I was 5 thank you very much

I was 11, what the hell? :D

Looks good. You can get flash based carts already but SRAM should make testing cycles a lot quicker.
Would have been nice to have an SD slot and a small bootrom to load code from the SD card to ram.

Programming my own SNES game sounded like a fun project, until I realized that they were all written in assembly. No thanks! :)

@nobody: but i AM 30 :D

The only problem is you can’t use all those fancy GFX chips the SNES had with this.

This would have been extremely cool 15 years ago. It seems like a waste of time considering much better toys available now.

You shouldn’t underestimate the SNES. Sure it doesn’t feature W-LAN and HD resolution but when it comes to the pure gaming experience, you can probably still use the SNES as well as almost every other platform.
While I don’t know how difficult it is to write games for the SNES it seems to me like a perfect experimenting box for the aspiring game developer to show off…

shit… I do more stuff for awesomeness and geek cred than money since I’ve gotten to around 30.
@shibathedog… It’s really amazing how nintendo enabled developers to create software and extra hardware to run on their system.
I’m not sure if it was just cheaper that way or what, but I do know that an SNES cart has way more hardware in it than a PSX CD

I was less than a year old! Born in 90. Lol. But I grew up thinking about how much fun it would be to make games for the SNES, and I just happened to come across a SNES that was only used once! It still had all the original packaging.

Considering that even tototek is no larger making their flash carts, probably good to have new options. Ideally open schematics for people to diy though. There have been game copiers predating these things for ages and homebrew development was done while these consoles were current (typically with floppy or parallel loading ram based game copiers). I would suggest a direction to go these days is to have the carts accept uSD cards like contemporary gameboy DS flash cart systems. That way design can focus on memory access and be expandable.

Still handy for some, though it’s certainly not impossible to buy old SNES copier systems for dev work (some like an swcdx2 64 might be a bit rare/in demand though).

But an open schematic project would make for a good group effort that could continue to thrive long after initial development interest wore off.

I am also doing a little research into a SNES flash cart. I am very much at the initial design stage, but I am aiming not to have a whole load of SRAM chips, and completely map the whole I/O bus to a uC, and load the ROMs directly from SD.

I looked through the site to see if I could get some info and the best you get is a Schematic that looks like it was drawn on a napkin.

However, their site says they are looking at a SD card addon, which is ok.

The harder thing is the peripheral chips (SFX, etc) which need to be emulated for a fair number of games, and from what I can see, this setup doesn’t allow for such a thing.

Looks promising.

I’ve programmed for a few game consoles – I toyed with SNES briefly but since I wouldn’t be seeing my code on the real hardware I wasn’t very interested. Seems the console homebrew’ing community is fairly small these days. Wii homebrew is doing okay right now(lib’s are sketchy), and XNA I’ve never tried($ to make 360 games).

CAN IT LOAD GAMES OTHER PEOPLE MADE?!

Like for instance the ones i got in the giant bundle of thepiratebay?

@Grey Tototek wasn’t making their SNES flash carts for a while due to a problem getting the snes cart connector. they have them in stock again now.

Great! Now we just need one for the N64 and all those SGI Indy N64 dev machines will become useful again…somewhat.

i have a windows rom for sega genisis architecture, keeps blue screening on me
and ouch, $120 for pre-made
why isnt hong kong selling carts for all classic systems that have a usb plug integrated and hold 8 gigs? memory chips are dirt cheap now
oh crap…just read a comment, hackaday is predicting our ages accurately now…
i bet they are using google provided stats on every user and dynamically inserting how old we were in 1990
hehe, i still got my snes with the same cart thats been in it for the past uh…10? years, super bomberman 1!
i never actually did finish earthbound on the real cart…beat it on my phone though

@VV
It would be cheaper to just buy the old cartridges. You can get snes carts for less than $3-4 if you look in the right places.

@Frogz
Cool story, bro.

looks nice but i agree with cantido, an sd slot would be nice. @Anodyne I agree, i thought about writing snes games but im not very fond of assembly myself

young wipper snappers!

Wow he called my age….should I feel old???

I was 14. therefore, I am your grandfather! show some respect!

@cantido

Yeah, I have some spare carts (Including three copies of PUZZLE BOBBLE that turned out to be boots) that I can convert like that. (And I have an EPROM burner on the way from HK so I can burn new BIOS ROMs) But a USB-based easily-loaded board would be nice, too :P

Where do I buy it?

What programming languages does it support? How do we get our programming onto the catridge itself?

The nes chip is easaly by passed thats why thier were shity games like dr j and hook robodemons made by color dreams and plus its all firmware and basic c+ esept thier no bios matrix makeing it easy today its all about
Portability and laptops are become more and more inter grate rather than runing all off a disk
exept basic hardwere like modems and bus contollers basic mother boards stuff today all laptops are runing modems wirles adapters pointing devices even sound comply off firmwere wich is a bich if you ever change or reinstall os esp vista cus the hard were need additional firmwere and only supputs a os that had once came with the seris of the model like toshiba sat l300 to 360 ecedra usaly series on go by hundreds and each mod is ten up a difftense so a tip is to go to the manufactors site not the specifide driver site i tryed and its esp hard if your disply vga controllers are screwed cus for one you cant get to the card and it dont tell ya what the hells in side we all know the fucking intels

Does this work on Game Maker games? :z

What About 3D FX Chip Games?

nintendo keeps getting bigger systems and more room on their games (cartridge or now disks), but the games stay the same, just better graphics. I would like to see nintendo revert back to the old style games. can you imagine mario world, only with a map ten times bigger and with more secret worlds and more things to get? The new mario game was great; but the same 8 worlds, same levels, same number of power ups. why not release one with ALL of the power ups? where’s the star world, and super secret star world, and beyond that? i would love for delvelopers (amature or pro) to keep developing games and drop the 3-d. stop making the games more and more realistic, and focus on just keeping it fun. pixels are okay. they are our friends. i would love to develop games, but i can’t get past that whole “im not smart enough to program and build circuit boards” stuff. they need to open up game development to people who have a more artistic and creative brain rather than technical and mechanic. thank you for letting me get that off my chest.