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Great work so far. You can reprogram the PI timing registers at runtime. Commercial games do this when accessing 64DD and cart SRAM/Flashram data. Actually, sram/flash is bursted at a much faster speed than normal cart reads. Yes, you can reprogram cart domain to run faster but it only speeds up DMA...

good to see you around again.
What you can do is take the knowledge and skill you gained from the Yars' project and apply it on a new game. I think you'll derive more satisfaction from completing an original idea.

just my 2 cents

both altera MAX3000A (5v tolerant) and MAXII(no5 5v tolerant) are only rated for 100 erasures.

EPM3128 - $8 PIC32 - $8 done. the max3000a cpld is 5v tolerant and 3.3v is enough for the TTL inputs. WARNING: feature creep! stay simple. if you REALLY must have complex mappers, then go with MAXII and level shifting. a hint: if this is a group project, it will fail. ONE PERSON needs to take point ...

Awesome job, super polished and pretty inventive.

Oh yeah I suck at playing games, but still made it to the second boss cause the music is great

In decreasing order of suitability 1. CPLD - cheap. MAX3000A w/ 128macrocells. Use more than one if you really need it. $6 2. PIC - cheap but not well suited to simaltaneous logic. $8 3. FPGA - expensive, 300ms start up time, may require level conversion but extremely capable. $30 4. ASIC - expensiv...

I use GC-Prevue for looking at gerbers

What you want is a set of gerbers (rs-274x aperture data) and excellon drill files.

You will need to do some looking around with pcb shops and get some quotes. You can't lay out a pcb without knowing the specs that the fab shop will be able to use. capabilities of their equipment, blah blah

One thing that helps a big deal at these things is to wear a nametag ("HELLO MY NAME IS") Use a big fat sharpie so you can be spotted from some ways away. I'll try to remember to pick up a packet of those nametags. clueless, I will probably be demoing my n64 thing in the benheck room, if o...

No problem, I will probably set up in the benheck room as I'll be hanging out in there most of the time.

I will be there as the past 3 years. I plan on bringing some N64 stuff but exactly what I don't know yet.

I built one a couple years ago. I don't know where you got $50 from, I had at least $120 into it not counting student discounts I used.

Does exactly what it says, you might want to go through the PC loader and rewrite some of that code for your own sanity

The idea is interesting, but I think that $40 is a bit too much for a cart that can only run NROM and MMC1 games. $40 is a fucking deal. heres my proposal: http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=PIC32MX575F256L-80I/PT-ND 256KB flash , 64KB sram. 12KB boot flash memory ...

Amen

well I wouldn't call myself a community, but I've been pretty busy with N64 stuff.

I can set you up with the tools. There is no good c++ support, the compiler is based on MIPS-GCC.