Basically you just have to ground pin B30 to go into SMS mode. The real problem is that most SMS games use a mapper; the smaller ones might work on e.g. a Tototek flash cart if you can line up the bytes right and find a good way to ground B30.
Originally posted by ExCyber@Jul 15, 2003 @ 06:06 AM
Basically you just have to ground pin B30 to go into SMS mode. The real problem is that most SMS games use a mapper; the smaller ones might work on e.g. a Tototek flash cart if you can line up the bytes right and find a good way to ground B30.
Cyb, I think you are talking about ripping a cart. I just want to play the existing rom on my Desktop on Gen hardware via a flash cart... Would I need to alter the SMS rom somehow?
Actually, IIRC all the Sega mappers are compatible (i.e. they're all subsets of the largest one). There are still a few oddballs, but from what I've heard something like 98% of SMS games are playable with a single mapper.
Actually the Super Magic Drive does allow playing SMS games... it's just not very compatible, less than half of the games I tried work, unfortunately none of the really good ones (no Sonic or PhantasyStar ).
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