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Apr 1, 2010 at 1:31:41 PM
Lincoln (138)
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can i ask what your education/profession is? i'm jealous of all the stuff you build.

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Apr 1, 2010 at 1:39:12 PM
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Dain (226)
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^he's a professional stay-at-home-and-build-us-goodies

Apr 1, 2010 at 1:40:07 PM
MrMark0673 (455)
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I think:

- The green one up top with all the different wires coming from it is a Powerfest 94 repro WIP.
- Very top lime green one is a USB CopyNES proto
- Middle red one is an SNES Powerpak board
- Bottom left is a Christmas cart proto
- The lime green on the far right is really interesting. Maybe a Hydron type Fami/NES double-ender proto?
- Far left red is an NES Powerpak board
- I'm sticking with some sort of online adapter for the USB cart.
- Not really sure about some of the others, but the one with the ZIF socket looks pretty cool.

I think that's all I got. Cool stuff!

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Apr 1, 2010 at 2:29:44 PM
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Originally posted by: Lincoln

can i ask what your education/profession is? i'm jealous of all the stuff you build.

Went to UCSC to study computer engineering (aka hardware) and focused on super computers.  By the time I graduated almost all the companies doing it had disappeared    Now many of the same ideas are showing up in graphics cards....  

I couldn't get a job so I started Sealie Computing aka RetroZone aka www.retrousb.com... which was supposed to be a part time thing to pay for a new bike back in dec 2003, been full time job since then.  The products that make money (RetroPorts) are enough to pay for the ones that haven't yet (USB CopyNES).

Apr 1, 2010 at 2:45:06 PM
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Wow dude. I thought you had a day job too lol. Its cool to hear that you can make money off those contraptions.

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Apr 1, 2010 at 7:14:54 PM
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I tend to agree with mark on the USB NES cart *beautiful dreamer*

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Apr 1, 2010 at 7:22:15 PM
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all i see is a big hole in my wallet within the next 12 months

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Apr 2, 2010 at 1:44:22 AM
kcsims (16)
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So will we ever know or is it a secret until released?

Apr 4, 2010 at 8:35:08 PM
superNESman (102)
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Originally posted by: jonebone

It's like a pack of NES Skittles where all of the boards are the colors of the rainbow.

It's a rainbow I don't wanna taste though.

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Apr 5, 2010 at 11:09:33 PM
TheRedEye (6)
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I don't see anything that looks like a game boy/game boy color cart in there, which makes me sad.

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Apr 5, 2010 at 11:46:46 PM
dangevin (219)
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Top center I see a phone jack attached in the top-left.

Dead center 100% has to be SNES flash cart. The other SNES to the left, with so many chips, has to be some sort of competition cart.

I'm guessing the LED cart lower-right is a Halloween 2010 cart because of the colors.

Top-right looks like stuff wired to GB guts so I'd have to guess this is a GB->TV via NES cart.

And I'm sure I know what the bottom right is as well so I'll clam up. The rest, just guesses.

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Apr 7, 2010 at 12:52:50 PM
bunnyboy (81)
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Updated pict with a few of them listed, how many did you get right?

The tan boards are always a first revision prototype.  Ordering without the solder mask (stuff that makes the boards green/red/blue/etc) is much cheaper.  However it makes soldering the tiny chips very hard so it frequently isn't an option for the stuff I am doing now.


Apr 26, 2010 at 2:57:53 PM
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If that thing with the usb cable will allow online play on a real snes, ill jizz my pants! How cool would it be to have a Snes powerpak -> online adaptor -> real snes ? that would be so awsome!

Apr 26, 2010 at 4:09:14 PM
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or NES? :-)

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Apr 26, 2010 at 4:18:42 PM
Herbalist (139)
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Guesses

the one with the USB cable appears to be a NES connector.

Top right gree w/ all the wires, connected to a nes cart = gameboy nes player proto
^^^ but that 1 red wire from the copynes is throwing me off. Is all that garbage the copynes?

above the usb cable thingy = nes -> famicom converter?

Above the xmas cart = 2 nes game protos, some SNES thing


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Edited: 04/26/2010 at 04:19 PM by Herbalist

Apr 26, 2010 at 9:38:01 PM
i love bacon (7)
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Originally posted by: Herbalist

Top right green w/ all the wires, connected to a nes cart = gameboy nes player proto




actually, that's a gameboy motherboard connected to a NES protoboard. (this is probably what you're already saying though.)

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May 6, 2010 at 9:32:28 AM
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Another update!  RetroVision is finally fully public outside the chat room.  Both the first board (of which Dain has the only working one) and the final version are in there.  Still some more awesome stuff coming  

May 6, 2010 at 10:40:08 AM
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DO WANT! O_O ... the NES controller must be the most comfortable controller to play gb games with.. Now please make a gameboy powerpak lol

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May 6, 2010 at 10:53:11 AM
BeaglePuss (41)
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I still want to know what the USB/NES thing on the far right is. Has that been revealed yet?

May 6, 2010 at 11:50:03 AM
bunnyboy (81)
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Nopes still in (very slow) development. I blame Digilent!

May 31, 2010 at 4:31:05 PM
bunnyboy (81)
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Two more boards off the list!  First working prototype of the SNES Campus Challenge 1992 repro.  Looks nothing like the final version!  Bare board is the same thing not yet built up.  Hopefully I can include one in the auction thats running right now.

qixmaster guessed SNES Campus Challenge, but for the wrong board  


Edited: 05/31/2010 at 04:34 PM by bunnyboy

May 31, 2010 at 9:20:22 PM
ian a (0)

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I'm guessing (hoping) the red one yet to be labeled is an MMC3 repropak?

May 31, 2010 at 10:12:19 PM
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Originally posted by: ian a

I'm guessing (hoping) the red one yet to be labeled is an MMC3 repropak?
I'd second that guess.

Jun 1, 2010 at 8:46:29 AM
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I REALLY want to know what the thing with the USB cable and apparent cart-adapter is.

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Jun 1, 2010 at 8:55:42 AM
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Originally posted by: arch_8ngel

I REALLY want to know what the thing with the USB cable and apparent cart-adapter is.


I'm willing to bet its a new PnP USB Copy NES for the top loader.

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