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... a new game that uses it, go for it! But most people will never have access to a Lagrange Point cart and the best we can hoped for is a clone or PowerPak emu. Of my options this seems like a good compromise. Millions of people got famiclones that have a bug where the 1/4 and 1/2 duty cycles were ...

... does this hack that is fine with me. But most people will never have access to a Lagrange Point cart and the best we can hoped for is a clone or PowerPak emu. Of my options this seems like a good compromise. Once enough people have a hardware "just kidding, it's not actually a VRC7" ...

... and there's nothing obviously wrong. I assume you tested the patch in more reliable emulators (nestopia, nintendulator, bizhawk) or using a powerpak? Have you double-checked your wiring is making good connections? What kind of testing tools do you have access to? (oscilloscope, multimeter, ...

... ROMs are native trackers, so song data is saved on the cart. Being able to dump/load the song data allows composing on a PC and/or the NES. The PowerPak or N8 makes this a very painless process, but the cost is a concern. INL's flash cart doesn't have the flexibility that an SD or CF card based ...

The PowerPak seems out of production (ATM or forever?) On IRC, bunnyboy told me it should be back in a couple weeks. Thanks for the news, been check'n the site weekly for a while :) Though I will be getting one at some point, ...

yogi wrote:The PowerPak seems out of production (ATM or forever?)

On IRC, bunnyboy told me it should be back in a couple weeks.

... some great homebrews for the chiptune crowd, and a few of his titles are designed for SXROM mapper. So to run on real hardware the choices are: PowerPak/N8 or try to find a FC SXROM cart or try to convert a NES SNROM to SXROM. The success rate has been low for the conversions. There seems to ...

A lot of people join NESdev BBS and immediately ask how to make reproductions for whatever invented reason. Then the reproductions end up sold on eBay or wherever. If you want to play a game on your NES, as opposed to selling copies of Konami's work, the easiest route is the PowerPak.

... we might call "correct". There's a huge difference between the range of tolerance between carts/Famicoms and the mix you'll get from the PowerPak w/audio mod, for instance. (Though as I said, I think the PowerPak is doing a fine job for Gimmick.) The 5B is a YM2149F, not an AY. The difference ...

The mixing is a big thing to me. I don't like buying the legit cart, plugging it in, and being able to hear the difference between the cart and my powerpak. That's why I started making these conversions. If we can get the AY / YM / powerpak to reproduce the audio 100% the same that would be awesome!

... Joker cart. I think they were successful, either the AY or YM will make the right sounds. The harder thing to duplicate is the mixing. I think the PowerPak does a decent job of emulating Gimmick's hardware. It doesn't have the envelope or noise of the 5B, but the game doesn't use those. Really ...

... the "donor" games from being hacked up. A 100% accurate clone would be really cool. The whole reason why I did this is because the nes powerpak never recreates the audio of these carts exactly like the real thing. I don't mind discouraging people from doing this gremlins 2 is a pretty ...

Esper dream 2 has the vrc6 so as hard as the powerpak may try I can still hear the difference from the real vrc6. Therefore I'm converting a real japanese esper dream 2 cart into english with the help of the fanslation floating around the internet: ...

Many of us here we try to encourage you to either use a PowerPak , a ReproPak , or some other new hardware instead of sacrificing old stuff. +1 If you do it on a PowerPak, then you can share it with people. If you build it out of a donor Willow cart ...

Many of us here we try to encourage you to either use a PowerPak, a ReproPak, or some other new hardware instead of sacrificing old stuff.

But if you really are going to insist on sacrificing old hardware, something that already has a battery is probably an easier place to start.