[Jose Torres] sent in his latest attempt at creating a custom Gameboy game cartridge. We’ve featured his projects before, and he’s come a lot closer over the last 2 years. He’s aiming to create an easy interface for homebrewers that doesn’t require any other special equipment. In this revision, he’s using a PIC and a memory controller to interface between an SD card and the Gameboy. The cart also has USB support for uploading files to the SD card and reprogramming the PIC. Because it’s just USB mass storage, it will work on almost any modern OS. He’s currently testing the device, but hopes to be selling them soon for $40.
Really cool :-)
is there a write-up on this project? I can’t seem to find a link.
I hope he keeps the project open source, or will at least sell the board only.
Looks like a very good way to bring the gameboy into the 21st century of flashcart tech.
I wouldn’t mind a link though :(
Usb flash carts are already around, aren’t they?
http://mynewdata.tripod.com/gb/eng/0905.htm
Does this have other advantages other than being an usb mass storage device?
It’s reprogrammable.
Ah, I love the fact that there are still people out there hacking the good old gameboy. I’d buy or build this.
i bought 2 of these years ago. still have them. they work great. with sd cards and all. paid like $15 each.
Nonfinite has been selling reprogrammable USB carts for awhile. They usually use them for chiptune but I am pretty sure you could write games to them and other homebrew programs.
http://nonelectronics.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2&zenid=98a75dadb674c1d4407b58002a7e5d7c
Okay, I usually am a little annoyed at having to look at the target URL to figure out which link is to the actual project, and at hAd always linking their own blog posts when referring to old projects instead of directly to them.
But wtf, there isn’t even a link here…
Just a thought on the progress. I recall seeing a video on how a third party video game company was using a special cartridge back in the SNES day to counter the genuine chips that would allow only official SNES games. It looked like a game genie and if you put any official game on the top slot of the cartridge, the game would work. It was a Noah’s Ark game that was pretty much a knock off of Wolfenstein. more info on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw&feature=related
Thanks for featuring my project. Here is a link to a write up and more pictures of the circuitboard.
Forgot the link, here it is:
http://8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=14406&p=1
@jayson:
you’re talking about the 10NES chip
NES, not SNES :)
They made thos bible games for the gameboy as well, they were the same cartridge, well at least similar to the normal ones. It was a long time ago that I remember seeing one but the cartridge was a little off, I can’t remember exactly how though.
Wonder who he ripped this off from? this guy is a notorious GPL violator, beware!
Is the firmware available (open source)?
epic fail
usb transferer now your talking,well worth $40
Cant find any more info about. 2 yqars past after last cartridge was sold, and i want to construct one for myself.Author ignored ma emails. Got somebody any write up about this Jose’s project.
As far as i know he never released any of them, started collecting preorder money(for micro-sd version) and disappeared. It really is a shame cause this would make the good old gb ‘whole’