If I had monies I'd consider giving you some. But you got the support and prayers of a broke bloke nontheless!
722 Aug 14, 2010 4:27 am
Re: Android phone users (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Flopps wrote:
Lazerbeat wrote:I am thinking about buying myself out of my iphone contract and switching over to an Android device. I know next to nothing about them though, wondered if anyone had any impressions they would be kind enough to share, models to avoid, ones to look for etc. The HTC Desire is the only major one available here that I am aware of.
It might be worth sticking with an iPhone, if I remember correctly there is a dev team workong on porting android over to the iPhone and even letting you have both OS's on the device.
That's never going to happen, not without jailbreaking your iPhone first. No way in heck apple will promote alternate OS, especially not a Google OS.
Not that android would be a huge improvement over iOS, it's not really open and it's very limited. IMO, both iOS and Android are not to my taste, because both don't feel like OSes, they feel like... I dunno, cheap phone firmware? Only expensive? You're talking to a real power-user OS snob here though. 
723 Aug 13, 2010 9:57 pm
Re: recently (20 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Well, if you'd been in town you could have some to a few Short Circuit shows. Those are generally pretty good times! There is lately been a rash of new development in hardware and software for the NES. Me and Blargg making a low-cost flash cart, No Carrier and Batsly Adams making FaMI and a new version of GlitchNES. Oh and new versions of NTRQ, new VJ software called lightwall, and beta/demo of Pulsar.
724 Aug 13, 2010 3:53 pm
Re: DEP-1 (18 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
Cool stuff! I totally dig your home-made PCBs.
725 Aug 13, 2010 3:29 pm
Re: Blargg Bootstrap USB Cartridge: Famicom prototype & beta 1 built! (374 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
Finally, the chips have arrived! I'm so excited!
726 Aug 12, 2010 1:04 am
Re: UNYX OLDSCHOOL RAVE MIX 2010 (13 replies, posted in General Discussion)
For a fleeting moment I hoped this was somehow related to Unix, the OS of the gods. *sigh* I guess I'll give it a listen anyhow.
727 Aug 11, 2010 12:57 am
Re: Blargg Bootstrap USB Cartridge: Famicom prototype & beta 1 built! (374 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
blargg wrote:
My understanding is that Famicom carts just lack the extra I/O lines in the middle, and that you can even get some Famicom-to-NES adaptors that fit inside the cartridge (some early NES releases used these, I've read, since they had excess Famicom boards already made). Hopefully the Famicom doesn't have any other hardware differences that will cause a problem. The controller port for the PC cable might be an issue, as I think they work a little differently.
No, AFAIK the only think a Famicom cart lacks is the lockout IO (since it has no lockout) and the expansion connector IO, which is NES specific and which we won't be using. Everything else is present and accounted for. As for the Famicom link cable, connecting through the Famicom's expansion port is perfectly doable, since it just has the same data lines present as the controllers themselves, plus a few extra ones. From what I can see, it should not be a particular problem.
EDIT: in case I'm not making sense, the idea with this is that the design can be made not just with NES donors, but also Famicom donors, so that Famicom users can take advantage of the design as well.
728 Aug 10, 2010 9:46 pm
Re: Blargg Bootstrap USB Cartridge: Famicom prototype & beta 1 built! (374 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)
The Flash chips still have not arrived. *sigh* Oh well, it's only been a whole week.
Also, I figured out how to make this design work on Famicom, so I'll certainly be able to make some of these for that system as well.
729 Aug 10, 2010 8:43 pm
Re: EMS USB cartridge problems (18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Sounds cool kitsch! If mine was borken I'd try it out, but it works just fine.
730 Aug 10, 2010 7:04 pm
Re: Bricked DS? (16 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Well, both are repairable. Don't sweat it too bad.
731 Aug 10, 2010 5:46 pm
Re: EMS USB cartridge problems (18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
I have an EMS 64mb cart, but it's fully functional. Feel free to rip in nitro, I can't afford to replace mine if I wreck it. 
732 Aug 10, 2010 5:39 pm
Re: this is the absolute low-point of my career. (65 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Dude, this is sweet! And he credited you, which is better than alot of folks who just rip the music they want and won't credit anybody.
733 Aug 10, 2010 5:38 pm
Re: Bricked DS? (16 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Kirs K's suggestion sounds more legit.
734 Aug 10, 2010 5:32 pm
Re: EMS USB cartridge problems (18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
You know, the EMS 64mbit carts are inexpensive compared to the competition and made by a Chinese pirate hardware company. It's bound to have some flukes. However, before you try anything drastic, erase the cart with the PC, then put LSDJ into BOTH banks. Just try it. Seriously. Uninitialised banks do cause problems, I have experienced this myself.
EDIT: it occurs to me that a faulty capacitor would cause both kinds of behaviour in 100% of cases. The cap holds a charge that, when seen by the bank switching circuit, send it into bank 2. This cap is not supposed to hold a charge longer than a very short while, allowing for switching back to bank 1 when not flicking the power on and off. But a capacitor which holds too much charge will not allow going back into bank 1, while a cap which won't hold a charge will not allow switching into bank 2. My guess is that they used the cheapest possible electrolytic caps, allowing for manufacturing variance which would explain this kind of behavior.
735 Aug 10, 2010 5:22 pm
Re: EMS USB cartridge problems (18 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
My guess is that one could just bypass the bank-switching circuit, which uses a capacitor based circuit to determine time since last power up. with a toggle switch, thus keeping both banks but preventing power-time cycle.
736 Aug 10, 2010 5:16 pm
Re: Bricked DS? (16 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)
Act of God. If you live in the UK then you should know R4's are illegal and the Queen and her ministers have been making incantations to destroy all DS using R4.
Actually, I have no idea. My guess is probably some kind of corruption in the onboard non-volatile storage area, aka, bricking. If you had a programmer device and a JTAG cable you could probably open it back up and un-brick it.
EDIT: as for cause, could be anything from a maliciously modified ROM to improperly seated contacts to complete fluke. Also a possibility- recent Nintendo updates which detect the presence of R4 and consequently kill your DS, which has been threatened by them in the past but AFAIK never carried out. But you never know.