FDS on PowerPak

loopy · Post by **loopy** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:17 pm

Behold, I give you:

FDS on PowerPak

Consider it a proof of concept at this point. Few games work, I'm still trying to figure out why. I just wanted to show that it's doable. It uses an unmodified bios; the low level disk stuff is emulated, I didn't need to write new loading routines. I'll need to do it eventually though, to handle disk switching.

kyuusaku · Post by **kyuusaku** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:48 pm

Very cool, I hope this can be integrated into the BIOS sometime.

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:56 pm

Impressive. Please see this all of the way through. There have to be some FDS features that are impossible to make work on the PowerPak, right?

loopy · Post by **loopy** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:03 pm

Can't do FDS audio. Saving is not going to be easy.

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:28 am

Can't wait to try this out - thanks!

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 11:56 am

Very cool loopy. I never expected anyone to take on the FDS for the PowerPAK.

ccovell · Post by **ccovell** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:04 am

This is a very cool hack. I didn't see why it couldn't be possible -- the PowerPak mapper is configurable enough to give you the RAM and the timer IRQs of the FDS.

On my Famicom+PowerPak setup, several of the games (Super Mario Bros., etc.) have glitchy CHR graphics, or just general PPU screw-ups. SMB2's jumping is all screwy too. I'm not asking you to fix that, but I wonder what could be causing such strange bugs...

At least many FDS games' intro scenes can be run on the PowerPak now.

rbudrick · Post by **rbudrick** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:07 am

Whoa. [/keanu] Here's something I didn't think was possible. Could FDS audio be achieved even via mods?

-Rob

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:47 pm

Well bunny DID say that the leftover pins on the fpga were routed to the exp pins on the cart......so I guess it's possible?

nesworld · Post by **nesworld** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:14 am

If someone still has the file(s) I'd love to check it out. Unfortunately it no longer seems to be available from the original location

loopy · Post by **loopy** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:18 am

I have voluntarily removed said files to comply with forum policy.

nesworld · Post by **nesworld** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:13 pm

Post by **tepples** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:17 pm

FDS BIOS is copyright Nintendo.

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:22 pm

Will you be able to put it back up later by requiring the user to inject the FDS bios themselves?

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Fri Sep 12, 2008 1:18 am

Since when the FDS bios is a commercial game ?