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- Hazardc, on 11/06/2007, -1/+63amazing how video games were a 1/4 of a megabyte back then and were as good as they were, yet these tons of games that span multiple GIGABYTES manage to suck all kinds of ass
- pentomino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Nice, but to be really useful, you'd need a cartridge with flash memory and a USB cable sticking out the back.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13@DarkSunlight:
The easiest way to suck ass is to be a video game knockoff of a movie. You don't come much closer to sucking ass, no matter how literal you are. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Or a movie that knocks off a video game. Doom, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat (though the first was better than the sequel because of Bridget Wilson. Oh, my, God. teh hotness.)
- FyberOptic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10You folks should know that there are entire NES development sites and forums out there who have done all sorts of hardware modifications and such for quite some time. There are also more detailed explanations on how to build your own cartridge like this one, which will work with other games. I made my own a while back. Plus there's complete hardware modifications to the console itself, for various purposes. The NES may be old, but there's no end to people who want to still both hack its hardware and still write software for it.
So while Raphnet is a great site with lots of neat things to show, you should also check out somewhere like http://nesdev.com/ for some more detailed info on the hardware and how to do things yourself. - zombiedepot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Damn, that's cool.
- Soave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Oh man, if someone could make an NES cartridge with like... a Compact Flash or SD card slot, that would be awesome.
- alok0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This chip is not really an eprom like he says. eproms have a window for erasing with UV light. The data sheet says its "flash" that reads like an eprom.
- Robotsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5PathDaemon said: "...just missing a program port and cleaner form factor (i.e. no holes)."
Unfortunately that is not possible with the original NES cartridges and flash ROMs; you need to add a socket to the game's board if you want to be able to remove the ROM and reprogram it without having to solder and desolder every time. The socket makes the flash chips stick out too far to leave the cartridge intact. - SloppyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is homebrew at its finest... 2 thumbs up...
- desistere, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Now if only every game could be put in one cartridge like the old 100 in 1 imports. I am hoping that someone hacks the wii soon and finds a way to play roms on it.
- Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I JUST saw an article on that the other day. I don't remember where, though.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4...just missing a program port and cleaner form factor (i.e. no holes).
- brianbennett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You'd think someone would have made this a consumer product by now.
- st3v, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A better way would to use an FPGA or similar to emulate PROMs to work with all mappers.
- ghrayfahx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3There's something WAY better than this, and USB programmable, that can be found at http://ameba.lpt.fi/~hataarto/nes/ It supports more mappers, but not all. He apparentally was going to be selling kits, but nothing has come of it.
- Lung-Dart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2To whom ever said they wanted a cartridge that can load many roms at once and use a flash card try google. They exist and are for sale. Like the funky flash cart, for instance. The guy who runs retrousb is making one that uses a compact flash card. It saves the games not via battery but as save files on the card and runs .nes format.
The only problem with these things is that different games use different mappers, and they require a little more advanced circuitry to use most of them MMC1-MMC5 for instance. - richIsBored, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It would be really sweet if you could just copy all of your roms to a hard drive and plug that into the NES.
Don't get me wrong. This is cool and a step in the right direction. But if you could eliminate the need to manually swap the roms stored in memory all the time, that would be the icing on the cake. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If this were on eBay, I'd buy it without a second thought. I only wish I had the time to make my own.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wonder if you have to blow it and bang it a few times to get it working.
- tavisjohn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Make an NES cart that acts kinda like a SUPERCARD for my GBA and I would consider keeping my NES!
An NES cart that could take an SD Card formatted in FAT16. A Navagation Menu so I can choose the game I want to play on the screen. A realtime savestate option, so in games like Faxanadu I can keep my gold between playings, and not have to write down lame passwords. That would make me consider keep ing my NES.
However for now I will just have to play my NES games emulated on my GBA, DS, Computer, and my XBOX. - CanOfMDAmp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They have.
There is a way to use a Gamecube Action Replay to load up GC homebrew, or something along those lines. It isn't exactly only on the Wii, but you can do it. - hartley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2exactly correct.
its the whole reason there werent any good nes flash devices. way too many mapper *100's* almost each game uses a different mapper, so with support for each mapper, you gain a few at a time.
although there are a couple mappers which are more widely used than others. - sigepjedi, on 10/13/2007, -0/+1The real deal is flash cartridge is out there, http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=133, for $135!!!!!!
I cant believe there isnt something cheaper... - Afrotronics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This guy is my hero. My favorite project is the SNES APU project. I think it's probably one of the coolest pieces of audio hardware ever, especially for its age.
- generalleoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is acctually not very cool as people have been doing this for years. Due to mappers you can't just flash and play whatever game you want on these carts. This cart is only able to play games originally designed to run on this cart type. An NES cart that can play any game would be very complex and proly impossible.
It's much more possible (90% support or so) on the SNES but you still have a few limitations. A site named ToToTek sells one for the SNES. - davidjunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not enough mem to run Dragon Warrior. :(
;) - Nitron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's talk of that on Memblers' nesdev forum. Google should be able to find it easily. It seems to be more difficult than anticipated, however.
- marc26uk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, this guy knows his *****
- uziemac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How much harder would it be to do for the SNES?
- FyberOptic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a fellow who is using FPGA to reproduce several dozen mappers in a practically universal device, but I don't know the progress, nor if it would ever be released as a product. So it's possible, it would just take quite a bit of effort.
- tailspower2001, on 01/06/2009, -0/+0RetroUSB.com has as an comsone mead board that plays NES ROMs off an Compact Flash card, go get Scave. It also uses an new chip to end region coding on NES Games; Retrowaretv.com has an video on it with more info.
- jtbuck, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4You're so money, you don't even know.
- HyperHacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is effectively impossible on NES because there are like 300 different memory mappers, all connecting the game's innards to each other and to the console in various interesting ways. Some have you write to a certain ROM address to switch pages, some use a different address/page size/etc, some have extra features like scanline counting, a few use obscure methods like reading from addresses in a specific order instead, etc.
On later consoles I can see it being quite possible. - loneraven, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1ermm..at that rate, why don't you use a modded xbox with an nes emulator?
- Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1You can. It's called using an emulator.
- Asianwaste, on 11/06/2007, -4/+1I'll stick with soft ROM's thank you much.
- KibibyteBrain, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Now, an honest question to ask: Can it run Linux?(come on old school embedded systems people!)
- fumcr, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4but does it run linux
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2enough with the nes junk already
supermario bros and steve jobs are two things im really sick of seeing on digg. - DarkSunlight, on 10/12/2007, -17/+6English is not my native language, so may I ask you:
How exactly does something suck ass? It sounds...well.. disgusting when I think about it...
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