I was too early to find one, but I hear that Hong Kong sellers are now selling "VCD consoles". These are either MegaDrive or Famicom hardware hacks inside a Playstation 1 case!
The units were described as CD playing units hooked to actually reproduction hardware of the original console. They play VCD, CD-R, CD-RW, and CD's.
BUT...
They have no cartridge slot because they can play ROMs off of the CD player!
I guess you can crap a bunch of roms on a CD and this thing has a menu system to read the disk and let you play games off the CD (not sold with the unit, of course).
I can understand a Dreamcast doing this, but how the heck did they do this with the old 8-bit Famicom?? It is amazing and I wish I had one -- this is comparable to the Treamcast discovery to me.
Has anyone heard anything about these systems or, better yet, have one? I could see everyone having the MD version. I was told it cost about HK$500. I would have bought it.
The units were described as CD playing units hooked to actually reproduction hardware of the original console. They play VCD, CD-R, CD-RW, and CD's.
BUT...
They have no cartridge slot because they can play ROMs off of the CD player!
I guess you can crap a bunch of roms on a CD and this thing has a menu system to read the disk and let you play games off the CD (not sold with the unit, of course).
I can understand a Dreamcast doing this, but how the heck did they do this with the old 8-bit Famicom?? It is amazing and I wish I had one -- this is comparable to the Treamcast discovery to me.
Has anyone heard anything about these systems or, better yet, have one? I could see everyone having the MD version. I was told it cost about HK$500. I would have bought it.