I have one of these chinese 4-in-1 carts with a undumped Super Mario Bros, with Pikachu instead of Mario and modified levels, tiles, colors and music
I were thinking if it's possible to dump a NES game without a NES game reader, using a Homebrew program and one of these DIY NES-to-PC cable
Is it possible? And if yes, does it exists?
Famicom cart or NES cart? Famicom or NES? Do you have a PowerPak or other way to run homebrew on your console?
It's a Famicom cartridge with a glob-top chip on it
To run homebrew I have:
- A modified NES-NROM cartridge with 32kB of PRG and 32kB of CHR (well, only 8kB of CHR can be accessed, but I didn't have a smaller memory)
- A modified NASA (famiclone) cartridge with MMC3 support and 256kB of PRG and CHR
Also I have the following NES systems:
- Spanish NES
- FunStation (Famiclone)
- Game Leopard King (Famiclone with a keyboard)
I have a NES to Famicom (not FC->NES) adapter to play NES games on the Famiclones, too
In theory you could write a bootloader and swap the cart........but I wouldnt recommend it. I happen to know Kevtris has a copyfamicom....he might be willing to help out.
Yep, probably best to just remove the PCB from the cart (to avoid the bulk of the shell), put it in a small cheap padded envelope, send to someone who can dump it, then get it back. Then we can rest at night knowing that SMB hack #5876123682 is properly dumped.
pay for shipping both ways and I might consider it, assuming it dose not use some sort of special memory mapper not already supported by copynes, if it dose then I'm out.
blargg wrote:
Then we can rest at night knowing that SMB hack #5876123682 is properly dumped.
The most interesting cartridge is not that, but a Famicom cartridge for a SUBOR famiclone (one of these weird NES computers with keyboard and DB-25 printer port)
It has many undumped games, for example: Solitaire and Mines (yes, clones from Windows), and other apps like a English to Spanish dictionary, a piano (you can select reverberation and volume), etc...
Any news?