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Dr. Floppy
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« on: October 15, 2007, 09:03:29 pm »
Greetings all,


     I'm looking to start burning NES hacks onto EPROMs in order to play them on the classic (tangible) equipment. What should I be looking for in a device programmer towards this end? (My budget is reasonably robust.)

Specifically, I'd like to use the original cartridges like this guy does. Am I going to need any specially-sized EPROM's for this?
Disch
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« Reply #1 on: October 17, 2007, 04:43:07 pm »
I don't normally make a habit of referring people to other boards -- but I really think you'll get a solid response in a faster time asking this question on this board:

http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewforum.php?f=9
dshadoff
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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2007, 10:34:48 am »
Well, there are hundreds of EPROM programmers out there - it all depends how many variations of devices you want to program... just EPROMs ?  How about Flash memory ?  PIC microcontrollers ?  5V ?  3.3V ?  DIP package, or surface-mount ?

I suggest searching the advertisements in a copy of the magazine "Circuit Cellar", and seeing what they have versus what you need.  But you probably won't find anything adequate for this use for less than $100.

I know that Circuit Cellar has an online presence, but I haven't gone to the site often enough to see if their advertisements are useful to me.  That's the funny thing about that magazine - the ads were actually quite relevant, and a good portion of why I bought the magazine (I'm not hardcore enough to get a subscription - and if I were, the ads would be less relevant because they don't change often).

I got my "Pocket Programmer" from a company called Intronics several years ago - which was great at the time - but since it uses the parallel port, I wouldn't recommend it these days.  Anyway, I don't know if they're still in business...
Nightcrawler
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« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2007, 12:30:37 pm »
I don't know how technically inclined you are, but if you just want to do EEPROM programming, you can also build a pretty simple homemade one on a breadboard. I only ever built a PIC programmer myself. It's cheap and not too difficult if you know your way around. There's lots of schematics and information out there on this sort of thing depending on what chip it is you're trying to program.

That's just an option if you have time and ambition. Otherwise, yeah, buy one. Since this is a specialized application, I'd also recommend going to NESDev like Disch said. I can only give you general EEPROM help which probably won't be too useful when dealing with retrofitting a cart for legacy hardware.
saito
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« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2007, 06:49:04 pm »
Quote from: Dr. Floppy on October 15, 2007, 09:03:29 pm
Specifically, I'd like to use the original cartridges like this guy does. Am I going to need any specially-sized EPROM's for this?

Mmm,seems the guy from that page is reproducing and selling fan translated games too...That's rather... nasty :/
Nightcrawler
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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2007, 07:11:53 am »
Quote from: saito on October 18, 2007, 06:49:04 pm
Quote from: Dr. Floppy on October 15, 2007, 09:03:29 pm
Specifically, I'd like to use the original cartridges like this guy does. Am I going to need any specially-sized EPROM's for this?

Mmm,seems the guy from that page is reproducing and selling fan translated games too...That's rather... nasty :/

Yes, we've already had that discussion on this board before. Let's keep it out of this topic. Dr. Floppy wants to do his own make your own cart work which is entirely different.
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