I have another project using one of the Teensy's so once mine arrive, I'll jump in to this mess.

818

(1,206 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

MGB4Life

Nice. I got a 25pin Sub connector mounted to one of mine at the bottom. It is just for external button control.
Keep us updated.

bump

Also, that 'DAC' is just a few series-parallel resistors with an op amp for summing a couple of the signals.
Composite video by definition is nothing but a mash up of everything as well, so he should already be pretty close to having it.

friendofmegaman wrote:

Doesn't seem like and FPGA to me.  But it's just a DAC to feed the oscilloscope, I don't see much use for my project.

Yes, the DAC goes to the Scope, but if you were to drop the DAC and receive the data with a video converting micro controller then it would in fact be useful to you. Said data might need to be modified in code, but it could be worked out at some point. I still have to look through the code some more.

Wait ...where is uh....the FPGA? All I see if an xmega128. nice. big_smile

EDIT: Rival-corp was doing the FPGa stuff, but the site is a redirect to spam now... sad

friendofmegaman wrote:

If you like Arduino you could try this library. With the powerful enough board you might be able to draw pixels on the screen. But it will be monochrome, while SNES mod is way better smile

The way I see it is that you could use an AVR uController for taking the data and sending it to a second AVR for converting it to video, composite or otherwise.

Lets take a moment to read over the FPGA C program:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flash … ndOscope.c

Don't buy a Due, but the Teensy 2.0 for $16 and see if you can't work with the port manipulation (DDRD) for the 5 inputs because this would be the fastest. Serial over USB may actually be fast enough to send something...why did you think it would not work?

826

(20 replies, posted in General Discussion)

We no longer use gameboys.

Pm meh!

828

(35 replies, posted in Nintendo Handhelds)

BR1GHT PR1MATE wrote:

how is transferring and backup handled? aka "is there proprietary software and drivers that will never be updated"

I don;t think there will be any software needed for the end user. Unless he plans to update the FPGA, all the transferring should be via the micro SD card and your OS.

829

(3 replies, posted in Sega)

I'm pretty sure the 100,000 writes is a fact in the data sheet for that particular IC, not a variable in the code of sonic. 100,000 is quite a few saves my friend, so don't worry about it.

830

(9 replies, posted in General Discussion)

It seems like it will be much more work than anyone wants to do.
1. Hack the console to be region free
2. buy a PAL TV or
3. Hack the video circuit for NTSC frequencies

I think your best bet is to pawn it off at the local VG resale and get yourself an NTSC console.

You could drill a hole half way through from the inside, and not break through. That should allow for the light to shine through I suppose.

Yeah, if you watched the videos of him building the carts, he tasted them out in a DKC cart shell.