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eggman
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:26 am 
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Hi. I've tried my first cartridge reproduction. I used Super Mario 1 as donor cartridge and copied Galaxian on the Eproms. I tested all connections. However, the screen remains blank. LED on NES is on and not blinking, but is only dim. Does anyone know why this doesn't work? Thanks!
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rainwarrior
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 8:29 am 
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Super Mario Bros has 32k PRG, and Galaxian has 8k. How did you fill up the other 24k of space? Did you duplicate Galaxian's ROM 4 times to fill it up (correct), or did you just leave a bunch of empty 0s (incorrect) or something?
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lidnariq
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 10:43 am 
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eggman wrote:
LED on NES is on and not blinking, but is only dim.
You are shorting +5V to ground.
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eggman
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:07 pm 
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Thanks, rainwarrior. You are right, I did not fill up the rest. For a beginner, how do I do that?

@ lidnariq: I will check that. Thanks!
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FrankenGraphics
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:13 pm 
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If you have the binary, you can write in a .txt file

.incbin "galaxian.bin"
.incbin "galaxian.bin"
.incbin "galaxian.bin"
.incbin "galaxian.bin"

provide a path between the "" if necessary, and assemble in any assembler. sometimes the directive is called .bin instead of .incbin. Both may work in some assemblers.

That will pack four copies of galaxian in one binary to fill up ROM space.

You can also roll the four includes in a .repeat / .rept directive, bit if you have to look that up, it's just faster to type .incbin four times and go.

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mikejmoffitt
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:18 pm 
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If you are using Windows, you may also do this

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copy /b galaxian.prg+galaxian.prg+galaxian.prg+galaxian.prg galaxian32.prg
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FrankenGraphics
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:23 pm 
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^^ That's even faster.

I've just started using linux (console). Could i achieve the same with mv or cp?

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lidnariq
PostPosted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:31 pm 
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*n*x: use cat and redirects (cat file file file file > output)
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eggman
PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:33 pm 
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Many thanks, that helped.

Now, I used Wild Gunman. And it runs. It even reacts to the lightgun.
Except that the background graphics is missing. Please see image.
I tested all connections a thousand times. Does that mean the
chr eprom is somehow distorted? I'm reluctant to de-solder
everything...

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Memblers
PostPosted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 3:19 pm 
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It's probably the mirroring. There is a jumper on the board where you can select H or V. Try setting it so H is closed and V is open (or whatever is the opposite of what it is now).
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eggman
PostPosted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 12:40 pm 
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That was it!! Many thanks! Very friendly community.

All the effort for... Wild Gunman... :)
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