Converting Super Famicom Games to English! Non Destructive!!
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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☢WARNING! This video is NOT for the technically faint of heart! It's super technical!!☢
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♰ I don't condone piracy! As you'll see, I am dumping the games that I legally own! ♰
Okay, let's get started...
In this installment, I showcase two products that I've designed that ease the process of creating SNES "repro" carts that rely on original hardware. My methods greatly differ from what's commonly done in practice. No cartridge rewiring, no desoldering MASKROMs, and the modifications are 100% reversible and do NOT destroy an original game.
He narrates the process like Bob Ross. I keep expecting him to say “happy little solder glob” or something. XD
I mean if Bob Ross mad a dick joke every couple of minutes...
@@toadcoder691It's like Bob Ross and Deadpool had a baby...a baby who makes a lot of soldering porn.
"Happy little solder glob" sounds like Louis Rossmann :D
@@CuxxFPV you stole my comment
You beat me to it. The Bob Ross of Soldering. Best soldering video I have seen thus far. Love your voice and plugs thanks for sharing.
I really appreciate the fine work you're doing for repros. Keep up the great designs.
Isn't the point of this that it's original hardware rather than a repro?
Oh yeah, 100% reversible repros.
this is my kinda thing.
dope username
Right because you really want to get Troy Aikmen back!
This is absolutely fantastic! I have been waiting for something like this for a long time. I am really looking forward to the NES solution as well!
Like a mixture of Deadpool and bob ross....very ASMR and always nice to watch old tech get treated with such respect and care. Another great video!
Daamn this is amazing and a lot easier than replacing maskroms or building a repro from scratch by using one on those new PCBs, but for someone like me who only owns a few SFC games and want them translated is not cost effective :/ the dumper, then the programmer, then soldering the small flashrom chip is much complicated... if only someone would sell the prebuilt PCBs already flashed and soldered so i just have to solder the PCBs to the original maskrom it would be PERFECT.
I agree. This is more geared toward the tinkerer or electronics hobbyist who probably already has most of the required equipment.
Love the narrative. Very informative. It’s just a shame my soldering skills suck XD
Excellent, very instructive.
Thank you very much for your great work !!
What soldering station and flux and solder do you use? I've never seen anything flow so beautifully.
It'll be 'proper' solder.
60/40 alloy (which is no longer acceptable to ROHS) but is SO much better than the modern silver crap.
That chip stacking idea is incredible! I'll definitely keep that in mind for future projects
Piggybacking memory chips is a classic technique. It's usually used to expand memory, but it works to replace it too!
Your solder lesson has some major Bob Ross Energy going on there. Dat BRE tho.
Your native tongue is English? I couldn't have guessed.
Why not?
The Bob ross of RUclips great video!!!
The package on the memory is smaller than any work I've done but I may have to give this a shot. It's just so. Clean and almost sexy?
You can do it!!!
Thank you for giving me soldering tips like bob ross lmao
You're like the Bob Ross of soldering.
A legend... a hero...
What kind of "no clean" do you use? Seems to be a generic term when searching Amazon. Type of applicator?
Also would it be possible to incorporate some sort of switch if you wanted to change back to the original ROM language?
Thanks!
AWESOME VIDEO! AWESOME!
I lost my shit at 25:51
im not sure you did this right, i didnt see any hot glue being used at all...
"Nice Hot Dump", 4.49, LMAO
Chinese repro factory : Engrish? We don't need no Engrish!
Brilliant!!!
Love the videos! Best part of the video is the "UNMOLESTED DUMP" 🤯
Voultar, thank you SO much for this wealth of information. I recently imported a heap of my favorite games from japan planning to translate them to english (even bought multiples of some games because they were so cheap as display pieces).
This by FAR is the most valuable resource to doing this. After decontaminating myself of the cesspit of certain forums it was a great relief to watch your video and hear your ASMR worthy voice to see such a clean solution.
You are a great teacher.
Lol, same here! Games in Japan are so cheap it's unbelievable.
I want you to know that as good as this video was overall, it was specifically the out-of-left-field toilet-humor that compelled me to subscribe. Hearing you explain things in a relaxed, yet earnest voice and then bust out "It's gonna take a nice, hot dump..." made me instantly lose it.
So awesome! "Make a Goddamn GUI"! Nice touch.
HUGE COMPLAINT
.....you need to make more videos.
I have finished all of them and clearly I need more. haha Seriously though...thanks for the great content!
Voultar, it's hilarious listening to your word choices: "just got to clean the tip", "sweet special sauce", "let me load my tip", "it's important I give you the best angles & positions", "now I'm going to wet my tip & just drag it along slowly"....🤣. In all seriousness I am a former Network Engineer, but I know nothing about electronics, soldering etc. I wish I did. I'd love to be able too do the things you do with PCBs & chips! But I absolutely love & thoroughly enjoy your videos! You, Sir are like Mozart with a soldering iron! Thank you very much for taking the time to create these videos in such detail & going in depth with the explanations as you go along!
I just realized why I love this channel so much, but have no intention of ever doing what he shows. Voultar is the Bob Ross of soldering.
Thank you for your support!
Hey I saw someone mention if this can be done with games that have the super fx chjp
I feel like I learned something important today.
Shit, didn't expect to see you here.
I like your videos about classic anime
4:20 Wow, I'm bookmarking this shit. Do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to change a battery and maintain the save data by hooking a second battery up?
4:50 "It's gonna take a nice hot dump" 🤔
Ha ha ha
At @31:42 you mention about patching a Final Fantasy VI with a pretty good English translation. Would you mind sharing what specific translation patch it is? All the ones I've found for better English patches are for the US ROMS (Final Fantasy III); been looking for one that can patch with the Japanese original. Thanks again for the video!
Doing Gods work, thank you sir!
"Its like the T1000 relived himself" Holy shit that is gold!!!! Woke my GF up cracking up!
Voultar, does this mod also apply to the Super Mario RPG board? Because I've found some translation projects about those but they molest the board beyond repair.
Would like to know this as well
You are a hero of time, a hero of legend.
Lmfao 25:55 "It's as if the t1000 had relieved himself upon my soldering iron." What a wonderful selection of words... Dude your such a great teacher and what your doing for Retro and Repro Gaming is just amazing... You need more videos and you definitely earned a new subscriber here... Keep it up man...
Me watching this having no knowledge of anything that's going on: Maybe I should just learn Japanese instead.....
I really like the idea of keeping the modification as less invasive as possible and you could not have achieved it any better. You are doing awesome work! Thank you for sharing it with us!
It's always enjoyable to watch you solder and blabber. Keep up the awesome work!
"Nondestructive" *clips chip leads*
Relatively. Considering that some repros carve up the PCB, this is pretty benign.
@@Longlius but still .. not "Non Destructive!!"
Just in time for the Ganbare Goemon 2 translation!!
I love how you say “solder” 😁
Edit 😱 that ROM dumper is ONLY $52?!?! 👍. I can solder a little but NOW there’s a reason to get better.
Edit 2. Oh man embedded computers no longer exists 😢
Adding this to my wish list for sure! I got a bunch of SFC carts in Japan a few months ago and this solution is just perfect for me. Can something like this, but for N64, be done?
How did you determine what data came out of what chip? with if the information on the top chip was now placed in the bottom chip? or dose it not matter that what order the information was placed back on the chips as long as all the information is evenly split between the two chips.
The cleanest job i've ever seen to translate a japanese game.
Bravo 👏👏👏
So there's a chance we can get a proper Phantasia or Star Ocean translated games...
Appreciate all your hard work on keeping these games ticking. It's so nice to see folks coming up with non-destructive solutions. I'll give this a go with my Chrono Trigger SFC cart.
Question, do you have the dumper available for download? I have been trying to dump my copy of Dragon Quest 1 but the software for the inl retro programmer is not cutting it for me. Every time I do it's a blank screen
to be fair this is still destructive if you cut the pin but better than the others.
You mean safer than the others
LOL'd when the T-1000 relieved himself! By the way guys, whats the music at 28:59?
Louis rossman would be very disappointed, you clearly didn’t use enough flux, the whole board didn’t get covered in flux
In Louis' bathroom, the soap dispenser is filled with flux.
You know Louis works on 0201 SMDs which are a quarter of a millimetre wide right?
Can you provide the DQ Patch? Interesting since it doesn't have the annoying intro
'Non-destructive'
Me: YAY! 😆
My soldering skills: NAY! 😱
Awesome video, wish I could solder like that :(
Treychik practice, I spent hours practicing on trash boards, whenever I’m throwing anything out I take it apart and desolder everything then try to put it back on, over time you will get better
Any chance you'll design a memory module to fit the mask ROM on SHVC-1CA6B-01 cartridges? :^)
So, about those 48 Mb games Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean???
a 32mbit and a 16mbit TSOPs I guess
So what is the Checksum anyway and why does it need to be fixed? Does this always need to be done for every ROM you write to a chip?
27:10
Voultar: my left, your right
me: how the hell do you hold that soldering iron? O.O
Thanks much for the help. Also just started the same process because English games are so expensive but don't want to support pirates!
Wouldn''t be getting anywhere without awesome people like helping making these tutorials. Really appreciate it.
I love you Voultar, thanks for this. And I just bought the ROM dumper! I'm more excited than Bob after his first beer in the morning! :)
Could it be possible to make something like this for the Super FX chips?
Voultar; Talking in his sleep.
"We're going to go ahead and make some very very very happy trees, yes look at that amazing, okay let's make some very very very light fluffy clouds. Yes look how beautiful those are. Yes Just like that. Spank it, yes. Just like that. How about that. Now let's get a little bridging done, yes just like that. We'll just float that down there, with a clean tip. Yes just like that."
Cheaper than a desoldering station but he buys a copier and has a supercomputer that runs bsnes
He could've just run a checksum against the ROM to verify it, bsnes is not required.
While watching you solder, blood moved in me. What does that mean?
Bare tip is the only way I roll.
Excellent, I love it, I really like the finished article. Do you find the caps in these games are always good or is it worth replacing them as a precaution? I never hear of it in carts (do they use better quality caps?) but you often hear of recapping consoles. Ta
Pete Grimes i usually test the caps with my multimeter but as a rule anything that old I will replace anyway, but make sure the caps are decent quality
Will this work with a copy of Far East of Eden Zero?
Hey this is a very good video and I really appreciate your efforts to bring modding to the people. I respect and thank you for what you do. I’ll be buying these.
Great Video. I was wondering, is there an easy way to know how big / how many chips I would need for certain games? If I plan to follow this i want to make a bulk order and do all of my SFC games.
Omg thank you for documenting this discovery! Saving us from the worst of the internet.
This got my imagination captive.
Hi. Looking at video your using tsop48 type a. The website for the device shows tsop x8 and tsop x16. So i was curious which one to order for this.
Did you ever figure this out?
This is EXACTLY what I've been needing. Lord Voultar for Prez 2020!!
I feel ashamed for the two repros i made for myself sacrificing two EA games. Then i started to look for SNES repro pcbs in order to avoid "destroying" games. Some swede ("mrTentacle") made a bunch of 8-32mbit repro pcbs for the M27Cxx and AM29Fxx series.
Your solution Voultar is very elegant. I personally wouldn't clip that OE pin and go the route you mentioned: to desolder it. But that's probably just a matter of taste...
Question: That second small 16 pin TSSOP is a demultiplexer right? I mean it has to be one...i'm just not super sure.
On the topic, i might use a current limiting resistor in place of a simple bridge. I think an smd would fit.
I was expecting your deep voice in 1:49
Love the squeek sound of that iron on the pins. Reminds me of squeeky warm cheese curds.... Mmmmmmm lol
Yeah I used to have this level of closeup vision. Ten years ago. Rup
Very nice! I'm about to grab some SFC carts shortly, and this will definitely come in handy.
DeagonQuest, how did you know which slice to put where on the board?
any idea when this is going to in stock again?
"It's gonna take a nice, hot dump."
I laughed so hard I dumped...
This is genius. Very informative, well thought out and clear info
Did you purposely put as many sex jokes as possible on purpose?
If anyone has issues getting the programmer started like I did because there's NO instructions, Put the x16 module in and flip the 3.3v dip switch to 5v. Then select Parallel NOR since they apparently changed the mode selection list.
try 8x module and make sure installed drivers
I just ordered the device, and it came with 2 TSOP adapters, x16 and x8, I'm not sure which one to use. I will be making a 24megabit rom using 1x Super Stacker 16megabit combined with 1x 8 megabitz. Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Well done. Thank you for putting up a proper guide on making a repro and not being obtrusive in promoting your new products. Insert ‘hot dump’ below...
Non Destructive!! - Snips legs of chips..
17:30 - Non destructive right! :D you almost broke it !
Hey Voultar! I have a question for you, if you can answer it to me, of course:
I have a SNES PCB model EA-1A3M-30, which their original MASKROM is FIFA 98. Since nobody cares from such a crappy game, and I already repurposed their shell do you think that it could be used to make a repro?
I was thinking in Final Fantasy IV (japanese translated). It's very similar to one of the revisions, the SVHC-1A3M-10 who FFIV uses. It has 64kb of SRAM, a MAD-1 decoder, a CIC D413B (PAL of course) a CR2032 and the 36 pin maskrom.
It could be?
Keep going! Cheers!
Just ordered stackers and programmer ....bring on the famicom baby!
It's all set and coming up next! Thanks for the support~!
Could use a copy of you gui you made for the inl programmer
Voultar, this changes everything.
how many have played the Seiken densetsu 3 cartridge in Japanese all the way through, knowing the entire game's dialog as you play because you played the English rom before? xD
My problem with using flash memory is that data won't be retained indefinitely, unlike on a masked ROM or PROM.
I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to soldering. Can your technique be applied to PROMs and are there PROMs that match the required specs? If so, is there a PROM programmer you'd recommend?
So could this dumper be used to rewrite Chinese bootleg cartridges like turning a copy of Pokemon Cock edition into Pokemon Yellow for example?
Man, I hate how I'm not very familiar or savvy with this sort of work. On one hand, I now want my FF IV and V cartridges converted (and yes, I still need and want to get VI, but I'll worry about that later). But, on the other hand, anymore I don't even necessarily care about playing the original hardware of these older games; I can't afford, to mod an SNES console (if mine is even right to be able to be modded), and what I would prefer to do, I also can not afford an Analogue Super NT..... I've been working with two different things for emulating - raspberry pie, and modding a second SNES classic edition that I acquired - and things have been working great for me in the last few years. Now, I do have a big-ass TV/projector display thing, that supports a lot of video connections (coaxial, composite, s-video, component, hdmi), but where that beastly thing lives, is an undesirable location of my home, and anymore I don't have any other display methods for the older consoles :(
Anyway, I love watching this stuff, and it definitely makes me wish any of this was feasible for my needs or interests.
No mistakes.....just happy accidents..... how about that? You see that solder bridge hiding there? He's a happy bridge.... we will just add a little TITANIUM FLUX here.....move him there...how about that??
This is a phenomenal video, and you have phenomenal knowledge. Thank you for preserving our hobby, and thank you for posting great content!
For the stacker, I would have thought you'd have a hole routed out in the stacker PCB then solder in the chip upside down on the bottom of the board, to keep it thin. If the PCB house is any good, you can use that hole for pin alignment as well. Maybe for V2? Thinner PCBs = easier to solder the stack together. Also, why not a 32mbit chip, instead of 2 16mbit chips?
I was wondering about the 32Mb chip too. Perhaps a pinout related issue?
@@mrbiffo6729 I'm guessing the size of the chip could be an issue, but that's just a guess.
What a time to be alive
Looking at you, Bob.
Fascinating as this is 100% a method people will use once the EEPROMs start dying on a large scale for these cartridge based games to restore their original carts to working order. I love your humour and detailed instructions you give in your videos. Keep it up bud, you're clearly a gem for the retro gaming community.
slickrasta What commercial cartridges have the game on EEPROMs?
Oh no I incorrectly named a chip... thanks for being that shitposting dick. You get the point of what I was saying still so idc.