Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Page 102 of 418 1 2 100 101 102 103 104 417 418
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 344
Likes: 3
I
Senior Member
Offline
Senior Member
I
Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 344
Likes: 3
This makes me wonder if Nintendo actually went all the way with the "faithful reproduction" in this one, including its innards.

Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 247
Likes: 1
L
Senior Member
Offline
Senior Member
L
Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 247
Likes: 1
http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/clubn/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/4
It seems to be quite faithful, considering they got some of the original team that made the original to work on the reproduction.

Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 17
Likes: 4
M
Member
Offline
Member
M
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 17
Likes: 4
I'm pretty sure the super mario bros mini classic has a bug on the later level (spinning fire barriers) that can crash the game. Certainly don't recall that in the original.

Joined: May 2010
Posts: 1,051
S
Very Senior Member
OP Offline
Very Senior Member
S
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 1,051
I've been busier than I thought, and it's likely to continue through the end of the month. But then it looks like I'm pretty open through the end of the year.

I've decapped, photographed, whinked, and photographed all the chips from the stuff I've bought and Hap sent me, but I need to composite the pics, transcribe the bits, and document the hardware. Incog sent me a big package of PCBs with blobs, too.

The only one I've finished up so far is DataMan: www.seanriddle.com/tms1980.html I did all the work on that then looked at the patent- it's got the schematic, VFD connections, and source and object code! Oh, well, I verified that the unit Hap sent matched the patent.

Kevin- Incog sent me a couple of NEC chips- a 42-DIP D774C Cassette Vision board marked with what Google Translate tells me is "TV Vader & Yosaku", and an 80-QFP D75316GF from Barcode Blitter. Let me know if you want me to send those to you to dump electronically.

Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,017
Likes: 21
S
Very Senior Member
Offline
Very Senior Member
S
Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,017
Likes: 21
Originally Posted by seanriddle
Kevin- Incog sent me a couple of NEC chips- a 42-DIP D774C Cassette Vision board marked with what Google Translate tells me is "TV Vader & Yosaku"... Let me know if you want me to send those to you to dump electronically.

Oh, do we finally know what the D774C is and how to dump it electronically? Guru had me looking for a while...

Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,079
Likes: 6
L
Very Senior Member
Offline
Very Senior Member
L
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 1,079
Likes: 6
hap and I speculated that the D774C is a special ucom4 mcu plus built in simple video display ASIC thing. Possibly a 128x128 3bpp framebuffer and a composite ntsc driver?

LN


"When life gives you zombies... *CHA-CHIK!* ...you make zombie-ade!"
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,368
Likes: 120
H
hap Offline
Very Senior Member
Offline
Very Senior Member
H
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,368
Likes: 120
Great smile having the patent with commented src code for the Dataman will be very useful when I add it to MAME.

I'm not spending much time coding these days: got a new PC recently and am catching up on some games I wasn't able to run smoothly before. I completed Arkham Asylum today. Up next is Arkham City and if I'm not fed up with the batham by then, Arkham Knight :P

Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,368
Likes: 120
H
hap Offline
Very Senior Member
Offline
Very Senior Member
H
Joined: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,368
Likes: 120
Arkham Knight was great, I'm all bathammed out.

I added support for TMS1980 to the TMS1xxx core. TI DataMan is emulated and works.

Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 240
Likes: 3
R
Rik Offline
Senior Member
Offline
Senior Member
R
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 240
Likes: 3
Anyone know how to get ahold of Kevin these days? He's not responding to PMs and I _really_ need to get my games back from him soon...

Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 192
P
Senior Member
Offline
Senior Member
P
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 192
I do have 4 or so cassette vision carts ready to dump if you find a way smile

Page 102 of 418 1 2 100 101 102 103 104 417 418

Link Copied to Clipboard
Who's Online Now
4 members (Praxis, nerd4gw, Golden Child, 1 invisible), 545 guests, and 1 robot.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
ShoutChat
Comment Guidelines: Do post respectful and insightful comments. Don't flame, hate, spam.
Forum Statistics
Forums9
Topics9,320
Posts121,930
Members5,074
Most Online1,283
Dec 21st, 2022
Our Sponsor
These forums are sponsored by Superior Solitaire, an ad-free card game collection for macOS and iOS. Download it today!

Superior Solitaire
Forum hosted by www.retrogamesformac.com