Program an SNES Cartridge?

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:16 am

Along time ago, maybe 6-7 years. I remember stumbling upon some german website that had this invention that connected the pins of snes cartridges to a usb device where you could erase some data of the original cartridge and replace it with rom data on your computer via usb. Does anyone know if the guy got around to selling these. does this still exist. Or did I just make this up?

Starman Ghost · Post by **Starman Ghost** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 6:18 am

The snes games are on rom(read only memory)chips, and cannot be altered.

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:32 pm

That device probably hijacked the read/writes and directed them from/to some writable ram.
Cheap way to use the extra coprocessors with custom code...

whicker · Post by **whicker** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:22 pm

people like to see and remember things that fit within their own understanding. Yes, of course you can tape over video cassette tapes, why not rom carts or movie DVDs?

/facepalm

It may have looked like a normal cartridge to you, but it was either a programmable flash cartridge or the device was merely used to save and restore the SRAM savegames on the cartridge.