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[eggba]

I was surfing the web when I cam across this page with information on how to build your own SNES cartrige. Its pretty cool. Cklick the 'Secret of mana 2' link to see som pics.

http://snesdev.romhack.de/game_select.htm

[DjoeN]

Old site, and it isn't like a flash programmer

it's just the burning the roms to eproms and solder those on an existing cartridge.

kinda like, how to make Neo-Geo AES games to MVS


1. Not everybody can solder
2. Not everybody has a eprom burner
3. you need to fuck up other snes carts
4. if you do fuck up the soldering, you lost a real game cart
5. not everybody has all the labels lying around
6. Doesn't work with all games (you can't take an snes and replace the chips (DSP1, DSP2, SUPERFX, etc...)

1. It's a nice way to get game carts you can't find cheap (however i've neer seen expensive snes games anyway)
2. you can burn hacked roms (trained, translated, etc...) to eprom and play
3. Superflash doesn't play all games iether

Etc...

well i'll prefer a flashkit

[eggba]

Yes, I agree completly. I just tought it was pretty cool. And about the lables, they are awalible as hi-def .jpgs on the net and printed with a nice printer the look nice. Byt yes, i absolutely prefer the flasher !

[RoZioN]

just the EProom programmer costs about 500 bucks so Ill stick to my GD7 would have been nice to try it though

[cd_vision]

Dunno about that, I've seen Willem Eprom programmers for under $100 on Ebay.

[FloBo]

Just go to willem.org. They've got their newest kit for 78Euros...

http://www.willem.org/epromshop.html



or build the programmer yourself...

http://www.mikeg2.freeserve.co.uk/eprom/eprom.html




You see, it's not thaaaaat expansive after all. I prefer using my SuperFlash if I test some hacked roms or some betas (cause the EEPROMs are quite expensive...). If I want a translated game or a very good finished hack on a real cart, I prefer doing it the Snesdev's way^^

[grahf]

I was motivated by that very site to build a few carts. I made two Starfox2 carts for example, which are not playable on my flash cart.

[cd_vision]

If you're interested in building a couple more of those carts using the Dragon Quest 5 & 6 translated patch, drop me a PM so we can discuss the price.

[ozkano]

hi all

I bought willim eprom progrommer, I removed eprom from my snes cartidge and try to dump to my pc, I dump rom but when I try to play via emulator, it says bad dump, how can ı solve this problem

as I know that snes games uses 27c040 or 080 eprom according to capacity of games

[kyuusaku]

SNES ROMs do not follow the standard (JEDEC) pinout. You must make adapter boards to read them with a programmer... Personally, I think that's a waste of time since there are better ways to dump SNES carts.

[ozkano]

so how can I program a smc snes rom to regular eprom ?

[kyuusaku]

1) Remove the SMC header (first 512 bytes)
2) Program it to a EPROM
3) Modify cartridge PCB to use EPROM (compare pinouts and cut changed tracks, and wire new tracks)

[ozkano]

if I remove first 512 byte, do I need security chip ? I am going to prepare a new pcb

[ozkano]

my aim is to make my own game cartidge that ı could not find

[kyuusaku]

You only remove the first 512 bytes if it's a header! Make sure the game is 131072*n bytes large and not interleaved. (you should just convert it to binary using ucon64)

The ROM image size needs to be 2^n to fit into a EPROM. If the game is 10M, you must separate it into 8M + 2M, or 12M = 8M + 4M or 20M = 16M + 4M, 24M = 16M + 8M etc.

If your game has SRAM, you will also need to add a SRAM circuit which depends on the game you were going to build...

If you build a LoROM PCB, you cannot change it to HiROM later... The same goes for the opposite.