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Jeff-20 · Joined: 06 Aug 2003 Posts: 8

I have seen many pirate carts -- carts made by collectors, not originals. Mostly in Asia.

There are many games I will probably never find. I'd like to make carts of them just for my own use. I know this can be done for other systems with a ROM burner. Can it be done using the Totek dock?

I don't want to buy a lot of flash carts. Is there a cheap permenant alternative to the flash cart. Something I can use to make a permenant game? No menu or rewriting.

I want to make 3 or 4 carts for my collection. Perhaps a cart of a demo game like bezerk. How do the guys in asia make these??

Suppafly · Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 191 Location: Mexico

AFAIK guys in asia send their computer files (like blueprints) to large manufacturing factories, where they make the requested parts (PCBS in this case). Production is expensive for few units, the larger the order, the lower the price.

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MadenMann · Joined: 17 Aug 2003 Posts: 12

I think, you should get some simple cadridges (like sonic 1) and take the rom off. Get an equal rom and burn your files on it. Then put it into the cadridge.

d4s · Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 6

mega drive games use 16bit roms so you cant just replace them with more common 8bit eproms.
if you dont have a eprom writer that supports 16bit eproms,you'll have to use 2 8bit eproms to form a 16bit bus,same thing for snes sa-1 and sdd-1 cartridges.
i have never built a mega drive cartridge but i have put up some information on the process of assembling homebrewn snes cartridges
http://snesdev.romhack.de