Post by e5frog » Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:58 am

I can confirm that the PAL-version works well on a PAL machine, just tried dumping Excitebike on my PAL NES and registered here just to tell about it.



With a cable connected directly to the stationary PC the 1200 bps option didn't work very well in the conversion process, had no problems at all with 600 or 300. Well, it's not hooked directly... there's some gadgets on the same line so if I had hooked it directly maybe the 1200 would have worked as well.



Just to make sure I got it out right I had another dump to compare with, the dumper then gave me four parts of PRG before repeating (as expected), I didn't really have to do anything. Assembling them though needed to be done 4+1+2+3 and the 8kB CHR part was dumped in one piece and added last - it ended up as an exact match to the dump I already had.



Nice to know that it works, I guess you would need to be somewhat of an expert to make good use of it if the cart you want to dump has any kind of a mapper or maybe some work could be done on the interface so you could choose a mapper before starting the dump with automatic switching of the areas getting all the data out at once would also be nice.



Super-great idea that requires almost no modification to the unit (I already had the CIC disabled and also a PowerPak) - I wish I had something odd to dump - I guess I can check if my own carts are the same as other known versions of course...



Very good idea and extremely well executed, works like a charm!

I agree that this may help dumping some of those rare carts that noone wants to open, solder on or send away. I'm not much of a NES-guy myself but it's a small part of my overall collection - and hacking is always fun!



EDIT:

Tried it again and pushed out all four parts of the PRG into the sampler program on the PC without stopping in between and then ran all of them through KCS08. Apart from the $C0, 00 first I got the entire 16kB in one go.