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# Famicom/NES Dumper/Writer


## Overview

This is a powerfull dumper/writer for Famicom/NES cartridges and Famicom Disc System cards. The goal of the project is to create an ideal famicom data bus simulator. It's using a very accurate M2 cycle simulation and FSMC (Flexible Static Memory Controller) to access PRG and CHR memory. FSMC is precisely synchronized with the M2 clock signal using a CPLD chip. Also, this device is very fast.
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![Photo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4236181/199539772-cbb50b0d-46fc-4041-86d4-61bbee8b1c01.jpg)

![COOLBOY writing using GPIO pins](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4236181/205022872-06b35562-9506-4536-8cd8-bed026156c52.jpg)

You can use it to:

* Dump cartridges, so you can play copy of your cartridge on emulator.
* Read/write battery backed saves, so that you can continue your saved game on emulator/console.
* Write special cartridges like [COOLGIRL](https://github.com/ClusterM/coolgirl-famicom-multicard).
* Rewrite ultracheap chinese COOLBOY cartridges. Soldering is required to work with old versions but it's very simple. New versions can be rewritten without soldering.
* (Re)write special cartridges like [COOLGIRL](https://github.com/ClusterM/coolgirl-famicom-multicard).
* (Re)write ultracheap chinese COOLBOY cartridges. Soldering is required to work with old versions but it's very simple. New versions can be rewritten without soldering.
* (Re)write UNROM-512 cartridges (Nesmaker)
* Test your cartridges.
* Read and write Famicom Disk System cards using FDS drive with the RAM adapter.
* Some reverse engineering.
* Anything else that requires Famicom bus simulation.

* Do some reverse engineering.
* Anything else that requires Famicom/NES bus simulation.

## Schematic:

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![BoM](schematic/bom.png)


## Firmware

You need to write firmware to two chips: the STM32F103ZET microcontroller and the EPM3064 CPLD. But actually you need only to flash bootloader to STM32 using ST-Link programmer. Using bootloader you can flash both firmwares: to the STM32F103ZET and to the EPM3064.
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