WhatULive4 wrote:
Has anyone implemented this successfully? I always assumed the powerpak lite was the only cart compatible. Then again, I haven't done a whole lot of research on the project. All I've seen is what is on the product page.
Several years ago I made a cart that supports UNROM, for 256kB FlashROM that works with CopyNES. kevtris wrote a plugin for it. I imagine that plugin should work with the USB version as well, but I haven't tried it yet. I have the parts for those, so I could always supply those as kits or built ones if there was enough interest. But the PowerPak Lite would be better for development, writing Flash is much slower than SRAM.
I had a ROM emulator before I had a CopyNES, so I never really used it for development. What really bugged me was the idea of having to navigate through a GUI to program the cartridge, I'd rather have a command-line program.
Back to the original topic though, that Quickdev16 looks awesome. That is the best approach for a devcart, on the NES though everyone gets tripped up by the mappers. So I think a seperate ROM emulator makes good sense for NES, since there are some many different boards.