Monday, May 30, 2011

A long overdue post

Wow, this month went fast!  I was extremely busy getting everything sorted out for college and finishing up my classes, but now I have the next 6 months free.

Firstly, I managed to get my hands on the Gameboy image quantizer, shown here.  I got a copy from someone who managed to download it in the 6 or so weeks it was available at the link on that page.  You can find a working download link here.

I decided to take apart my Propeller-powered ROM reader, and rebuild it with an ARM7 cortex-m3, which I'm hoping will make it cost less in the end and give me a chance to brush up on C.

Also, I WILL be making a Gameboy programming tutorial over the next 3 months, which will include code snippets for the various parts of the Gameboy (for example, the LCD initialization code, reading buttons, etc etc).

On a final note, I would like to get an idea of how many people would buy a USB Gameboy cartridge reader/writer for around $30.  Just leave a comment or email me -- that way, I can get an idea of if this is worth taking my time to make into a product.


--Vaati

21 comments:

  1. I'd buy it -- for $25.
    Let's haggle.

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  2. I would buy it for 24.99 see what I did there huh? huh?

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  3. Nice, can't wait for more updates about your program. I'll be interesting in looking at it

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  4. id buy one for sure. im also really excited about the upcoming tutorial! ive been trying to learn gameboy programming and i feel i have become more of a detective than anything else just trying to find information on the subject. cant wait

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  5. I would if it will flash gba sp. dealextreme has one for $18.

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  6. Oh, i'd definitely buy one for 30. btw- are you building software to go with it as well? my email is dominicbrown44@gmail.com

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  7. How quick will it be done? I need one ASAP! I'm so scared that my battery is going to die.

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  8. i would buy one if it worked with my bung and/or gamejack carts...

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  9. Would buy in a second if it supported gameboy color. Would buy in less than a second if it supported both gameboy color and gameboy advance. No one makes ROM readers anymore, and it's the only really legal way to get ROMs for games I own... #frustration.

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  10. I'd be very interested, and I know tons of people on the 8bc forums that would be interested as well.

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  11. I'd be interested in seeing a post on the build process/schematics/etc. I wouldn't buy one, but I'd be interested to see how you did it. I'm currently building this reader I found http://www.reinerziegler.de/readplus.htm#GB_Flasher and I'm looking to integrate it into a much cooler mod involving a broken GameBoy system (internal USB hub, wire up the buttons as a working gamepad, throw in a flash drive to store the ROMs/saves, lots of fun stuff), but I'm always interested to find new ideas to play around with.

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  12. I'd buy one if you are still thinking of making one

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  13. I'd buy it for $60 if it was just a cart with a standard mini usb socket.

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  14. You should try a kickstarter/indiegogo campaign..

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  15. Cool.. I'd love to have the image quantizer, but the link is broken :(

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  16. Hi, could you repair the link to image quantizer? It seems nearly impossible to find.

    Thanks.

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  17. Wow, didn't realize this had gotten so much attention. I may actually look into doing a kickstarter for it.

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