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Every trojan or virus I've ever gotten was from the Java runtime environment. Absolutely sick of this, I made it a point to never install it anywhere. My last experience was insidious. It came from a google image search for some mundane plug-in card for a computer. As soon as google took me over to ...

commodorejohn:

Just pointing out this thread if you haven't already seen it...
There is actual PCB artwork, plus someone was willing to have these made at the time.

http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=6047

The SGB boot ROM inside the Game Boy portion transmits the Nintendo copyright logo for bootup verification, but that is it. Also most of the GB ROM "header" (or information sector or whatever), if I might add. Thus, the SNES is able to determine name, mapper etc. of the inserted Gameboy g...

There aren't going to be adapter boards with flash already soldered on. Now's the time to learn, I guess. It isn't even that hard-- put a smaller tip in your iron, put down a ton of solder flux, tape the chip down, go over it again with flux, clean your soldering iron tip, put a big droplet of solde...

The Kirby one looks like it was worth it though. It was funny seeing you fight the doorways on the stage select area. It was a little disappointing (but still funny) when kirby was stuck jumping, and you ended up having to slide just right, only to just have the game immediately freeze after enterin...

exactly.

news as entertainment.

In the supermarket aisle, does anyone gravitate towards the paper talking about the second to last shuttle launch ever coming on November 1st?, or do we care about keeping up with the Kardassians and Snooki?

o_O sexism? Women as a collective group have basically the most freedom they've ever had in the history of mankind. And historically, women a generation or two ago fought for and got abortion to where it is now, against the wealthy white older male minister types. Nowadays, it's more equal along the...

The game itself looks very good. There are some improvements like not always ruining jumps with enemies in the way. Hard to tell from the video, but the play control could use just a hint of acceleration when starting to move right or left from standstill. But obviously if that earlier era feel is w...

:) I know, my mind was in the gutter anyways. As for the issue at hand, yeah clean the console's connector too. You might have some output enables on your chips either swapped (/CE with /OE) or have left some address lines or enable lines floating. You also might have cold-solder joints. dunno. it's...

seriously, how magazine-paper like is your toilet tissue?

because in the US and Canada, toilet paper + liquid + snaggingly sharp metal pins sounds almost trollish. You'd never hope to get all the lint and shreds out.

Something I've been wondering... Either the clock signal available at the cartridge connector is too dirty to use, or it "stops" during refresh like the trace in ikari_01's post at the start of this page: http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=5367&start=45 If it does indeed stop during...

Thanks for the responses everybody, great stuff. whicker , just to clarify: are you saying that (as far as snes goes) the HC and HCT will both work, its just that HCT is always seen for some reason ie cost/availability? Your example of your hobby experiment went right over my head, was it just to i...

Even though the SNES is a 5V CMOS system, the TTL signal level versions were more common and thus were pennies cheaper. Especially LS. At SNES speeds, the family doesn't matter. So it was a cost and availability issue. However to give an example, in a recent hobby experiment, I've been interfacing a...

I think during the SNES lifetime, the hardware was explored pretty well. It was the most popular system of its era and the developers were quite competitive. They HAD to be. If you consider "well explored" as in using hacked on hardware special effects just to make use of hacked on hardwa...

The Retrode is probably the closest thing you can get to "legal" in the US.

You can make your own backups for archival purposes and shift from no-longer supported storage formats.

The PC + emulator + Retrode becomes a SNES clone much like Gateway or Compaq Computers were IBM PC clones.