Hello. I hate having my first post on a new forum be a "help me" one, but I'm having a problem that I thought was kind of interesting.
So long story short, I'm trying to put Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania 1) onto a Famicom cart but I can't get it to work. I'm using Black Bass 2 as my "donor" cart, as it is a UNROM board. I played the Black Bass 2 cart on my Famicom to confirm that it was in working order.
After I couldn't get it to work I burned Castlevania, and later, Black Bass 2 to an EPROM and tried those and couldn't get them to work either. So then I took the EPROM that I burned Akumajou Dracula onto and put it on a NES UNROM board (Amagon, to be precise) and it worked perfectly fine.
So, this rules out the possibilities of bad ROM, bad burn, not wired correctly, etc. So since I now KNOW that the EPROM works on the NES cart, this leaves me to believe that the Famicom board has a different pinout.
I've searched high and low for the answer, but didn't come up with much. I found this page:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Kona ... rom_pinout
So I know that the PRG pinout, apparently, isn't always the same. But I was also looking at this:
http://atariusa.com/Famicom_Schematics/ ... matics.png
...that I found from this thread...
http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=6950
which shows a Famicom UNROM board having the same PRG pinout as a NES board.
So is it possible that my Black Bass 2 cart has a weird PRG pinout? If I picked up a different UNROM Famicom game, should I expect it to have a normal PRG pinout?
I have a Final Fantays 3 Famicom cart that I put the English translation onto, it had a normal pinout. I recently picked up a Contra, Akumajou Densetsu and Kid Dracula Famicom carts and was planning on putting the English translations on them as well, should I expect them to have normal pinouts as well? Or possibly different since they're Konami games?
Thanks for any help on the matter.
So long story short, I'm trying to put Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania 1) onto a Famicom cart but I can't get it to work. I'm using Black Bass 2 as my "donor" cart, as it is a UNROM board. I played the Black Bass 2 cart on my Famicom to confirm that it was in working order.
After I couldn't get it to work I burned Castlevania, and later, Black Bass 2 to an EPROM and tried those and couldn't get them to work either. So then I took the EPROM that I burned Akumajou Dracula onto and put it on a NES UNROM board (Amagon, to be precise) and it worked perfectly fine.
So, this rules out the possibilities of bad ROM, bad burn, not wired correctly, etc. So since I now KNOW that the EPROM works on the NES cart, this leaves me to believe that the Famicom board has a different pinout.
I've searched high and low for the answer, but didn't come up with much. I found this page:
http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Kona ... rom_pinout
So I know that the PRG pinout, apparently, isn't always the same. But I was also looking at this:
http://atariusa.com/Famicom_Schematics/ ... matics.png
...that I found from this thread...
http://nesdev.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=6950
which shows a Famicom UNROM board having the same PRG pinout as a NES board.
So is it possible that my Black Bass 2 cart has a weird PRG pinout? If I picked up a different UNROM Famicom game, should I expect it to have a normal PRG pinout?
I have a Final Fantays 3 Famicom cart that I put the English translation onto, it had a normal pinout. I recently picked up a Contra, Akumajou Densetsu and Kid Dracula Famicom carts and was planning on putting the English translations on them as well, should I expect them to have normal pinouts as well? Or possibly different since they're Konami games?
Thanks for any help on the matter.