I decided to dust off this old forum account, alongside my Twin Famicom itself, one of the reasons being that I've taken an interest in rewriting and repairing FDS disks.
To cut things short, I want to make an FDSLoadr cable myself, but I have no computers that have a parallel port, and I'm not confident that a parallel-to-USB cable will work, so I've got two plans, one being to get a parallel port PCIe card and hope for the best, or my preferred option, just going ahead and making a USB FDSLoadr cable, so does anyone have experience with the latter, or if not, what other options do you recommend for dumping and rewriting disks?
Edit: Get an FDSStick here. (https://3dscapture.com/fdsstick/) It can not only emulate an FDS drive, it can also write games to disk without needing something like Disk Hacker.
Yes FDSStick can do everything FDSloadr can do, doesn't require a computer nearby, uses USB and is more reliable.
Just make sure you adjust your drive correctly before writing over disks. There is a good chance that the disk will only work with your drive if it isn't calibrated correctly.
Great to hear. Out of curiosity, is there a method to write disks using the Twin Fami's integrated drive? I'm considering a method involving loading a ROM of Disk Hacker, then flipflopping between the FDSStick and the integrated drive, but that seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
AFAIK the built-in RAM-Adapter and disk drive in the Twin can be used in the exact same ways as the external ones are, but it uses different connectors, so you need adapters. The built-in RAM Adapter is Expansion Port C at the back of the Twin and I assume the Expansion Port D next to it is the disk drive's connector.
There are a lot of conflicting information regarding port C and D (Wikipedia among them says differently) so I'm not 100% sure.