Alguien se ha animado a hacer un nuevo Flashcart para GB clasica y GBColor, aunque la limitadisima EEPROM y el altisimo precio, lo combiertan en un "sueño roto"
Basicamente es un cartucho diseñado y orientado al LSDJ y el Chiptune... una lastima su precio...
Web del creador:
http://derpcart.com/home.htmlTienda de venta:
http://asmretro.com/cart-drag-n-derpHow it works Plug it into your computer with a micro USB cable.
Wait for a new USB drive to appear.
To back up, drag the save contents and/or ROM off the drive.
To program, drop new save and/or ROM files on to the drive.
Eject, unplug, enjoy!
Why it’s awesomeDriverless, drag and drop operationNever mess around with dodgy drivers again! The simple interface makes backing up a breeze. Now you can back up every day!
Ferroelectric RAM
The save data is stored in RAMTRON FRAM, which will retain data for decades with no power. There’s no battery to go flat.
Specifications Translucent Charcoal ASM Cartridge Shell
ROM: 24mbit / 3mbyte
RAM: 1mbit / 128kbyte
USB: 2.0 full speed, micro connector
Contents: 1x Drag'N'Derp Cartridge
1x ASM Cartridge protector case
FAQWhy make another cart?
There are a bunch of carts on the market, but for making music, I’m not really happy with any of them - needing something that is reliable, and simple.
Some require an external programmer/reader. These are vulnerable to bad connections; since there are no checksums on save memory, there’s no way to tell if your data has been silently corrupted.
Many carts have instead a programmer built in, using USB. One thing these all have in common is that they require custom software and drivers to be installed, which is a lot of fiddling, and gets very complicated if you’re not on Windows.
Why isn’t it bigger, faster, cheaper…?
This cart was designed with a particular use case in mind - making music.
The design aesthetic I have employed is to make the hardware as simple and reliable as possible. It does one job only; I have resisted the tendencies to pack in features. Simplicity is the aim of every design choice; even the PCB is laid out on two layers, where for this density a modern engineer would usually go straight for 4.
Couldn’t you have made it take an SD card?
A sensible SD cart would have to have:
a bootloader that runs on every boot, to load
a DRAM chip and controller to hold the ROM, and
a mechanism to write changed save data back to SD in real time
Without going into detail, this method is complicated. I considered this path, and did design studies of what would have to happen (and how fast) for this to work.
I decided that this was not the cart I wanted to build.
Does it support LittleFM?
Yes (as of 2013).
