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Adding Memory to the Cartridge
It is critical to the production of future educational games on the TVC to be able to save User-Generated-Content to File.
The Famicom system had a mechanism for saving BASIC programs, Music compositions, etc. This was the Famicom Data Recorder: a cassette player/recorder that plugged into the famicom, via 1/8 inch headphone jacks.
Famicom Turbofile II by ASCII This is a "memory card" which was compatible with some of Ascii's Famicom games. The switch on the left selects which of four memory banks you want to use and the switch on the right is a "write protect".
http://superfami.com/fc_turbofile.html
We'd ideally be able to save to a FLASH chip in the cartridge. Can this be done? There has been some great work to use flash cards to store multiple games on one cartridge. However, it is an open question whether we could save a BASIC program on the Flash memory.
Here is some documentation for the creation of FLASH cartridges
http://ameba.lpt.fi/~hataarto/nes/
And some discussion thereof:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/3/22/3291
Buy a Flash Memory Cartridge
http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=133
and Discussion thereof:
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/340
Tools for NES hacking, including FLASH cartridges
http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?categoryID=86
The Famicom system had a mechanism for saving BASIC programs, Music compositions, etc. This was the Famicom Data Recorder: a cassette player/recorder that plugged into the famicom, via 1/8 inch headphone jacks.
Famicom Turbofile II by ASCII This is a "memory card" which was compatible with some of Ascii's Famicom games. The switch on the left selects which of four memory banks you want to use and the switch on the right is a "write protect".
http://superfami.com/fc_turbofile.html
We'd ideally be able to save to a FLASH chip in the cartridge. Can this be done? There has been some great work to use flash cards to store multiple games on one cartridge. However, it is an open question whether we could save a BASIC program on the Flash memory.
Here is some documentation for the creation of FLASH cartridges
http://ameba.lpt.fi/~hataarto/nes/
And some discussion thereof:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/3/22/3291
Buy a Flash Memory Cartridgehttp://www.retrousb.com/index.php?productID=133
and Discussion thereof:
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/340
Tools for NES hacking, including FLASH cartridges
http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?categoryID=86
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