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I guess it would be useful to post this here as well, it's about Mario Adventure on PowerPak: http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=56245&StartRow=21#bottom I tried it now, doesn't work. Then I looked at it for 10 minutes in Nintendulator ...

... project for nothing? :P I thought the game was mapper MMC5 and the VR6 was a expansion chip, but VR6 is a mapper that's emulated on PowerPak? Or it runs because of the FDS bios or somthing? If it really runs on PowerPak, I guess I will finish up the project and just sell it o_O Bummer...or..well...kinda ...

CV3 for US and Euro version could easily work on the PowerPAK if the MMC5 mapper was partially implemented enough. CV3 doesn't really use too many of its features. But no one has worked on it. The FPGA is supposed to be big enough to support a MMC5 implementation.

The japanese version works fine on powerpak.

I have a original pal nes and a original ntsc nes, so no problem there

Castlevania 3 can't be played on a powerpak.

MottZilla wrote:However I recommend the PowerPAK over creating "reproductions".

Unless all you can get in your part of the world are PowerPak-incompatible NES clones.

Hilmarf: Do you have an authentic NES or a clone?

Well if you never played through CV3 at all I can understand wanting to be able to read the text. However I recommend the PowerPAK over creating "reproductions". You can still play the games without the work of soldering and the result is the same.

... a collector you likely don't want a fake one in your collection... 3. You want to play it on real hardware. Yes, even if it's bad. Even if the powerpak couldn't do it, there is no way someone would want to play this game expet to laugh at how bad it is. How doing it on real hardware makes it ...

Thanks. So it would in theory fit in a PowerPak's 512k/512k RAM. In fact, the mapper matrix on the product page says 228 is supported, which is possible for CM2 but not for A52 due to A52's oversized PRG ROM. Who here has tried CM2 on a PowerPak? ...

Case 1 I agree with. I'd handle case 3 while frustrating repro sellers by hacking it to some mapper that's supported on a PowerPak but not so easy to find a donor for. And to do that, I'd first need to know how big the ROM is.

... dev cart: http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=7656&start=180 You're right about needing the source code MottZilla for anything from the powerpak to be useful for someone like us putting mappers onto a CPLD. The only one I know of currently is qbradq's source code for the FME-7. He posted ...

... are getting so cheap. Do you know if there's any verilog code for nes mapper available? Is it possible in any way to use the mapper pack for the powerpak to reproduce mapper? I would suppose it's not possible but since I really don't know how the powerpak mapper compatibility fiel work, I figured ...

... get the impression that Verilog code for a CPLD-based ReproPak is "a very tough and long process" compared to the existing code for a PowerPak? Hehe Silly me, I kinda forgot about the PowerPak:) I was refering to reverse engineer and copying a chip to a CPLD was long and tedious. Are ...

... get the impression that Verilog code for a CPLD-based ReproPak is "a very tough and long process" compared to the existing code for a PowerPak?

The user explained in PMs that the user already has a PowerPak and wants to reproduce four specific unreleased games, one of which is on a board not used for any U.S. or European game.