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A shield for the Arduino Mega that can back up video game cartridges.
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Option Menu for FLASHING SUPER CIC #990

Closed StanMOI closed 2 months ago

StanMOI commented 2 months ago

OSCR firmware version

14

OSCR hardware version

HW5 Rev6

Attach OSCR_LOG.txt file here

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System used

SNES/Super Famicom

Describe the issue.

Hello,

Will be great if in Option Menu we can select to flash / re-flash SUPER CIC that present on SNES Repro PCB board's.

Thanks

sanni commented 2 months ago

One of the needed pins for flashing is not connected(1) to the cartridge edge connector. Also it would need some extra parts(2), so you would need to build an adapter PCB between the SNES slot and the SNES cartridge. All in all it would cost more than a $9 K150 PIC programmer(3).

(1) https://github.com/mrehkopf/sd2snes/blob/develop/cic/snescic-key.asm
(2) https://diyodemag.com/projects/arduino_pic_programmer
(3) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006235544329.html

It's doable for sure but not sure if anyone wants to spend the effort.