Sega Hot Rod disk

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I am trying to helping out Wokie on this one. Below is the original message:

Wokie said:
Hi,

I have a 4 players Sega hot rod. My floppy is dead (ds3-5000-01A-revb) . I need a working one. Can you help me?. Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards.

I have an extra disk, but it is damaged and will not work. I also know that the disks used for this game (system 24) are double sided. Does anyone have an extra copy of the game disk or know where I can get double sided disks that will work for this machine?

Thanks
 
I seem to remember coming across a page a long time ago with the floppy images and a program that'd write them. IIRC it had to be done from DOS (not just a DOS window). I can't find the page anymore, but I came across a few references to a program called Anadisk, which sounds familiar.

IIRC, it could be written to a standard floppy disk, since they're physically the same, but it's larger because of the different format (a DOS formatted 1.44MB floppy is actually 2MB unformatted).

DogP
 
Old bump, my apologies for that.

I'm working on a Hot Rod and have investigated this issue at length.

The program that allows you to write the disks is apparently Anadisk. Available via a Google search (it's copyrighted, so I don't want to link to it, even though it appears to be semi-abandonware).

The disk for the 3-Player is available in Mame. I found it via MAWS by Googling for the disk part number eventually found out that it is stored in Mame as "ds3-5000-01d.img". I found hotroda.zip contains the disk image. I will be trying to image one of these disks tomorrow assuming I get the game starting that far. Right now it's got a power issue of some sort but hopefully that'll be quick to fix.

I'll be using my ROM Burner machine, as it boots to straight DOS (apparently a requirement from what I've read and what DogP posted). I'll post back here with more details once I get further on mine. :)
 
Making a 4 players sega hot rod working copy

Hi!!

I tried with samDisk, but I didn't work at all. The only known way for copying the game is using the cabinet, wich has an application for that purpose. Someone with a working 4 players cabinet can help me please??. The floppy used is an standard one, and it is not possible to overwrite the master one (the cabinet checks it in every read/write op).

best regards.
 
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Hot rod cabinet

Anyone with a 4 players sega hot rod working can make a copy using the cabinet, please??
 
Anyone know how to make a copy of the disk using the game cabinet itself? I went into test mode, but all i could find was a way to test the tracks on the disk, but not copy it.
 
Anybody made progress on this yet? I have anadisk but haven't been able to get the image written yet. I'm having a little trouble figuring out how to go and do it. I did find that there are some errors in some of the sectors of my disk according to anadisk which is probably why my game won't boot. I too shall pursue this project and report back.
 
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