mades wrote:
Concerning the new Software and Firmware, will it include the one which I believe was posted on neogaf years ago (can't seem to find it however), which at the time had an interface that allowed only SNES flashing. Or will the one you are working in be as easy as that one in terms of installing the software/firmware, with support for both SNES and NES?
Yeah I think neogaf is closed now or something IDK.. The new firmware and software are designed to support dumping, flashing, of rom & battery saves of both NES/famciom and SNES. However the version of your kazzo will significantly affect your ability to physically connect original SNES carts.
Early (yellow colored, purchased prior to ~fall 2016) kazzos the SNES connector pitch design makes it very difficult to get original SNES cartridges properly mated/connected. It may even be impossible to mate well with SNES boards with expansion tabs like SA-1 boards. Because of that, those hardware versions will effectively only ever support flashing our boards.
Recent (orange colored, purchased after ~fall 2016) kazzos made some layout updates that allow proper mating of 46pin original SNES carts for dumping and battery save backup/programming. However the improvement made inserting carts with extra connector tabs like SA-1 impossible.
If there's significant request I may offer pass through adapters which resolve the physical limitations above. However they will still lack the electrical connections to the expansion tabs which may be required to dump or access save ram on expansion chips boards like SA-1.
The real fix for all this is included in my latest inlretro design which replaces the original kazzo device. It has a legit 62pin SNES connector with proper pitch, and electrical connections to all the expansion pins. It also adds support for GBA, gameboy, genesis, & N64 and will offer enclosure options finally. I'm pushing for both the updated hardware and software release by the end of March. On my
homepage you can sign up for a newletter which will provide email notifications when new hardware and software builds release. Initial releases aren't expected to support dumping or save backups for expansion chip SNES boards, likely to only support Hi/LoROM at launch. But supporting those features with future updates is an early goal.