I imagine this does a bit more than LSDJ. wink

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(29 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Nope, I didn't.

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(29 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

I ordered a Famicom one. Will report once it gets here.

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(29 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Looks like it should fit into a famicom cartridge shell just fine. That's got me excited. ^_^

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(29 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Alley Beach wrote:
arfink wrote:

Yes, looking at the mapper support, it seems that it would.

dude your alive?! big_smile

Strangely enough, yes. It's a long story. Hi there. smile

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(29 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Yes, looking at the mapper support, it seems that it would.

Looks more or less like every other Famiclone NOAC type of system I have ever seen. They're known for having crummy and inaccurate audio, and not working with certain games like Castlevania 3.

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(8 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Done, PM sent.

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(33 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

What I've done when I just want to wait to buy a new 72pin is take the old one out, and soak it for a day in a ziplock bag filled with rubbing alcohol. Then I scrub the pins with some folded over stiff white construction paper, and bend them in with a cheap dental pick I found at the grocery store. It works pretty well most of the time.

When you replace your 72pin you should also make sure to clean all your cartridges. Use rubbing alcohol and q-tips at the very least.

For those of you who didn't notice:

http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/7385/ … unchausen/

The project needs to change hands for a bit here.

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(14 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Once Kitch has the prototypes and can help reverse engineer some of the remaining puzzles I suspect he will just release it all open-source so that anyone can build their own. That would probably be the best possible outcome.

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kineticturtle wrote:

If only every troubled chiptune hardware project ended this way. Kudos Anthony!

I definitely wanted to avoid a MidiNES outcome. Hopefully this will help.

I think at this point the most likely recipient of the prototypes will be Kitsch.

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To the people of chipmusic.org, 8bc, and everyone else,

I am writing to you in regards to the Munchausen project, which I am afraid has become somewhat of a debacle by now. Because of circumstances outside of my control I do not believe I will be able to continue the project from this point in any kind of meaningful way. I am not much of a programmer, and much of Blargg's work is completely inscrutable to me, and since I lost contact with him I have been unable to really continue the project.

Besides that, some of the information and documentation I had been compiling was lost with a hard drive head crash around a month ago. I still have the working Linux driver software in both source code and compiled form and the working prototypes, but the original hex files for the AT Flash chip are lost. I would just need to read out the data from the chips in the working prototypes to recover that. The wiring diagrams would need to be reconstructed from the prototypes as well.

Unfortunately I really do not feel I have the time or the comptence to achieve this on any kind of timetable. I sincerely apologize for my lack of communication in this matter, and I intend to issue full refunds to everyone who so generously contributed to the project. I cannot in good conscience continue to think that I will be able to complete this project. Nick Meynard has already received his refund as of this writing. I have noted that some of the original contributers have changed their paypal info, so I would ask that people seeking refunds please contact me at my new email address, arfink (at) sdf.org

If there is anyone in the community who feels that they would like to adopt this project and do it proper justice, I will send you not only all the relevant data I have, but the actual prototypes and components themselves. I have learned I simply cannot promise anything in regards to this project due to my present circumstances, and I know how much all of you were looking forward to seeing this completed. A thousand apologies.

Finally, I wish to once again thank everyone who was involved with this project. Despite this unhappy outcome, I am thankful for the lessons I have learned and for the friendship and encouragement I received from all of you. I only wish I had an adequate way of repaying it.

Sincerely,

Anthony Fink (arfink)

Kewlness.

OK, got Nick's cart done. Today I'm going to try and get the guts for the cable packaged in such a way that it doesn't looks completely fugly. smile Or at least can take some abuse. Those DB9 shells are alot smaller inside than you'd suspect- and I suspected they'd be pretty small.

Also, I am seeking someone who's a relatively skilled Windows developer who'd be willing to attempt porting the PC side code. On Mac OSX this should just compile as it does on Linux, since it basically has no dependencies, or so I'm told. Blargg ran this on a Mac. I have no idea if this stuff will work in Windows or how. Maybe Cygwin? I have no clue. If you know something about this, please PM me.

I'll contact you soon Kitsch. That'd be very kind of you. While I'm working on Nick's cart this weekend I'm going to try and make a couple videos showing how to do it.

Also, since I haven't told many/any people this yet, because of the nature of this design it will probably never be feasible or affordable to mass produce, only to hand-build. This makes releasing the build information even more critical.