Gaming Having to use floppy disks again

[Harsky]

Recently I bought a SNES copier to play SNES roms but the thing needs floppy disks to transfer the roms. The problem is that the floppy disks I formatted on my windows XP via USB floppy drive refuses to work on it so my option is to either get out and try and find an authentic old PC with the floppy drive built in and probably older windows to format it or is there an easy way of getting Windows 98 to run within XP?

 

[wchill]

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1.
Done.

 

[UltraMagnus]

try a linux live CD

the snes copier is supposed to take HD floppy disks though right? some older equipment will only work with DD disks

 

[Harsky]

try a linux live CD

the snes copier is supposed to take HD floppy disks though right? some older equipment will only work with DD disks

ALL the floppies I have HD. There is an option in the SNES copier to format the floppy within the device to make it work but the second I put it into my USB Floppy Drive it gives a, "disk not recognized" error message which is kinda why I'm now thinking of seeing if Windows 98 is the only way it can read it.

 

[Harsky]

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1.
Done.

Downloading it now. I take it I need the Windows 98 ISO as well?

 

[TrolleyDave]

It could be your floppy drive for the pc is knackered or the other way around. I format my floppies on XP and they read in the SuperUFO without a problem. Have you got an original cartridge? Format a disk on the copier and rip the cartridge to disk, if it still gives an error then the drive in the copier is knackered.

 

[Harsky]

It could be your floppy drive for the pc is knackered or the other way around. I format my floppies on XP and they read in the SuperUFO without a problem. Have you got an original cartridge? Format a disk on the copier and rip the cartridge to disk, if it still gives an error then the drive in the copier is knackered.

Formatted a floppy in the Game Doctor SF7. Then I put in a copy of Super Mario World. Ripped perfectly and had the file on the floppy. Put it into my PC USB floppy drive and gave the, "DISK NOT RECOGNIZED" error which means that I can rule out having to buy a new floppy drive for the copier.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Yeah, it's got to be the pc drive then. That sucks but at least it's not the copier itself that's shagged. Do you know anyone with a USB floppy drive yu could borrow just to rule it out?

 

[Harsky]

Yeah, it's got to be the pc drive then. That sucks but at least it's not the copier itself that's shagged. Do you know anyone with a USB floppy drive yu could borrow just to rule it out?

I used to have a USB floppy drive... then it dies today. I'm really hoping that buying a new one is enough to get it to work on the SNES copier. But is there anything different about a floppy formatted in 98 and XP. If so, will Virtual PC format it different?

 

[Joe88]

I thought virtual PC cant read usb devices?

anyway if you just get a regular floppy drive they are only like $5 or less

 

[TrolleyDave]

Yeah, it's got to be the pc drive then. That sucks but at least it's not the copier itself that's shagged. Do you know anyone with a USB floppy drive yu could borrow just to rule it out?

I used to have a USB floppy drive... then it dies today. I'm really hoping that buying a new one is enough to get it to work on the SNES copier. But is there anything different about a floppy formatted in 98 and XP. If so, will Virtual PC format it different?

As far as I know there's no difference between a 98 and XP formatted floppy so buying a new drive should be enough. XP reads the disks I format in the copier with no hassles and vice versa anyway. The only thing I can't get XP to do is read the 1.6M formatted floppies from the copier. I've got software for it that's supposed to work with them but I could never get it to, might be my floppy drive tho. Have you got SNESTool so you can remove country checks and simple copy protections? If you don't then let me know and I'll send it to you.

 

[Harsky]

Yeah, it's got to be the pc drive then. That sucks but at least it's not the copier itself that's shagged. Do you know anyone with a USB floppy drive yu could borrow just to rule it out?

I used to have a USB floppy drive... then it dies today. I'm really hoping that buying a new one is enough to get it to work on the SNES copier. But is there anything different about a floppy formatted in 98 and XP. If so, will Virtual PC format it different?

As far as I know there's no difference between a 98 and XP formatted floppy so buying a new drive should be enough. XP reads the disks I format in the copier with no hassles and vice versa anyway. The only thing I can't get XP to do is read the 1.6M formatted floppies from the copier. I've got software for it that's supposed to work with them but I could never get it to, might be my floppy drive tho. Have you got SNESTool so you can remove country checks and simple copy protections? If you don't then let me know and I'll send it to you.

Nah, I use Ucon64. I really wonder if the problem was my crap USB floppy drive and if I needed an actual ancient PC with the floppy drive built in. Either way, I still had to fork out some money for a new USB floppy drive from ebay and I'm now phoning up people to see if they have a old PC they can give to me.

 

[dark42]

Virtualbox can do USB, it is overall better than Virtual PC and is free-er (OSS).

 

[Harsky]

Well, after all the time setting up virtualbox and getting a Windows 98 ISO, I finally find out that the read that the SNES copier can't read floppy was actually due to the USB floppy drive which I replaced with a new one and it actually loads SNES roms without a hitch like it's suppose to. Now I have a different question for those that own a SNES copier such as a Game Doctor SF7. Why is it that if I pull the plug off the copier, the game loaded on the copier gets deleted?

 

[Raki]

Well, after all the time setting up virtualbox and getting a Windows 98 ISO, I finally find out that the read that the SNES copier can't read floppy was actually due to the USB floppy drive which I replaced with a new one and it actually loads SNES roms without a hitch like it's suppose to. Now I have a different question for those that own a SNES copier such as a Game Doctor SF7. Why is it that if I pull the plug off the copier, the game loaded on the copier gets deleted?

well I guess the copier copies the ROM into it's RAM, which loses all data if it loses power.

 

[TrolleyDave]

Well, after all the time setting up virtualbox and getting a Windows 98 ISO, I finally find out that the read that the SNES copier can't read floppy was actually due to the USB floppy drive which I replaced with a new one and it actually loads SNES roms without a hitch like it's suppose to. Now I have a different question for those that own a SNES copier such as a Game Doctor SF7. Why is it that if I pull the plug off the copier, the game loaded on the copier gets deleted?

The battery in the copier has died, the battery for the saves is also used to keep the data in the copiers ram. If you replace it then it should keep the game stored in the copier after being unplugged. They're usually just a standard CR2032 battery.