/vr/ - Retro Games

Famicom Disk System
PC Engine CD

You missed the first cd add-on, for the PC-Engine

And also there was the Famicom Disk System if you go back to the previous decade

>>1485907
>>1485917
But disks aren't discs.

>>1485971
OP here. I included the 64DD, so I guess these can be disc and disk add-ons.

>>1485971
It seems to depend on who you ask. Some say disks are magnetic and discs optical but others disagree and say they're interchangeable.
I'm not sure how the magneto-optical stuff in the 64DD fits in.

>>1485971
But the PC-Engine add-on did have discs.

>>1486017
He's referring to the Famicom.

>>1486024
Shit. Disregard that then, I am retarded.

>>1485917
One unusuall aspect of the PCE CD-ROM addon was that it was also compatible with a model of the PC8801 series.

>>1485891
The Chinese made a bunch of disk/disc add ons around that time. They didn't really enhance the capabilities of the consoles aside from allowing you to play copies of games though.

>>1485917
That's a really goofy looking setup.

I'd love to have one of these in my collection, even if FMV games are shit.

>>1487551
Forgot my pic. The US version probably sold like a hockey stick in Miami.

>>1486036

My god. The retro gaming rabbit hole is bottomless.

>>1487551
>I'd love to have one of these in my collection, even if FMV games are shit.

PC Engine was not powerful enough for "real" FMV. Instead it did cinematics using pixel art. Huge animated sprites, like the cinematics from 1990s DOS games. Which honestly is preferable to FMV by a long shot.

Look up "PC Engine Cinematics" on Youtube to see what I mean

Japanese made great use of shifting static images and even uncolored drawings even when they had access to the full motion possibilities provided by film/tape/whatever. When consoles reached a point this could be done reasonably well amazing shit happened.

Discs are hard, diskettes are floppy.

>want to get a Sega CD
>paranoid because I know how touchy those things are and reading ALL CAPS DESCRIPTIONS FROM SELLERS make me nervous

>>1491825
What about hard disks? Even 3.5" disks aren't very floppy.
The Saturn and Playstation had floppy drives attachments as an option for saving games.

>>1491838
3.5" disks are floppy. Open the plastic shell and see for yourself.

>>1491836
You might have better luck going the JP route and getting a MegaCD. It isn't always true, but Japanese people seem to take somewhat better care of their stuff, or at the very least don't act like they are selling garbage they found in the back of a pawn shop earlier in the day.

>>1491841
I'll take Bernoulli drive for $500 Alex.

>>1491836
they're expensive on ebay because of shipping, they charge a lot so they can make the shipping look cheap.
Look for one locally, they dont even run for half the ebay cost. Personally I paid $25 dollars for my model 2.
>tfw no extension piece
>tfw genesis hangs off the edge.

>>1491875

>find a SegaCD via craigslist

>it's upstate rather than in my own town

3 hours away.
But it's 60 bucks, with a Sega CD attached..

>find a SegaCD via craigslist

>it's upstate rather than in my own town

3 hours away.
But it's 60 bucks, with a Sega Genesis attached..

>>1491875
>Bernoulli
floppy film diskette inside a hard plastic case
>>1491838
>3.5" disks
floppy film diskette inside a hard plastic case
>hard disks
No such thing as that's a contradiction in terms. Hard DRIVES are made of stacks of plates, which would be considered discs

>>1485891

>N64DD

Does anyone actually have one of these things? Not releasing a console with native CD support in the late 90s is where Nintendo started to go wrong. Awful decision. And now, consoles are totally and completely dead.

>>1491893
That's why they are shortened to HDD for hard drive drive.

>>1491893

HDD stands for 'Hard Disk Drive', because of its use of a spinning disk (not the same thing as a disc) to store data.

>>1491925
Disk and disc both mean the same thing and have the same etymology. Any distinction between magnetic and optical storage media was added as an afterthought.

>>1491946

I know the words are the same (I think it's just an American/international difference) but 'disc' has come to be associated with optical rather than magnetic storage, and it's wrong to ignore this distinction simply because it's a new development. That's not how language works.

>>1491952
Should we consider records discs even though they are not optical since they are used by disc jockeys? They're obviously not magnetic either.
I suppose we could use disque for all archaic round things.

>>1491964

The only thing the word technically denotes is a round, flat object. The shape of a record is a disc, but you wouldn't call a record a disc unless you were describing its shape to someone who had never seen one.

>>1491964
disx

>>1491964

Also it's not just disc jockeys, I love vinyl and so do many other people. I think the disc in disc jockey can also refer to optical discs, though.

>>1489143

is much better, those low res, compressed videos look awful

>>1491971
I think he may have been referring to the arm of a record player. I've heard people call them "disc jockey's" for some reason.

Is the American TurboDuo the same as the PC Engine CD?
I guess my real question would be is if I import Rondo of Blood, can I play it on the TurboDuo?

>>1492742
Yes. If you happen to have an NTSC turbo duo (theyre expensive as fuck), the CD doesnt have a region lock. Theres a physical lock out on the hu-card however.

>>1489143
>>1491985
Sega CD does that too on many games. Needless to say, it looks way better than the grainy, 64 color FMVs the system can also show.

>>1489143

Actually, the PC Engine was able to do real FMV even better than the Sega CD, they even had a special video compression called HuVideo that was used in like 3 games. And there were also those Sherlock Holmes games that were released on the west.

Gulliver Boy opening on PC Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19XdGJh6Znc

>>1491909
hdd means high density drive

>>1493028

No.

It's called a hard disk drive because its storage medium is a rotating, hard (as opposed to floppy), magnetized disk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

>>1485997
>Some say disks are magnetic and discs optical
That is the difference.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2300

>>1493639
Just because Apple claims something doesn't make it true.
They still pretend that Macs aren't Personal Computers even after they allow you to install ordinary Windows on them.

>>1493652
No they don't, they just associate a common term with the rest of computers instead of saying something like Mac vs HP, Acer, Asus, Dell, Toshiba, etc.

>>1492781

I stand corrected. I still think the pixel art cinematics are preferable to FMV though.

>>1491893
>Bernoulli
A guy who would call you a retarded autist if he were here today.

>>1494118

Devastating but true.

>>1489143
The Sega CD did that too in a few games and just by looking at youtube stuff, it was generally more impressive. Yumimi Mix and that urusei yatsura game had them both, in fact the ENTIRE GAME were based on them.

>>1491985
Dino Island on the Saturn had incredible animation.

turbografx 16 had a cd drive add on that has one of the best castevania games ever on it

PC Engine/Turbografx CD,it is the best CD addon you can get by far.

>>1492002
He was obviously referring to the people who play music in clubs and on radio stations.

>>1487554
It was about $300 IIRC, when it was new. That was an absurd sum at the time. I remember seeing one on clearance at Hill's back in the early nineties, but my annual income was about $20 at the time.

>>1492781
You think PC engine could handle this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zTU7qIwPw

>>1497231

No, but that has nothing to do with FMV playing.