History

Cartridge Dumper

A simple cartridge rom dumper using a FTDI based jtag board for bit baning. We did this to figure out how the cartridge adress layout relates to the SNES memory map.

• How to read a orignal cartridge.pocRomDumper
• The source code

First working POC

PCB Prototype produced by pcbpool. Using 32Mbit Sram, AVR 644 and a FTDI for a debug console.

• The pocSRAM is a Proof of Concept of our SNESRam idea.
• The source code
• How to get data into the sram.pocSDCARD
• The source code

First Prototype PCB

PCB Prototype produced by pcbpool. Using 32Mbit Sram, AVR 644 and a FTDI for a debug console.

Version 2.6 Seeedstudio

feature improved PCB Batch produced by seeedstudio, using 16Mbit Sram and an AVR 644.

Version 2.6 SNES loader

Version 2.6 Reset button test

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Research

• Collected cartridge InformationCartridgeList
• Analysis of 7000 commercial Snes Roms romOverview
• Cart Select timings csTiming

Knowledge Database

• SNES Memory Mapping memoryMap3
• ShadowCraft's Memory Mapping memoryMap4
• The interrupt processing sequence interrupts
• Cartridge Pinouts from caitsith2 caitsith2Pinouts