When or what was the first publicly available device that you could put roms on, and plug into that game system?
does it go all the way back to nes?!?!!? (doubt it, but idk)
does it go all the way back to nes?!?!!? (doubt it, but idk)
I see you didn't read the OP. What he was asking was: what was the first thing ever produced on which you could put downloaded games?sanoblue said:i knew of them back with the original gameboy.... but donno about the first. my first one was a r4. but my first wanna be flash cart was a gba cart
Read the OP againuseurcamera said:my 1st DS flashcart is the R4.
Just got 2 months ago
Destructobot said:As exangel said, the first flashcart was a floppy disk. As for the first cart cart, I would guess that it was for the SNES, or that generation of system. The NES had a very complicated cartridge scheme (each game used one of a large number of memory mapper chips, each of which has to be emulated for an NES flashcart to run the games that use that mapper), so any NES flashcart based on the technology available at the time would have been extremely limited at best.
Looks like this one wins the prize.rancor01 said:The first one I remember ever seeing was the Yoko for the Atari 2600 WAAAY back in about 1983.
Yoko 2600
A great resource for copiers from the past is Robert Webbs website:
Robert Webbs Classic Copiers
Its a great resource for console history buffs.
TrolleyDave said:The first copier I ever saw was the original 8mbit Magicom for the SNES. I'm pretty sure though that there was a device for the Famicom as well that used the Famicom Disk System to back the stuff on to before the Magicom.
There are devices for the older consoles like the 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision etc. but I'm pretty sure they came after the NES/SNES/MegaDrive copiers.