Hi guys. I've got a plan to make a multi-console in a laptop form factor that can play genesis, snes, nes, gba, and maybe N64. I want to eliminate some space, however, by putting as many games right onto the chip. In this forums case, I want to put as many games as possible onto the NOAC (or rather, the board it's attached to), so that I don't have to include a slot for NES games to plug into.
Anyone know where I can get information on doing something like this? The most I know is that I need a programmer. I don't know anything about hacking a multi-game rom ready for flashing.
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I am going to be blunt from the start, if you have to ask how, you lack the skillz to make something like this. If you want to have a bunch of games, download a bunch of emulators onto an older laptop, it will only cost $300-400, and will do all of that. Building a multi-portable laptop will be massive, expensive to make, and HEAVY (Think multiple PS3's heavy).
Unless you have INSANE uber-1337 haxxor skillz, you only realistic option is this: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=133
Before you complain of the price, or start looking for a cheaper one, just remember that this is a niche market, and that that is your only real option.
Good luck!
Unless you have INSANE uber-1337 haxxor skillz, you only realistic option is this: http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=133
Before you complain of the price, or start looking for a cheaper one, just remember that this is a niche market, and that that is your only real option.
Good luck!
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Excuse me for also being blunt, but being blunt doesn't help. Furthermore, please don't presume to know what I'm capable of. I've hacked roms before, and I've also dealt with PIC microcontrollers, so I'm pretty sure I can learn what I have to if someone would just point me in the right direction. Like I said, telling somebody that something is beyond them isn't helpful at all. Thanks for your reply.
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Sorry for presuming on your skill level, try and understand that this forum gets a lot more people that ask the same question that has been asked a hundred times an dhave no idea what they are doing than people that ask a question that has been asked a hundred times and DO know what they are doing.AerosolSP wrote:Excuse me for also being blunt, but being blunt doesn't help. Furthermore, please don't presume to know what I'm capable of. I've hacked roms before, and I've also dealt with PIC microcontrollers, so I'm pretty sure I can learn what I have to if someone would just point me in the right direction. Like I said, telling somebody that something is beyond them isn't helpful at all. Thanks for your reply.
Well, now that I know you have some knowledge, here is the deal: On most NOAC units, the games are contained in a gloptop chip, which is nigh on impossible to do anything to. In addition, most of them have all the game pointers stored as one, big custom file, with the menu and such, and then a big huge mess of graphics and sounds. Because of the way they are arranged, the odds of you being able to figure out how to swap roms on it is pretty close to nil.
I am not so much doubting your skillz, as saying that nobody has any idea how to pull this off, as far as I know.And as for me saying that making a multi-laptop is not a smart idea, I stand behind my previous statement of "use a laptop", especially if you are not using authentic hardware/carts. It kind of defeats the purpose.
If I seem rude, remeber, 99% of the people who come here with the intentions to make a flashcart of some kind, or a multi-system, realize it is out of their league and quit, then disappear forever. I wish you luck on your journey to the the first to succeed.
Disclaimer: I am not an NES expert firsthand, I am merely parroting what I have read on some NES dev sites.
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I know it'd be far easier to take an old laptop and customize it to the point where, upon booting into windows, I'm greeted with a menu asking me which system I'd like to emulate today. This is purely for the nerd-factor 
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Now that I know it's nigh on impossible to flash multiple games onto the "Globchip", I guess I'll concede and include a slot for NES cartridges. It'll probably be stick into the side somehow. Not like there's too many NES games I'd want to play (and even less that I can find!)
I'll move onto the appropriate boards for making SNES and Genesis multi-game roms and their respective flashing procedures. Thanks for your help.
.Now that I know it's nigh on impossible to flash multiple games onto the "Globchip", I guess I'll concede and include a slot for NES cartridges. It'll probably be stick into the side somehow. Not like there's too many NES games I'd want to play (and even less that I can find!)
I'll move onto the appropriate boards for making SNES and Genesis multi-game roms and their respective flashing procedures. Thanks for your help.