I *think* that nanoloop 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 basically has the same hardware.
Would LOVE to see it being compatible with 1.3.
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I am so stoked on this.
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EDIT: so excited I double posted.
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I see two bank support. Is that a software or hardware trick?
What can it do with the Mega Memory card?
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Jazzmarazz wrote:
I see two bank support. Is that a software or hardware trick?
What can it do with the Mega Memory card?
Chances are the two-bank thing is both hardware and software. Power cycling might be for flipping the EMS 64 cart and any other multi-bank carts we'll see. Mega Memory card I'm going to guess we will get a memory manager of some sort 
which would be sick, like a LittleFM-ish option for non-LittleFM-compatible carts. Also, mass savebackups/dumps.
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Jazzmarazz wrote:
I see two bank support. Is that a software or hardware trick?
What can it do with the Mega Memory card?
Just so I'm not giving any wrong impressions here. I have not figured out a way to switch between the two pages from the cartridge bus. This may be impossible, even. The flasher will just flash whichever page is currently active, probably page 2 for the most part, knowing how these carts works. 
But apart from that limitation, EMS 64M flashing works beautifully.
Note however that you have access to multi-ROM functionality within one "page", given an appropriate menu ROM, so only being able to flash one page may not be such a big loss.
MMC supports is not yet implemented, but the plan is to fully support reading and writing from the cartridge.
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What is "Special Power?"
Is it for UV eproms?
Last edited by Jazzmarazz (Mar 9, 2014 5:07 am)
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No. That's a way of categorizing special functions on mapper chips that otherwise behave like a standard MBC5 or similar. For example, Nanoloop One is listed as its own MBC in the MBC list because it's using a special command set for switching between banks. EMS on the other hand behaves like a standard MBC when as far as the switching between banks is concerned, so the standard bank switch code is used when flashing. However, it also allows for multi-ROM functionality, which is then listed as a special power. Funky name, yes.
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nordloef wrote:
Would LOVE to see it being compatible with 1.3.
that would be pretty awesome
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Yeah, I'm down with this.
Also that prototype is beautifully compact and minimal in design. Heart it very much.
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