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Yikes, I was hoping it was going to be a USB JTAG cable with new pinout, wasn't expecting another PCB to build :) You'll be selling this PCB too right? Those USB JTAG cables are so expensive.. Yep, I'll sell the both PCBs and I think the price for both together will be around $15 shipped, does it s...

Thats true, wasn't thinking of the PPU. Looking at a CRAM game now, I see that they chose 80ns. Edit: BTW artoh, I see in your old picture you are (were) using Winbond 29Fs, does this mean that you aren't supporting them anymore? Yep, because I couldn't even get the IDCODE off the Winbonds, so I ga...

Oops, that's what I mean. So does your writing algorithm only support AMD Flash at 90ns or can I use some other 29F (or even 28F?) at 100 or 120ns? Yep, the algorithm supports now only AM29F040B but it shouldn't be too hard to change the software to support some other flashes as well (as long as th...

Do you have a good source for DS1218S? I didn't realize it was SOIC. Also, do the flash have to be Atmel and what is the maximum latency? . At least Digikey sells DS1218S.. they also sell the CPLD but not the slower (-15) version that would be the cheapest. The flashes are AMD AM29F040B and 90ns ones

kyuusaku wrote:I wonder if the Xilinx headquarters would allow a pickup Shipping for me is $10 and I'm pretty sure they just send it from a local distributer.

Mine came from Singapore.. and in a very huge cardboard box that could fit 1000 of those chips

If you are ok with other people making and sell carts based on your intellectual property, then you could contact Tomy at Tototek. I am sure that he would be interested in making and selling a NES flash cart. It's fine if someone builds the carts at home by hand and is selling them. But of course i...

When the USB cable is done, please, don't just sell the PCB, also sell pre-made carts. BTW, what is the URL that is written on your PCB? - Hence the reason why we need economies of scale, i.e., we need somebody to buy the parts in bulk and build batches of flash carts. The url is http://iki.fi/fuzb...

Picture of the final board:
http://img311.imageshack.us/img311/2828/ffcart25th.jpg

There are now holes for wiring the lockout chip if someone really wants to connect one

Still the USB cable needs to be done...

kyuusaku wrote:So I won't be able to use my Xilinx Parallel III cable?

It has a different pinout. I am using a home-made cable similar to that right now... But it's too slow for FLASH programming.

Can you give us a complete list of parts that are needed to build the card? That way we can figure out the price for ourselves. Sure, here is the part list for the cart. The cable isn't done yet. 1 x 220pF ceramic R5 6 x 10nF ceramic SMD 0805 6 x 100nF ceramic SMD 0805 1 x 100uF electrolytic cap 1 ...

Ordered some PCBs from a factory. I'll have one or two available for people who really want to try building one at the moment. There also will be a USB cable for the device because the parallel port is so terribly slow. I hope a 512KB will transfer in 5 minutes then. I'll also have to write a softwa...

Anonymous wrote:I cut the mapper down to NROM+VRAM while trying to get the first board working, but since that board appears dead, I can probably go back up to the full mapper. However, it's 5 AM, so I sleep.

Great Can we see some pictures?

it was me.. forgot to log in :P Edits: -Super Mario Bros 2 (E) works now along with SMB3. Silver Surfer too. -Also AMROM (Super Off Road) and AOROM (Battletoads) working. -Kirby too (with the save feature!) -All the glitchy blocks are gone now too (was a memory CS prob). -MMC3 IRQs work now very wel...

More like 99%. I'd be happy to implement some MMC myself, would like to do Konami ones but haven't found sufficient information and I'd rather not resort to emulator source. I've already got a Xilinx CPLD NES setup (XC95108 :\) so shouldn't be too hard to port them to the FunkyFlash. I'd really lov...

UNROM shouldn't be a problem, because it uses off the shelf parts, as does AOROM, ANROM and CNROM. BTW, have you tried getting CNROM or A*ROM going? I can't wait to see MMC1 working! Great work! Haven't tried CNROM or A*ROM yet... now trying to get MMC1 (Zelda2) working before doing anything else :...