NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2013-03-21T14:49:44 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2013-03-20T16:48:07 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-02-17T12:06:59 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-02-14T12:14:25 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-02-13T08:34:07 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Originally posted by: nensondubois

Holy f&ck! A Super Game Boy Prototype! Have you tried any games like Space Invaders 94 or Small soldiers on it to see if their enhancements are all present (I'm mid-serious because I doubt it)? If this were dumped and there menu, sound or other differences that would be very interesting. I would love some info so I can add it to my Super Game Boy Project listed here: http://board.gscentral.org/retro-hacking/ and http://luigiblood.0fees.net/board/index.php
Those borders were written into the GB game ROM, so it'll have a 90+% chance of showing them.

]]> Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-02-13T08:29:08 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-02-11T12:16:12 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-01-14T21:21:48 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-01-13T16:36:19 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Originally posted by: MrMark0673

Originally posted by: 3GenGames

I'd say retrode, but if you don't have one and can't find one, just unsolder it and then dump it that way.


I strongly recommend NOT taking a desoldering iron to a possible one of a kind gaming item...

It's possible that it has a flush mounted socket, it's tough to see from the pictures.  If it does, pop the EPROM out, dump it, pop it back in.

If it's straight soldered to the board, use a retrode or any other available dumper.

Yeah, I agree with that, it's 100% better to use a tool like that, but I don't know if something would dump a SNES cart. I doubt it is, but that EPROM (on a custom cart) might also not be hooked up to the SNES at all, that's always something to keep in mind that it might not even be dumpable and you may want to take it off the board. Although, honestly, if that was true, I'd also try to suggest a "clip" that does on the chip to your programmer so you don't even have to desolder or anything.

But whatever you do, preserve the history! That's as cool as hell having a SGB prototype for sure. You'd of thought that's something NoA wouldn't have to test or develop or anything, I'd think Nintendo ofJapan would take care of that kind of hardware, but I guess it was made (or at least debugged) here.
]]> Found SNES Prototype http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=62276 2012-01-13T15:38:57 -05.00 Blue Ember 44 Originally posted by: 3GenGames

I'd say retrode, but if you don't have one and can't find one, just unsolder it and then dump it that way.

I strongly recommend NOT taking a desoldering iron to a possible one of a kind gaming item...

It's possible that it has a flush mounted socket, it's tough to see from the pictures.  If it does, pop the EPROM out, dump it, pop it back in.

If it's straight soldered to the board, use a retrode or any other available dumper.
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