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by Drakon
Thu May 16, 2013 5:19 am
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: Expanding a game beyond its physical board limitations
Replies: 12
Views: 4693

Re: Expanding a game beyond its physical board limitations

I'm wondering if it's possible to use a memory bank controller chip like what's found in gameboy carts to use larger roms.
by Drakon
Thu May 16, 2013 5:14 am
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: Audio volume decreasing
Replies: 4
Views: 4623

Re: Audio volume decreasing

So a cap followed by a voltage divider? Okay I can try that.
by Drakon
Tue May 14, 2013 8:10 pm
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: Audio volume decreasing
Replies: 4
Views: 4623

Audio volume decreasing

Lately I've been playing with the audio circuit of my pc engine cd interface unit (briefcase model). With the help of tiido I discovered that the system generates pcm sounds internally in the ifu (interface unit). Without modifications the pcm sounds too loud and drowns out the cd audio. I found the...
by Drakon
Mon May 13, 2013 6:45 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: INL HiLoROM SNES flash cart
Replies: 340
Views: 118550

Re: INL HiLoROM SNES flash cart

Nice and compact, looks excellent paul!
by Drakon
Sat May 11, 2013 8:07 pm
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: CPS arcade board audio muffle removal
Replies: 2
Views: 3989

Re: CPS arcade board audio muffle removal

Some instruments surely sound clearer, but it's clear why they did it when the audio samples play back. I recommend seeing how it is if you leave the low pass filter on just the µPD7759 6295. Yeah the lpfs are just for the 6295. Without major low pass filtering the 6295 samples generate an annoying...
by Drakon
Thu May 09, 2013 2:52 pm
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: CPS arcade board audio muffle removal
Replies: 2
Views: 3989

CPS arcade board audio muffle removal

The capcom play system arcade board has very muffled audio. I got tired of everything sounding that way. I followed the audio traces and disconnected all the low pass filters. Here's the mod: http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/cps1lpfs2.jpg Here's the before and after result: https://www.youtube.com/w...
by Drakon
Fri May 03, 2013 9:05 pm
Forum: Other Retro Dev
Topic: PSIO - Playing PS1 games from an SD card!
Replies: 9
Views: 8415

Re: PSIO - Playing PS1 games from an SD card!

thefox wrote:Hopefully it gets released eventually, CD is such a unreliable medium. I never knew (until I saw this project some months ago) that it would be possible to do this over the parallel port.
I wish I had the skill to do this sort of thing. I'd totally make a sega cd and pc engine cd version...
by Drakon
Fri May 03, 2013 8:58 pm
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES's
Replies: 114
Views: 47919

Re: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES'

Also, please, please don't go much more over 5.3V... it's so tempting with these adjustable supplies, but the chips weren't designed for that. Depends on the chip, I fed a superfx gsu 2 chip 7v ones and it still ran, although it got very very hot. Pasky, see if you can cut the ppu power traces inst...
by Drakon
Thu May 02, 2013 9:23 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: GSU-1
Replies: 2
Views: 3721

Re: GSU-1

Markfrizb wrote:Which pin on the GSU-1 goes to A15 on the SRAM?



Thanks in advance!
Pin 97
by Drakon
Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:26 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES's
Replies: 114
Views: 47919

Re: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES'

Separate it from the rest of the power rail. Give it it's own devoted power supply. I purposely stayed quiet because I wanted to see him attach a wire straight from the regulator to the ppus and be amazed at nothing changing. The ppus, and everything else on the board, already get 5v directly from ...
by Drakon
Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:22 pm
Forum: Reproduction
Topic: English Esper Dream 2 Famicom Cart?
Replies: 5
Views: 3837

Re: English Esper Dream 2 Famicom Cart?

I built one, one of the easiest repros evar. Desolder, burn, solder.
by Drakon
Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:20 pm
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES's
Replies: 114
Views: 47919

Re: Has anyone solved the cause of the vertical bar on SNES'

Like tiido says you'll need to isolate what you're powering separately. It would be easier using caps. Or do what I did and just wire up a cxa2075, for some reason this encoder removes the translucent bar, and it's a better encoder than what any model snes ever came with anyway.
by Drakon
Tue Apr 23, 2013 8:15 pm
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: SNES rgb comparisons
Replies: 10
Views: 6322

Re: SNES rgb comparisons

Mini with the stock encoder vs a mini with the cxa2075 that I posted ages ago: http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/m2defaultp1.jpg http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/somg.jpg http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/m2defaultp2.jpg http://imgboot.com/images/Drakon/somg2.jpg youtube isn't exactly good enough qual...
by Drakon
Tue Apr 23, 2013 5:47 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: Make my own The legend of zelda parallel worlds
Replies: 16
Views: 8696

Re: Make my own The legend of zelda parallel worlds

Is the game 8mbit like the original lttp? If so then building it will be a joke. If it's 16mbit or larger it gets more annoying.
by Drakon
Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:09 am
Forum: SNESdev
Topic: SNES rgb comparisons
Replies: 10
Views: 6322

Re: SNES rgb comparisons

I havn't played much with rgb. I built a cxa2075 stripped down application circuit, stuck it into my snes mini, and away I went.