NES Power Pak?

[369WIERDO369]

Is the NES Power Pak (from retrousb.com) compatible with the FC 3 Plus or the Yobo FC Game console?

[Clownzilla]

Is the NES Power Pak (from retrousb.com) compatible with the FC 3 Plus or the Yobo FC Game console?

I don't think it is. I think the Retro Duo is compatible with it though.

[369WIERDO369]

I don't think it is. I think the Retro Duo is compatible with it though.

Figures.
Well, thanks anyway!

[CastlevaniaDude]

Yeah, it works with my RetroDuo. Cool machine, pick one up if you have a spare buck or two. Or thirty.

[369WIERDO369]

Yeah, it works with my RetroDuo. Cool machine, pick one up if you have a spare buck or two. Or thirty.

Well, I have the original SNES. I just don't have the original NES.

[namzep]

I still want to know how people are getting it to work with the RetroDuo as I've yet to have any luck. Is there anything special that you're doing to get it working?

[Joe_Cracker]

Yeah, it works with my RetroDuo. Cool machine, pick one up if you have a spare buck or two. Or thirty.

CastlevaniaDude, just one question about your RetroDuo. I've been in contact with the guy who sells the powerpaks and this is an important question because I'm thinking about getting one myself. Is your RetroDuo the V2.0 system

[Joe_Cracker]

Can someone post a video of the powerpak being played on the Retro Duo like on youtube or something to proof it to everyone?

[Draven]

Deja Vu...didn't I just read this same thread but with a different title?

[Joe_Cracker]

No Draven, this one was the original. My thread is the one that possed the question: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130058

Right now I've decided to put up the money myself, and test the powerpak on the Retro Duo 2.0, and if my first test works it will be tapped and posted on youtube.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Retro Duo is reported as compatible with the Power Pak.

I'm not really clear on what the difference between Retro Duo and Retro Duo 2.0 ... I'm not sure it's anything drastic in the way the hardware runs, or drastic enough to cause an incompatibilty with the Power Pak.

user ooXxXoo would probably be able to detail any differences in versions as I believe he's opened up a few and made adjustments, he may have seen both versions (or other internal variants).

[Greg2600]

This is a question to any PowerPak owners.... How do you have the roms on the flash card? Do you separate every three letters, i.e. ABC, DEF, etc? Everyone one letter? The other pain in the butt is that it doesn't alphabetize, seems like it just sorts based on either when the rom was added to the card, or the age of the rom itself. Thoughts?

[ProgrammingAce]

The NES isn't powerful enough to sort the folders alphabetically, it would take forever and there probably isn't enough ram to do it.

[Greg2600]

The NES isn't powerful enough to sort the folders alphabetically, it would take forever and there probably isn't enough ram to do it.

I know. So are the files/folders displayed by creation date?

[tomaitheous]

This is a question to any PowerPak owners.... How do you have the roms on the flash card? Do you separate every three letters, i.e. ABC, DEF, etc? Everyone one letter? The other pain in the butt is that it doesn't alphabetize, seems like it just sorts based on either when the rom was added to the card, or the age of the rom itself. Thoughts?

http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=34

Files appear to be displayed in alphabetical order to me.

The NES isn't powerful enough to sort the folders alphabetically, it would take forever

Not that the NES needs to but, that's kind of an ignorant statement. The NES cpu isn't that slow.

[Blitzwing256]

file manipulation is a compicated pricess especially alphabatizing for a processor not designed to do so.

I personally sort my games in gameplay groups a folder of my favorates, one for adventure one for rpg one for translations etc etc. makes it easier to find the game you want, hmm I want to play batman I'll just fire up the action folder and there it is.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Not that the NES needs to but, that's kind of an ignorant statement. The NES cpu isn't that slow.

I don't know about ignorant. He's currently programming a homebrew NES game. He of all people should know.

[MetalFRO]

Anyone know why it's so expensive? I have a 256MB CF card I'd love to use for this purpose (since I don't use that old digital camera any longer), but great googly moogly, that's pricey!

[jperryss]

Anyone know why it's so expensive? I have a 256MB CF card I'd love to use for this purpose (since I don't use that old digital camera any longer), but great googly moogly, that's pricey!

Yes. No one else is making them, so they get away with it.

[ProgrammingAce]

Anyone know why it's so expensive? I have a 256MB CF card I'd love to use for this purpose (since I don't use that old digital camera any longer), but great googly moogly, that's pricey!

Aside from the fact they're the only game in town as stated above, the cart is damn complicated.

In order to support all of these mappers, they had to use something called a "field programmable gate array. Basically this is a chip that can be reprogrammed on the fly to emulate other chips. It's a fairly new technology, and rather expensive.

I'm not fond of the price either, but these things are hand assembled in small quantities using expensive components. I don't think they have much wiggle room on the price.

As for listing the games in alphabetical order, listing the folders isn't really the issue. The NES could alphabetize 26 or so folders in a fairly short period of time. The problem comes when someone dumps 3,000 roms in one folder and expects those in alphabetical order. The system just doesn't have enough memory to hold that many file names. It would take forever to split it into smaller chunks.