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Pirate Discussion => Pirate Talk => Topic started by: davidstech on July 14, 2011, 05:28:56 AM

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: davidstech on July 14, 2011, 05:28:56 AM

I am looking into dumping my collection of games, but I am wondering if anyone has any recommendations about which hardware to use (my current plan is to make my own) or any experience with this sort of stuff. Also, does anyone know which mappers are common in pirated games/multicarts?

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 14, 2011, 07:39:31 AM

From what I've noticed, pirate multicarts usually have either NROM, CNROM, UNROM or MMC3 games. Some MMC1 games are used, but these are all MMC3 or UNROM conversions. (And in Dr. Mario's case, CNROM) The only exception I'm aware of is JY Company's 45-in-1, where all of the larger games are converted to a custom mapper. Can't help you with ROM dumpers though.

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: davidstech on July 14, 2011, 07:56:04 AM

But what about the mapper in the cart itself? Is this normally proprietary or are there some common ones?

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 14, 2011, 08:00:55 AM

davidstech

Jul 14 2011, 07:56:04 AM

But what about the mapper in the cart itself? Is this normally proprietary or are there some common ones?[/quote]Oh, from what I noticed they're normally proprietary. That said, I think most of the larger ones are based off MMC3.

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: davidstech on July 14, 2011, 08:29:08 AM

I've just been looking at some already-dumped multicart ROMs, and it appears the majority of multicarts with a small number of actual games use mapper 8, which is fairly easy to implement. I also intend to dump the games on my MiWi2 cartridges, which are OneBus so should pose no problems. It'll be some time before any actual dumps probably appear though (I've got to buy stuff, hack stuff, solder loads of wires, write the code etc.) I am also designing a OneBus dev-cart, and combined with a free C compiler available from VRT, the possibilities could be endless.

Title: Dumping Hardware
Post by: Awesome Panda on July 14, 2011, 08:49:19 AM

OneBus dev cart? Sounds awesome. ^_^ How do you use the C Compiler anyway?