Creating a SNES Flash Cart using TSOP40 and a Donor Cart 

Great job! Might try this myself at some point.

Just got my first EPROM burner a few months ago and this video is super helpful, I wasn't sure how to do the TSOP conversion until you explained it. Awesome!

Am I missing something? I was looking for the links to get the hardware items used in this tutorial but don't see any....

have you got a written down step by step version of this guide?

I don't really see what is wrong with selling flash carts as repro games (as long as it is listed as repro) because the original company is not profiting from this, only the people who have the real carts are.

I hope you have lots of luck with your venture.

hi, on 12m56 timeline, patch game using ucon64 to remove ingame zone protection before burning protection (remove frequency protection, sram checks etc..)

Nice video. I am going to get my SNES from the basement and play some donkey kong. :-)

Nice video! Surprised it doesn't have more views, I did one may years ago (if you search "super nintendo hacking" or "super nintendo cart hacking" I think it is like the second link/first video that comes up for some reason), and not nearly as informative. I think it was before the TSOP thing became en vogue (I was still using UV chips! I saw some tutorials with many many DIP chips that I could never get to work). To all the hackers out there you should invest in a nice programmer. I had a willem one and it took nearly three times to get the chips to write correctly. I finally had a bit more money after college and got a Batronix Batupo and the software is much better (with good english!). I didn't know about drag soldering (I went to art school, not engineering) the soldering looks a lot less intimdating than I imagined. Strangely I've never had any country/lockout issues, even if I removed the chips that weren't part of the ROM/SRAM.

Running ZSNES within Parallels is a classy move all around I think. Cheers lol

I know that I heard it somewhere, but what is the music played on the background from the beginning?

wooowwww man I just discovered your channel !!!!! I LOVE ALL this videos about old hardware and hacks !! so interesting !!!! I am subscribing right now !!!!! Good Job !!

Yes for earth bound though ;)

Hi! Thanks for the video. I have one question: All i need is a flash memory like 29f032 and a TSOP40-DIP36 adapter? No decoding chips or something like that? just burn the 32mbit ROM on the memory, attach to adapter and put it to the cartridge?

wait.... how can you re-flash it? can it be used like a flash?

Can I use any donor cartridge to make another cartridge?

I really enjoy all of your videos. Very informative.

Where did you find you TSOP-40 Microchip NOR Flash chips? I looked at mouser and a couple other sites and they are out of stock. Otherwise, this is very interesting and I'm going to build my own adapter. Thanks!

good job

Also I had a couple of questions. Did you cut the socket to size to fit the Tsop adapter? Also how do i know if im buying the right size sockets and pin headers?

has any problems with the funky region protection propped up with earthbound? also that link the the guide is now some sort of Japanese beauty tips blog.

Hi and thanks for the video, i have a question, Can I use a S29GL032A chip? these can be removed from internet broadband adapters and since I recycle a lot I have a few of these every now and then. please let me know, I already ordered the tsop to willem adapter and may be ordering a GQ-4X soon. thanks again!

Well you've piqued my interested. I ordered some 29F032 EEPROMs and TSOP40 adapters from buyICnow. I now need to get the EPROM reader blow the dust off my soldering station.

Where do you buy your flash ICs from?

so this might be a stupid question but can you Gameboy ROMS using the same method I was thinking of making a SNES pokemon game but not sure if I want to sacrifice my super Gameboy thanks

Hello, I have a doubt, how you change the file .SMC to .BIN, to record the AM29F032.

Do you know where we can find just chips from old games like this? I want to do everything authentic though

Hey Shane, what are your favorite games in your SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)?

can this be done for N64?

Nice video, Just one question: I have the GQ-4X willem and adapters, but I´m only able to write/verify, not erase. Can you erase the flash chip with that adapter?

Suggestion: Add a microcontroller and make it flash the EPROM from an SD or USB. Or better yet, let it emulate the EPROM and map it to a file on a SD card.

Please. Do I need to convert a rom to bin format? How to write roms using flash memory? , I have a Tl866? Nobody teach how to write since the begin. Sorry for my english.

Subscribed, this is good stuff.

Hey bro, how to convert the .smc file to .bin without using WSB since that program is more for the 27c801 than for the flash memory? How you did it?

It would be cool to program your own games with all these stuff or make repro's with it. It would be really cool to be able to fully emulate those enhancement chips such as dps1,superfx or st018 chip and make games for it to fully benefit those chips.

theres any tutorial with schematics of how to make cartridges from scratch using the tsop40?

This is great stuff man! My only question is what website did you order the purple adapter chip from, aushpak was it?

basically you are changing the rom chip with a reprogrammable one right? how reliable is this kind of flash cart?

When you write the rom to the tsop chip do you need to convert it to bin? or can you just program the smc file straight to the chip?

Hi Shane. Thanks for the guide! Out of curiosity where do you find the parts required? A quick Google search didn't reveal much. Thanks!

Hey Shane, do you have any Game Boy Advance SP in any color?

Very nice job on this so far! I'm so glad that I found this video. (I gave up researching because there weren't many videos on this topic especially for snes) I actually wanted to write a rom for earthbound as well so I have a question for you. What would I need if I bought Mother 2 (The super famicom japan version because the cart looks really cool) I have a super famicom and I know it plays US games so would it be less work if I had the actual cart that earthbound would use and switch the US mask rom? Or would I need to start buying all these chips and adaptors?

Hey Shane you know what? my Nintendo GameCube explode because it needs 110 Volts ONLY and a regulator too (in any brand) and I plug it inside the 220 Volts wall Socket by accident

Hi Mate, thanks for the video very informative. Would this process work with the MiniPro TL866 programmer?

Shane, I have tried to reproduce your method and am having the hardest time getting the chip to id. I have a GQ-4x with version 6.26 and am using the same retrohacker.info adapter you used. It has id'd at times but most of the time it id's as "FFFF". Did you paste any special code to the device.txt file for it to ID all the time. I was able to dump and play the bin from my game emprom from my donor cart. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Alex

Can you do with NES and GBA?

Did you ever figure out how to fix the earthbound piracy block? If so, how?

Hey Shane, Do you have a Nintendo GameCube in any color?

EarthBound was there ever a pal release?

Could you create a working copy of a game that is not produced anymore (obviously) and hardly anywhere to be got? For example FF3 (the japanese FF6)? And then post the costs of the used up hardware? Just so I can get an idea in what ranges of money I have to think in order to recreate such a thing myself? (Tools included)

sabe de algum site que posso compra esse flashcard sou do brasil

So it's like to use a bad game and make it a newer one?

I'm planning to do this with the Mother 1 / Earthbound Zero / Earthbound Beginnings remake by HS since he's remaking with the Earthbound graphics.

mmmm just thinking about creating using a microcontroller a flashcart with autoflash from sd...well maybe you will do that somethime... maybe

Do ta doo dooo..catchy..an fun video >

Nice Video! Anyway i dont know yet about how do I prepare the rom for the AM29F032B chips. I know for eproms M27c801 the snesROMUtil is required, but how about the AM29F032B ? Example a rom that is already 4mb and dont need to expand size or something Do I need to convert it for .bin, right?

Okay, I have a serious question: Can I do this SAME THING (EarthBound, but NTSC and hacked to have no DRM or whatever it's called this week) with an NTSC-J SimCity 2000?

good

subscribed! Hope one day you'll put a guide or hard/software list online?!

And Shane my Nintendo GameCube is color Gray and my GameCube game is Pokemon Coliseum. What is your games in your Nintendo GameCube?

Such a nice channel great job i'm subscribe :)

I was wondering how hard is to load the ROM from a SD Card/USB Drive instead of a EEPROM.

Any way to burn a Super FX game? (Star Fox 2 to be exact)

How many save from different games one sram can hold?

How to make NES ever drive???

that is a really good helpful video and the NES NO MORE!!!

worlds easier to jist tin the pads and use a hot air reflow gun for those smd chips

Can you make a Nintendo 64 everdriver

Your description says to get an N8 to do SNES games? good luck with that. N8 stands for 8-bit NES (NES 8 Bit). heh.

You can remove the copy protection with uconn64 ;)

should just put a zif on it

Hi dear friend, i trying make that, but not have success. My problem is , the earthbound smc , when converted generated 4 files, 4 x 1mb, and i dont know how i can join this files. If possible you can put here a link with .bin works, in 4shared to try ? Thanks a lot for this video man, =D

"Chip's a little bit crooked ,don't know how that happened" Nobody knows how that is happening to all of us

if I want to burn a translated secret of mana 2 , is it right to take japanese seiken densetsu3 rom, apply the translation with lunarIPS, and then convert the sfc file to BIN before burning? (copy /b som2.sfc som2.bin) ? or do you take the translated SFC and burn this to the tsop?

Ebay here I come, ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Can this work with those CD quality music hacks?

Could you please point me in the right direction for putting this www18.atwiki.jp/sm4wiki_mix/pages/64.html (thats just the patch file not the actual rom but I'm sure you will understand) on a cart?

could you do a video like this for game boy?

make N64 one

-Shane McRetro Hey, Big Thanks I REALLY Need This For Homebrew Games! Also Thx For Subscribing To Me! Also Chat With Me On Hangouts! Well, If You Want To

LMAO ... So you just so happen to be doing this with Earthbound. .. the most lucrative fake cart about just now ... good show lmao

ucon64 cracks Earthbound

You did a good job explaining how to make a super nintendo repro. I've been making repros for a little over a year now and my collection is awesome looking now because of it. You should take a shot at making a star ocean, or even a mario rpg Armageddon. superreproductions.com

This is not a flash cart.

How much do you charge for putting a real game made in assembly language on a cartridge?

The CIC chip doesn't like your mod. find a board without a CIC chip then do the mod.

>zsnes

Earthbound is a highly sought after game and if it is possible to change the rom into a snes cartridge and the outer label to earthbound it is safe to say that it could pass as a real game and be able to fool collectors into buying a really expensive knock off cartridge not worth a cent.

Or just buy a everdrive

It's not pronounced as one word NES it's N - E - S!

too many ads mate dislike and no subscribe....learn ur lesson

Hi mate. Trying to do the same as you did and your video seems to be the best one on youtube :) But I need a bit of help :S Is there a particular way to remove the old chips ? because i removed original chips from 3 boards (japanese RPG games). I put the IC stand/holder with the original ROM on top and it doesn't work anymore, black screen, not even the red light comes up. The SAME ROM ! ;) And obviously the 29F032 also doesn't work. I triple checked for any cut traces and everything is ok. I even soldered the original ROM again without the stand, still no success. Any ideas ? I'm desperate.. Thanks