These carts were used for downloading games on the in stores right? http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-Super-...hZ020QQcategoryZ62053QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem my questions is... i have a tototek cart with games loaded in, is it the same process? would it be possible to load games on it with tototek's equipment or with any other one? do you have any other useful informations on this thing? thanks in advance. karsten
I haven't heard of anyone developing their own Nintendo Power cart flasher. It's likely a very limited cartridge, and not capable of loading anything other than NP type games which I think is like 4 or 8mbit HiROM games.
The Tototek base cannot flash NP carts, it may be possible to, but it can't without adding a new flashing algorithm. The NP carts aren't very limiting at all, they can play <=32M "LoROM"/"HiROM" and if you populate the last 16M flash, ExHiROM.
mmmh it would ba a NICE AND DAMN CHEAPER alternative to tototek's carts! mine's full and buying another one is costy.
Damn cheaper? You can buy just the 64M flash card for $55 at Tototek, which is $5 more than the NP cart and has twice as much memory.
The price on tototek seems low indeed. Now im thinking about ordering one myself. To your actual question, I highly doubt that its possible flashing the Nintendo cart with the tototek writer. It could likely be modified to do so though. You should contact d4s, he is probably one of the people who would have the skills to do so, if he had the hardware that is. Offtopic: Makes me wonder why SNES developers used expensive eeprom boards till the end of the snes era when nintendo was even producing a commercial flash rom card for end users :shrug:
They didn't use EEPROM, they used EPROM (there's a big difference!) but only when distributing samples. Flash at the time was extremely small and expensive, like SRAM expensive, so of course it was never used when you could use SRAM or even DRAM without consequence. Games are always developed using RAM for the fastest test cycle time. A game can be assembled, linked, uploaded and run with a RAM cart in well under a minute. Flash would have (then and now) taken minutes just to upload.
If you want one to test let me know. I can get them cheap here if you just want an unboxed used cart. The one in that auction is for someone who wants a good one for display.
