Hi everyone,
I'm BennVenn from over at http://www.bennvenn.com. I'm a hobbiest that enjoys programming/hacking/developing hardware for the old consoles. One of my more mature products is the range of BennVenn Flash carts and cart writers. My carts are available in 64M, 128M and 256M with 128K, 256K and 512K SRAM respectively.
The carts are a basic MBC5 style cartridge with an advanced ROM swapping system. Each cart is divided into 2mbyte blocks, each block gets its own 32K save. This means 4 individual saves on the 64M, 8 on the 128 and 16 on the 256. This does not mean the cart will only hold 4, 8 or 16 ROMS. It just means SRAM allocation is available for the block the ROM resides in. You can fill the entire Flash with as many ROMs that can fit, each selected on booting with my custom boot menu (up to 100ROM's per cart)
To get the ROM's on there, and to manage SRAM I have available my Reader/Writers. These are a USB interface that you can use to Flash new ROM's, upload or download the Save files as well as dump any Gameboy cartridge's ROM and RAM - Including GB camera.
These carts are very good on battery power. They use 3.3v Flash, SRAM and logic with no CPLD/FPGA so current consumption is many times lower than the current flash cart options. Current measurements show they consume less than an original GB cart.
There is much more to say about my carts though I'll just point you to a site that has a very good manual describing how the whole setup works, and to purchase if it is right for you!
I also have GBA carts available that can flash with the same hardware (with different firmware)
Prices are very competitive, and includes your very own Cart Dumper!
http://www.ninstrument.com/?page_id=1758
Discussions here: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15877 ... ble-in-us/
And here : http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15601 ... cartridge/
Ben
I'm BennVenn from over at http://www.bennvenn.com. I'm a hobbiest that enjoys programming/hacking/developing hardware for the old consoles. One of my more mature products is the range of BennVenn Flash carts and cart writers. My carts are available in 64M, 128M and 256M with 128K, 256K and 512K SRAM respectively.
The carts are a basic MBC5 style cartridge with an advanced ROM swapping system. Each cart is divided into 2mbyte blocks, each block gets its own 32K save. This means 4 individual saves on the 64M, 8 on the 128 and 16 on the 256. This does not mean the cart will only hold 4, 8 or 16 ROMS. It just means SRAM allocation is available for the block the ROM resides in. You can fill the entire Flash with as many ROMs that can fit, each selected on booting with my custom boot menu (up to 100ROM's per cart)
To get the ROM's on there, and to manage SRAM I have available my Reader/Writers. These are a USB interface that you can use to Flash new ROM's, upload or download the Save files as well as dump any Gameboy cartridge's ROM and RAM - Including GB camera.
These carts are very good on battery power. They use 3.3v Flash, SRAM and logic with no CPLD/FPGA so current consumption is many times lower than the current flash cart options. Current measurements show they consume less than an original GB cart.
There is much more to say about my carts though I'll just point you to a site that has a very good manual describing how the whole setup works, and to purchase if it is right for you!
I also have GBA carts available that can flash with the same hardware (with different firmware)
Prices are very competitive, and includes your very own Cart Dumper!
http://www.ninstrument.com/?page_id=1758
Discussions here: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15877 ... ble-in-us/
And here : http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/15601 ... cartridge/
Ben