CV1000D Multi! NOT A BOOT CHAT THREAD - Formerly: A huge project is approaching....
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XtraSmiley
Legendary
^OK, now you're really giving it away!The question is, is it ALL of them, or is shit still being hoarded?
I do not have access to anything you can't find in MAME or on emuline (I think you can find the two romhacks on emuline). I did like your idea in the other thread about crowdfunding, but like I said, that stuff works AWESOME in the console community for prototypes, and the vintage PC game community (I remember crowdfunding getting the source code to Chuck Rock at one point), but usually the person who owns that sort of stuff in the arcade community buys it exclusively for the purpose of "I have it and you don't". So finding a seller would not be that easy even if the money were.
XtraSmiley
Legendary
Well shit, now I'm stoked. I don't know if I NEED it, but I WANT it.
I wait with bated breath.
Well, I have to ask, are you releasing to the world (yes, I think you are), but are you going to sell a finished product too?
I wait with bated breath.
Well, I have to ask, are you releasing to the world (yes, I think you are), but are you going to sell a finished product too?
100% free gerbers/etc on Github, yes.
Might offer an install service for the FPC connectors that people can't do themselves easily, but I'm not touching taking money for those boards (even 100% exactly at cost) with a thirty foot pole, honestly. No money involved is the way this remains out in the open and with zero trouble.
If this is what I think it is, I hope folks know someone who is good with smd work. Because you won’t want to risk screwing up a donor pcb…
maybe film an install vid so folks know what they’re getting into?
I would think it would work with a bootleg though, so that’s at least an option I hope. Not that they’re much cheaper either, but at least they’re not originals.
maybe film an install vid so folks know what they’re getting into?
I would think it would work with a bootleg though, so that’s at least an option I hope. Not that they’re much cheaper either, but at least they’re not originals.
Thankfully there are bootlegs now! Which it works just dandy on.
I just don't like seeing people get screwed over, especially on something that isn't even remotely black magic. So here we are.
Interesting, I must be out of the loop on this open secret.
But if this is the platform I suspect there are 3 significant hurdles to making a multi on this platform so I'm quite curious how you're resolving those aspects.
But if this is the platform I suspect there are 3 significant hurdles to making a multi on this platform so I'm quite curious how you're resolving those aspects.
This is most of why I haven't just posted the gerbers for this basic first version.
astro_zombie138
Champion
If this is indeed what I think it is and I'm pretty sure it is, then holy shit rewrite.
As far as I'm concerned the only real hurdle is the RTC check for the three games that require it (4 if you count a romhack). Which isn't too much of a hurdle really, since the other ones have it working by adding RTC chips onto the multi board (and another lovely gent on here has a very interesting idea how to fool it into thinking there's a chip present but hasn't tested it yet, nor have I), but I think it'd be smarter to patch out the requirement for it right from the rom the same way the manufacturer check for the chip ID has been patched out. Heck if I know how to use ghidra though.
Not sure there are any real others. You can convert between games just by swapping roms. B games work on D boards just fine. So you just move those roms, y'know?
XtraSmiley
Legendary
Man, shit. I was hoping the repros would get cheaper over time. This is gonna fuck up my wait, big time.
Maybe Mr Chinese dude will just take these gerbers and sell it as a package lol. I’m in favor if it means original boards stay un-fucked and folks get working stuff
To finish my thought, @twistedsymphony I have a really shoddy wired up set of ZIF sockets on little PCBs when I was testing what games would convert on the bootleg boards and which wouldn't. I turned that into a PCB, just replaced wires with traces. It does work, but none of the RTC games boot, as would be expected. Another gent on here, who I hope will pipe up, has a nicely working similar solution, but the install is even more difficult.
XtraSmiley
Legendary
That's what I hope as well. Of course I've been waiting on the same deal with the MVS/AES multi and the only person mass making those is right in this thread... lol.
Come on China!
This ain’t my processor lol. No rtc hax from me
There has GOT to be a reason that they stopped making v3 PCBs. All those chips are still available for sale. My heart is still in hopes that they're working on v4.
I'm hoping so too once it's all done and final version. And if they have gerbers for the boot PCBs it'd be trivial to change the SMD pads into a series of actual pins to make a socket for a daughterboard. Which makes it an easy install for all.
The prices for those seem to just keep going up. They left the $50 price range in the dust a bit ago. Getting to the point where SNK may start making multicarts :p
Hopefully, unless they are trying to be like Nintendo in the past and create low supply to keep demand/cost high. That's their bread n butter :p