Is the Tototek flash cart the only SNES flash cart availble?

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:41 am

This Flash Cart I really want it but damn it's $95 would be worth the investment if there was a cart out there like the DS carts where you could stick a 2GB micro SD in it and be set for games. So is this pretty much the only snes flash cart in the market? I am interested in getting this. Anyone on the board own this? What can they say about it?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:34 am

There's a few one-off home-made ones, but I think the Tototek is the only "mass production" flash cart.
(I'm intentionally ignoring older copiers since A. they're out of production, and B. they aren't really "flash cart" material, being quite a bit larger.)

And the cost relative to the DS carts is a standard economy of scale issue.
There's just a massively larger DS market than SNES market.

Blasingame · Post by **Blasingame** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:46 am

And the cost relative to the DS carts is a standard economy of scale issue.
There's just a massively larger DS market than SNES market.

Yeah if they would realize the pure awesome of having a flash cart for the snes like the R4 or M3 real did for the DS.[/code]

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:25 am

This is probably a stupid question, but what is the CIC chip needed for?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:40 am

Blasingame wrote:
And the cost relative to the DS carts is a standard economy of scale issue.
There's just a massively larger DS market than SNES market.
Yeah if they would realize the pure awesome of having a flash cart for the snes like the R4 or M3 real did for the DS.[/code]

There's far more DSes than SNESes in existence in the first place.
And when you factor in retired systems, the number skews even further.
And further factor in the ease of emulation for the SNES VS the DS...

I.S.T. wrote:This is probably a stupid question, but what is the CIC chip needed for?

CIC is the lockout chip. Without the CIC, the system will never come up.
It's a marginally more advanced version of the NES implementation, in that it holds reset instead of pulsing it at 1 Hz.

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:08 am

So, you absolutely need one for one of those carts to work?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:32 am

I.S.T. wrote:So, you absolutely need one for one of those carts to work?

Or you need to disable the CIC in your SNES(which apparently breaks Super Mario RPG).

I.S.T. · Post by **I.S.T.** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:51 am

fuck.

Calamity · Post by **Calamity** » Thu May 21, 2009 4:06 pm

fuck.

No worries, just remove a CIC chip for your region from an old cart and solder it into your Tototek. Easy! There's a space on the board ready for it.

There are some photos of one here:
http://www.geocities.com/neil_manc/snes-cart/index.htm

The CIC chip is the fat one at the bottom right of the Tototek.

If you don't want to butcher a good cart, then the Tototek comes with a tee pass thru adapter, but I never actually tried mine out.