As much as I would love to use all new parts in a reproduction (if anyone has a source for these, please let me know), I will have to use doners, and from what I can find, the best doners are sports games as they cover the gambit of SNES cart types aside from Super FX. Can I get a list of what doners are good to use? I know one exists, I had it on my old computer; it was an excel file that had stats for every game like Hirom/lorom, SRAM size etc.
Addendum:
When making Terranigma, do I need to patch the rom for NTSC or will the game place nice with the lockout chip in the SNES cart?
When making Terranigma, do I need to patch the rom for NTSC or will the game place nice with the lockout chip in the SNES cart?
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Can I get a list of what doners are good to use?
Indeed :
- Super Power Pak
- SD2SNES
As cool and amazing as these carts are, they still aren't the "real" thing.
I used a power pak to play a master quest 8 SMW and it worked fine, but when on a real cart, it had a crash issue in the intro. A yoshi island 2+ doesn't show some info boxes on the real hardware.... Other little quirks exist.
Mark
I used a power pak to play a master quest 8 SMW and it worked fine, but when on a real cart, it had a crash issue in the intro. A yoshi island 2+ doesn't show some info boxes on the real hardware.... Other little quirks exist.
Mark
Sounds like game errors to me. Especially since no flash cart supports SuperFX ATM, so of course Yoshi's Island would have problems.
Markfrizb's point was that the snes powerpak hid failure to initialize something in the code, which he wouldn't have found until a standalone cart was made.
Which is entirely different from "doners".
Which is entirely different from "doners".
So one this subject, I heard from the grapevine that atleast one producer of SNES reproductions was ordering 29F032s in the thousands. Isn't that sad that thousands of SNES carts from just one bootlegger are being used as "donors"? If only someone would invent some sort of cartridge where you could put all the games on one new cartridge...
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Markfrizb's point was that the snes powerpak hid failure to initialize something in the code, which he wouldn't have found until a standalone cart was made.
Technically it would be easy to write a small program to write random data to RAM and VRAM before running a game.
MottZilla wrote:
So one this subject, I heard from the grapevine that atleast one producer of SNES reproductions was ordering 29F032s in the thousands. Isn't that sad that thousands of SNES carts from just one bootlegger are being used as "donors"? If only someone would invent some sort of cartridge where you could put all the games on one new cartridge...
Thats probably why they are getting so hard to find. It sucks for the small time guys that just want to make a few for themselves or friends... but thats a lot of destroyed sports games.
I don't feel bad about destroying EA Sports games because EA has remotely destroyed its own sports games by switching off the online multiplayer matchmaking servers for previous seasons and not providing any alternative means to start an online game.
Bregalad wrote:
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Markfrizb's point was that the snes powerpak hid failure to initialize something in the code, which he wouldn't have found until a standalone cart was made.
Technically it would be easy to write a small program to write random data to RAM and VRAM before running a game.
But this USB flashable TSSOP-to-DIP adapter certainly squicks me less than generic donors.
Anyway, what is it that prevents a person from making snes repropaks? a SuperCIClone? Availability of 2+MB flash ICs?
SNES Donor cart list.
That is all.
That is all.
blargg wrote:
SNES Donor cart list.
That is all.
That is all.
Thanks for clearing that up, all I could think of was the extra 'n' was missing from Donner Party
infiniteneslives wrote:
all I could think of was the extra 'n' was missing from Donner Party
That's what I was thinking too; I just couldn't remember the right Google keywords to bring up this Cracked Photoplasty, whose #3 entry is a sequel to Donner Party.
tepples wrote:
infiniteneslives wrote:
all I could think of was the extra 'n' was missing from Donner Party
That's what I was thinking too; I just couldn't remember the right Google keywords to bring up this Cracked Photoplasty, whose #3 entry is a sequel to Donner Party.
I was thinking more along the lines of the every popular not-so family freindly NES Monster Party hack...