On the Pasofami emulator's page, I saw something interesting. But as I cannot speak Japanese I had to rely on Babelfish, which was almost unhelpful. But I guess that they are making RAM carts for the most common memory mappers, 0-4 and using USB to connect to a PC. The PC is using Pasofami to send the ROMs to the cart. At least this is what I can make out.
http://www.geocities.jp/pasofami77/usbdaiko.htm
Can anyone confirm or deny?[/code]
I usually use
http://excite.co.jp/world/url for translating, it could be better than Babelfish.
Looks like they are selling RAM carts (and a cart dumper). But MMC1 and MMC3 carts are "in production discontinuance now".
They have an NSF (bankswitching) cart too, that's pretty cool. Pretty expensive though (~$150 I think?).
Any pictures of the devices for sale?
Do they sell to Americans that only speak English?
They're adapters for the Chameleon USB (a device I've been promoting for years)
kyuusaku wrote:
They're adapters for the Chameleon USB (a device I've been promoting for years)
Sorry, I must have been out of the loop. Can you give any more info? Do you have one? I am interested in buying one, but I don't know how to read/write Japanese... hell I can only recognize a few spoken Japanese words. Why doesn't anybody import these puppies to sell to us gaijin
I don't have one/them but I can clarify. They're NVRAM cartridges, simply modified licensed carts that can be written to via the Pasofami emulator. The emulator can link to either parallel hardware (not sure if it's sold) or a Famicom attachment for the Chameleon USB, a popular (and now defunct?) USB+CPLD development kit. Everything together is a whole lot of money, IMO too much money. You'll be paying:
$60 for the Chameleon unassembled (pretty hard to solder it's a ~100 QTFP IIRC), $90 assembled
$30 (or more?) for the Famicom attachment assembled
$60 to license the emulator
$100 (was it?) for ONE cartridge
You're far better off modifying your own cart for JEDEC ROMs + adding ZIF sockets. That way you can program with any programmer and use whatever memory you like. Even if you don't have a programmer, you can buy one for $50, the ZIF sockets for $15, the memory for $10 and the game for $5.