I just got the replacement they had to mail out because of the lawsuit. I figured it would just be the cartridge but actually they sent the entire thing cib again. Anyway, has any NES actually been fried by these? Also, the various aliexpress bootleg carts which I assume also have the incorrect 3.3v chips? I played the first cart for at least a couple hours with no obvious issue.
Emulation wins again
>>12513172It’s pretty good right? One of the best modern nes games I’ve played. Of course it’s very easy
>using flash chips designed for 3.3v on a NES that provides 5v how one misses this
>>12513178Yes it's good. It's one of only two homebrew games I've played that actually look and play like something that could actually have come out back then. Rugrats feel like a game from 92-94 game, the other is Garbage Pail Kids Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum which feels like something from 89
>>12513182The garbage pail kids is great from what I’ve played. I need to go back and complete it. Also it seems to have some legitimate old school difficulty>>12513181I don’t know electricity stuff but yes, this seems to be the issue. But in my research I’m not finding any actual examples of damaged hardware. Just phrases like “ticking time bombs”
>>12513146what ROM size and mapper does it use?
What he means is the cart is supposed to have a voltage step-down circuit to reduce the 5V from the console to 3.3V.
>>12513146>like its 1991
>>12513212From what I’m seeing it uses something called mapper 30 and the rom size is 512kb
It's one of those dumb UNROM-512 boards that homebrew carts use.
>>12513210> Just phrases like “ticking time bombs”over dramatic but kind of correct. and a similar problem that people found with many chinese made flash carts. in either case, running voltages higher or lower than recommended dramatically shortens the life expectancy of the cart and can damage your console since a cart is just a direct connection to the computer's bus. anything that goes dramatically wrong in a cart can be passed straight to the console as there's no protections at all.
>>12513182>>12513172Thats the feel i got from the Garbage Pail kids one, but the Rugrats one is too damn good to being considered a Nick game form the 90s, those were HORRIBLE lead by THQ, but this one feels like it would have been done by Hudson Soft.There is a Rainbow Brite game thats pretty mediocre but feels like a game that would have been an 1986 game, maybe early 87 tops.
>>12513172What emulator palette you use to capture these colors, look good
>>12515219Most games from 86 didn't have black outlines around sprites
>>12515226play it for a few minutes and you see what i mean, playable but not remarkable.
>>12515226also if it was from 86 it would just be a CNROM game
>>12515031I was thinking this might be more of a cartridge issue than a threat to the hardware. But if there is no protection between the two I can see what you’re saying. Still, with all the cheap multicarts that have been out for decades I’m tempted to think we would see more broken hardware by now right?
>>12513172Bibeo games :DDDDDDDDD
>>12515712if the voltage was incorrect it would fry the cartridge, but the console isn't affected
>>12513687most NES homebrews i've seen use these or NROM boards. aren't there Chinese MMC1 and whatnot clones? i know i've heard of them.
>>12515219>but the Rugrats one is too damn good to being considered a Nick game form the 90s, those were HORRIBLE lead by THQIt would probably be a 2 megabit MMC1 game and the programmers had 3 months to finish.
On that note I find it kind of funny that most Mega Drive homebrews are 32 megabits and whatnot when only like 20 late games used that and it was not representative of the typical Mega Drive game, the most common ROM size being 8 megabits.
>>12513146Is this a good homebrew thread? Welp I am on my phone so I can't share.There's the RIKI games, Estique, Blazing Rangers.....
>>12515703or FDS
>>12513610Yes? That's the year Rugrats premiered.
