NROM HUNTING IN TOKYO!

I had a great time learning how to burn NES programs and sprites to real chips with Don last week ( Thanks again!). I brought in 10 Famicom cartridges with NROM PBC in them ( at least I thought they were) to the workshop. I selected them based on an online pictorial database that Don gave me couple days prior to the workshop. I was super excited then super disappointed because none of the cartridges has the right PBC board in it. I realized that even with the same game ( identical exterior ), it might has different PCB inside depends on when the game cartridge was made or reproduced (Chips V.S Blob IC). In order to make myself a Famicom ( Japanese NES ) dev board, I added a new quest in my trip to Tokyo happening now. I was in Nakano Broadway today, for people who don't know this place, it is a heaven for otaku(s). I learned in the workshop with Don that the cartridges with chips weight a lot more than ones with blob ICs ( and it is very true). Plus a list of game cartridges with NROM PCB I downloaded from the Bootgod database, I started digging around...

digging...

and bingo!

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Comment by Sebastien Van Damme on July 15, 2010 at 6:41am: Is it possible to connect a Famicom keyboard to an NES with some adapter cable and use it with Excite Bike?

Comment by James Derek Lomas on July 13, 2010 at 2:57pm: I think the world needs a youtube video about this..

Comment by Kan Yang Li on July 12, 2010 at 5:36pm: Well, there are a few games you can use data recorder to save contents, Family Basic 1 and 2, Excite Bike, Mach Rider, and Wrecking Crew. I can the American version Excite Bike still have that option in the design mode to save/read your track, and that is for the data recorder.

Comment by Sebastien Van Damme on July 12, 2010 at 6:53am: According to the manual, regular monophonic tape recorders work. Let me know if you get it to work.

Comment by James Derek Lomas on July 12, 2010 at 6:47am: Really? I didn't know that any games used cassettes to save. Do you think you could just use a regular tape recorder?

Getting my famicom keyboard next week!

Comment by Sebastien Van Damme on July 9, 2010 at 9:13pm: Mach Rider has a save/load function which uses a cassette recorder to save/load custom built tracks. Apparently you need the Famicom Basic keyboard to connect the cassette recorder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom_Data_Recorder

As soon as I get my hands on a cassette recorder, I will try and see if I can save/load Famicom Basic data. I have tried with a Zoom H2 which could record, but Famicom Basic won't read the input sound from this device... Has anyone any experience with this?

Comment by Kan Yang Li on July 9, 2010 at 4:19pm: Collector items!

Comment by James Derek Lomas on July 8, 2010 at 10:32pm

Comment by Dixie Ching on July 7, 2010 at 8:24am: Like! (oh wait, this isn't FB...)

Comment by Don Miller on July 6, 2010 at 8:11pm: Also, this is kind of random - but have you check out the pins look at the bottom of the EEPROM vs glob top carts? I mean the 60 pins at the bottom. Perhaps it might be a way to tell without opening them, if the board was produced differently. Just a random thought!