BennVenn
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Australia

The coolboy carts have all the necessary resources but does not support Neil's unusual choice of mapper. He used this mapper to conveniently address a large amount of WRAM. You could go through his ROM and hook and change all the mapper writes but this would be time consuming! I've emailed him regarding a fork of his source but he is a very busy man and have not heard back from him.

You could build the mapper into a coolboy cart with a few logic IC's and some SRAM, then you could run Pulsar on it.

I could download his other various NES ROM's and test their compatibility...

nikola
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Sergy, France

If either cajoNES or SMMM work with your flashcart, I would buy one in a second.

Timbob
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Guess what.. I'm still excited.

cyberic
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DSC wrote:

We worked together on a MCTRL version of PR8, the best ever IMHO.

Is this version is publicly available? Or is there any way to follow a midi clock, or to simulate a clok with button presses?
Thx

urbster1
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Naptown

would this support glitchNES?

BennVenn
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Australia

Email me the ROMs and I'll give them a try

BennVenn
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Australia

Im planning on building a custom flash cart designed to run Neil's ROMs. It'll either be USB direct into the cart to update the rom and load/save .sav files, or that will be handled via a dedicated cart flasher/dumper. It depends if people are happy to pay the extra to have it all rolled into one unit.

It'll have the standard multi-region CIC, gold plated fingers, FRAM which means no battery.

I'm aiming at $45 for the cart or $60 with integrated USB.

Any interest? Thoughts?

BennVenn
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Australia

Im planning on building a custom flash cart designed to run Neil's ROMs. It'll either be USB direct into the cart to update the rom and load/save .sav files, or that will be handled via a dedicated cart flasher/dumper. It depends if people are happy to pay the extra to have it all rolled into one unit.

It'll have the standard multi-region CIC, gold plated fingers, FRAM which means no battery.

I'm aiming at $45 for the cart or $60 with integrated USB.

Any interest? Thoughts?

KeFF
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Turku, FIN

I would get one if I can use it to make visuals!

BennVenn
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Australia

Visuals?

urbster1
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Naptown
KeFF wrote:

I would get one if I can use it to make visuals!

Me too!
http://no-carrier.com/index.php?/glitchnes/
http://no-carrier.com/index.php?/nesflix/
etc

also litewall https://dl.dropbox.com/u/31101742/blargg_litewall.zip

Last edited by urbster1 (Apr 3, 2016 12:16 pm)

nikola
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Sergy, France

I would get a couple if they support Neil's ROMs for sure smile

DSC
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BennVenn wrote:

Im planning on building a custom flash cart designed to run Neil's ROMs. It'll either be USB direct into the cart to update the rom and load/save .sav files, or that will be handled via a dedicated cart flasher/dumper. It depends if people are happy to pay the extra to have it all rolled into one unit.

It'll have the standard multi-region CIC, gold plated fingers, FRAM which means no battery.

I'm aiming at $45 for the cart or $60 with integrated USB.

Any interest? Thoughts?


I'll take two for myself and for the store.....

BennVenn
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Australia

To be worth the time and effort, I'd be looking to sell at least 10pcs. I'll be using a CPLD for the mapper, I don't like the idea of destroying original carts for their mappers.

So if I get the interest for around 10pcs I'll begin breadboarding and start on the VHDL. It's a bit of an investment on the PCB's - gold plating isn't cheap on a board this size, plus the ROM, FRAM, RAM, CPLD's and cart cases.

I might have a solution for the gold plating which will bring the cost down a bit.

BennVenn
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Australia

http://www.retrostage.net/nes_MMC1_boards.htm

Why aren't these used? I've ordered from him before, this exact board I think... I'll dig it out and see if his CPLD supports Neil's mapper mode.

Edit: Oh, CHR RAM and WRAM is not the right size or mapping... Can be fixed with a few wires though. Anyone want a guide?

Last edited by BennVenn (Apr 3, 2016 11:53 pm)

Timbob
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Hi!
few questions:

1: I ordered some of those aliexpress carts a while back. 2 60 pins game pcb's and one 60-72 pin convertor with case. If I get your programmer from your website (Without the cart slot) can I solder the wires to the pins and good things happen? (Planning on soldering the wires to the converter pcb and build it into the case.. some slashing may ensue )
2: I saw the gameboy flasher was sold out on your site.. are they coming back? saves on shipping costs etc wink
3: what's your favourite animal?
4: a new flash cart sounds awesome. Not really a question, more of a remark.
5: did you know the link to your website on your cm.org profile doesn't work?