Oh I have an idea. Famicom would require a totally different PCB, and a custom case mold. The market for any Famicom cartridge is going to be less than that for a NES cartridge. I'm not saying it won't or shouldn't happen. But I'm pretty sure RetroUSB never offered a Famicom version because of the costs involved in producing another version and the likely low number of sales it would get. Basically what you can control yourself is either finding and modding an adapter or importing a NES. That or show Krizz or RetroUSB by organizing a sort of "group buy" that is very large of people that will buy a Famicom flash cart if one is developed and sold.
One advantage that Igor has is that he doesn't actually have to get custom shells molded (which is a huge expense on a low volume item like this) so I wouldn't be surprised if he got an NES EverDrive working that he would consider doing a Famicom one as well. It may actually be to his advantage just because there is no real competition for Famicom.
No kidding, there'd never be any shortage of shells that's for sure. Bootleg Famicom carts are *everywhere*.
Yes. You need an FPGA if you want to support alot of mappers and be able to update support later on. It's certainly more involved than Genesis or SNES. If you limit the intended mapper support that would simplify things a good bit. If you just worry about international mappers it wouldn't be quite so hard. Infact very few mappers will encompass the vast majority of commercial titles. Ex: NROM, CNROM, UxROM, AxROM, MMC1, and MMC3 would be all you really need to support to have probably 90% of the official library supported. The problems with mappers come when you consider very complex mappers used by a relatively small number of games like MMC5 and the pirate mapper 90. If you don't plan to support these then you can skip alot of trouble. Famicom shells, particularly pirate ones, I've heard are of poor quality and some after opening will break and don't go back together right. I suppose it's true it's not a major concern since you don't need a case.
I've open many FC cassettes and it seem that pirate shells never break. The surface quality is not as good but they were made from a more flexible plastic (differant component?). Only legit cassette shells break.
Don't know where you've been getting your pirate carts but all of mine (old and new alike from all over the globe) have universally shitty build quality.
The point is not shell quality, I'm taking about pirate cart doesn't break when try to open it. The softer plastic (which could mean poorer quality) make it more flexible to forces ,you can bend it more than you can do with legit cart before breaking it. While legit cart has toughter plastic (which could mean better quality) make it harder to bend open and more prone to be broken.
yes, i agree that latches will break off if i tryin to open original famicom cart. also i notice that not all famicom carts have same shells. there is could be few various types of mounting holes
the good thing about nes is that all them are the same thing and you can easy open it if you have gamebit screwdriver, also new empty plastic shells are sold by retrousb
Yeah definitely needs to load faster than the other ED's. Quite impressive though. Is Krikzz really one man?
yes, i am really one, i just spend all my time on this toys for n64 cart i use sdram instead of flash. also i use sd as before, but may be i will replace sd by CF if speed will be too slow. sd thepretically should give 28mbit/s or may be even more.
What do you do to pay the bills? Ukranians have the reputation of being unscrupulous with their computer skills you know.. CF is what marshallh is using as I'm sure you know. Aside from the serial over parallel nature of CF and SD I'm not entirely sure why he was so adamant that SD was inferior for his project unless he designed it to use CF from the ground up.
i sell cart for pay the bills i really does not liked work in office. moderd SD cards have good speed (10-15mbyte/s), but i still don't know how fast they can work via spi. i prefer sd if it will be enough fast
