Super Mega 52x Neo CD, is it possible?

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I'm a lazy ass who will not do research.

Is it possible for some tech mofo to swap the internals of a Neo CD to abolish load times? Like put in some high speed drive or something?

Also why hasn't anyone made an all-in-one enclosure that houses both the AES and CD systems? Toss in a Phantom and you have the best of all three worlds. Instead of conversions and homebrews and shit someone should be working on this monster. It could be like 3 feet tall and weigh 40 lbs.
 
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...unless you know how to decode, interpret and modify a BIOS...

Impossible.

Plus, I think the pin-out is proprietary.

Someone has already swapped out a Neo CD drive for a Saturn 8x drive.. and it made a negligible difference.
 
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Hmm if I remember correctly doesn't the CDZ simply have more RAM and not a faster drive?

Why would a Saturn 8x drive be possible but not something else? Does the system BIOS in the CD system prevent faster load times?
 
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I still like my idea of giving it like a gig of ram and let it load the entire game into that buttrock
 
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FeelGood:
Hmm if I remember correctly doesn't the CDZ simply have more RAM and not a faster drive?

Why would a Saturn 8x drive be possible but not something else? Does the system BIOS in the CD system prevent faster load times?
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1) Double the controller cache memory.
2) Yes
 
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Someone has already swapped out a Neo CD drive for a Saturn 8x drive.. and it made a negligible difference.
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The saturn only has a 2x drive, but it wouldn't matter if it was a 52x as the neo geo cd controller/bios will only operate at 1x

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It would still be able to take advantage of the bigger cache, that would allow faster loading, even if it was only at 1x.

-Nick
 
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