Don’t know if you are familiar with it, but that drive in the fx64 is a gotek drive emulator. They are often used in retro computers like the commodore amiga to replace the diskdrive. Looks like this one has the original firmware on it. Keirff Faser made a custom firmware that is really great, this also allows you to hook up a small oled display and a rotary encoder which makes selection of games much easier than the numbering system. I modified many of these, and I think there is a newer model that even has the oled and encoder already built in. Might also be an option for that other diskbased system, as it looks like it will be hard to find those disks. I have a zo spectrum +3 that used 3 inch disk which are hard to find and I modded it with the pcb of the gotek and a 3d printed frame so it’s a drop in replacement for the original drive.
Hey! Thanks for the message! I'm so glad you replied about the FX64 because I could not find anything about it. After you messaged me, I did some more digging about the Gotek drive. Now I know how it works for the most part. What a cool way to do a legit multi on original hardware. I want one of those with the encoder. I'm surprised there is not one for the 8bit famicom. That's cool you have modified these. So, it looks like an emulator and the roms go on the thumb drive and it plug and play? Can't be that easy right, lol? I like all those commodore and spectrum type systems but the arcade stuff keeps me super busy. Someday I'd like to do more with them. I have a couple MSX2 systems on the shelf I hope to get to as well. Maybe you can walk me through how to add games on this FX 64, not sure the software required really. Also the one I have is weird because they enabled cheats on every game by tweaking the code. I talked to the guy here in Thailand and he said he'd make me another thumb drive without the cheats enabled. Thanks again for the info. It was the main reason I made the vid really, hoped someone would jump in about the FX64. I'll make a separate vid now about it.
I need one of them lol I like that fx 64
Nice👍👍
Thanks!! Should be fun testing all this stuff and playing Japan games!! Nice kitty btw!!
Don’t know if you are familiar with it, but that drive in the fx64 is a gotek drive emulator. They are often used in retro computers like the commodore amiga to replace the diskdrive. Looks like this one has the original firmware on it. Keirff Faser made a custom firmware that is really great, this also allows you to hook up a small oled display and a rotary encoder which makes selection of games much easier than the numbering system. I modified many of these, and I think there is a newer model that even has the oled and encoder already built in. Might also be an option for that other diskbased system, as it looks like it will be hard to find those disks. I have a zo spectrum +3 that used 3 inch disk which are hard to find and I modded it with the pcb of the gotek and a 3d printed frame so it’s a drop in replacement for the original drive.
Hey! Thanks for the message! I'm so glad you replied about the FX64 because I could not find anything about it. After you messaged me, I did some more digging about the Gotek drive. Now I know how it works for the most part. What a cool way to do a legit multi on original hardware. I want one of those with the encoder. I'm surprised there is not one for the 8bit famicom. That's cool you have modified these. So, it looks like an emulator and the roms go on the thumb drive and it plug and play? Can't be that easy right, lol? I like all those commodore and spectrum type systems but the arcade stuff keeps me super busy. Someday I'd like to do more with them. I have a couple MSX2 systems on the shelf I hope to get to as well. Maybe you can walk me through how to add games on this FX 64, not sure the software required really. Also the one I have is weird because they enabled cheats on every game by tweaking the code. I talked to the guy here in Thailand and he said he'd make me another thumb drive without the cheats enabled. Thanks again for the info. It was the main reason I made the vid really, hoped someone would jump in about the FX64. I'll make a separate vid now about it.