their own games on PC and upload to CD64 to test it. .

Have a look at http://www.gameenhancer.net/CD64info.html for full info.

The 64DD was made by nintendo and just allows 64dd games to be played, these were released on special discs and are larger than an N64 cartridge. I believe this was only released in Japan.

You also have the Z64 which uses zip discs to store the games on.

If you backup a game with the doctor64 or CD64 you have to run a little program to byte swap it to be able to play it on a Z64, whichever device you backup the game with you can play it on one of the others, it just need to be byte swapped to the correct format.

[AXmichigan]

dude thanx sooo much, but istill got one question, what is the output file formate of each of the devices, i.e - .v64, .z64, .rom

[spooki]

The file format is the same for each device you just need to byte swap the file so it runs on the Z64

The Doctor 64 used .V64
the Z64 used .rom
the cd64 i believe used .V64 as well

these were the extensions that the release groups put on the file but i know with the doctor 64 you could have any extension you wanted

You can use a program called Rtool to quickly change the format of the roms so that they play on any of the backup devices

[AXmichigan]

thanks dude