Interact DexDrive
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Video Game Reviews of Interact DexDrive
Customer Review: A Truly Innovative Peripheral
Summary: 5 Stars
Talk about your bright ideas--initially introduced as a money saving peripheral, this ingenious little device allows you to archive your N64 (Nintendo 64), and PSX (Playstation) save games on your computer's hard drive--thus allowing you to erase, and re-use the memory card(s) instead of buying extras. Perhaps the first real attempt at bridging the gap between consoles and the PC (an innovative feat in it's self), Interact expanded Dex Drives' functionality further by gracing it with a couple of other convenient, and innovative functions aside from being a memory card money saver.
Interact even figured out a clever way for Gameshark users to get some use from it too since they could download new game codes in what was called a "code save" to a memory card, then upload the new codes directly into the Gameshark from the memory card as opposed to having to manually program the codes in one letter, and number at a time--a feature you come to appreciate after the first time you've spent over 2 hours manually programming new codes into your Gameshark. Yet another innovative function the Dex Drive posesses is the ability to email save games to your friends. This is very handy for lots of things--a friend of mine who also has a Dex Drive used to exchange his CTR (Crash Team Racing) time trial ghost saves with me to compete against--this is just one example. People lucky enough to still have one can still use it for all these purposes (except downloading the code saves unfortunately) if you still have some PSX, and/or N64 games, which easily makes it worth amazons' $16.59 asking price (I paid $40.00 for it at launch) just in the money you save on memory cards.
The downside to the Dex Drive however was that by default, it could only be attached to COM 1 on your computer, and no other. I discovered this glitch after having trouble getting my computer to see it, and called InterAct's tech support, and found I'd attached it to the wrong COM port. Unfortunately, this means that people with both PSX and N64 versions cannot not attach both to the same computer--only alternate them, or connect them to seperate computers. I have heard of, but never seen USB versions of the Dex Drive available that sidestep this issue (by virtue of being USB), but they're hard to find--N64 versions in particular as they always seemed less common than PSX versions. The driver for it also comes on floppy disks, which can go bad over time (like mine did), and the driver can be a pain to find on the web--thus, it's advisable to copy, and burn the driver to CD promptly. Also, Dex Drive is not compatible--even a little with PS2. The next best option for that is Dex Drive's successor, the "Shark Port" which has all the same functions on early PS2's (the older type made before March 03). Like all Interact products, the Dex Drive is discontinued, and unsupported which is an undeniably bad thing, but at least to me, forgivable since it's fairly cheap, saves money, is easy to use, and quite useful if you still have PSX, and/or N64 games in your collection.
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