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Project VBoot

DogP wrote:

KR155E wrote:
Yeah, a Bound High cart would be cool! I was thinking about making a run of carts with boxes and manuals, but it would not be possible without completely custom parts. Now it seems in reach! 🙂 Maybe I’ll finally get around to releasing BLOX 2 on cartridge?

BTW, how about making dust caps for that connector?

Why would Bound High carts need custom parts?

DogP

I suppose because Bound High was never released and given the ‘proper VB cartridge treatment’ or whatever you want to call it.

Although, wouldn’t there be some kind of legal issue with selling a cart that has a Nintendo ROM on it like that? Maybe he was talking about just making a cart for himself and not to sell.

Thanks for the part #! 🙂

DogP schrieb:
Why would Bound High carts need custom parts?

Simply because I don’t have donor carts for that. 😉

Vaughanabe13 schrieb:
Although, wouldn’t there be some kind of legal issue with selling a cart that has a Nintendo ROM on it like that? Maybe he was talking about just making a cart for himself and not to sell.

Yeah I know he was.

I guess like 20 homemade Bound Highs would stay pretty much under the radar.

KR155E wrote:

Vaughanabe13 schrieb:
Although, wouldn’t there be some kind of legal issue with selling a cart that has a Nintendo ROM on it like that? Maybe he was talking about just making a cart for himself and not to sell.

Yeah I know he was.

I guess like 20 homemade Bound Highs would stay pretty much under the radar.

I was only pondering making myself one, as it is i would have to rely on someone producing for me the internal bits, chip with ROM and pcb fitted to a connector etc.
No real point in selling them as the Flashboy does a fine job, it would just be for my own benefit of always having a copy of bound high to hand to play on a VB and not to have to flash it.

Dust covers could be made too, but might work out cheaper to just store the cart in a zip-top baggie. all down to cost and how much folk would pay, supply and demand as ever.

I was just looking at your circuit and you haven’t connected –

RS_in (55) to RS_out (57)
LS_in (56) to LS_out (58)

You won’t get any sound.

MineStorm wrote:
I was just looking at your circuit and you haven’t connected –

RS_in (55) to RS_out (57)
LS_in (56) to LS_out (58)

You won’t get any sound.

Oh shoot yeah. I just skipped over that part because I saw a comment on DogP’s page about using those pins for an audio-enhancement chip and I didn’t realize that they should be connected. Thanks, I’ll fix that ASAP.

KR155E wrote:
Yeah, a Bound High cart would be cool! I was thinking about making a run of carts with boxes and manuals, but it would not be possible without completely custom parts. Now it seems in reach! 🙂 Maybe I’ll finally get around to releasing BLOX 2 on cartridge?

BTW, how about making dust caps for that connector?

I hope you do make Blox 2, and Bound High carts. Im a big fan of both games and would love to play them on the actual hardware. If you do make these carts how much would they cost?

A price would depend on costs for cart shells. The PCB would be cheaper than a FlashBoy. I think it would be around 50 EUR for a game. But let’s not take over the thread. 😉

[VBrulez]

KR155E wrote:
A price would depend on costs for cart shells. The PCB would be cheaper than a FlashBoy. I think it would be around 50 EUR for a game. But let’s not take over the thread. 😉

Thats a really good price :-D.I think I might get one when they come out. Im sorry, I was not trying to take over the thread of anything.

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I don’t care what people talk about in the thread. 😎

[Vaughanabe13]

Yay, new update!
http://brennanthl.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/vboot-update-9202010/

Minestorm, as you can see I fixed the audio problem. Thanks for that.

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Beautiful!

Awesome V-boot goodnessss!

[Vaughanabe13]

Good news, the first prototype has been ordered!!! When I say “prototype” I mean hardware prototype, since I still have a LOT of software work to do. I just figured it would be easiest to get a board working and go from there.

More good news, I have a BOM (Bill of Materials) worked up and it looks like the cost of the entire cart will be…..

drum roll…..

$69.00 USD.

However, this is WITHOUT ordering anything in bulk, so when I order in bulk that cost will most likely go down. Also, that total does NOT include the cost of a Micro SD card, which usually runs about $10 USD for a 1GB card.

Also, this is for a cart with 16M of SRAM and 256K of Save SRAM. There will be an upgrade option if you want 32M of program space, probably for about $20 more.

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So about a 100$ for everything

No, thats not what I said.

How much then?

KR155E wrote:
Beautiful!

Seconded! 😉

Vaughanabe13 wrote:
More good news, I have a BOM (Bill of Materials) worked up […]

Cool. Will you be posting that on the blog? You don’t have to list your supplier(s), or even give prices, but I’d like to see the parts list.

Also, that total does NOT include the cost of a Micro SD card, which usually runs about $10 USD for a 1GB card.

I found a couple of 2GB cards for under $9 on walmart.com

Sure, they’re “Dane-elec” and “Sony” brands (read: the cheapest, no-name, hastily-made ones they could find with “Sony” printed on them), but still probably serviceable…

Also, this is for a cart with 16M of SRAM and 256K of Save SRAM. There will be an upgrade option if you want 32M of program space, probably for about $20 more.

16M (I assume bits) should be enough for the foreseeable future, but that’s quite a price gap…

Cool. Will you be posting that on the blog? You don’t have to list your supplier(s), or even give prices, but I’d like to see the parts list.

Yeah, but my parts list right now is not set in stone. But I think I know what you’re getting at… the bus transceiver I’m using is this guy, and the uC I’m using is a PIC32MX340F512H. The rest of the parts are pretty self explanatory I think.

I found a couple of 2GB cards for under $9 on walmart.com
Sure, they’re “Dane-elec” and “Sony” brands (read: the cheapest, no-name, hastily-made ones they could find with “Sony” printed on them), but still probably serviceable…

Those will work fine. In my own search for a uSD card I just ended up buying one from the local electronics shop for $10. Usually it’s actually HARD to get them in capacities lower than 2GB, but in this case, 1GB is WAY more than you would ever need, storage wise.

16M (I assume bits) should be enough for the foreseeable future, but that’s quite a price gap…

I agree, it’s pretty stupid but the part literally costs I think $16 more, I can’t help that. I said 20 because I was rounding up a few bucks. It’s an expensive (and dense) technology, and that’s one of the reasons it isn’t used anymore for new designs!

VBlover wrote:
How much then?

You should probably just re-read his post. 😉 So yeah, undetermined, but a few tenners below what you said, looks like.

This is starting to look really good, man.

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