There was a guy on KLOV who built a 72pin to PC10 cart adapter, swapped the bios with a hacked one, and he said it played everything hes thrown at it. Ill dig up the pic. He hasnt responded to any emails, but i cant seem to find the pinout for the PC10 3 row cartridge connector. If they are in the schematics, then im a noob, because i couldnt see them.
Thanks in advance for the help!
That's not exactly what he dd as you are forgetting some other components. Wait a bit and you may have a better option.
oh hmmm, I dont think i ever saw the post explaining it completely, just someone asking about something else maybe, so i was totally assuming quite a bit. Would love to be able to do that though
Waiting sucks fyi
cool project but it's probably just easier throwing the ppu into a nes
I think it's be cooler to toss NES carts (or a PowerPak) in a PC10. The Playchoice games were essentially identical to the NES games, so the only advantage is the arcade cabinet (in four style options, as I recall).
AFAIK, the PC10 ROMs are already properly dumped and will play on any NES with the PowerPak and some light modification.
Discovering the pinout should be pretty easy though: Just get a PC10 game card and whip out your trusty circuit testers.
The PC10 dumps already contain proper chr and prg roms, the only trick is figuring out which files they are.
PC10 Super Mario brothers is identical to the NES version. I found the proper Chr and prg rom files in the pc10 rom dump by comparing the files with a hex editor to the nes versions. They were absolutely identical. When combined in an .NES rom, unlike the VS Unisystem version, the PC10 version was perfectly identical. I even used the rom header I ripped from the NES SMB rom to compile PC10 SMB into a .nes rom. So like you said, the only benefit is having a nifty arcade cabinet.
Of course that's SMB. I haven't taken a look at other games but I suspect they're all identical to the NES versions.