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That sounds like a cool blog, do you have the link? That is a strange rant... dunno if I would want to work with someone that unbalanced :s I wonder if scene programmers were in demand, they could make some incredible graphics and sound! Like that new homebrew game posted on this forum, wow! Maybe b...

I decided to read in NHL 96 before I desoldered it, and found a neat little message at the start of the ROM file! I fixed up the formatting so its more readable. Tiburon Entertainment, Inc. developed this product for Electronic Arts. Tiburon is a small developer located in Longwood Florida, a suburb...

So I went to the video game store, but they only had four $1 games left :( One of them is Mario Paint. Any objections to taking this one apart? On the back of the cart is a list of patents! http://www.google.com/patents?id=81EWAAAAEBAJ&dq=4799635 (CIC chip for the NES) http://www.google.com/pate...

Well I would rather think positively and creatively like "how can we do this" even if it is only theoretical. 'copyright' hasn't stopped anyone, and its what the homebrew scene is based on. Thats how you can run your own code on your DS, PSP, Xbox, Wii and your PowerPak. You just can't lin...

Well this video game store in Toronto has a box of crappy sports game for $1 each, so I will pick up a whole pile for the initial run. Sports games are great, most of them have Save RAM inside them, so they are perfect for homebrew. NFL Quarterback Club 96 is interesting, its an actual 4MB LOROM gam...

Its interesting how rare SNES games are. I think a lot of people want to play them again, so that creates a demand. All the good SNES games are wayyy to much money even at flea markets. These games were all popular and everyone had them. Maybe people play them till they break (like the NES), or they...

Hmm I didn't expect this sort of reaction. 'Collectors' don't have exclusive right to buy anything. If it costs them more, nuts to them. I don't speak Japanese. Being able to play something makes it valuable to me. And it looks and plays the same, so nothing is 'destroyed'. In other terms we are not...

PSRAM looks like the ideal solution... but the ones I found are 1.8v and tiny BGA. no way. They had a 3.3v BGA one, but its 'obsolete' SDRAM is no good, there is way too much latency. You have to send a bunch of commands and wait a lot of cycles. So SRAM looks like the choice. The cart doesn't need ...

I found a 27C322 on Ebay from some company in Hong Kong. You can also find Star Ocean carts there. Looks like an interesting project. Now the only problem is my programmer is only 40 pins!!! I have to make a ghetto adapter and control some of the address bits manually :( Also replace the battery whi...

I checked Digikey and I can get 1Mx16 SRAM chips. So basically 2 chips instead of one flash. Plus a huge CPLD to take care of all the bus stuff. So basically I probably could fit it in a normal cartridge. It would still take a while to design, but could possibly be my next project. I checked the FTD...

I thought about making one that uses an SD card but concluded that the RAM and extra chips would not fit in the cartridge (unless I used BGA or something crazy). The USB programmer is really nice, and will work on any version of windows (uses an FTDI chip). Plus you can back up regular carts and the...

Hey guys, I'm the one who did this project and was very surprised to see my name on this forum! kyuusaku: you got it down pretty much exactly. The only detail missing is the 4MB of RAM is on a separate bus (since its 3.3v). You are right about the schematic, its trivial compared to the CPLD and menu...