You are partially correct. Pop N 1 - 3 ran on DJ Main hardware. That has a 2.5" (laptop) hard drive. CHD's are easily created off those drives. Pop N 4 - 8 ran on Firebeat hardware. That system uses 1 CDROM and 1DVDROM. No hard disks. Again CHD's are easy to create off those. Pop N 9 - 13 ran on Viper hardware. Uses a Compact Flash card. DVDROM is still used to load up the CF card. Pop N 14 - current is on Bemani PS2 hardware. DVD used again.
The point was that you might not be interested in bringing this to MAME but other people are. I think you might be confusing Pop N and IIDX when it comes to hard drive images running under windows. IIDX uses embedded windows, not Pop N. Like I mentioned above 14 - current uses a PS2 with an external hardware interface.
I just wanted to ask the community if anybody out there had disks so we can document and preserve a great game line. That's what this forum is for right? |