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Those pirate carts are of the type where the cartridge might die eventually. EMS64 is probably of the other type. I've heard people complain that it drains the Gameboy's battery, and is causing crashes/power failures, especially on Gameboy Pocket which is using AAA batteries instead of AA. Leakage t...

Well, I have two answers so far: "It'll break your Game Boy" and "Sure, go for it". Which one is correct? The Chinese bootlegs have a gloptop mapper, a 3V ROM chip, and a RAM chip. As lidnariq explained, the difference is whether it's a 3V chip fed a 3V supply voltage or a 3V ch...

Were there any new spectacular glitches or arbitrary code execution this year, as we've seen previously, above all in the Super Mario World and Pokémon categories?

If the chip fails faster when using 5V, either it would fail immediately or over time. Clearly, there's no immediate failure when using the cartridge normally. I believe the EMS cart has a voltage regulator. I know the bootleg carts don't most of them time. What I've found is that while you can read...

tepples wrote:So adapting to market realities is another one of the ways SEGA does what Nintendon't.

Arguably, Sega's and Nintendo's realities differ a lot.

In the law you HAVE to take action no matter how big or small. Because let's say there's an egregious blatant misuse of the Pokemon logo on some toy. The lawyers representing that toy company can point out, hey... uh... why didn't you take legal action against this or that or these other things? Hm...

Maybe adding smartphone capatibilities to the new console could blast the sales. Just an idea... maybe even a bad one, since the costs envolved could make the price skyrocket. :? Absolutely not. Making it a phone is not just a non-feature, it's an anti-feature. It's too big and heavy to carry with ...

Calling someone who's obviously an adult "twelve years old" isn't "ad hominem", it's just an insult. Well, an ad hominem is almost exactly that, using a personal insult in place of an argument. [personal insult], therefore you are wrong. would be an example of an ad hominem argu...

Thank you for removing the post icon from read subforums. I found it hard to immediately see from the front page which color the smaller icon was, compared to the previous layout.

Try opening it up and cleaning the cartridge contacts with isopropyl alcohol. Try inserting it with the front half of the case removed. Look into the slot to see if the cartridge contacts line up with the contacts in the transfer pak or if they are offset from one another.

Try putting the same ROM on both page 1 and page 2.

Bregalad wrote:Even the katakana subtitling on the box seems wrong - it says アインハンダー when it should really say アインヘンデー

Neither is truly correct. Ä lies between A and E as used in both German and Japanese. Are there any applicable transliteration guidelines from German to Japanese?

I would have asked you to see if it responds to flash commands, like: 0x0555 <- 0xAA 0x0AAA <- 0x55 0x0555 <- 0x90 And then reading address 0000 and 0001 and see if you get a manufacturer and device id code, as a confirmation that this cart might be reusable as a flash cart. At least the chip with t...

Normally, you shouldn't need to compile anything. For normal use, it's probably sufficient to run whatever .py file starts the application using python.exe or pythonw.exe if you don't want the terminal. You may need to install packages using pypi, which should be documented, but compiling is just a ...

I considered that, but it might get hung up on a blinking insertion point. Then outsmart that problem! Compare the captured image against the last 2, or even 3 or 4 frames. A completely different approach might be to try Camstudio and its lossless codec. From memory, it should compress repeated ide...