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I would like to mod my NES so it can accept famicom carts. I believe this should be relatively simple, but I am probably missing something since hardware is hardly my forte. Could someone let me know if this is destined to fail? - scavenge a famicom connector off a famiclone - run wires from either ...

Wow,
thanks Loopy! You rock.

Yeah, there is some chance. I think most of the code would be reusable, The communication with the copynes is all in wookie's libcopynes library, and I wouldn't mind making a parallel version of that but I fried my parallel port copynes somehow quite a while ago and I need to purchase a new host for...

Hey guys,
In case anyone is using this, I just packaged a new release of copynesl.
Added support for format shifting to / from prg / chr / nes as well as some cleanup / fixes.
http://bitbucket.org/crade/copynesl/downloads/

Hello all, copynesl has also moved to sit near libcopynes on bitbucket.
http://bitbucket.org/crade/copynesl/

strange, mine just had 5 screws on the back

I have Twinbee from HKGC. Heres the pcb:

Ok, but it wasn't that the mirroring was reversed... here is the code that works successfully that I used to create the iNES format mirroring from the one I grabbed from libcopynes #define CART_FOUR_SCREEN_VROM 8 copynes_read(cn, &copynes_mirroring_mask, 1, &t); /* mirroring bit is the same ...

The current version of copynesl appears to work well, and should be usable. I have tested alot of different carts now, including mmc5 and action52, and I haven't been able to find a cart that wouldn't work properly. Please let me know if anyone successfully uses it on any platforms other than linux ...

Hi wookie, you are right on the mirroring stuff.. I didn't invert it, but I should have.. I made the mistake of assuming the copynes gave me the mask in a format I could just dump into an iNES file :) Latest version has MMC 1 support. I am going to start plowing through some carts to see if I can br...

next release is out!
(ok I noticed the install for the manual was busted. Fixed now.)
http://copynesl.googlecode.com/files/co ... 2.1.tar.gz

Hello All, I have released the beginings of copynesl, which is a program that uses Wookie's libcopynes library to interface with the USB CopyNES in a more portable way. In was of course written and tested on Linux. If someone could test it on other platforms for me, that would be great too! Windows ...

This post has some good info for finding if a cart has a famicom converter:

http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=5047

Yep, from the powerpak manual: "If your system is blinking but shows video try pressing the reset button. This will tell the Ciclone to try the next region. When the correct region is found it will be saved so this process should only be needed once. If you have hit reset 8 times and it is stil...

That link appears to be for playing Famicom games in a NES, not the opposite. But the opposite is out there and I had one before. It came free with the HandiFami NES clone. Actually, that link is pretty unclear as to whether which direction it converts.. The picture is FC->NES, but most (but not al...