ovenrake
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lolusa

So I'm sure most of us have seen this >>>

This is just an outlandish question, BUT, would you be able to solder a link port to an old SGB and flash the Rom data of the model 2 onto said cartridge to create your own model 2??

I really don't have much knowledge of these things, hence me asking this.


Basically I want to have two super nintendos (in this case super famicoms) synced up at the same time.
Why? hell, it'd look cool to have two TVs running lsdj eh? Make composing a lot easier too.


So yeah, tell me why this is the most unrealistic idea.

akira^8GB
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New York City

Don't kill me for this, but isn't getting two SGB2s easier?

godinpants
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im sure i remember seeing a tutorial on adding the link port to a super gameboy.

http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/sgbmod.txt

ovenrake
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lolusa
akira^8GB wrote:

Don't kill me for this, but isn't getting two SGB2s easier?

SGB2's are pretty spendy, plus I'd have to get two super famicoms -___-

godinpants wrote:

im sure i remember seeing a tutorial on adding the link port to a super gameboy.

http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/sgbmod.txt

dude fuck yeah!

PlainFlavored
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I believe there are passthrough carts that will allow you to play a Super Famicom-shaped game in an American SNES.

What's the difference between the Super Game Boy and the Super Game Boy II?

ovenrake
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lolusa
PlainFlavored wrote:

I believe there are passthrough carts that will allow you to play a Super Famicom-shaped game in an American SNES.

What's the difference between the Super Game Boy and the Super Game Boy II?

super gameboy 2 has a link port on the side.

Emar
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☺☺☺

at one time there was pictures of this mod....but all i can find is that dev'rs link atm....

nickmaynard
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rochester, ny

i'm going to be doing this mod soon and documenting it.

but for now, here are the pictures from the original japanese website that this tutorial ( http://www.devrs.com/gb/files/sgbmod.txt ) was based on.

nickmaynard
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rochester, ny

also, here's another tutorial.

http://www.mksmks.de/technical/sgblink.htm

ovenrake
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lolusa

big_smile

it just keeps getting better.

seriously, thanks everyone!

nickmaynard
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rochester, ny

imagine using the DMG-007 4 way connector and playing 4 super nintendos at once with 4 tvs!

4 lsdj's synced up with 4 tv's. insane.

ovenrake
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lolusa
nickmaynard wrote:

imagine using the DMG-007 4 way connector and playing 4 super nintendos at once with 4 tvs!

4 lsdj's synced up with 4 tv's. insane.

I just need 4 modded SGB's (and a few more SNES'), and consider it done wink

NeX
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as the original question has been answered i just thought i would point out, the super gameboy, and supergameboy 2 have different CPUs. you can't flash a CPU and you wouldn't need to anyway because its nothing to do with the CPU boot strap that allows for a link port or not

ovenrake
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lolusa

Ah.
I kind of gathered that it wasn't necessary after finding out the SGB innards are so close to the actual GB.

thanks though!

athleos
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Seattle, WA

http://8bc.org/images/athleos/Modded+Super+Game+Boy/

ovenrake
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lolusa

Athelos: You live so close, yet, you're such a mystery.
I've got all the components to do this, I'm just unsure of my soldering capabilities.

Any tips?

Also, in the devrs tutorial, it was stated he used a link cable cut in half. Though a constructing a small board is inevitable, would anyone suggest the female port over the male?(or vice versa)

Last edited by ovenrake (Nov 15, 2010 12:45 pm)