I recently got a copy of stunt race fx, and i want to have a starfox 2 cart hacked up for me. HOWEVER, I don't want the current hacked/translated "final" version. I want the close to finished, untranslated, with debug displays.
That would probably be me, most people here seem to be the type a bit too afraid of taking something like a soldering iron and putting inside their older consoles just for the fun of it...killed a psone the other night trying to overclock it (damn cat! Don't touch what I'm working on). Just need to replace the CPU (rather easy actually. Thank god it wasn't BGA back then) but I don't have another board laying around. Oh well. http://snesdev.romhack.de/sf2.htm If thats what you want I can do that, easy. I just don't have any eproms or an eprom writer atm. EDIT: Found you a source for the EPROMs: http://mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=sGAEpiMZZMvKaIdSMCzQpzO%252bZKpIigUgNsQKe9U1QSc%3d They aren't 100% exactly like what that guide calls for (slightly different but I'd imagine they'd still work the same) and I'd like to see some 40ns eproms rather than 100ns or 120ns just to see if it helps with the games playability at all. Seems Stunt Race FX isn't a dead ringer for the cart they were building for it but its damn close. A bit of overclocking might help too...In which case you'd want: http://mouser.com/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtg8rPr%252bGIKJkkPbZYG4PbWKBbomhX%2fCY8%3d Read 40mhz might be its max OC but OCs all depend on the individual chip, so it might work fine with a 35mhz crystal or 34mhz. So a range would be a good idea for testing purposes. If you'd like I can spec this all out independently, send you a quote for the cost and we can work out the details via pm? I'd also be willing to do a full write up for this section of the forums... EDIT #2: Looks like the work has progressed a bit on the topic: http://www.liquidninjas.com/bbs/showpost.php?p=121551&postcount=277 Didn't think about that...wouldn't be too hard to get those PCBs reproduced either instead of an eprom...
It wouldn't be difficult to mess this sort of thing up. Theres at least 4 easy things you can do that would make it not work and would be somewhat difficult to diagnose and detect without going over each connection one by one. Hence why a lot of people don't do it, simply don't have the knowledge to use the tools properly. Also why when you make a request for something like this people usually ask a tidy sum for it.
