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yeah, this is great, like it a lot

^ yeah, i was going to say earlier a toggling /ce approach would be pretty straightforward

no no not for donors.  i'm concerned about the save file generated, not the type of MBC or anything like that or stripping them.  purely reference

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hey everybody -

tune in to the (all day!) live streaming event CLIPSTREAM X and listen to some music today: http://clip-stream.net/cs/

on to business...

after getting a request to take on this project from a customer, i'm really happy to be able to offer replacement gears for the N64 controller's joystick.  these gears often wear out in the joystick, leaving practically useless controllers in their wake.  thanks osmo for getting in touch!

http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/n64-joystick-gears

and, last but not least, big ups to loomis for pushing this idea:  USB-to-GAMEBOY power cables!  for now, DMG only, but keep your eyes open for similar cable love for the other handhelds,

http://store.kitsch-bent.com/product/us … wer-cables

thats it for now!  till next time, keep chipping,

matt

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thanks for looking!

actually, i have another question for you guys...

does anyone know where a list of game .sav file sizes might be?  a complete list would be awesome, listing the game title and the .sav file size it generates.

i've found some, but they are either obviously incomplete or only concerned with a particular type of game cart style or something like this.

i'm wondering the same thing!  i had less than satisfactory results from my similarly designed chinese hot air device.  (Aoyue brand, not that it matters, i think they just change the stickers and the guts are the same)

has the heating element burned out yet?  (this was my problem with them...  i have to keep basically near half or above on the airflow dial or they burn out, which is just too strong in a lot of situations unless i heaped on the solder paste like mortar which is a problem in itself)

^ thanks!  already addressed all these issues you mention but really appreciate the reminder (although, less an issue than just adding a couple 40 cent ICs).   

(@nitro2k01, you may recall me working on this years back, when i absolutely misread bit and bytes and designed a whole cart around this mistake...  i still feel really stupid about doing that but hey, i check every single time i do research now for making the same mistake again, i really appreciate all the help and thoughts you're willing to pour out to people in their struggles to learn and better educate themselves in this sort of endeavor)

and, thanks to everybody else for the thoughts on this!  i think there is some confusion, so again, i'm not planning on putting out the PCB files ready to print and whatever.  the PCB design itself is the sole element you'll need to tackle (just like how the project exists now).  as an individual, or as a group, or whatever.  i want to make it as explained as possible in the schematic and whatnot however, including little things like LEDs which (really) should be self-explanatory in a project of this technical scale.  so, a person with literally no electronics knowledge, but can read a schematic, could have a chance at using the info (verbatim) and it end up working.  which means i've got to really spell it all out, including basic LED hookups.  and label all resistor values, etc. 

everything else, up to that point, i am releasing.  in the spirit in which it was given

@thebitman...  #7, just to make sure i'm reading you right...  you mean having a thru hole right next to the solder pads of SMT parts?  or, would having extra long solder pads work since you can solder fly wires to them easier like that?  i'm a touch confused, i think i'm seeing something in my head you don't mean...  in short (just from an ease-of-PCB-design perspective) adding two rows of thru-holes/vias unnecessarily is a lot of mess you'll curse throughout the routing.  keeping them on one side (with longer solder pads perhaps, or some variant of this) would be much easier. 

and, your #6.  it'd need to be a breakout PCB with the SMT fram on it, with swiss pins or something acting like a socketable IC.  its possible...  someone else mentioned switchable fram up above...  sort of echoes something jazzmarazz was wanting (i think, not looking).  multi-sav support is what it sounds like this boils down too, right?  or, do you literally want to be able to physically swap the fram?  and, why?  (just for curiosity's sake)