Famicom flashcart on the way....

[g_block]

I didn't post this as a detrament to your project 80s, I was just posting as news since this is a Famicom board, no disrespect intended

[Duke.Togo]

I'm still interested. These kinds of projects alway fascinate me.

[mcarnage]

Oh, well.... At least someone support me I thought to give up actually, BUT... i'm after real sound chips on my flashcart, so show must go on

Then I'll have to get this one as well. I know I"ll end up with multiple flash carts by different authors but if you're not willing to upgrade when better devices come out we'd all still be using floppy disk devices!

[YoshiFan501]

I'm still fully supportive of your flash cart. Yours is cooler because it has a direct link to the pc

[okame]

I'll go with whatever's the cheapest option for me to buy, gives me FDS support, and works on actual Famicoms, just in case I can get my Twin Famicom working again. Those stupid 80's disk drives are so fragile. Makes me miss my Commodore 64, though.

[keropi]

there are actually another flashcart on the way, InviteNES

News from HardWareMan

Another WIP. At this time, testing of implementation of the FDS and NSF. FDS has a built-in menu, where you can select the drive and side of the disc, or go to the main menu. NSF does not yet have additional sound chips, all of the music played by the pAPU. But the extra sound chips on the way! First one tested in a unique mapper №69 from SunSoft, which was used only in the one game: Gimmick!

PS Do not pay attention to the garbage on the screen FDS and NSF - it debug stuff, in a release, they will be removed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=B0KEGZvyd0Q

InviteNES specs:
2 megabytes of RAM for the PRG.
2 megabytes of RAM for the CHR.
Cyclone II FPGA as mapper and logic.
STM32 Cortex-M3 controller as a co-processor for memory card, SRAM, and FPGA (can be used from 6502 side).
32 kilobytes of battery-backed WSRAM (as 4 pages of 8 KBytes).
USB connector, which can be used to communicate with the computer.
Support SD/MMC memory cards up to 32GB.
You can create your own mapper, and game for it!

[keropi]

^ supposedly the Mega Everdrive cart has a big fpga for that reason (the same as InviteNES now that I look closer), there is talk that it will also emulate the FM chip that is present in Japanese SMS so when you play supporting games on the MegaEverdrive you will hear the upgraded tunes, but nothing came out as of now... it does offer in-game-menu and load/save states in many games that work with it though  

[keropi]

They just failed to "verilog" YM2413. Nice chip, by the way.

awesome chip I must add, I have a smsfm board installed on my sms1 console, it makes a huge difference in the games that support it 

[L___E___T]

Is there any update on when the famicom cart / board will be avaialble and cost?  Nothing new on Krikzz.com

[keropi]

A month ago he said they will be ready in 3 months or so, so I guess January - February? Something along these lines... he also said that the prize will be similar to the N64 cart that costs 99$ ... not bad I think 

[L___E___T]

Sounds good, shall be my Christmas present

[keropi]

Personally I am holding until both EverDrive and InviteNES gets released so I get the better one 

[L___E___T]

I'd like to get both, if I can.  Where can I find out more about InviteNES?

Spoiler

I found these from googling:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?41706-InviteNES-WIP-NES-Famicom-Flash-cart
http://www.retrocollect.com/News/new-nintendo-nes-famicom-flash-cartridge-in-the-works.html
http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=8781

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[keropi]

Sadly lead-free electronics are enforced by law in the EU, nothing can be sold here that isn't lead free 

[Pemdawg]

What's wrong with FDS emulation on the Powerpak?