Snes Cart Project …
I got an email last week from someone that is deigning a Snes cart that will allow to load roms from an SD card.
Here is the blog abot the project : HACKING THE SUPER NINTENDO
The project is already well advanced and he’s talking about doing some USB communication to a PC possible. This will open the world of debugging on the real hardware too since the developper seems to be interested to integrate such facilities in the cart.
See ya, Lint
January 27th, 2009 at 8:09 am
thanks for the plug, lint!
January 27th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Actually I wanted to post this on the linked blog, but
it requires a openid/wordpress/whatever account and
I don’t have one and can’t be bothered to register .. But
I guess scottjg is the author and he might end up reading
this here.. i hope 🙂
Been coding some tidbits for snes
now and then. Unfortunately my hardware/electronics
skills are 0/NULL/nada. I see your goal is mainly
to run ROMs from an SD Card. What I would love
to see personally is something that allows for
quick development cycles i.e fast/easy code
execution and maybe even some data/communication
channel between SNES and PC. That would be great.
Do you have any such plans ?
best regards,
gilligan
January 27th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
i had an e-mail thread with lint about this. the short answer is that while i haven’t finished my hardware design, i think it will have a usb port.
given that the fpga (which is reprogrammable) will be hooked into all the pins available for a cartridge, and some sort of usb microcontroller (also reprogrammable) will be hooked up to the FPGA, it should be possible to write firmware to use the cart as a debugger or an easy way to test your code, etc.
i’m not really that focused on software features right now, as my first priority is designing the hardware. let’s hope i can get that far first 🙂
January 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Well that sounds cool scott (I assume?:)
I really hope all that stuff will work out as planned.
While I can imagine reprogramming/tweaking FPGAs
and add debugging features etc I think I’ll never ever
develop any sort of hardware.. not in this lifetime anyway hehe.
I gonna follow your blog.
regards,
Tobi
February 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Hey It’s my idea! I developp this project for 1 year!!
But I contat him to give my help!!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Olorin, Scott and you are not the only ones that are designing a such card. There is other projects running. The one from Scott is the more advanced tough. I will talk about the others when result start to emerge.
++ Lint