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NES/Famicom Multicarts
thomas_surles:
Honestly you could add another post instead of modifying an old post, since you are adding new information. I know some other forums where people get real bent out of shape for double posting.
pbj:
The 150 in 1 originally mentioned by Howard has crept down to about $6 shipped for a Famicom version. I bit.
EDIT - another thing I noticed is that we are in the era of single game reproduction cartridges. Roughly $15-30 each for both rare retail games and weird fan projects (like FF VII NES). Clearly someone is able to reprogram these PCBs....
yotsuya:
The advent of flash EPROMS has made this stuff easier. I've been using them on my MultiVS and they're awesome.
Locke141:
--- Quote from: pbj on June 23, 2016, 11:28:34 am ---The 150 in 1 originally mentioned by Howard has crept down to about $6 shipped for a Famicom version. I bit
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The venders all seem to ship world wide free. I have plans to pick up a Famicom now that I'm moving to Loas. I'v seen them for under $45 on the local version of eBay. I'll be picking up a 150 in on shortly there after.
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: pbj on June 23, 2016, 11:28:34 am ---The 150 in 1 originally mentioned by Howard has crept down to about $6 shipped for a Famicom version. I bit.
EDIT - another thing I noticed is that we are in the era of single game reproduction cartridges. Roughly $15-30 each for both rare retail games and weird fan projects (like FF VII NES). Clearly someone is able to reprogram these PCBs....
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There are points on the pcb that make me think that a proprietary McGuffin is placed over the pcb and they are flashed that way. Unfortunately I'm not a hardware guy that can look at a chip and tell what point is for what, so I'm not sure how to re-flash them.
As yots said, re-flashable eproms make things simpler. If you are willing to manually flash the game you want to play via a pc connection, you can make a generic cart on most systems at this point. Some cavets apply, like nes roms needing the proper mapper from a donor cart, ect....
I'm looking at the 70's style stuff and thinking that a bank switching cart might be the way to go. You can easily fit 90% of the 2600 library on a couple of eeproms. Vectrex, colecovision and ect are the same way. (note to self: purchase vectrex).
I saw a Spanish site where a guy had used a cheap avr and had up/down buttons that changed the game number, displayed on 7 segment lcds, instead of dip switches for one of these 2600 multi carts. I'm wondering how much more kit/expense it would take to have a cheap lcd just display the game label instead.
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