M82 replica?
Found out about them a few months ago and vaguely remember them in a few
stores. Now, I have seen homemade combo consoles with three or four consoles in one... I have not seen anyone make something like this before, though.
Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to replicate an M82 and might end up being cheaper than an original unit, with the way prices on them seem to be skyrocketing. Plus, I think the game select could be made a bit more user friendly than simply pushing it until you get to the cart you want. Make it a dial or something.
Thoughts?
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And you could get a board from an NES for fifty, twelve or fifteen 72 pin connectors for 150 bucks or so on Amazon... the case and other items needed, I have no idea about.
Personally, I'd like something like that so I had all my favorite games at the ready at all times. It'd just be cool as hell. Probably simpler to just find an M82 if I want that, though.
you'd probably only have to switch the +5 line between carts I bet the rest could just be daisy chained together.
This. Although you'll also have to have a mapper on board because I'd imagine this thing has CHR-RAM/ROM and a boot rom at 6000-8000, which would both have to be disabled once a game is selected and the cartridge is activated from the device.
And no, you can't just switch the 5V off to de-select a cartridge. The chips would end up trying power themselves through the data lines, and that would be bad. You would need to use bus buffers to disable the signals to every cartridge. You could look at a Famicombox, M82, or Playchoice board for an example of how it's done. It had been discussed on the NESdev forum before (not recently).
But sadly i have little experience in this type of thing so it was put as a back burner project.
On a side note... last night my mind began to wander and I did the math... it'd take at least 67 M82 size units to have the entire NES library at the press of a button. Imagine linking all those to one TV.