Saturn's cart port (the return)

So 64 Mbytes (8 x 8Mbyte CHR) that the biggest NeoGeo game had wasn't actually the limit? I thought that they had basically hit the limit.

 

Don't that amount exactly to 16 27C322 eproms ?
That's what I have seen on Neo Geo botlegs... That or Macronix 26L6420 EEPROMs ripped from scrapped pachinko machines (the chinese botleggers even leave the pachinko machine stickers on the chips !!!!!!)

So you see ... For the chinese to make all these botlegs it does not cost them anything but the scrap they buy...

 

yeah, i found a preshistoric isle bootleg recently that is using a real bout 2 pcb, with 16 27c322 piggy backed (and the encrypted romset programmed on them on it since it used a chafio board).
A hex inverter is also used.
Ive seen some half artisanal cps2 bootlegs using 26L6420 too, mostly sf2 hyper fighting and progear arashi.
Thanx for the infos calpis, i would love to see some homebrew games using the full potetial of the neo geo.

 

No homebrew game is ever going to use the full potential of a machine and if they do, it's likely to be a crap game. There are a lot of technically great Atari 2600 games but most of them are a borefest.

 

You could say that for almost all Atari 2600 games though, the later comment anyway...

 

Don't stop the momentum, this thread is awesome.

As amazing and unique it'd be to have a cartridge-booted homebrew SS game... actually, I guess a disc wouldn't be much easier, with the holographicy copy protection ring...

How about crack the cart slot, put instructions for your own flash carts?

 

I need to get more richer and buy some RAM carts to see how they work... I have a PAR which I need to reverse engineer a little to know what it does so its booted...
I've heard Saturn cartslot is a POS so if at least RAM expansion and external save space is added to the cart makes need to change carts less frequent and thus help preserving the cartslot to some extent....

 

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Wait for the release of Zaku and I think you'll be quite pleasantly surprised at how wrong you are.