is there such a thing as a snoac?

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:09 pm

is there?

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:10 pm

Such a thing is not known.

LethalMeatball · Post by **LethalMeatball** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:46 pm

but where do you get noac's?

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:53 pm

where cant you get them i actually just saw some at the mall but they are way cheaper if you get them from gannon

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:02 am

vb_master wrote:Such a thing is not known.

I dunno, what about the Tristar 64? Didn't it have a slot for NES carts and another for SNES carts? I know the NES was a glop-top with 85 pins, but I don't know how it played SNES gamesâ€¦

pezman · Post by **pezman** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:33 pm

use the search people!
no snoac known of, tristar 64 used a whole mother board.
maybe someday a flash of greatness will shed unto us all and a snoac will be built and mass produced for games and !!!what not!!!
i dont know much anything about integrated circuits(they confuse me) but i assume there will be snoac's available someday cause we already have goacs(what 16-bit plug and play tv games are usually based on)
so just keep using those wishing *stars*(sparkle)

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:39 pm

Damn, I was really hopingâ€¦

shmagoogin77 · Post by **shmagoogin77** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:58 pm

the snes mini is pretty damn small

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:59 pm

Yeah, but not small enough, I was hoping for something the size of an NOACâ€¦

soundwave · Post by **soundwave** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:32 pm

I think the Tristar (if I remember correctly, it was discussed here once long ago) uses a mix of the SNES board and an fpga to run SNES games.

Post by **gannon** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:12 am

right, I assume it's the audio processing unit that's mainly in the fpga

usbcd36 · Post by **usbcd36** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 9:42 am

FPGA? What is this you speak of? Also, would it be possible to build a new board for the SNES like gannon did for the Atari 2600? I know there would be a lot of surface-mount crap to do (I wonder if ladyada might help us?), but would it be possible?

Post by **Triton** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:05 pm

im sure it would be REALLY hard to do, the snes is somewhat more complicated than the atari

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:13 pm

You might be able to FPGA-ize it... Good idea!

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:29 pm

Triton wrote:im sure it would be REALLY hard to do, the snes is somewhat more complicated than the atari

But they can reduce the Genesis and Dreamcast down to a single chip but the SNES eludes them? No the only thing that would slow them down is the audio chip, its a custom thing and so info about its specific details are not known publicly. If someone/chip designer could get them then we could have an SNOAC easy.