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My genesis expansion cart

patroclus02 - Jul 13, 2006

		patroclus02	Jul 13, 2006
		Here is a little fragment of my work on Genesis. As I already said some time ago, I'm working on a expansion cart, which boots up a BIOS ROM. I managed to boot 256Kb games. Now, I added an IDE conector, and I'm able to test read CF cards. I created a file system, and a PC software to write to the CF. It should support an IDE Hard Disk soon. Indeed, it used hard disk at first. But I have problems powering both the disk and Genesis, and I screwed up one system. Also, it supports data tranfer using PC paralel port, to read carts, SRAM, and also write back SRAM, or direct write WRAM, etc... I develop another windows based program to act as server. Anyway, preliminary info here: Sumary and pictures: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/co...s/pro... Some docs: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/co...ish/e...

		Pinchy	Jul 15, 2006
		Thats really neat. Would be nice if you used plain text files or html for documentation instead of DOC

		ExCyber	Jul 15, 2006
		Originally posted by Pinchy+Sat, 2006-07-15 @ 01:00 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinchy @ Sat, 2006-07-15 @ 01:00 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Thats really neat. Would be nice if you used plain text files or html for documentation instead of DOC [post=147047]Quoted post[/post] [/b] Seconded on both counts. <!--QuoteBegin-p atroclus02 One of the things you can do is read and write cart's SRAM (savegames) and dump original carts (up to 2Mb ROMs so far).[/quote]The .ISO for Mask of Destiny's transfer suite... has the source code for his cart dumper (which runs from Sega CD, hence using the memory map for expansion port booting), if you're interested in seeing how to dump the larger stuff. For 24MBit+SRAM (Phantasy Star IV, Beyond Oasis / The Story of Thor) you need to write a single banking register to swap SRAM in/out, and for SSF2 you have to set up a full-blown mapper chip, but it's pretty straightforward.

		lips2k8	Aug 29, 2008
		Hi I have been watching these forums for a while and now have joined as I feel brave enough to try some projects for myself... your has cought my eye - I would like to build this for myself I have basic electronics knowledgde and sldering skills and was wondering if you would help me build it?

		dibz	Aug 29, 2008
		This thread is over 2 years old, although maybe someone will comment on it?

		ShadowMaster	Aug 11, 2009
		dibz said: This thread is over 2 years old, although maybe someone will comment on it? Seems that this dude have it working now... http://www.consolasparasiempre.net/proyectos/proye... http://www.consolasparasiempre.net/proyectos/megaf... I'll visit his website later to check if he puts a step by step tutorial... nice project.