Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:41 pm
That would depend on how easily bunnyboy could get a female Game Pak connector made.
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I wouldn't expect it to happen. Not that it's not a good idea or anything, I just don't see why he'd bother with it.Jagasian wrote:How long before RetroUSB sells a "CopyNES Lite"? It would be a device similar to the Game Genie, but with a TapeDump bootloader. That way your NES would not need to have its lockout chip disabled, you wouldn't have to mod a Game Genie, and you wouldn't have to hot swap cartridges.
If it was compatible with the NES clones that are common place these days, it would make dumping accessible to many more people.
A couple things:B00daW wrote:Chris Covell:
Hope I'm not too late, but you may wish to grab your plugins from BootGod's website. They are the most up-to-date and some of Kev's previous plugins are fixed for better cart compatibility.
http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/plugins.php
Another note of interest... If you take a look at the TC-112.BIN plugin for NTDEC carts, I'm wondering if TapeDump would be a viable dumping method for it. I have a War in the Gulf cart that I could try dumping to see if it would be a good alternative to the CopyNES; since I also was not able to dump it with the CopyNES.
Kev,
I know we talked about the theory behind why the 74LS00 IC's made it difficult for the CopyNES to dump its CHR, but the conclusion escapes me, do you remember why?
Also how common are 74LS00's in NES carts, and could TapeDump -- if proven to be a viable alternative -- be an alternative solution for dumping such carts in the future?
Cool, I'm glad someone kept the copynes fires burning all these years besides me. Ironically, I cannot use my copynes any more because I had to swap out my mobo and the parallel port doesn't work with copynes any more. blah. oh well, I guess it gives me an excuse to figure out once and for all, why. I did do a little bit of poking and determined that I don't think it's 3.3V logic levels.BootGod wrote:Yep, all sources are available on page boodaw linked. Not sure if you've used any of mine before, though wouldn't be surprised if they coulda had bugs, I still find and fix them from time to time.
(NROM, AxROM, MMC1, MMC3 supported.)Dwedit wrote:Does it do UxROM or CNROM?
I wonder if it's safe to hotswap a cartridge with save ram?
This seems to have been offline for several days now. Does anyone have a backup server?B00daW wrote:http://bootgod.dyndns.org:7777/plugins.php
Do you plan to explore the Game Genie replacement ROM for dumping without hot swap?ccovell wrote:(NROM, AxROM, MMC1, MMC3 supported.)Dwedit wrote:Does it do UxROM or CNROM?
I wonder if it's safe to hotswap a cartridge with save ram?
It's not safe to hotswap, period, as my disclaimer said. I dumped my Zelda cart and had to swap the cart in maybe 6 times, and my save file was still intact. Your mileage may vary.