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You might have underdumped the PRG; the 74'161's outputs only makes sense to be connected to pin 22 of the ROM if it's actually A16. Yes, I also arrived to the same conclusion (from different observations), and in fact have now dumped also the second 64k portion. The second chip does have only 64k....

I also purchased a desoldering pump. Figured it's something I would eventually need anyway. As a consequence, I was now able to successfully desolder both ROM chips from the cartridge. I was also able to dump them using my Arduino program. There was a slight problem in doing so: The legs of the ROM ...

Wow, I found my stash. I knew I should have more than that which I showed previously, but it was packed away from my last move in a location I had not bothered to unpack. (Back as a teenager, I used to salvage components from trashed electronics in hopes I could use them later in something. I also g...

On my NTDec PAL famiclone, it looks like it draws some 6-8 pixels of border (not exactly sure) on the left side and 0 pixels on the right side. I haven't analyzed yet whether any pixels of the 256x240 content are missing, but it does not look like they are.

Thread switching by yield() or similar mechanisms is considered harmful. http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/06/05/in-praise-of-idleness/ http://www.technovelty.org/code/c/sched_yield.html http://msmvps.com/blogs/peterritchie/archive/2007/04/26/thread-sleep-is-a-sign-of-a-poorly-designed-program.aspx...

I don't think that "cheap one-time cartridge dumping" exists... It's not like you can quickly build a device to do it using common household items. If you're very electronics-savvy you can make an EPROM reader with few parts, but you have to know what you're doing or you'll just get frust...

HardWareMan wrote:CaH4e3 used a long time Pasofami. Simple shematic, suitable for most cartridges. In addition, all software are ready.

What's a long time Pasofami?

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/4/21/1876835/LPTexpander.jpg That is pretty much waht my EPROM dumper/burner is, except I got a PPI there for more control and 16bits support. So you're using the D0..7 lines in the LPT port as both input and output? Does that really work? Hmm... As I don't want to...

TmEE wrote:374 will do too, its pinout is less convenient though

That's great.
I have to admit though, I have no idea how that chip would be any helpful :-/

Hmm. Some day I should make an inventory of which ones I actually have. I have got these from a friend who used to work in a company that produces telephones, in the early 1990s. I don't entirely even know whether these all work. :-) Haven't had a lot of use for them. Therefore, not much experience ...

Dwedit wrote:There are lots of other multicarts that use music ripped from Ninja Hattori Kun.

No doubt.

if you got a EPROM burner Nor something like that. But I can solder. I also have a small stock of some generic 74-class ICs, some resistors and some capacitors and stuff like that. No circuit boards though. Would it be possible to e.g. somehow wire a portion of the cartridge to a parallel port in a...

Drag wrote:Edit: Now that I think of it, if you have access to a powerpak or something, you could give Chris Covell's tape dump program a whirl.

Reference to "inexpensive", though not obviously, implied that I don't have any fancy NES hackdom related hardware such as PowerPak.

I have got this NTDec cartridge. Famicom compatible.* http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/ntdec5in1/front.jpg http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/ntdec5in1/back.jpg http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/ntdec5in1/chip1.jpg http://bisqwit.iki.fi/kala/snap/ntdec5in1/chip2.jpg It has been bugging me for a long time,...

OK, so emulators don't do it. I would like to extend this to a feature request to any emulator authors who're listening: please consider rendering them. :) Already doing it in my emulator (git://bisqwit.iki.fi/nesemu1), in one of the branches anyway. And yes, I kind of love the fact that in Super M...