kazzo: NES Dumping Tool and Flash Carts

MatthewCallis · Post by **MatthewCallis** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 11:45 am

I've been following http://bakutendo.blog87.fc2.com/ and it seems he's finally produced his flash cart base / dumping tool.

MottZilla · Post by **MottZilla** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:20 pm

Very interesting. Is it just a hobby project or is he producing to sell or making plans to construct it yourself available or what? The carts and programmer look nice.

MatthewCallis · Post by **MatthewCallis** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 12:22 pm

MottZilla wrote:Very interesting. Is it just a hobby project or is he producing to sell or making plans to construct it yourself available or what? The carts and programmer look nice.

I can't tell, it took me a whole hour to beat the captcha to send an email he didn't reply to. He does host everything on sourceforge.jp so I'm guessing he will at the very least post instructions on ordering, I think I saw schematics for it on one of the wikis.

kyuusaku · Post by **kyuusaku** » Sat Jan 02, 2010 10:23 am

It's just a microcontroller w/ register for extra I/O. The MCU is pretty powerful, but it doesn't have USB hardware, so it sacrifices all that power to emulate it. Typically people only emulate USB for HID devices so this thing is probably pretty slow and that's why FDS isn't supported.

A dumper requires 32 I/O which still could probably be squeezed into a 40/44 pin USB MCU. Obviously the intention was to go with the "freest" design possible though.

naruko · Post by **naruko** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 4:51 am

Thank you for being interested. I am a developer of kazzo and unagi.

I plan to write all of technical document of kazzo in English. Souce codes for kazzo and unagi are opensource. I want a lot of people to develop kazzo and unagi.

Kazzo PCB revision 1.0 was sold last week for Japanase users. I'm designing Kazzo PCB revision 2.0. It has ATmega168, 60 pin edge connector and 72 pin edge connector for oversea users.

I want to order to produce 50 PCBs for revision 2.0. I have no idea whether an overseas person needs kazzo and flash memory cartridge. If 20 people buy it from foreign countries, I will order parts (PCBs, AVRs, edges and 5V flash memories). I want the opinion.

mic_ · Post by **mic_** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 5:13 am

Do you have an english version of your page? Running your page through Google Translate doesn't help much, since the translation quality is awful.

naruko · Post by **naruko** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 6:09 am

Engilish version documents are:
- named safix '_en' on wiki
- readme.txt in kazzo_0.1.1.zip
- anago/anago_en.txt in unagi_client_windows_060.zip

It was noticed that an English document that explained unagi and kazzo was insufficient thanks to your answer. And I noticed the translational accuracy from Japanese to English was low.

I will try to write to increase documents of English version. Thank you for your reply.

mic_ · Post by **mic_** » Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:40 am

I think the most important things to write up in english for us gaijins would be a product description, feature list, compability(?), pricing.

Teancum · Post by **Teancum** » Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:43 am

Just stumbled upon this recently. It's to version 2.1 now and has USB. I'm still trying to figure out more about it.

I found this
http://sourceforge.jp/projects/unagi/wi ... matics.png

Would this be all I needed to build it?