NES playing VS Super Mario Bros

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NES playing VS Super Mario Bros

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Just found this page. it shows how a guy turns his nes into a dedicated VS Super Mario Bros machine. thought it might intrest some :D

http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/nes_vs/nes_vs.php

b/c the page is in french, and not everyone in the world (including me) talks french.. here is a google translation link:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u ... uage_tools

(sorry if this is the wrong section, but it kind of felt like a hardware thing)
Sorry for misspellings, I'm from Sweden ^^
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Post by kyuusaku »

Or you can view his English page :)

http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/nes ... _vs_en.php
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ah. even better ;)
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Post by tepples »

Wouldn't it have been easier to patch the game's palette tables and mapper writes, turn it into a CNROM, with dipswitches and coin door either connected to the expansion port or hacked around in code?
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Post by rbudrick »

Rather than add code to the game to correct the pallette, why didnt he just put the VS PPU into the NES?

It wasn't clear to me whether he flashed the rom to a cart or if it is internal like the VS system.

If it is possible to just swap the PPU instead of reprogramming the games, it would be really cool to have this modded system to play VS ROMS at home with a flash cart (all VS games used the same mapper, right?).

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rbudrick wrote:(all VS games used the same mapper, right?).
-Rob
nope, according to this site (I only own SMB.. so I havn't seen the other ones):
http://playchoice.riemen.net/vs_list.html
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Post by rbudrick »

nope, according to this site (I only own SMB.. so I havn't seen the other ones):
http://playchoice.riemen.net/vs_list.html
Whoa. I guess there are way more VS games than I'd thought. I thought there was only 5-10 early NES titles and maybe Castlevania thrown in for good measure.

:lol: -Rob
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yeah, I also got very supprised when I saw that page for the first time, especially as I've never really seen any of the games in any arcade halls.
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Re: NES playing VS Super Mario Bros

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I was planning to design multi / flashcart based on these instructions but it never got anywhere. Here is the schematics for it if anyone else is interested:
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Blue connector lines are for Famicart and the boxed one are for NES.
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