Game Doctor For SNES



This nifty gadget is the main reason the SNES was my all time favourite Nintendo console. Basically, it "piggybacks" the SNES by plugging into its game cartridge, and allows the user to run SNES games off floppy disks. Drawbacks include loading times, but once a game is loaded it is saved into the GD's RAM, and can be stored along with other loaded games, the number depending on the RAM available. Using floppys to play SNES games can save you a tonne of money, as they cost significantly lower than buying cartridge games (as in free, if you download ROMs off the net, but being illegal it shouldn't be even considered :D).

This makes virtually every SNES game ever produced available, and floppys can easily be updated with newer titles once an old game has been finished. The test below is from http://www.robwebb.clara.co.uk/backup/bung/bungsf7.html:

Its unique feature is that it is able to have multiplegames loaded simultaneously into its memory, which stay there even with SNESpower off! No need to load floppies over and over again! It also has an onscreenmenu system which is controlled through the SNES controllers. The menu systemfeatures self testing (Memory, BRAM, ROM, and disk drive), file management, etc.It has many features including slow motion, real time save, Gold Finger cheatcode system and superior error handling. It cantransfer games from disks, computer, CDROM (optional), or memory. Other featuresinclude: 32 Mbit or 64 Mbit RAM, self test, menus in English, Chinese, orJapanese...

I was too young back then to really make use of this device, but it's given me countless hours of enjoyment none-the-less :P.