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megadriver11 · Joined: 01 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

im trying to put several roms on each disk for use on the old mega disk 8mb...

ive tested the mega tools and got it to work with a single rom using imc.

i think ive got a formatted ibm disk but how do I copy the roms?? if done within xp or command prompt with copy command it says cannot find sector.

and i tried using imc before with several games and it wont show up as a list on the mega disk.

conceitedjerk · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:14 am Post subject:

If I remember correctly, you need the MDI boot disk or a newer BIOS (or the 16M version MDI) in order to access multiple ROMs on floppy. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

megadriver11 · Joined: 01 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

no as I have old disks with several games on them, they were copied from real carts. but i have tested with the boot disk but it will only find 1 game.

conceitedjerk · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 4:36 am Post subject:

Well, I haven't touched my MDI in ages (and I've only owned it for little over a year), but I do know this: the MDI used a nonstandard file system, and as such the disks can't be read/written properly in XP, 2000, '98, et cetera, so you can't simply copy files across from HD. You needed the DOS-based Sane Ting utils to "inject" (or rip) the ROM to (or from) the floppy... not sure whether anyone came up with a workaround for this in Windoze, but someone out there could likely enlighten us...

madman · Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 598

Yea, he is correct, writing to those disks requires a tool, you can't just format from a PC and write to those floppies.

You can download a tools package here: http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/51836/download.aspx

megadriver11 · Joined: 01 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

ehm I KNOW. im asking about how to copy MULTIPLE rooms to disks with the tools ive tried and it dont work.

sledge · Joined: 20 Jul 2009 Posts: 27

Perhaps this works?

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5. INTERCEPTOR DOS DISKETTE CREATION
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2HD.BAT
2DD.bat

The 2HD.BAT provides an easy way to make Interceptor's DOS diskette at 2HD
diskette and 2DD.BAT is at 2DD diskette . To use 2HD & 2DD

Usage : 2HD Dos_VERSION 2DD Dos_VERSION
or
Example : 2HD SD49B 2DD SD49B

1. MD55 means Mega Disk Interceptor DOS version 5.5C (for Multi-games in
same diskette)
2. MD49B means Mega Disk Interceptor DOS version 4.9BC (for single game
in diskette)
3. SD49B means Super Disk Interceptor and Super Famicom Interface DOS
version 4.9BC
4. BANK20 means Super Bank version 2.0
5. Floppy drive has been defined in drive A:
6. Diskette must be IBM formatted first.
7. Please copy DEBUG of DOS to same directory.

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