You’re totally right, we really need a good tutorial which helps beginners step-by-step. That’s what I wanted the “Getting Started” paragraph of the Dev Wiki to become. But as you see, nobody ever got around to. Shouldn’t take too much work to create a guide actually…
A) Using the older version as Vaughanabe13 described
B) Using newer version like the precompiled 2.95 NVC version
You should definitely go for the second option, because the newer gccVB version are much more advanced. The old one doesn’t support interrupts or bitstring instructions for example.
You only have to:
1) Install Cygwin
2) Download gccVB 2.95 prec., unpack it and copy the files to /c/cygwin/usr/
Then to build Mario VB, you only have to execute the following in Cygwin to trigger the make script included in the Mario VB source (for this example, the Mario VB source lies in C:/marioVB/):
cd /cygdrive/c/marioVB/ && make
(Everything from memory, might’ve missed a detail)
getting connectors made triggered a memory that someone here at PVB made up a flash cart with their own connector strip, it was an off the shelf part with the right pitch, I’ve not searched the forums to find out who it was but I’m sure its been done. Would be great to work that bit out then maybe a batch of cart shells and connector strips could be made, I’m up for doing any CAD models that are required.
It was e5frog, model number of the connector is “FH-2MM-SD-2X40-G”. I am looking for it right now, cheapest source I could yet is ~3 EUR.
But as Minestorm pointed out, it’s getting really hard sourcing more donor carts for cart shells and connectors at a reasonable price. I currently only have ~20 for the second batch of FB+.
We really need to find a way to create cart shells without spending many thousands for a mold…
RunnerPack wrote:
It would be possible to build DogP’s USB link cable and use a program running on the VB to save/restore SRAM through the link port.
Maybe Chris and Richard could work on marketing such a cable (which would also allow multi-player gaming between emu and hardware, or between two VB’s over the ‘net).
It would also be a good idea to somehow make the VB-side cable detachable so it could be connected to another one to make a standard VB<->VB cable.
If we can find a way to reproduce connectors without having to kill SNES RGB cables, I’d gladly make a run of link cables.
I think it would be best to just take a male<->female USB cable, cut it in the middle and attach a link port connector to the cut ends. Both parts cut then be plugged together to have a VB<->VB cable, or you could just use the male half for a VB<->PC connection.
I do have something pretty cool that I’ve been playing with on and off for a long time… maybe I’ll post some pics one of these days. I doubt it’ll ever go to production, but it’s cool anyway.
Yep, it’s mine! The auction is linked from the FB+ announcement, but is not very visible as it seems.
KingDedede schrieb:
Why you dont sell them all on ebay, so its available for all and you make good money 😉
Selling them here has always worked great, so I don’t see why I should change that (and pay fees to ebay). Maybe I could earn more money, but it’s not about the money, but my beloved VB community. 😀 [/brown-nosing] Besides, I am pretty sure ebay would notice and classify me as a tradesman.
Oh no, don’t we have enough of these topics now? Please use one of your existing topics for such posts at least, instead of cluttering the forums with randomness.
