Help with new Famiclone

Post by **marshallh** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 8:41 pm

I picked up a NOAC while at Big Lots, and here's what it looks like:

Can anyone explain how to wire up a cartridge connector? I thought the American NES carts were 72 pins.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 11:00 pm

sort of off-topic, my question won't help much if at all, but which NOAC is this? Do you have any pictures of the unit itself? Just wondering because I too am looking for NOAC's at biglots.

Post by **marshallh** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:18 am

I was looking all over in the toys section, and there was nothing. Finally when I was leaving out the door it caught my eye - it was on a very tall stack! You might try looking everywhere, because they don't really plave it in a single section of the store.

atkafighter · Post by **atkafighter** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 11:03 am

Whoa! It combines SNES, PSX, and N64 controls (is that a rumble motor too?). It also has a Zapper built in! This thing has a serious identity crisis. Anyway, I would guess that the smaller glop top is for the controls, and I don't think its a NOAC it might just be an emulator (similar to the Atari plug and plays). Thats just my guess.

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:56 pm

Um this is big. That 44 pin glop is exactly what we have here folks.

Weve probably gotten a NEW NES Emulator!

Remember back to that thing I had called the "Handy boy?" which I learned stored games on a 44 pin Flash memory chip? I believe this might be very similar! If we could somehow find some pins of these mysterious chips (Or just use my flash chip PDF..) I can get a way to access my chip. In turn, it would allow you to add your own flash chip and internal games, no?

Post by **marshallh** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:40 pm

Why would it not be a NOAC? It shows the same hardware limitations (no sprite cropping, so sprites appear in blocks at left side of screen), (when two sprites are on the same scanline, they flicker)

Why would they use a flash chip (are you sure it is one? Or just a reduced-pin-count Famicom cart?)

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:41 pm

Who ever said it was a famiclone. Nes hardware is extremely plentiful these days, and rather simple to make for ANY pirater company. So maybe the company who made this, created their own version of the NES

Post by **marshallh** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:23 pm

The idea of burning a FLASH chip with a 50-in-1 ROM and soldering it to the PCB would be awesome (you could possibly make your own "multicart" rom.)
Unfortunately, writing and reading SMT flash chips is not easy... There's got to be a way to wire up a NES cartridge.

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:39 pm

I thought the same, but that might just have to do. I could get the stuff to do it, but it would be kinda hard and it would suck up all my money if it didnt work.

However, if it did, I could have one mega awesome portable!

Your Chip is unknown, its a glop. Mine is a confirmed one made by INTEL in the 1990s. the strata FLASH! series. Accessing the chip would be hard (with my skills) but heres what Id have to do.....

1 Rebuild a new board that holds this chip so that all pins could be accessed.
2 Find and buy a flash chip reading/writing and or programmer
3 find a way to access the data, view the contents (Possibly copy them to the system)
4 Find a way to load up my own files, and put them in

5 Find an easy way to remove this device and re attach it.

6. Hack it up! Add a screen and Redo the case.
Mabye i should check my local biglots for one...
Man this makes me want to learn how......

bioniclebert · Post by **bioniclebert** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:44 pm

http://appzone.intel.com/toolcatalog/li ... 5&pfamily=

Turns out I only have the 40 pin TSOP, not 44

But would that be something to look into?

Post by **marshallh** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:47 pm

Hm... this is something for Kevin Horton

I'll probably end up buying a pirate with a famicom connector. Ah well, I've got to finish my n64 anyway.

Weebl · Post by **Weebl** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:42 pm

Yeah I bought one, opened it up, and saw that it was different inside and would take lots of work for it to function as a NOAC, so I just took it back. I'll probably buy a NOAC from Gannon and make it easier on myself as well.