Prototype Gamecube memory card

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  1. ASSEMbler

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    HEX1GON FREEZE! Scumbag

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    Awesome video ASSEMbler!! Have no idea where you find all this stuff, but it's very interesting. Thank you for the video :), Also liked and subbed your channel
     
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    Awesome video man, nice find. Although.. I felt like I was watching a slow romantic porno with that music in the background, haha.
     
  4. Elliott

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    Great find, mate! Thanks for sharing.
     
  5. discworld

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    some savegames on it? - works with retail consoles? - interessting find, thanks! :)
     
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    Bow chicka-chicka-chicka bow-wow.
     
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    Can't believe a week has passed and I missed this!!!

    If you plan on letting that go Kev please get in touch...
     
  8. APE

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    Be curious to know if it does work on retail. That board design looks pretty damned simple but I can't for the life of me find the datasheet on the chip. Probably similar to the mx25L4005 whose datasheet I can find. Assuming it does, I might be able to prototype a massive GameCube memory card. Though I don't have a clue how the GameCube enumerates the space on a memory card...

    Anyone?

    Curious to know what the letting on the traces would say if it was legible. Seems someone tried labeled the traces in the PCB building software but didn't intend for them to be legible on the board. Just happened to get cut off in sections where there was no metal for the lettering to show up on.
     
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  9. Annoying_one

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    yeah a shematic of this card would be killer
     
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    Fascinating. I´ve been all over you tube videos, and it´s amazing the amount of great items you have access to. Keep bringing them.
     
  11. splith

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    Erm ape? It's the exact same layout and design as a normal GC memory card, same chip. The writing is on the normal MC's too, it's for R1-R6 and C1-C4.
    The chip (as used in all production GC memory cards) is an MX25L4001MC-60A.

    My GC memory card emulator has an altera chip in though if that helps with what you'd need, I've also got a (quite dodgy) 128MB GC memory card (unofficial) that's got 2 toshiba memory chips inside.
     
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    Didn't know. I'll have to crack one of mine open and take a shot at cloning it for kicks.
     
  13. willis82

    willis82 Robust Member

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    I just bought 12 of these recently. they didnt catch my attention much because of other items in the lot. are these pretty rare to find?
     
  14. ASSEMbler

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    Yeah but rare and valuable don't always mix.

    Best bet it to bundle them with some other hardware.
     
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    I'll probably do that, got plenty of the NPDP's to do that
     
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    They are for Gdev and gbox, don't go blowing out the ports on npdp readers
     
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    I wasnt going to use them with the NPDP's lol, I was just going to sell them with it. guess I dont want people doing that though (didnt think about that), so I guess I'll just sell them separately.
     
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    Just sell them with a disclaimer.
     
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  19. willis82

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    yeah that's a good idea
     
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    PM me with pricing for items you are selling.
     
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