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Thanks for the help again! These games that didn't work earlier are working now. :D

In the meantime, I'll try to dissect the startup and the menu some more. Also, to figure out the address decoding too.  :)

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Eh, you need to specify the correct PRG ROM size (16384 KiB). Right now, you are specifying 0 KiB, so nothing is loaded. ;)

Also, console type must be VT02.

Hi, thanks for the help.

Added this PRG ROM size too - 16384KiB and the VT02 option, however the ROM doesn't load. Still the message "iNES ROM image is shorter than specified in its header!".

I'm not sure what to put on the CHR ROM too - I've searched around the forums and outside and couldn't find a suitable number for this particular ROM.

And if I put 16384KiB onto the CHR ROM, the NintendulatorNRS stopped responding and closed afterwards.

The NintendulatorNRS version is 0.985.

Meanwhile I'm searching around for any sample VT02 games online and see how its NES headers are defined. :D

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The ROM dump is missing the last two bytes (should be 24 F1). Apart from that, set the NES 2.0 mapper number to 270, and specify both 8 KiB of PRG RAM and 8 KiB of CHR RAM to get all games working. We have had a different 400-in-1 ROM dump already that differs in the LCD initialization code and a few other spots.

Thanks for the analysis! :D

I have manually added these last two bytes, and the NES 2.0 mapper through the NintendulatorNRS (latest) with the specified PRG and CHR RAM.

(check image in attachment)

However, the game doesn't start (only blank screen) - this dump currently works on EmuVT 1.36 without much problems, except for some of the games mentioned earlier that are glitching up. I'm not sure if there need to add the PRG and CHR ROM KiB as well too - there's an error of "iNES ROM image is shorter than specified in its header!" when I restarted the rom.

Meanwhile, I'm dissecting some parts of the startup code - hunting for the TFT init routines could be impossible here as I don't even know which registers are they writing when they start up. I'm thinking of not trying to hunt these, instead, just keep these startup routines and just modify the program after the startup routines.

The only thing I found out was there's a button scanning routine (that checks from $4016) - when the A and X (?) is pressed together once it's powered on, it brings the user to the "Device Test" menu with the name "Aaronix" at the bottom right of the screen. Else if these buttons aren't pressed, it goes directly to the language select menu (Mandarin or English).

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Hello,

I had recently dumped the Sup 400-in-1 handheld ROM from the NOR flash and it runs in the EmuVT 1.36, using the combination of MCP23017s and a Raspberry Pi. The process is pretty slow and it took a whole day to do it. This carrier board is extracted using a ChipQuik and then inserted into a SOP to DIP adapter.

The schematic for the ROM board is obtained from somewhere (see attachments) that has the possibly correct address lines at the A22 and A23. The other schematic for the ROM board has a /WE instead of the A22.

Most of the games run fine except some of them. The ones that don't run well often has empty screen and glitching up. I'm not sure if the dumping process has not been good in between.

Curiously, I examined some parts of the program code through its debugger. I'm not sure where are the LCD initialization routines during the startup. I checked through the VT-03, VT-16, VT-18 and even the VT-168 datasheets for the TFT-specific registers but couldn't find any hint on these.

I'm not sure if this is another version of VT that I've never heard of, or I may be looking at a wrong place. The romdump is attached - maybe the BGC experts can have a look inside? :)

There are also attempts of dumping by some people in another forum too: https://4pda.to/forum/index.php?showtopic=979648&st=480, however the romdump link is no longer available.

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Famicom/NES dumps / Re: Sup 400-in-1 handheld dump
« on: November 18, 2020, 05:36:39 AM »
Hello @NewRisingSun,

Thanks for the feedback - I found out in my Python script that I dumped only the first half.

I'm in the process of dumping the other half and then proceed to "glue" onto that one after it's all done.

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Famicom/NES dumps / Sup 400-in-1 handheld dump
« on: November 17, 2020, 10:44:31 AM »
Hello there,

I just happened to extract the COB ROM and tried to dump the contents using the Raspberry Pi and a couple of MCP23017s. [Story here: https://hackaday.io/project/175322-dissecting-a-hand-held-noac-console]

I tried running this on the Nintendulator which is modified for VT-series NOAC but couldn't run. I'm suspecting this one is a possible variant of the VT series where the reset vector is entirely different.

Inside the dump I could see sprite sheets as usual with some data in between, but I couldn't find a lot of references on the 400-in-1 menu text. It could be possibly encrypted or the dump is incomplete.

The dump is attached here for the reference.

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Famicom/NES / MP5 "Gameplayer"
« on: March 14, 2015, 10:08:28 PM »
TALUIGI
Mar 13 2015, 06:33:49 PM
I like pandora handheld, it uses linux has base, got alot of emulators and a fast firefox! and a LOW PRICE ! ! !
WOW![/quote]Pandora's not available here in my place, and it gets real expensive especially shipping. Maybe I can get a used PSP but I'm waiting for prices to go down. :)

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Famicom/NES / MP5 "Gameplayer"
« on: March 13, 2015, 11:30:33 AM »
TALUIGI
Mar 13 2015, 07:29:48 AM
Yeah, but a hard work ever solves. . . but, how is this works? Looks like a PSP, but. It's not a Psp . . . O_o [/quote]Well, I do know and worked with microcontrollers and such, so I can hunt for a tutorial or two online. They used some sort of their operating system. One of them compiled the image and ran ZX Spectrum games inside:ZX Spectrum Emulation on cheap MP5 player.

However, I've even seen cheap MP5 players with Android inside, which is much more expensive, but you can load your own emulators inside from the App store. :)

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Famicom/NES / MP5 "Gameplayer"
« on: March 12, 2015, 08:43:58 PM »
Agh, too bad for me because I wanted to play GB classic games. However, the GB Color works pretty well in that fake PSP.

I read that some of the people actually changed the firmware inside to add new programs, but it is an extremely complicated procedure. :)

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Famicom/NES / MP5 "Gameplayer"
« on: March 11, 2015, 11:05:26 AM »
Hey there,

Yesterday, got this thing, bought it cheap from a local retailer online.

Went and unwrapped it and found that it's preloaded with a number of GBA games. Not in my era, but some of them were OK to me when I tested them.

So I added the usual "Battle City", "road fighter" and some other classic games - they worked pretty well.

However, I can't get Gameboy B&W games to work - they won't even run. Said "invalid format". I've checked around the net, but found nothing much about people playing those on that player.

Here's that pic attached.

Classic games without the mapper run pretty well, the one with certain mappers suffer from stuttering sounds and incomplete music, like the "Barbie" for the NES.



Attachments:

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The JTAG/RGH-ed games are sometimes a pain to work with especially with the uh, "Title Updates". Sometimes my friends have to mess around with the files just to get the DLC working.

In other story, I read about someone who bought a cheap handheld, tore out the ROM, dump it, modify the ROM and glue it back into the system: OneStation ROM dumping.

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TALUIGI
Mar 3 2015, 09:09:11 PM
Yeah, it's true  :D
I got a JTAG Xbox 360, and another Xbox 360 with LT 3.0 .
Also the games are so overpriced, $230 Each Xbox 360 games  :O
so we can hack this xbox and buy pirated copy's and you can just pay $5 each game.  cool: [/quote]Here we do have those modified Xbox360 too. Mostly with the "Freestyle Dash" thing. I did purchase a cheap display model from a store and I could play a bit if I'm free. :)

Xbox1 and PS4 games are damn expensive here too. I had to wait until they have these in used prices. :)

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TALUIGI
Mar 3 2015, 08:54:04 PM
Yep, videogames are so overpriced here, because the govern considere them, has ''illegal games''  :shock:
Also, we brazilians only discovered the NES in 1997, when nintendo finally came, and brought SNES, NINTENDO 64 GAMEBOY, Etc.
And later came playstation, and xbox, and another modern console we got now.
But only in brazil, you can buy a playstation 4 for $4000.  :faint: [/quote]I thought Brazil's very lenient about video games, since they have these carnivals in Rio de Janiero which feature scantily-clad women and a lot of beer. (That's what they show on TV!)  >;)

But I've been hearing that you guys have the Xbox360 more than the PS3, right? :)

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fcgamer
Mar 3 2015, 11:38:23 AM
Nice story, thanks for sharing :)  Where are you from in SA Asia?[/quote]

I'm from Malaysia. We don't have much of the Apple 2s, or even the IBMs because it's too expensive. Even in the 90s, all that people can afford is a PC or the Famiclone. My cousins have the Genesis, and the other cousin I knew had the Famicom-Disk-System and SNES, and watched them play those games for hours (and joining them too).

Around the late 90s, PS1 has surfaced, but Nintendo 64 was a very rare sight. I played the "Dragon Ball Z", "Crash Bandicoot" and the "odo-odo oddity" on the PS1 with my ma's friend's kid back in '97.

I don't have any pics of the 90s that showed those stores, too bad we were still using our beaten up Yashica SLR (digital cameras didn't exist here yet!). You could imagine this though: Warm, sweaty place, noisy rattling air-cond, Famicom carts of different colors were lined up, some console boxes decorated the front, a CRT TV, and finally, some more console boxes with keyboards and light gun masquerading to be a Windows 95 computer (those thing were the shit, I meant it!).

Singapore has started being modern on the late 90s. Those multi-cart or bootleg hastily packed PS1 CDs had their last-est moment at the late 1999 (that's my limited guess - if anyone from Singapore could confirm this!).Last last time I heard, they clamped down on those stuff faster than a speeding bullet.

TALUIGI
Mar 3 2015, 06:25:22 PM
Since, when i was 8 years old, i got a dynavision in xmas, i really liked, the RESCUE Kuck game, you played that something looks like a Teenage Mutant Ninja turtles, also they got alot of consoles that where announced at RedeTV on morning, i really liked collecting these games, when later, when internet was released on brazil, we could search for your favorite games, and emualators, so just after a research, i discovered that everything has a lie, dynacom is not official, is a semi-licensed company that makes clones of Mega drive, famicom, nes etc. in 2011 they made they last console, the Dynavision Cybergame, it's a console that runs NES,SNES,GB,GBC,GBA,MEGADRIVE,SEGA MASTER SYSTEM, and videos, photos. i really liked. after that i discovered about another company that makes the same thing that dynacom does, like Dendy.

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This Model.  :)  

My favorite Game, Street Fighter II, My cousin says everytime, that Tectoy port is better than the dynavision one, because the graphics where poorly made.  :rolleyes:
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I had that same disappointment too, but in my country I was residing, there were no advertisments of video games and such. You are luckier in that sense that you still have the small freedom to get modern consoles back in the 90s.

Here in SE Asia, being all the stereotypical "Asian" models, we are supposed to grind on books, play the violin/piano and video games are "illegal" in households. :) :lol:

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Hey there guys and girls,

I'm sure most of you are in the USA or probably Europe - I could guess that bootlegs there are even rarer.

How did you come into contact with this? From some episodes of AVGN and some other comedy channels/reviews, maybe you might have that NES cart with a very strange color.

I'm in SE Asia, so we don't see those tall grey cartridges. Believe me, we never seen ANY of these carts before. We have the Famiclones there, because it's all we got. Owning an SNES or a Genesis was out of the question at that time as we were not having the moolah yet.

The only console I got when I was a kid was a Micro-Genius one with a 20-in-1 multicart. It was in 1992.

And also, I could tell you that in 1995-1999 those stalls selling those carts are almost everywhere. These carts with different colors are adorned on the counter. Whatever-in-1, bootleg games, and some original copies of Mortal Kombat III were there. No Nintendo 64, 'cause people there are obsessed with PS1.

I was exposed to all these things that I've become very shocked to hear that there was an actual "original" Famicom cart or NES cart elsewhere. All my life me and my friends were having played those bootlegs on the console.

One of my friends played a lot of games. That including a mountain of those small Famicom carts. One of the games was a beat-em-up. I saw the fighters' names "Moon" and "Cliff". Dunno what was the game at all, I believe it's another bootleg too.

I'm sure you have some nice stories to share about them. :)


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