Blargg Bootstrap USB Cartridge: Famicom prototype & beta 1 built! (Page 19 of 24)

Yup, that is correct. And number 7 needs a little cleaning and a new battery. Sadly, it was snowing yesterday (in the middle of April, I know!) and today it is raining. So I might make some pictures and/or a video today.

Also, Famicom protos are coming along too. I have the first one finished finally and am doing a second one, which will be going to an-cat-max for testing as soon as I can find cable components for his. As it turns out, deep DB-15 connectors are hard to find, except on Neo-Geo joysticks, which are also very hard to find.

Lastly, I figure I might as well say that the two guys helping me towards production are Keff, who is doing artwork for labels and a website, and Kitsch, who has generously offered to help with getting PCBs made up for the NES carts. That's still going to be a ways off yet, but it should be encouraging to people who want to have a cartridge and didn't make the beta. Also, I'm working on a tutorial (possibly in video form) that will be distributed along with the code and schematics for DIYers to play with. It's pretty exciting.

Last edited by arfink (Apr 21, 2011 2:12 pm)

Yup, everything is done, but I have a dilemma.

I haven't been able to get hold of Blargg for a couple of weeks now.

This is bad news, because the software has not been packaged for release and has no accompanying license. While I am fairly sure he'll opt for a GPL license, I have no way of being sure without asking him, which I haven't been able to do. I am loathe to release the fruit of his hard work without a license, since it's his work and I believe he deserves to choose how he wants to license it before release. Without his consent I really don't feel right about releasing this.

This has happened before. Blargg is a very private individual and sometimes he just needs to disappear for a while. I hope he'll resurface soon.

Soooooooo... no time table on when this might be shipped at all? Why not just ship the hardware NOW and then post the software for download whenever you finally hear back from blargg?

Last edited by nickmaynard (May 7, 2011 8:17 pm)

Well, I'm thinking of it like, if I have the cartridge then I can start using the thing the day that you hear from Blargg. If you wait to hear from him (for who knows how long... days? weeks?) before you ship the carts, then I have to wait for you to ship them, then the time it takes to ship, etc. Maybe I'm only talking about a difference of a week but a week is still a long time.

I'm really not trying to be a dick or anything about this, so I hope it's not coming across like that. I really do appreciate all the work you've put into this thing and I can't wait to finally get it and use it.

yeah, one way we'd get to use the things the day the software's ready to go. the other way would mean we'd have to wait for shipping. i'd rather get it asap.