Actually, SNES was meant to have a disk drive made by a Sony/Nintendo partnership to compete with Sega CD. This is where this thing derived from I believe..
I actually bought one of these when it was released on the internet. Back then it ran me around $500 for the thing... So expensive... I ended up lending it to a friend of mine that ended up taking it apart and breaking it...
"Run Card" and "backup Card" means "Cartridge"...so on a Game Doctor SF7, it would play the inserted game if you go to "Run Card" or if you selected "Backup Card" it would back-up the cartridge onto a Floppy Disk. Not sure how you would backup a SNES cartridge on that machine though, I guess you'd have to download ROMs formatted for Game Doctor 7?
i,ve readed that some game company's in japan reversed and pull off a super famicom to put a cd rom unit in it.
i,ve also readed that this cd rom was even licensed by nintendo,since that companny also had made snes controllers for the superfamicom.
the most interresting fact is the the gamestation can be also connected to a sf docter7 disk unit to load rom to it,and to play those roms on a real.superfamicom,you can also use the floppy disc to upload your save files.
wtf this system is completely independent from the snes system but it just has all the replicated hardware in them???? what the shit it really tout that it coan be connected to an snes trough a floppy disk system in order to expand the snes capabillitie,s but it seems it has nothing to do with the snes console itself except for the controller,richt?????
Ohh forgot to mention another crap thing. Since its just a gamedoctor 7 and a cd drive and snes board you'd think it would support all the gamedoctor 7 stuff. NOPE!. Its only 32mb of ram which means it doesnt support games larger than it ( Star Ocean converted for copiers ). You ned 128mb of ram to support every game. It also is missing the plugin for special chips so no FX, SDD1 or DSP supported games. MMX2/3 StarFox, SuperMarioRPG, tales, far east of eden and star ocean plus other dont work.
I had one of these things and boy are they awful. In this day and age they're only worth the novality. The worst part is you need to format the games in this stupid format that has no convinant way to do it. You have to run dos prompt programs to convert them. Also it doesnt support a lot of games. You also have to plug in a ide floppy disk drive to be able to save.
I have a CD-ROM that looked almost identical to that. Difference is it had a play button, and the volume up and down were buttons, not a dial. It was a computer CD-ROM.
I thought I'd seen it all, then I see this thing! It'd be interesting to see the insides of that thing, though I recon it's just a SNES Jr and a Game Dr in one unit.. Nice find!
@RetroRepair That is a good idea, I might do that tomorrow, that is if it does not have some stupid security bits, if I do, I will make a video, and send it to you.
@VKWhyte Prototype Snes CD? The one and only SNES CD is not anywhere around the world but secretly kept in the Nintendo Vault in somewhere in Japan along with the DS Lite XL.
i have a game doctor and a super ufo pro 7. if you google how to convert roms for game doctor ul get the program u need to convert your roms to the right format for this unit
Actually, SNES was meant to have a disk drive made by a Sony/Nintendo partnership to compete with Sega CD. This is where this thing derived from I believe..
Denji2006 2 weeks ago
@Denji2006 Yep, and when Nintendo decided to cancel the SNES CD drive, Sony kept developing it and it became the ps1, I heard.
WhiteLionness 1 day ago
Very nice, but how can you save games on this thing?
Or use a floppy drive to save/load your games?
MrFixer1983 1 month ago
I actually bought one of these when it was released on the internet. Back then it ran me around $500 for the thing... So expensive... I ended up lending it to a friend of mine that ended up taking it apart and breaking it...
DJEmergency 1 month ago
Wanna buy it... i'll pay U$2,000...Deal?
aninhav10 1 month ago
I reckon that is Fake Mate as I no one else has one
AFLVideos2011 2 months ago
AAAWWWW THE REASON I LOOKED AT THIS WAS TO PLAY DONKEY KONG!!!
xXViewtifulJoeXx 2 months ago
"Run Card" and "backup Card" means "Cartridge"...so on a Game Doctor SF7, it would play the inserted game if you go to "Run Card" or if you selected "Backup Card" it would back-up the cartridge onto a Floppy Disk. Not sure how you would backup a SNES cartridge on that machine though, I guess you'd have to download ROMs formatted for Game Doctor 7?
DvdXploitr 2 months ago
i,ve readed that some game company's in japan reversed and pull off a super famicom to put a cd rom unit in it.
i,ve also readed that this cd rom was even licensed by nintendo,since that companny also had made snes controllers for the superfamicom.
the most interresting fact is the the gamestation can be also connected to a sf docter7 disk unit to load rom to it,and to play those roms on a real.superfamicom,you can also use the floppy disc to upload your save files.
johneymute 2 months ago
the person talking sounds like micheal jackson.. lol
TheFunfinder86 3 months ago
@TheFunfinder86 excuse me?
TheFatty2497 2 months ago
wtf this system is completely independent from the snes system but it just has all the replicated hardware in them???? what the shit it really tout that it coan be connected to an snes trough a floppy disk system in order to expand the snes capabillitie,s but it seems it has nothing to do with the snes console itself except for the controller,richt?????
johneymute 4 months ago
Ohh forgot to mention another crap thing. Since its just a gamedoctor 7 and a cd drive and snes board you'd think it would support all the gamedoctor 7 stuff. NOPE!. Its only 32mb of ram which means it doesnt support games larger than it ( Star Ocean converted for copiers ). You ned 128mb of ram to support every game. It also is missing the plugin for special chips so no FX, SDD1 or DSP supported games. MMX2/3 StarFox, SuperMarioRPG, tales, far east of eden and star ocean plus other dont work.
Clesarie 5 months ago
I had one of these things and boy are they awful. In this day and age they're only worth the novality. The worst part is you need to format the games in this stupid format that has no convinant way to do it. You have to run dos prompt programs to convert them. Also it doesnt support a lot of games. You also have to plug in a ide floppy disk drive to be able to save.
Clesarie 5 months ago
I have a CD-ROM that looked almost identical to that. Difference is it had a play button, and the volume up and down were buttons, not a dial. It was a computer CD-ROM.
Draknfyre 5 months ago
I thought I'd seen it all, then I see this thing! It'd be interesting to see the insides of that thing, though I recon it's just a SNES Jr and a Game Dr in one unit.. Nice find!
RetroRepair 7 months ago
@RetroRepair That is a good idea, I might do that tomorrow, that is if it does not have some stupid security bits, if I do, I will make a video, and send it to you.
seemoremacstuff 7 months ago
@seemoremacstuff Cool, I look forward to it ^_^
RetroRepair 7 months ago
I thought, maybe you had found a prototype SNES CD :(
VKWhyte 7 months ago
@VKWhyte Prototype Snes CD? The one and only SNES CD is not anywhere around the world but secretly kept in the Nintendo Vault in somewhere in Japan along with the DS Lite XL.
soulwrithe44 7 months ago
@TheBloodyKnife1 the swap meet.
seemoremacstuff 7 months ago
Very cool find! I've never heard of the Gamestation. How much did you pay for it?
HapasFine 7 months ago
@HapasFine I paid ten bucks for it.
seemoremacstuff 7 months ago
@seemoremacstuff That's a steal dude! Really cool pickup :)
HapasFine 7 months ago
@HapasFine it's a fake , homebuilt device
tunkunrunk 5 months ago
@tunkunrunk It is not fake, it is from the 90's no it is not nintendo official, but it is by the people that made the Game Doctor.
seemoremacstuff 5 months ago
That thing is rad!!! How much was this thing?
syphic 7 months ago
only thing is no super fx games work on these and also to play star ocean u need the 96megabit ram upgrade for it
WickedClownNZ 7 months ago
i have a game doctor and a super ufo pro 7. if you google how to convert roms for game doctor ul get the program u need to convert your roms to the right format for this unit
WickedClownNZ 7 months ago
@WickedClownNZ thanks
seemoremacstuff 7 months ago