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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.

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

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?

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

Can't wait to try this out - thanks!

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

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.

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

-Rob

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?

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

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

ehh?

FDS BIOS is copyright Nintendo.

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

Since when the FDS bios is a commercial game ?