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it goes for like 40 bucks on ebay, that's too much.

The real price is more like 10$. If you can find it loose, even less.

where u gonna find that in non Asian country's?

That's when it get harder to get it. I was talking about the original price in japan when I got it. In some specialized shop, it will be more expensive. the only way to have it cheaper it to have a contact in japan that can find it loose. The price may have increase since I bought it (2004).

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Just one random place that I found it at 10$:

http://kakaku.journal.mycom.co.jp/item_ ... 80153.html

Some place are 20$ or a little bit less. It depends where you get it. One auction guy is selling it in a lot with batman/raf world starting at 5$

http://www.mbok.jp/item/item_216901614.html


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Another link, loose, 5$:
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/hontonosouko/gf-706/

So 40$, that's too expensive. It's not that price at all. Ebay it not the best place to get stuff unless you know the real price of the thing you're looking for.

Edit3:

Another shop, 4.80$

http://www.geo-online.co.jp/ds/0003002/

If I where in the market for the game, I would find it hard to order from one of those shops............

Of course. If you don't understand japanese you cannot order and most shop will not ship oversea anyway.

The point was that the actual game is not that expensive. Asking 40$ for it is too much when you know the current street price in it original market. The links were just to show as an example the current price.

YEAH!! I've nearly done it!!! But, nearly.....

Don't look up at the early photos, because i haven't cutted some tracks on this pirate PCB and graphics was really crapped .
Some new screens with beautiful graphics from original IREM's Holy Diver :




And I connected an extra 74LS00 chip like on this scheme by kyuusaku , but, I think, the mirroring is still wrong, just look on those photos...... And after removing this 74LS00 , the IREM screen and title screen is f*cked, but, the graphics on first level is better a little.....

And, AOROM board has got single-screen mirroring, but nestopia says, the holy diver uses four-screen mirroring..... So, change something??? Add something???

Well I only guessed about the mirroring. I still think it's two-screen, so just swap the wires to PPU A10 and PPU A11.

OK. I swapped those wires and graphics are worse than before.....

Heh OK, then it must be one-screen mirroring, try connecting the Q3 output directly to VRAM A10. I really don't think it's four-screen so if that doesn't fix it, there must be a problem with your wiring of the 7400.

Guys, I want to continue creating this cart now. Finally, now on bootgod is original holy diver cart!!!:
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/profile.php?id=4038

So, on this PCB there are 2x 74HC161, 74HC32, 74HC00 and 74HC245 chips. So, there is an extra 74HC245 chip, so, anybody know, how to connect this chip???

The 245 is buffering the CHR data bus, but it's not immediately apparent what enables the buffer. Perhaps they used a very slow ROM or the ROM has only one enable, so they tied it enabled and the 245 is used for output enable (A13 || /RD). It doesn't really matter, you don't need it if you used a JEDEC EPROM and tied /OE to /RD and /CE to A13.