NES Flash Cart

[akadewboy]

I just found a website of some guy making an NES flash cart.

http://ameba.lpt.fi/~hataarto/nes/

It looks pretty cool even though it only supports a few mappers I'd love to get one.

[Klefmung]

Wow, I want one! Dang!

[NES_fanatic]

Bwahahaha! Something cool at last exclusively for the NES. Take that Famicom!

Disclaimer: I know you can convert it, but you know what I mean!

[SgtBowhack]

You can bet there's some pirate flash cart out there that's similar and cheaper But this is pretty neat (and theoretically, upgradeable). No StarTropics or Castlevania 3 though

[dudegladstone]

how would one find a pirate flash cart??

also, does that flash cart only hold one game?

[SgtBowhack]

I doubt they're easily found nowadays, even in China (a friend told me that pirate carts in general have been dwindling in China).

Flash carts will only run one executable at a time. Unless you have a tool that will generate a menu for the games and run them, the cart can only hold one game. Those wacky pirates came up with some tools for the Gameboy and GBA to support storage of multiple games -- it's not something that one can just build into a cart (without physical switches being on the cart...)

[marshallh]

I was contemplating doing this a while back, you only need some Atmel 256K flash ram and a EEPROM/flash programmer off ebay. Of course, you need more than that but that's the basic part.
I also researched building a N64 flash cart (like the doctor v64jr) but you'd need at least an FPGA for glue logic. I was thinking of using an old 32MB stick of EDO DRAM (one of those SIMM modules) but they are tricky to wire.

Raphael over at www.raphnet.net has also built a NES flash cart, and he simply hacks up an existing cartridge.

[gannon]

yep, hacking up an existing cart is much easier than recreating all the mappers you want in a fpga (although then you need a cart for every mapper you want)