Gameboy Flascart

[19rsn007]

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday and he was looking for a way to play roms on his gameboy (color)

I started searching for my gameboy games, took one that I wasn't playing and took it appart.

A maskrom and a mapper/bankswitching chip were there and I searched the internet some more, looking to find the maskrom pinout and the the cartridge pinout.

I managed to find it, so I took my multimeter and checked if it was correct.....it was

 

This afternoon I desoldered the maskrom and soldered some wires in it's place....as you can see below:

 

DESOLDERED MASKROM

 

SOLDERING WIRES IN PLACE

 

After a short break (my wife finished diner) I finished the soldering and made sure the wires would stick to the board by putting some hot glue on them

 

THIS IS THE CARTRIDGE WITH THE WIRES COMING OUT:

 

To test the thing I took an old pc motherboard with an eeprom as bios chip and flashed it with a gameboy game.

 

TIME TO TEST THE THING :

http://youtu.be/oOfdjv1WqzE

 

The gamyboy I am testing it on is a gb advance SP.

Classic gameboy games stick out a lot, but this one sticks out a bit more because the cart is extended with a pcb with an IC Socket so the eeprom can be inserted.

 

I want it to run on regular flasroms in the near future and all I need to do now is build a programmer for the thing so roms can be changed via the carts directly

Edited May 6, 2013 by 19rsn007

[+Gemintronic]

Jobs done! Now you need to dig out your Atari Jaguar and create a new Flash Cart. Call it the StankBoard.

[19rsn007]

if I had a jag, I would try....

 

but why the stankboard?

Edited May 6, 2013 by 19rsn007

[yllawwally]

You could get a Gameboy flash cart. They're alot harder to find now. But this one from tototek seems like it would work.

http://www.tototek.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=40&products_id=142&zenid=n80j8lhmqthej6dh3crd693rg2