I wanna program a game and put it onto a NES/Genesis cartridge. Please Help.

[cloud1161]

Mnementh said:

cloud1161 said:

I really want to get into doing my own gaming hardware stuff.  Are there any other recommendations for uploading a game to a popular system like NES or Genesis?   I would like to build a completely homegrown 8 or 16 bit console to play my own games and stuff on.  Do either of you know if it is possible to get a NES or Genesis or SNES or some other popular old school console schematic?   I would like to build one on my own if possible.   

Not an easy task you have chosen. Do you want to emulate an old console and add own games, or do you want to build a new console with modern tech? The second task may be much easier to pull off. Today there are many chips, that can be easily used. Most common used are ARM-processors (that also is used in the DS for example).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

Another option to build an own project on is Arduino. That is a complete board.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino

That modern tech is not compatible with the old consoles though. The NES used a Ricoh 2A03 as processor, the Genesis a Motorola 68000. I don't believe the Ricoh is produced anymore. The Motorola-chip was very popular, it was also used in the some Apple machines. So someone may produce clones of this chip. But the complete setup of the old consoles may contain even more old chips, that are hard to obtain these days.

I was probably going to use more modern technology.   I was actually thinking about using my Arduino Uno board in some way but wasn't sure excactly how to incorporate it in there.  I also have a Velleman K8055 board that I built, but I found it is not very user friendly.    My idea was to use the Arduino to act something like an expansion bus and just access different parts of the console such as power and reset and to access the main processor.