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Hardware > homebrew cartridge questions

#117888 - fueriose - Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:53 am

Ok this may seem like a broad question and I may not be stating it
correctly but here we go:

I'm curious if there are schematics and tutorials on how to build your own
gameboy, gameboy color and gameboy advance cartridges?

What I mean by this is lets say I have certain homebrew games I want to
make cartridges of kind of like with the "2004MBIT competition" carts that
were made. I'm not sure if they had sram in them or not? But thats what
I'm looking to do. I want to make some cartridges with either eprom chips
or prom chips for that matter seeing I wont be reprogramming them.. But
I do want sram to enable game saves.. How can I go about this and what
are the best methods?

#117904 - Lynx - Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:14 pm

Well, asking google about a schematic for building a gba cartridge returns Home Made Carts
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#117978 - fueriose - Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:40 pm

this is perfect! fantastic bunch of information here, thank you.

#117980 - mog123 - Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:50 pm

just remember that the gba won't be as easy as the gb/c , you need counters and other poo.

#118033 - fueriose - Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:51 am

well i had actually stumbled across this guys site searching through gbadev
before, but only saw the gba section.. i totally missed the gb/c section!!

any idea where i can get game cartridge cases/replacement cases?

#118052 - Lynx - Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:33 pm

"fast & quick" way would be a large auction site where people are just trying to get rid of old games.
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#118057 - mog123 - Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:52 pm

Lynx wrote:
"fast & quick" way would be a large auction site where people are just trying to get rid of old games.


+ you get some good pcb's to mod, or just games ;)

#129386 - Karatorian - Tue May 22, 2007 8:38 am

KeithE mentions having found a supplier of cart cases in his thread about link port connectors.