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by barawn
Sun Feb 27, 2005 6:09 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

Re: What the heck is /RESET?

It would work, and probably wouldn't even cause too much trouble. Well, the problem is doing the assembly language coding to handle all of that is fairly awful, and a bit beyond me right now. It looks like I'm going to need to figure out how to do it, though, as there are a few tricks I want to do ...
by barawn
Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:15 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

Re: What the heck is /RESET?

/RESET is a reset output. The only input comes from the switch on the front of the SNES. OK, that's not a problem. Do you know if it's a real /RESET output - that is, it goes low when the cartridge is reset, and only then? The SNES-Kart documentation seems to suggest it goes low on every ROM access...
by barawn
Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:33 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

What the heck is /RESET?

OK, I'm very confused now. According to the SNES-Kart documentation, /RESET goes low on a ROM area read. I had figured that /RESET was a hard-reset line. I was also hoping there was a soft reset mechanism as well, but I haven't been able to find it. Does /RESET go low on a ROM area read? Does anyone...
by barawn
Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:56 am
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

I guess if I get really silly in the future I could try to emulate the CIC chip itself, but that's a) difficult, and b) DMCA-dangerous, even though I think I'm safe on that one as it was developed pre-DMCA. Let me ask some questions: 1. the CIC-chip is AKA the Region Lockout chip, right? and 2. How...
by barawn
Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:03 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

If "/OE" means "/RD", i have that on pad 23. Pad 49 i have labeled as /CART, which gets set for accesses to the "traditional" ROM areas, I suppose this could be called "chip select" or "/CS"? There's also /WRAM on pad 32, which is set when the SNES ...
by barawn
Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:21 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

Re: SNES design questions for flash cart construction

Sounds interesting. Don't know how feasible, but interesting. Well, the only "iffy" part is the flash SIMM, and I still need to order that. Right now the PLD code works in simulation, so the address remapping at least works. That's not a problem. The board is fully layed out, though I hav...
by barawn
Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:55 pm
Forum: ZSNES Talk
Topic: SNES design questions for flash cart construction
Replies: 15
Views: 6602

SNES design questions for flash cart construction

Hi everyone: After nearly taking a sledgehammer to my few remaining SNES games when they refused to work, and utterly sick of hacking apart games and replacing them with one-shot EPROMs, I've put my mind to actually building a SNES flash cart. Yes, I know that tototek sells one for $70. No, I don't ...