DexDrive - Gaming Historian
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2009
- Gaming Historian takes a look at the DexDrive, an interesting peripheral for the Playstation and Nintendo 64 that inspired a whole new way of gaming. Before internet connectivity on consoles and DLC, the DexDrive allowed you to share data on your memory cards!
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Even with the 144p, your old videos are still so well made 11 years later
that weird moment when the video that you help inspire gets recommended to you almost a decade later. Damn I am old on the Internet
Patrick Burden That's cool. Yeah, we're all getting old. Lol.
Wait thats the person? Man i never even knew that shit even existed until now. You opened my ps2 collecting eyes for a viable option on putting ps2 data in just a flashdrive
Legend says, TH-cam is still recommending this video to this very day.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio it is... I just watched it on TH-cam recommendation on July 20th, 2019. Legendary!
@@OtakuUnitedStudio confirmed as of May 2020 :)
To anyone wondering,
I got one of these to work with a serial port USB adapter and PSX Game Edit software on Windows 7. Finally got to destroy my brothers Digimon with some Digi's I raised on an emulator. So the thing is still relevant in 2015 :)
Paddles! Of course, retro gaming RULES !
How have I never heard of this? So much better than the concept of buying multiple memory cards.
Not That Guy
I had one back in the PS1 days. After filling up 3 memory cards this thing was super useful.
Not only was the unlimited space amazing but sharing game files was also an incredible feature to have. the possibilities were pretty much endless.
I feel same. It would have been big savior for N64 and PS2 time to me. It took me a lot of time before I got 32MB memory cards to it, fact I had so many game saves.
This old YT quality :)
I rate it 5 stars!
You know these videos are old when he asks you to rate them. I dont remember the rating system at all I've simply heard of it.
I love me some 240p
Takes me back to a simpler time
"Ah, Madden 08, the football game to own in the current generation"
Scott the Woz: Ya damn right.
My thoughts exactly
You can still get a Dex Drive to work with modern PCs! You need a special USB adapter sold on Amazon, and a homebrew program called "Dexter" that takes the place of the original Dex Drive software. It all might seem a bit fiddly at first but it works like a charm once you figure out how to set it up. And if you have a Gameshark for N64, you can transfer save files from your cartridges to the memory card and vise-verse, which can be backed up on your PC and shared with the Dex Drive.
i don't have an adapter :( but at least i have a couple old PCs that have serial ports
I found out that the DexDrive will work just fine without the AC adapter.
Would have been cool if the DexDrive was still around. Games like TimeSplitters (knowing that series has a map making community) could have used it and since Gamecube owners of that game didn't have online, it still would have helped some.
Although these old videos are in 240p, they hold up pretty well.
The growth is phenomenal
Scott the Woz knows how good Madden 2008 is.
GameFAQs benefited from the Dex Drive. They have so many archived games saves, it's crazy.
Ya, I uploaded a bunch in 2001 and 2002 :) . I have been checking out some of my 17 and 18 year old save files. Really cool.
Wow, I can't believe I haven't watching Gaming Historian until yesterday. It's great and I got some binge watching to do.
As for this particular video, I never thought I would see floppy discs again.
Ah Yes, The Dexdrive. I remember owning one of these when I was quite young. One red 1MB Memory card on Playstation 1, Backing up saves etc.
Thankfully, after this, a lot of years later in the PS2 era, Memor32 Team brought out the Memor32 for Playstation 2. Now this was quite the accessory, because along with having over 32 MB of storage, which was huge back on the PS2, it also had a built in Mini-B USB plug, that, when plugged in allowed you to back-up and restore save data to the PC.
This brings back a lot of memories. I had no idea they made a n64 version
I've never heard of the DexDrive but let me tell ya, it would've settled many a hard decision of who's saves to delete back when my siblings and I used to play on our PlayStation back in the day.
The worst examples were those games like Gran Turismo 2 that had saves that took up multiple blocks on the memory card, in fact, my brother and I weren't able to tell our individual GT2 saves apart and had to make a difficult decision of deciding which one to delete to make some much needed space and unfortunately, it was mine... I was pretty upset (I had a Dodge Viper... a Viper _dammit_! Haha, oh well. :)
Sorry for your loss :(
i never heard of this device either. i spent a hundred dollars on memory cards...
hellasow b I'm more of a XBOX guy and us XBOX people spend our money on XBOX live and hdds
MikamiFan92 Really? I clearly remember buying multi packs of memory cards for not a lot of money in the PSX days.
+LordHEF I vaguely remember this device. Never owned one. Do not think it was a big seller. Mainly designed for those people that cannot play a game without cheating.
I have this PSX device. So glad I used it back then. Was looking at my old games and found a mega memory card I use to use all the time. Gonna hook up my PSX and test it. If the data is gone, at least it's backed up on my computer. I used it a lot when I was playing RPG Maker.
Personally, I had the Blaze MPXchanger, which was more of a 3-in-one device. With it, you can save your PS1, and N64 save games as well as various functions with the GB slot. The device was compatible with DexDrive saves as well as PocketStation saves.
damn this is an old comment
current gen xb360, floppies, old Google and the WinXP theme, I miss it all :D
Such a humble time. Now almost a decade old (As of this comment was done in the early part of 2019). And something I never even knew existed. And I was old enough to notice this kind of thing....
I've always wondered how the Dexdrive works. Now that I've seen this, I know that I REALLY could have used one back all those years ago. I lost so much game data that it wasn't funny...
3:42 OH GOD YES! CLASSIC GOOGLE!
o:27 i think scott the woz will love it
I actually still use my Dex Drive, specifically for the transferring of games created with RPG Maker on the PS1. I dare say that if it weren't for the Dex Drive, the console RPGM community would've never taken off. There are over 100 games available for RPGM1 if you know where to look. Granted, a lot of them of them are quite "bleh", but there's a few real gems among them.
You know, that would be a good subject for a Gaming Historian episode: the RPG Maker series.
I had this thing...might still somewhere =)
Wow that's rly interesting piece of gaming hardware.
I never knew much about that, I used to think ppl had to buy those gameshark save memory cards instead. but this is pretty cool for back in the day : )
I know that I've heard of this before, but never had one myself. The DexDrive does seem like an interesting gaming accessory. Great history lesson! And I did have a chuckle at the floppy disks. I don't think my kids even know what those are. :P
Cackled when he pull the floppy haha oh gosh I feel old.
That's why when you mentioned CDs and the 1970s, I mentioned LaserDiscs which were commerically available in the 1970s and are based on similar technology
Very interesting piece of history! Thanks for sharing this man! We see your hard work!
Good background music
Damn I’m 24 years late. This adapter would have been useful for sure back then!!
I had one for my PS1 and loved the thing. Cheaper than buying multitudes of memory cards.
I sure wish I had one of these for the gamecube. I bought a couple of madcatz memory cards, played for hundreds of hours, and lost everything. I felt so crushed I quit playing the system entirely.
Loved my DexDrive. In the days of AOL, it let me download hacked saves so I could have Sephiroth and Aeris in my party on Disc 3 of FF7.
Cass Carter ,
I thought I heard about websites - or was it emailing? - that people were using to share their save files or exchanging / trading them.
Was the spirit typically a bartering system or was there any sites that had a collection of saves for downloading?
I've got one of those for the PS1. Dunno why I even bought it back then.
I use to own one. It was a must have if you played RPG Maker, since it was the only way to play other people's games.
awelcruiz
Or if you wanted to make a decently long RPG yourself and share it. RPG Maker could gobble up memory card space.
I had one of these, it was so awesome. I HATED deleting saves (yes I am a digital hoarder now) so saving my older saves to my PC felt so dang good.
I can't believe I never knew about this device until now! Would have really come in handy on the N64, because it was a nightmare trying to manage the memory sometimes
Stumbling on this and seeing ‘rate’ (not ‘like’) and subscribe makes it it’s own peice of history on TH-cam 😂😊
Wow this video is ancient these days ... never heard of the dexdrive so I looked it up and saw this video. WOW.
So many video games/consoles/accessories have the letter X in them.
What? no comments on the PS3 memory card reader? read the memory card saves and transfer to a CF, memory stick Pro Duo or SD card, and also store your saves on a PS3.
the dex drive became obsolete after that but still nice piece of history for us that lived through those times, I don't even have a sr232 port anymore but mine is still somewhere around here.
This was a cool device! I never knew about it! Learning about old video game hardware is pretty legit! Thanks!
I remember watching this one when i was a kid and having NO idea what Norman was talking about and being hella confused xD
This is literally the first I ever heard of this product before this point. Since there was one for the Nintendo 64, you think I would have heard about it by now...
The one thing you didn't touch on was that this thing would be reworked with custom software, to play copied PS1 games. All you'd need besides the device and a cdr copy of a game, was to get the disc to read, and bypass the protection method Sony put in place.
You would load a real PS1 game, then after a few seconds swap the disc, having stuck a pin, or in many cases a small spring, so the thing kept spinning, and then put the copied game in.
I did this to try out Japan only PS1 games many years ago, and this hardware trick still works, and combined with the DexDrive is kind fun to mess around with.
This was a cool accessory! I never knew about this!
wish this was 5 times longer
good stuff i cant wait for the new videos !
damn this is an old comment
i get happy every time i see one of your videos reposted :-P
damn this is an old comment
I had one, and enjoyed using it at the time. But only in the short term.
It was really only good for taking end game saves for games i had finished and storing them for posterity, so that I could free up memory on the cards and make new saves. In the end that doesn't matter because I don't have those hard drives anymore, or the dex drive, but I still have my pS1 memory cards.
WELCOME BACK GAMING HISTORIAN!
hey your first
USB to serial adapters are also dirt cheap on eBay, so it's still pretty simple. You can get them for
I remember around 2003, 2004 in high school when the NCAA Football games were still around , i would mail my memory card to some guy who had a buisness on the internet and he would copy his updated roster file with all the player names to my memory card and mail it back lol. Good ol times, now we can just download roster updates
and that was exactly the sort of reply I expected, almost word for word.
Point I was making (which you already know) is that casette tapes were used in computers a full decade after Wiki told you that discs were as they were cheaper for the home user and more widely available, as were floppies in the 1990s.
An adult would have acknowledged that
A teenager bangs on and on about something (OMG NOT DISC BASED) just so they can hurl another personal insult, which I'll be waiting, son
I remember it being advertised on the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly.
I wanted one of these for the GameCube but never found one. I saw an ad for it in Nintendo Power. Maybe I'll take a look online again some time.
240 quantity got me feeling some type of way
I didn't know this existed I spent so much in memory cards for ps1 and N64 when it came to sports games esp when they got more complex it could take up a whole memory card. I remember buying a gamecube memory card and not having enough space to save a madden 2007 season.
Great stuff! I would love to see something about The Atari Jaguar!
Norm, i miss the old intro music. So epic!
I had a similar device that I got around the same time the DexDrive came out but it was made for the Game Boy though I used it on my Game Boy Color. It was placed directly in the system so there was no need to plug it into a PC. However, the saved data had a tendency to delete itself.
It's the Edgar's theme from Final Fantasy VI.
love ur vids keep post'n'em
damn this is an old comment
Mr. Caruso, you're a class act. Keep it up.
I know, I agree with you 100% that he's really sexy and I'm also attracted to him a LOT! Glad to see I'm not the only one who feels this way!
The madden 08 reference really dates this video lol
@loomp You can use a USB to Serial adapter for it. I have one and I can now use both my PSX and N64 DexDrives on my laptop since almost all laptop PC's don't have Serial ports.
Can you talk about why the snes looks diffrent in us and everywhere els based on super famicom
this comment is old, but i have an answer to your question (if you still needed it) because of how popular the genesis was in america, nintendo changed the design to look more sleek and less like a "toy" which sega's advertising campaign was trying to convince people of.
Anonymous Guy
That makes no sense whatsoever.
The Super Famicom was out before the US SNES. So you're saying that the US version was the "sleek" redesign? Lol
That sucker looks like it was made by a 4yo using lego.
CPS2 gather thought it would be a better look for the us
@Saestrol
i know what you mean. I played and beat FF7 so many times back in the day but what I wouldn't give to see my first FF7 file again :( among other games.
Sounds very retro indeed😜
9.5.22
I actually used a dex drive in 2001 and 2002, uploaded a bunch of PSX saves and uploaded them to gamefaqs. it has been quite fun and interesting downloading those saves from 17 or 18 years ago, in 2019, and checking them out. However, one of them does not work, seems to be corrupt. Is it possible, while uploading with the dex drive, that dex drive corrupted my save file?
Great video... If I can leave a suggestion, do one on the lynx. Maybe it's not that unknown to historians of gamingness(ness), but it was one of those things I saw in Brazil only in magazines (we barely got jaguars, and I only remember seeing 1 3do ever)
I had one of these back in the day and couldn't remember the name of the damn thing. Now in 2018 I have just bought a new one off Amazon :) Thanks for the video.
I need to get my hands on one of these just so I can get save files of all the songs unlocked on a few music games
If you haven't, I would love to hear the history of the Pokémon franchise.
I'm pretty sure the PC Engine had the first memory card the Tennoke Bank. Would be nice if you did an episode on the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx-16. Good info nevertheless.
Robert Hornibrook
The Tennokoe Bank isn't a memory card in the strictest sense, as games don't save to it. The Tennokoe 2 which plugged into the back of the system was effectively a memory card though, and it was before the bank. So you are right about the Neo Geo not being first. :-)
woah. backing up memory, I want one.
so if i i buy dexdrive and set it up ill be able to move game save data off the memory card onto the computer and then forth to other places like my playstation 3??
he did the madden 08 before scott
When i take smoke breaks during my gaming sessions, i come online and watch videos on video games. Awesome videos, and keep it up!
Holy shit this opens my eyes.
@mcfrosticles is there a dexdrive for the gamecube plaese reply -thanks in advance
I just bought one and got it working for my N64. Time to hack save files!
So would this be a way to back up Pokemon data so when my silver and gold batteries die, I can just restore it using a Dex drive?
It is for PlayStation/N64
Gaming Historian The former opening music to your videos was better in my opinion. Gotta love the sound of a piano. It just fit the Historian vibe.
Hello, I made a subtitle for this video, so how can I put it for this video?
I guess this opened the way for Action Replay and GameShark with the original Xbox maybe other consoles too but I had it for original Xbox.
I had one of these for PS1,
I think some borrowed it and I never saw it again.
I can't remember if I had it working with Bleem or not!
damn this is an old comment
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@@17R3W good job still using youtube after all these years
Holy crap I remember hearing about this back in the day, by "hearing about" I mean "reading some article that said a new N64 accessory gives you 'unlimited saves'". I remember thinking that Nintendo had somehow "cracked the problem" of limited storage space on computers, and found a way to make it infinite, looks like the actual reality was a bit less impressive.
Still, I have seen copies of the Playstation versions of RPG Maker kicking about, which say they take an entire memory card to save projects. I wondered what the hell the point of that was, you couldn't share games beyond lending the card to somebody else, and hoping they didn't delete or mess it up (as presumably they also needed RPG Maker to run it). Now things are a little clearer!
I think there are some serial/usb converters.
1:34 TOM KENNY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Was this ever released in Europe? Never seen or heard anything about this.
I need to know the name of the song that plays at the beggining.
Sounds post-rockish, a la Explosions in the Sky. :3
Franz Esteves
Darude - Sandstorm
Ahhh yes Scott the Woz loves madden 08. I mean it is the best version. XD (no one gets my Scott the woz refence) 😭😢😩
This intro is epic.....
Can anyone tell me what music is playing around 4:30
I know I've heard it somewhere...
From FFVI, it's the music for Figaro.
grrr, every time I hear an orchestrated Star Fox theme I just keep wondering when they're going to bring it back and give it the same grand treatment Mario Galaxy and Zelda Skyward Sword got... just imagine what kind of amazing Star Fox game they could make on a Wii U.
There were no CDs of any kind coming out in the 1970s Compact Discs didn't see the light of day until the early 80s
There were LaserDiscs in the 1970s but they weren't used for the storage of data outside of a handful of Dragon's Lair style games and the Doomsday Project, not exactly everyday use, floppies were far more common even in the 1970s but they were expensive then and cassettes were more common, but they don't count according to Siknik64 because they're not disc based