That may seems like a strange question but 10 years in IT is an eternity and so many things changes that I think I should refresh on the subject
When I started, the most common way was to build you dev cart. I still have all those carts in a box waiting to be used "except" for the flash eeprom burner which only work on winXP (...) and takes a eternity to write 512k (5 minutes is intolerable for 1 chip). So to re-use that I will need first to figure out a way to re-use the software (vm, etc) since they never updated to support later OS.
I will need to test sooner or later an mmc3 build and I want to confirm if my scanline split test are working fine. Most emulator do it fine (fceux, mesen) but for some reason nintendulor doesn't seems to like it and create a few artifacts, thus my concern for possible issue with the code. Maybe I'm using an old version by accident and will try to re-download the latest, just in case.
What are people using these days to test mmc3 or other mapper? Still using dev carts or now flashcarts are more the way and accurate enough? If it was just me, I would buy 1 flash cart per system and go wild but right now I cannot afford even one so, that will be one of my dream, someday (nerd heaven ).
When I started, the most common way was to build you dev cart. I still have all those carts in a box waiting to be used "except" for the flash eeprom burner which only work on winXP (...) and takes a eternity to write 512k (5 minutes is intolerable for 1 chip). So to re-use that I will need first to figure out a way to re-use the software (vm, etc) since they never updated to support later OS.
I will need to test sooner or later an mmc3 build and I want to confirm if my scanline split test are working fine. Most emulator do it fine (fceux, mesen) but for some reason nintendulor doesn't seems to like it and create a few artifacts, thus my concern for possible issue with the code. Maybe I'm using an old version by accident and will try to re-download the latest, just in case.
What are people using these days to test mmc3 or other mapper? Still using dev carts or now flashcarts are more the way and accurate enough? If it was just me, I would buy 1 flash cart per system and go wild but right now I cannot afford even one so, that will be one of my dream, someday (nerd heaven ).