Pirating Super Nintendo Games In The 90's! Super Disk Interceptor Copier

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[@AiltonAlmeidaTinho]

where's the link of SD2SNES pro?

[@debravalreyes2033]

Diskets not floppies

[@KareemHillJr]

That thing also is the reason why Hong Kong 97 exists.

[@lazertag720]

Hey hong kong 97 was a top quality masterpiece and needs a remaster

[@raindrainxi]

When I was growing up in the 90s, we didn't have the console at home, so we went to a gaming arcade-sque place where you rent by the hour, and the SFCs and SNESes there had either this or the UFO attachment. They have to load the game from multiple 3.5" floppy discs before you can start the game. Since it was a public place, you need to have your own diskette to save your game. I still have that diskette for my saves for Chrono Trigger way back when I played it in '96.

[@delboy3k1]

Some people didn't get the adaptor but took a cartridge out of the case and slot it in. It was very popular when blockbuster rented games as you would rent and copy it to disk.

[@You_Have_been_informed]

80 % of all snes roms came from this little gem.

[@mazor13]

I had 2 brothers down the street from me. Doug and Justin. I really liked them but they only lived their for a year or less. Their parents where divorced or probably just not together i just assumed married/divorced. They lived with their mom on my block and their dad lived about 10 minutes away. Well anyway the first time i experienced this was probably 1992 between 1994. I remember going to a sleepover but instead of their moms house it was their dads. He pulled out this devil machine. A stack of every game I dreamed of renting! ALL FLOPPYS AND IT WAS GOLD!... It was amazing! I remember some games being multiple disks. Not kidding I remember the waiting for disk 2 3 or 4 before it would start. I remember their dad as the coolest dude ever. We stayed up playing all kinds of games. An then idk how long but their dad let them take it to their moms and play it. Soon after they moved out of state. This warms my soul. I wonder how they are doing.

[@Vintiqueture]

It's crazy how old tech can bring back these sorts of memories - thanks for sharing 😎

[@JANEMBA9000]

That's a good memory dude ...

[@mazor13]

@@JANEMBA9000 it really is lol. Brings me back.

[@mazor13]

@@Vintiqueture yeah thanks. It is crazy that this brought me back to that moment in time.

[@smhoneyjuarez2928]

Good story man. I can only imagine the thrill and amazement

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

The Canadian release was a little behind the USA. Word got out that a store the next town over was bringing them up from the USA. I begged my my mom and we went there after school. Christmas came a little early that year.

[@clarencemerritt5003]

My mother: what is that? Me: super Interceptor. My mother: oh my god! my child is a Arms smuggler!

[@unstoppableExodia]

In 2000 thru a local I got my hands on a super wild card bundle that included a Super Nintendo console and a mario kart cart plus 200 games on floppy disc. Bought it from Some family guy on the other side of town. When showing how it works he mentioned that during the nineties he rented just about every SNES game they could get their hands on an made a copy to keep. At a time before I had access to either EBay or emulation it was an absolute goldmine. I reasoned that the game rentals which would have been a minimum of 5 bucks each times 200 would have cumulatively cost 1000. I still have it although I haven't played it in years. I'd never sell it though because the sentimental value is through the roof. One of my fondest memories was transferring an act raiser rom I later downloaded, transferred to floppy (back when my pc still had a floppy drive) and the bloody thing actually worked. It sucked that bigger games had to be split up across multiple floppy discs. Anytime I wanted to play chrono trigger I'd have to patiently load 4 separate discs plus the save disc before I could actually play. and surprisingly the game I played the most, by far on it was sensible soccer. I got so hooked on that game in the 2000s

[@delajt]

I had a Super Wildcard which was the bomb! And on my BBS I had console sections so yeah, SNES games were traded online and offline. Bonus was that I could play the SNES games while my BBS took over my Amiga 2000 fulltime

[@mikewhitfield7000]

There was a computer club in England back in the day were people would swap and copy (snes)games on devices like this

[@Fulthrotle73]

Damn that Snes is hella clean son!

[@argedismun2]

I used to have a friend in Harlem that had this , and introduced me into emulation on my IBM PC

[@Neodestro]

yep me 2 in school in the 90s i have a friend the introduced me into emulation i remember 1 day in the school library the guys play with 2 controller arcade version of street fighter 2 champien ed on dell pc with tv monitor 27 inch say omg arcade perfect the was good old days

[@cwfqayin]

No one played SNES without this kind of device in my country back in the day, because real cartridges were too expensive for us. In Thailand, we usually played pirated games until the end of PS3/360 era, when online play, and DLC become a thing.

[@FioFirefox]

This takes me back to the Super MagiCom! It's basically the same device and it is why so many SFC/SNES ROMs end in the SMC extension.

[@shadowpresident4203]

Back in the day, if you had a SuperWildCard DX, or maybe a Super UFO Pro 2, and a stack of hundreds of floppy disk 'backups' of rented and borrowed games you were a total baller. For true transcendence however, one needs to download games from the early web in the 1990s, of all these crazy games my friends didn't even believe when I told them about it. None of these games were ever sold in the US, nobody had ever owned or rented them... So it was just awesome, and it made me realize just how much bigger the world is than whatever is happening in MY country. I played a ton of obscure SFC/SNES Japanese import games with this thing in the late 1990's when most of the industry had moved on to the PSX/Saturn/N64 era. Being able to download games for the Super Famicom from Usenet binaries groups was a HUGE feature. As a relatively young kid in the 1990s in the US, there's literally no way I would have ever been able to play all these games without the various different "backup units" I owned over the years. There was also the Doctor V64 which allowed you to backup N64 games. It even included a CD-R drive (not CD-RW yet at the time) so you wouldn't have to spread the N64's large ROM size over a ton of 1.44 MB floppies.

[@PeterBellefleur]

There was a big BBS warez scene for these, as a lot of C64 groups migrated to consoles since the C64 had little new game development, but the infrastructure was in place to distribute things. They often even had Cracktros one them, C64/Amiga style.

[@AnANas00-x3p]

I've had a similar thing for the N64. It used zip disks. Found the add for it in an gaming magazine.

[@noordos]

rollandoTech ah, the z64. I remember seeing that in Gamepro for $300. I wanted one so bad, but when consoles were $200 and less, it was a prohibitive price for a kid without a job.

[@Andrew-zv4fm]

When I was a kid in the late 90s/early 00s I used to play NES & SNES games on the computer. So, I always wondered how they got a SEGA, NES or SNES games on the PC. If anything I figured that they would reverse engineer the game or console or otherwise transfer it to the computer in a complex way. Never knew it was as easy as this.

[@sabin1981]

\o/ I'm from the UK and I had a Super Wildcard for my SNES, hehe. It had no support for special chip games (like SDD1, SA1, or SuperFX) and some titles were copy-protected and they didn't work either - but for the most part it was around 80-90% of the SNES catalogue. Such an amazing thing to own when you're a kid and Blockbuster was a still thing XD

[@avlpe7662]

Even better was the underground SNES ROM scene, with games distributed by modem and in the mail..

[@TripleAidan]

I had one called the UFO no cart slot only the disk drive and cost £300 back then but had a local guy get new games weekly for the cost of a disk, 20p each?.. lots did not load or were freeze buggy esp the AAA games of the Time, I remember being heart broken when I got MK & the much hyped Busby a few months before release and was so excited..until it wouldn’t stop freezing 😓 Was cool to have so many games that never saw the light of day here, but was always hit and miss if they would work.

[@Dessan01]

Wow that thing would have blown my mind back in the day, I used to rent a helluva lot, to be able to keep those games wow. Today we take having the entire library for these retro systems at our finger tips, but back then, you were lucky if you had 30 games really.

[@gentarofourze]

You can tell that adapter was in their permanently due too the yellowing of the piece that wasn't covered by the unit. ouch.

[@TombstoneChris]

Why do they yellow?

[@solidsnakeandgrayfox]

@@TombstoneChris oxidization the same reason some shoes get the same color.

[@TRex-NP]

I owned 3 of these in the 90s. I bought one in 1993 in Jakarta Indonesia, it was a Super Game Doctor. I sold it locally in SoCal, then bought a Super Pro Fighter X which worked on both Genesis and SNES. I then traded that for a AMD 486 DX4-100 CPU with 8MB of ram. Then a friend in college in 1996 gave me his Gamars console copier that supported 32mbit roms. Still have it and works perfectly.

[@dancehallmerko8410]

I got a super wildcard DX 32 back in 90's for my SNES and used to download ROMs from different bbs's that could be sent to the unit via parallel port... Best thing I ever brought 😂😂😂

[@deathr0w]

used to rip them and trade over BBS systems back in the day, I still have a lot of games in the formats from my old profighter X and doctor backup units.

[@SalMightyOne]

**wink**

[@MrElpizo1982]

My older brother swapped his U.K Super NES for a U.S one with a Super Magicom, all those games on floppy disc, my younger self played so many obscure games through that thing.

[@AllanB413]

My friend slept over my house when I was a kid it was maybe 93 or 94 the SNES was fairly new his mother had a lot of boyfriends I guess and one day one of them gave it to him I guess he got it in like china town in New York I laughed when u showed the floppies 💾 with the chinnese writing haha cause he had a ton just like that but I was so amazed by it when I was a kid.

[@sigterm_]

I lived overseas in the 90s, and one kid in my elementary school class actually had one of these and brought it to my house. We played some of the games he had and he made a copy of one of mine! I had no idea what emulation or piracy was obviously since this was pre-internet and I was just a kiddo. It kind of just blew my mind. When I got a bit older, I was always curious about it and how to get one but never really pursued it once I figured out how to emulate games.

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

I had a super wildcard Used to scissor out names, logos or even screenshots out of game magazines and glue them on those floppy discs

[@DieHardGamerBros]

Wow this took me back! I had a Game Doctor 3 back in the day. I used to rent Super Nintendo games back in the 90s from Blockbuster Video and back them up on to 3.5 floppy disk. My collection was extensive. I wish I still had mine but it just stopped working after a few years. 😔

[@jasoneverett]

I'm no techno-wizard but I'm pretty sure you've never "burned" anything onto a floppy....

[@DieHardGamerBros]

Jason Everett there I changed it, sorry to trigger you cause I wasn’t correct. 🤣🤣

[@jasoneverett]

@@DieHardGamerBros Thanks, try to do better from now on.

[@tygintech1829]

I had this back in the days, in Europe these things were common. Nostalgia

[@TheReincarnatedDeath]

The drive might get dusty dirty. I still got my Super Wild Card 24. Just Donky Kong Country 3 was too large to load. Everything else we played. Playing Bomberman & Battle Tetris while smoking weed was gold! I still have all the floppy's also.

[@abejavadi235]

No lockout chip. The physical shape of the cartridge is the lockout. Got a US SNES and want to play a Japanese game? Just break the tabs off from the inside of the slot so the Japanese cartridge fits.

[@TheReincarnatedDeath]

This!

[@JUSXTREME96]

There is a lockout chip that prevents the NTSC systems from playing PAL games and vice versa. There is also a lockout for Pirated games, which is why with something like Super 3D Noah's Ark you need a real SNES game on top.

[@abejavadi235]

@@JUSXTREME96 Good call on the PAL games. I've never owned any. LOL!

[@JUSXTREME96]

@@abejavadi235 Thanks, I also don't own any PAL SNES games. I just know mainly from things I seen online and on KZbin. lol. Honestly, I think there is a good reason PAL games wont work on NTSC or vice versa. PAL SNES games are for the most part sorta corrected to run slightly faster so they aren't just copies of the NTSC rom just running slower on PAL hardware.

[@woody9437]

I had one of these in the 90s. Mine was called the UFO. Basically the same thing. I had hundreds of floppy disks with so many games. Got it downtown Toronto. My brother and I would rent games from Blockbuster and Boom! It was so awesome at the time. Wish I still had it.

[@Tweaked818]

Back in 05 when my family got a new comp, my bro introduced me to snes9x and from there my interest in pc grew

[@lil_sushie8411]

There's also a "Mega Disk Interceptor" to do the same thing, but with the Sega Genesis. I have one of those as well.

[@DonaldJohnNakar]

I begged my parents to buy the Super UFO back in 1994 (I was around 11) at that time) when we went to Hong Kong. I learned about it from a Video Game rental shop and they had it. Saved me so much money than buying cartridges. Since I've been friends with the owner of the rental shop, they allowed me copy new games that they we able to acquire.

[@SwoleCalibur]

Still have my Super Wild Card for my Snes and it still works!

[@randomlifts]

Thanks for buying it :)

[@SandyRegion]

I ♥️ this obscure retro tech. Thank you.

[@stevenwhite38]

I bought a Superwildcard back in the day, it cost me more than double the price of a SNES console itself at the time but it was worth every penny! If it were not for these type of devices the ROM and preservation scene on the internet may not have happened. Most of the Snes ROMs around now are still in Super Magic Cart (SMC) format!

[@braddl9442]

Yup these types of devices are what helped archive lots of games and also allowed rom hackers to work their magic.

[@MACMETALFACE]

I didn’t start flashing games for myself and others until psp, but i was first made aware back in the psx days bringing my whole collection of ps1 bootleg discs to my friends that didn’t have a chipped console lol. Now i buy all those rare games here dirt cheap in Japan.

[@SaturnHST]

I had the Game Doctor SF III, which was similar but it worked on US SNES and accepted US carts. I also had some floppy disks that had professionally printed labels, so maybe you could buy copied disks from stores. They were mostly available in Hong Kong and Taiwan. I remember that in order to play Super Mario Kart on disk, I had to plug in a Pilotwings cart because the copier didn't have the DSP chip. We would also take an empty Game Boy cart case, fold it open, and stick it between the copier and SNES (on the top of the SNES near the back) so the copier wouldn't wobble. That wouldn't be an issue if it was used on a Super Famicom. Also for larger games like Front Mission, I had to sit there and load the game from 4 separate floppy disks. Eventually the disk drive stopped working.

[@illuminatioracle]

if you grew up in a predominantly chinese area, you'd see strange things like nes multicarts and the snes copier in the wild at shady mom and pop stores all the time, and yet still had a creepy exclusive vibe you'd only see being used by your friend's older bro in high shool

[@alistairstewart9975]

In the UK it was called a "Super Wild Card" and was out at the same time as The Amiga which had a big scene for floppy disk back ups and as floppy disks were so popular thanks to the Amiga then the Super Wild Card was more popular in the UK.

[@TheNeck69]

the good old days, i had the MGH(multi game hunter) and literally 100s of floppy disks for all the genesis and snes games. IT WAS AWESOME!

[@avlpe7662]

Lol, the only reason I bought a Super NES in 1992 was to play copied games on it

[@Mchenrygames]

I emeber when I used to backup my roms into floppies. From time to time I still run into a floppy with roms. Ah memories from my college days.

[@tymothyl]

I am from Asia and grow up with this things. You need to understand we don't have game rent shop like blockbuster and original SNES games cost around USD $79.99-$99.99 each. That's why most Asia kid is so into this kind of pirated accessory. I had to sold my original copy of Chrono Trigger to get this things. I kind of regrets it but it is what it is. If not I can't played so many games during my teenage. BTW, My SNES and DR.3 is still working even today.

[@TheMultiGunMan]

I'm a Sega Genesis man myself. But, I can respect the SNES. It's an awesome console.

[@hodun8]

Thanks

[@wagonet]

My uncle brought one of these called game doctor in the mid 90s. It was magical at the time.

[@lucho3410]

So the original dumped games are on those floppys?? That is so kool man

[@KevinChristley]

I had (and still have) one. Sacramento BBS's ruled! They also backed up Genesis games.

[@harrywong4144]

Wow...This brought back fun memories. I had a similar device back in the early 90s. But mine was able to copy snes and genesis games. Some games are huge files and would take up to 4 floppy disks. I think, I might still have it... or did I chuck it out 10 years ago. ... man, I hope that I still have it.

[@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct]

The Super Disk Interceptor would have made more use out of all the AOL free trial floppies I got in the mail before they changed to CD-ROM's :P

[@sacreddreamer2972]

Oh man! Nostalgia "pirate game" interceptor system! I got this one for my SFC, but it stopped working over many many YEARS ago cos it's not reading the floppy disk at all, even if it can get to read the disk once in a while, it will have a 80% high rate of "Reading Error" popping out again and again~ I know there's other brand interceptor like the UFO or the Wildcard, but I still find the super disk interceptor is the best out of the others! By remembering how it work, I just insert the interceptor to my SFC console's cartridge slot, then find a SFC game and insert it to the interceptor's side cartridge slot, then turn it on and pop the floppy disk into the disk slot for it to fully read the data, then the specific game will load up and be played without issue. Only trying to "save" the game is problematic, cos u need to have a specific "Memory Floppy Disk" which only this interceptor can use/read. To save, when playing a game and u reach the save point, click save option, then u need to quickly turn off the console and back on right away without stopping in-between, insert the memory floppy disk, then choose a "number" for the data to be save in. For the game, I think cost around $5 per disk in my country, which is why it's VERY POPULAR and MONEY SAVING! Since the original SNES/SFC cart are VERY BLOODY EXPENSIVE in the 90's (I got SFC ver. DQV for $130 and FFV for $175 u know?! Not sure how much it cost in USD but the pricing is RIDICULOUS for my country for sure!!!) For the game, mostly games can all be concluded into 1 single floppy disk (which is usually only around 4M, 8M or 16M, hence the disc interceptor also indicate what RAM it have here as shown in the video, which is RAM16M = u can play the games that's up to 16M only, and 16M is already using 2 floppy disk specifically) For bigger games that ended up needing to conclude 3-4 disk (which is like: Chrono Trigger for example, which use 3 disk), mostly are 24M to 32M games, so if u own the 16M model here, u can ask for a "upgrade modification" if it's available from the game store u bought from, otherwise, it's just buy the 32M model to play with. The flaw for multiple disk game is: if 1 disk have a single reading error = no game to play cos data can't be fully read till the end, simple enough.

[@shadowpresident4203]

FYI, in most disk-based copier units, the disk drive is just a generic IBM-compatible 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy drive you'd find in 1990's PCs, and they connect using the standard (at the time) cables for power and data. Copier manufacturers would often use the absolute cheapest disk drive they could get, and were not overly focused on long term reliability. Over the years of using my backup units pretty heavily, I swapped out the disk drive and replaced it probably 2 or 3 times when read and write errors started becoming more common, and then it was back to normal (for a time). Once your drive starts having trouble, it's best to swap it out rather than trying to load more games from your collection on disk, because a bad drive can corrupt data just by trying to read it.

[@hygog]

those disk driver wildly popular in hong kong back in the days, there are some for NES, Famicom, Sega and PC Engine! they were freaking expensive and only rich kids has it. actually the SNES sales were boosted becoz of these thing. Nintendo tried to sue them but they defensed as this is a device to protect the cartage from worn out, they were game back up device for game owners and Nintendo failed in most cases. (heard when i was a kid, never tried to dig deeper to prove it) we bring or buy empty disc and copy them game from game shop and classmate exchange games for copying. so guys collected huge collection quite fast, they were super hot during Street Fighter II days

[@douglasquaid4518]

I remember reading electronic games monthly back in the day, they had ads where you could buy these devices for like 200 bucks i saw one with a zip drive also

[@BoomBox02]

I got a few newer SNES flash cards that i like and use, but when i get out my old Super Wild Card, nothing else gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling as i hear the floppy disk being read and see the count down on the screen. A lot of video rental places around in the 90's would have SNES games you could rent for a night or week. I would rent a bunch of games for the night and back them up onto floppy. Thats how i built up a collection of games before i got an internet connection at home. For anyone else that has a unit like this or similar, open it up and check the that the battery hasn't started leaking. This is one reason why a lot of retro computers such as the Amiga and old hardware like these copiers die. The battery will leak and eventually eat away at the traces on the motherboard or damage components that are near them.

[@Superdimensional]

I remember seeing this at my Barber Shop in the early 90’s... my Barber (who is now deceased) RIP he passed in a car accident not to much later after I saw this, he was showing this to everyone in the shop, and I remember my friend and I laughing because he kept say “sloppy” instead of “floppy” disks 😆

[@BobsChannelYT]

Dude I got Rammstein tattoos on my arm in the same spot, rock on!

[@tonyleo01]

Oh yeah. Loading up Bahamut Lagoon with 3-4 floppy disks. Those were the days.

[@retrogamingindo4238]

enjoying this kind of content, really want to see ppl pirating nes/snes back in 90s!

[@Hounddoggy33]

I had an SMC. Afterwards I got an MGH, which also supported the Sega Genesis. Good times!

[@patricklouie7289]

Omg I totally forgot about lik-sang! This video really brought me down memory lane! I did buy that big ass flash cart dumper you had on the video. That thing was slow as balls... good memories. Thanks!

[@vinny736]

Mr backup for the n64 was so awesome

[@oscartristan7173]

That Snes console looks pretty neat. Just beautiful! 👌

[@wiiz6316]

have a super wild card dx2 64mb I got in 2001. I still use it to this day. The super wild card dx2 supports a first generation Iomega Zip 100 external parallel port drive which is what i use to load roms on it instead of the floppy drive.

[@gregsmith9183]

It was a lot harder back then to find and emulate games. It was more about renting and making a backup. Theese days it isn't that hard to find the complete collection of games for a particular system online.

[@ocg-overwatchconsolegamepl2809]

I know im already going to like this, thanks for late posting :)

[@FightGet]

Yoo I have one of these too dude, except mine says FC-301 on it instead. I'm from SoCal too dude I got mine over in City of Industry from a junk dealer and it came with extremely similar floppy disks even! It even came with some Gamars and Dragon Ball Z branded disks. I didn't have the same luck with my disks though, most of them were bad. Also, the cartridge slot on mine fits NA games!

[@fthprodphoto-video5357]

I moved from the super Magicom who only supported up to 16gb of ram to a Profighter 32gb to be able to backup bigger games.back in the days 1 single game in Europe costed more than 100$ new, those units were quite expensive but we could at least play every game as kids. I ended up buying every cartridge later

[@justinbailey6515]

I remember that thing. I believe it was limited in memory and could not use the larger memory carts. I was in the Navy and a classmate who was Korean had one.

[@smgofdvld]

downloading games in 2019.. did you find my online presence? 👀 done wow that wasn't a long download for the full collection

[@user-wj9xq7ig2v]

There's no region lock chip on a snes the region lock is all due to the shape of the carts. The sf and snes boards are identical except for the power jack and rf board.

[@brucebanner2190]

I had this on the Sega Mega drive , it was brilliant!!

[@hfoto3606]

If I knew something like this existed back when I was a kid I would have gone crazy

[@douglong5757]

My friend had a similar version, depending on the size of the game usually 2 dics per game up 4 on bigger games. So awesome go to blockbuster rent a game, copy it for 4$ instead of buying for 25+ per game.

[@braddl9442]

I remember these things, still have a huge stack of 3.5 floppies for retro stuff.

[@sneekeruk]

You could easily download the games from bbs's back in the day most pirate bbs's had a console section, so games could be downloaded, I knew one person who had one back in the day, and saw the odd other one at a computer club I used to go to. I could of bought one for a snes from a local games shop maybe 5 years ago but never did as I wasnt that interested in the snes .

[@Rick_Todd]

I had the Super Pro Fighter Q , I Re-Used all my Amiga 500 Floppy's by just drilling another hole on the opposite side of the disk , Then used the Pro Fighter to Re-Format the Amiga disk, Then it would be ready to copy Snes Roms on there. this was around 1993 or 1994 , Good times.

[@Grooveraider]

The Super Wild Card DX2 from FFE was the ultimate SNES disk back up device. Nothing else came close. I still own mine but it's now retired in favor for the Everdrives 😉

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

Man, a friend of mine back in the day had one of these! Well, not this exact one, but a "Disk Dr." unit. I think his older brother ordered it from one of those weird ads in Diehard Gamefan. Totally remember Liksang, too! Friends ordered modchips and stuff from them, but also ran into issues at times. They were a bit shady.

[@HilariousHarvie]

Had mountings of cases full of disks used over from my old Amiga. Mine was slightly different (UK) but was awesome waay back when. Good times.

[@joshmartimez2235]

Back in the day i had an SNES and my friends had SNES and some had a Genesis as well and me nor my friends owned this device or the online adapters for those game systems. Very cool piece of hardware..

[@TezNguyen]

In SE asia there was no original snes cartridges...all floppy disks pirated but i cant seem to find the damn BGM when we wait for the game to load anywhere online. Such nostalgia

[@Azzurri_203]

Haha love how that converter plastic has yellowed on the exposed part 😂

[@rambozo_fpv176]

Loved my MGH and the BBS warez scene in the 90s. Now where’d I put that LD phone card?

[@Thunderbird98]

I may be wrong, but in the opened up picture, it looks like the your disk interceptor has a parallel port inside. I know game doctors had these for computer link or a cd-rom.

[@OscarTorresWork]

I got it for my christmas present as a kid and my dad got me Streetfighter ll that year so it was a wammy! Great memories

[@Tongster84]

I had a friend who had this back then and he brought it over and it took time to load up a game this was more of a thing in Asia I think he got it in Hong Kong

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

Aric Tong Was it in 1997 by any chance? ;)

[@Tongster84]

Actually it was 1995

[@philgower5551]

This was a way of life for Commodore Amiga owners back in the day. I had 100’s of copied games for that system lol. Hardly ever bought games 😬

[@robXloserX]

A friend of mine when I was in high school owned a similar type thing for the n64 that connected to the bottom of the n64 and contained a cd-rom drive. You would just burn a cd full of n64 roms, put any game in the top of the n64 game slot and power on the system and it would load up the cd-rom from the drive. It would basically be just a list of all the roms and you would scroll down, choose one, and play. Came from some chinese company if I'm not mistaken. Ended up getting banned in the US and became almost impossible to get. I think Nintendo might have sued the company that made it.

[@SubstituteRealitiesChannel]

Back in the day, usually these were sold by brick and mortar/mom and pops shops. They would also sell you a game for 3.20USD per diskette in today's dollars. You would go into the shop, ask to check out their clear file folders that have a list of the games available, choose a game and they will tell you to come back in an hour or so to collect and pay. So the bigger the game, the more diskette it will use and you'll have to pay more. That's how they operate back in the day. They will put up various official games, TVs showing games and such on the exterior of the shop to make it seem legit and hide the clear file folders until a customer ask for them. LOL Authorities would crack down constantly until after the Playstation era that those kind of shops disappeared for good. Anyway beware of those units that have leaking internal battery, Be sure to check and replace the battery fast. Floppy drive is easily replaceable so it is no big deal.

[@rodneybrett5088]

I had a Professor SF from Bung Enterprises which I purchased in Chinatown in NYC. Nintendo eventually had that entire market shut down during a raid by the fed.

[@LyuboA]

We had those here back then BG was Not part of EU (much better times) and game backups were everywhere you can buy them rent them or just go into one of many places like apartments or cafe shops turned into console gaming rooms it where kids that didnt had consoles would play those were running non stop

[@alanyau4867]

The intercepter had a strange format that PC could not be read, unlike for Bung Doctor series which used MS DOS formats. I have a few from Bung , UFO, Super Pro Fighter, MGH, etc

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

You should do a cross-over video with LGR and have him take a look at it and see if he can fiddle with it. Super interesting tech from the 90s in general, the only snes disk drive we can use on US systems.

[@verficationaccount]

"Souljaboying" - thanks for that!

[@shadowpresident4203]

Bung Enterprises was a titan in the backup unit industry. CCL (China Coach Limited) was also a big player. There were all kinds of rumors about these companies being run by the PRC military, or by triads (Chinese mafias). Naturally, this only added to the underground and edgy appeal of owning one! It may not have the Nintendo Seal of Quality, but it has the People's Seal of Liberation... or something!