817 Reply by catskull

(3 replies, posted in LittleGPTracker)

Not bad at all!

Maybe OT, but how do you like using a Pi for chiptracking? It seems like the lack of a good way to shut it off would be a big setback.

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818 Reply by catskull

(4 replies, posted in Circuit Bending)

I wish they'd make an RCA boy instead. If they have to make one for gameboy, why the heck would they not make one for SNES and use a super gameboy? I mean, is it not just a tad ridiculous to have that huge thing in your gameboy, with a long controller sticking out? It's like they can't decide whether they want it to be a console or a portable.

Didn't NeX make a gameboy to VGA hack a while back?

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819 Topic by catskull

(15 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

I just bought a 4.3" lcd off ebay. When I hooked it up, it looked really weird though. The colors are super washed out/nonexistent and playing with the settings doesn't seem to help. There are also crazy scan lines going on as well.

I am just curious if anyone else who's used one of these has experienced something similar?

For reference here is what it looks like:

And in case you're not familiar, here is what it should look like:

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820 Reply by catskull

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Thanks, updated the post to link to your documentation.

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821 Reply by catskull

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Well I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about here. Just taking shots in the dark. If you write a more detailed explanation of how their multi ROM works (and how you were able to do it in littleFM) I'd love to read it and link to it from my blog post. Until then, I'll just retract that statement.

Thanks for pointing that out!

Maybe I should have a disclaimer at the top that says I really have no idea what I'm talking about?

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822 Reply by catskull

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Jazzmarazz wrote:

I suggest filling it with 1's rather than 0's. This is because when writing to an erased ROM, the device can only transition from 1 to 0 and not from 0 to 1 without going through the erase sequence. That is to say that all 1's is technically "empty" and all 0's is technically "full."

I am just being picky of course. This is a fine idea for a guide.

Ah, good to know. That would be referred to as low-asserted logic correct? Is that normal behavior for most roms?

egr wrote:

Nitro's lsdj file manager is called LittleFM, LSMC is a recent sav management program for PC.

Nicely done article tho!

Thanks for that. I get confused with all the LS-whatever's floating around by now.

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823 Topic by catskull

(8 replies, posted in Tutorials, Mods & How-To's)

Today I wanted to be able to completely erase my EMS 64m USB cart. Using nitro2k01's multi rom menu, sometime's "old" roms would show up in the menu that I didn't want there any more.

I wrote up the process on my blog: http://catskull.net/gameboy/hack/2015/0 … eboy-cart/

Please let me know if I've made any huge mistakes here.

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824 Reply by catskull

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Just put my ems 64 usb cart in a green pirate cart shell. Also, my custom pulsar cart. I made both labels myself.

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825 Reply by catskull

(4 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Hahaha, how embarrassing.

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826 Reply by catskull

(4 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Would you sell just the cynthcart and overlay?

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827 Reply by catskull

(5 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

WANT

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828 Reply by catskull

(170 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

I will literally give the first person to post a video of it in action (including the software) $5.

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829 Reply by catskull

(20 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

The funny thing here is that your tutorial shows a pc with a mic input, but the screenshots are of a mac, which do not have a mic input....or do they? It seems like the headphone jack used to be able to double as a mic input, but not any longer. Is that right?

What's the best way to get audio in to a mac?

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830 Topic by catskull

(4 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

Saw this over at retrocollect.com and found it extremely interesting.

More information/purchase here: https://www.tindie.com/products/pepijnd … hield-kit/


How wild would it be to sync lsdj over the internet? I'm sure latency would be awful, but it would be cool to see nonetheless.

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831 Reply by catskull

(13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Hmmm, do you have a source for those? Something like this? http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIGNETICS-27C64 … 3aa175228a

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832 Reply by catskull

(13 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

jefftheworld wrote:

That's the access timing. For the C64 this needs to be faster than 500ns. EPROMs will commonly come in 450 ns models and these will do just fine.

Thanks a lot for confirming that for me.

Is it okay if I ask just one more question? The programmer I'm going to be using is a TOP2004. Info can be found here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/TOP2004-EPROM-U … 7675.l2557

It looks like this exact chip (from this manufacturer) isn't supported (or at least not on the list), but the exact same model from AMD is. Am I safe to assume that this programmer will still work fine with the eprom? Or is it very specific?

In general, how particular are eproms? Would anything from the 27C64 "family" be compatible with each other, or are the exact variants unique?

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