Hi,
First, greetings to you all since I am new to the board...
I got this idea some hours ago that no doubt many people have had before, yet I could not find any projects on google for it. I don't know much about neither electronics nor programming, but out of interest and a dream of this project to once become true by if not my own hand then by some other peoples hands, I'll spit it out.
It would be so cool if you could somehow connect a cable to the connectors of a cartridge, so data would go from the cable to the NES and not through some chips on the cartridge board, and then hook that cable to a computer somehow, i guess through a serial or parallell (or usb or whatever) port, and then have a way to talk to the nes through the computer.
Next thing would be to code an interface and program that could "load" a game rom that the NES can pull when it is powered on.
I know it's an insane project both in complexity and timeconsuming....
I mainly want to know what people who have a grasp of electronics and how the NES works, and programmers also, think of the idea. Just want someone to start thinking about it. Seeing how the discussion goes, perhaps I will even dare to start tinkering around with it, without any hopes to actually get it working but just for fun.
I am realistic enough to realize I personally likely could never pull it off heh. But it would be cool if someone did and I could build that thing and load roms from my pc someday.
Here is a silly sketch of the idea:
// J
First, greetings to you all since I am new to the board...
I got this idea some hours ago that no doubt many people have had before, yet I could not find any projects on google for it. I don't know much about neither electronics nor programming, but out of interest and a dream of this project to once become true by if not my own hand then by some other peoples hands, I'll spit it out.
It would be so cool if you could somehow connect a cable to the connectors of a cartridge, so data would go from the cable to the NES and not through some chips on the cartridge board, and then hook that cable to a computer somehow, i guess through a serial or parallell (or usb or whatever) port, and then have a way to talk to the nes through the computer.
Next thing would be to code an interface and program that could "load" a game rom that the NES can pull when it is powered on.
I know it's an insane project both in complexity and timeconsuming....
I mainly want to know what people who have a grasp of electronics and how the NES works, and programmers also, think of the idea. Just want someone to start thinking about it. Seeing how the discussion goes, perhaps I will even dare to start tinkering around with it, without any hopes to actually get it working but just for fun.
I am realistic enough to realize I personally likely could never pull it off heh. But it would be cool if someone did and I could build that thing and load roms from my pc someday.
Here is a silly sketch of the idea:
// J