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A Ben Heck style challenge

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HI, not sure if this is the best way but I got a challenge for Ben.

 

I Haven recently got into the arcade hobby and stumbled across a Nintendo Play Choice 10 on eBay. Sadly these are out of my price range. So here is my challenge. Ben, I challenge you to take a standard NES and 10 NES cartridges and find a way to hook them all up together making it posable to cycle thought the inserted games by pressing one button. And if you can, make the games interchangeable, this way they can be swapped out when you want to change them, just like a real Play Choice 10.

 

Thanks Guys

jeremy

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  • Sounds like a LOT of wiring / buffers.

     

    Neo Geo multicades did a similar thing.

     

    Probably going to avoid NES projects for awhile after that slot-loading project sucked up so much time.

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    I'm trying to prototype this idea right now. I have some parts coming in the mail but I'm not sure where to start as far as buffers.  For connections I'm going to try to use the 72 pin card edge connector and ribbon connector to that.  Then make a perfboard which connects the main "bus" to all the carts.  So my question is do I solder in ti-state chips between each cart and do I need enough to accommodate all 72 pins?  The closest thing I could find was a 10-bit chip "CY74FCT841BTPCE4".  So I would need about 7 of these per game?

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  • in reply to benheck

    I'm trying to prototype this idea right now. I have some parts coming in the mail but I'm not sure where to start as far as buffers.  For connections I'm going to try to use the 72 pin card edge connector and ribbon connector to that.  Then make a perfboard which connects the main "bus" to all the carts.  So my question is do I solder in ti-state chips between each cart and do I need enough to accommodate all 72 pins?  The closest thing I could find was a 10-bit chip "CY74FCT841BTPCE4".  So I would need about 7 of these per game?

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