Shibathedog Posted February 10, 2004 Posted February 10, 2004 Well me and my friend where thinking the other day, wouldnt it be cool if we could somehow have every single NES game on one cartridge somehow? Then we got to thinking, if we bought some crappy 23 Cent game (Mario/Duck Hunt combo...it rules actually...but its cheap ) we could rip the chips out, flash new chips with some kind of drivers and menu software, and cut most of the cartisdge out and run some wires to a HDD!!!! We would get some old 500MB HDD (because they would all fit haha!!) i mean really, when you think about it, it wouldnt be that hard, weve flashed stuff onto chips before, weve programmed for the NES before, i mean why not? where going to have to do major adapting and software writing, but hell, it HAS to be possible somehow!!! i even have a AC to the Standard power cord (forget the name) that fits HDDs!!! (i have no idea where it came from hehe, i think it was from my External HDD making kit or something) Even if this turns out to be a waste of time..it was 8 bucks for the HDD, 23cents for the game, and the rest of it we didnt even pay for plus its something to keep us busy Ill post updates here on how its going, right now where trying to figure out if we can reflash the existing chips or if where going to have to buy new ones (or even try a different game because i know some of them where hella different when you opened em)
NeoMaster Posted February 10, 2004 Posted February 10, 2004 You probably wouldn't even need a 500 mb drive to fit all the games. Its an interesting idea but I think it would be better for pc. God knows how many people have the nes system still alive...and if they wanted one, it would be hard to find a good hardware unit.
Shibathedog Posted February 10, 2004 Author Posted February 10, 2004 hehe i have like 6 NES's that all work (except one of them wont play Revision 1 games) anyway... RANDOM UPDATE NUMBER 1!!!! We wired the NES straight to the HDD and it makes the HDD spin and look for stuff but theres no way to tell if its actually looking/finding anything, it could just be telling it to do random things without even knowing it
NeoMaster Posted February 10, 2004 Posted February 10, 2004 (edited) Wow, I can't believe your that bold to pop open your systems and tinker around with the goods inside. I never could do that stuff...due to a circumstance which I do not wish to discuss Edited February 10, 2004 by NeoMaster
Shibathedog Posted February 10, 2004 Author Posted February 10, 2004 heh, well actually, would never do it with my original systems...too many memories, i bought new ones cheap on Ebay/Gamestop to tinker with
ForceX Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 Thats an awesome idea Shibathedog Keep us updated
Shibathedog Posted February 13, 2004 Author Posted February 13, 2004 ok ok heres update number 2!!! we make the bigass huge ROM image thats pretty much a menu that picks the games, we figure it would be easier to do if it was one big thing instead of like 2000 roms and it picked an image, that would be like a system emulating itself and wouldnt really work
Shibathedog Posted February 16, 2004 Author Posted February 16, 2004 Update number 3!! We have been analyzing the driver for the HDD for windows and trying to convert it to NES code, also weve tryed making drivers from scratch so far weve gone through 47 different variations of the driver, and nothings working we have everything done except getting the NES to recognize the HDD, once that works we should be set!! Were thinking maybe re-wiring the HDD to the NES might work, but where pretty sure we have the cables matched up right
alexis Posted February 17, 2004 Posted February 17, 2004 dunno, it looks like to much trouble, using a tv out and a nes emu should do.
Shibathedog Posted February 17, 2004 Author Posted February 17, 2004 meh, its something to do to keep me from getting bored plus once we get it down, im sure people would pay money for these hehe Update 4: 14 new variations, all failed
Shibathedog Posted February 18, 2004 Author Posted February 18, 2004 Update 5:WOOHOO SOMETHING IS WORKING!!!....I think... anyway, on the latest version of the driver thing (its not really a driver...i dont really know what to call it) The NES accesses the HDD!!! It kinda opens the HDD and runs the program, but it takes REALLY long, and it runs all pixelly and chunkey Now we have to figure out, Is this driver right and the HDD just isnt getting the data to the NES fast enough? Or is the driver just off and needs tweaking? or some other problem? ugh...headaches, headaches......
Shibathedog Posted February 18, 2004 Author Posted February 18, 2004 Oh by the way, i forgot to mention how we have it hooked up, we actually have the driver thing flashed onto a chip, in a cart (we had to buy an empty chip) and we used some game that had two chips in it (i think castlevania, i dont remember) and relaced the 2nd chip, with wires going to the HDD so it loads the driver thing first then loads the HDD, or attempts to anyway but we dont even know if thats what its doing, if anyone knows how to monitor exactly what an NES is doing with some soldering to a PC or something, that would help alot!!!
Shibathedog Posted February 18, 2004 Author Posted February 18, 2004 MASSIVE UPDATE: Throwing out the HDD idea Since i havent been sleeping because ive been working on this so much, i missed this, thanks to Dark Pulse for pointing this out to me Instead of wasting time with a HDD, why not just use a big Flash chip? Like 256MB or 512MB? Ill have a small flash chip for some kind of driver (if ill even need it anymore) and the Big chip will hold the massive ROM!! Holy crap, how could i have missed this? I need to catch up on me sleep!!! (its been like 9 days of practically no sleep because of this hehe) Im really excited now, ill bbl and tell you how it works out!!
Shibathedog Posted February 19, 2004 Author Posted February 19, 2004 uh oh i have really bad news!! I went out and bought some flashable chips, a 256MB and a 512MB Well turns out im not going to get anywhere farther in this project because my Flasher doesnt support chips that large, probably because its ancient. Does anyone know where can i get one that supports 256/512 for cheap?, or at least, not TOO expensive?
DanManXZ Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 uh oh i have really bad news!! I went out and bought some flashable chips, a 256MB and a 512MB Well turns out im not going to get anywhere farther in this project because my Flasher doesnt support chips that large, probably because its ancient. Does anyone know where can i get one that supports 256/512 for cheap?, or at least, not TOO expensive?Maybe u could use a Flash memory stick from Best Buys. I've seen some for 20$. I doubt they would get any cheaper.
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