Where is this info hiding? I have looked many times and gave up over the years. But I am tired of the inflated price of reproductions. I understand I need a eeprom burner, and that there is soldering required, and that I may need to re-wire a few things. This is where I am confused. I understand I must read a mapper, and match things up. But the info online seems few and far between. It's like some sort of black art no one wants to share. I have quite a bit of soldering experience so I think I can do this if I just had the tools and the information I need in front of me. All I can find is some crappy tutorial in Nintendo Age Magazine for making a beast buster cart, and other random tutorials that are for one game only and explain nothing.
I don't want to know the exact wirings for each game, I want to know, how other people know where to route traces, and why certain traces are cut. And how to know what cart is a suitable donor cart.
Basically I want to convert japanese famicom games to english variants, and convert super famicom games to english variants.
And a good repro tutorial would be nice for general repro making.
So basically what I want to know is...
1. Where is the best information on making repros,, & converting authentic japanese games to english?
2. What is a good eeprom burner, and where do I get the eeproms?
3. When it comes to making repros, where can I find these custom blank PCB's I see online everywhere but never for sale?
I also am aware of flash carts. I have a everdrive, but want to make repros.