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The eagle has landed!

Yeah, its working. Have been playing Super Mario Word last night. Did a few tests with different roms. Mainly Lorom, type 0 without save game ram. Was able to run games up to 16bmit. Couldn’t find any 32mbit type 0 games to test the complete ram area. Anyways its working finally. What de did? Resolder [...]

Timing Problems ?

Last night i had a long debug session with Max and we tried to track down the problem with the prototype board.The problem is that some homebrew roms are runinng fine, but most commerical games don’t even start. I can start up the game “Mr. Do”, but it hangs directly at the first intro screen. [...]

Debugging Days

Last night we spend atleast 3 hours to track down a little bug in the cpu fuse settings. After running first tests on the hardware we got debug uart and some basic sreg addressing working. Then we started to implement a sram read/write round trip. We found out that we read for all sram cells [...]

Dev Cart Block Diagramm

These two pictures show the different functional blocks of the prototype design. On the top side you have the MCU and next to it the connector for In-System-Programming and the MMC/SD daughter board. The yellow block marks the usb hardware for emulated software-usb on the mcu, the green block is the ram section. The orange [...]

The Eagle has landed

This monday morning the long awaited first prototype PCB arrived from pcb-pool. We had a little UPS problem on friday, so we had to wait till monday to get the PCB. Max just started to solder all the chips, looking forward to get a working usb uploader firmware running till the next weekend. I think [...]