Brutzelkarte - N64 Flash Cart PCB (KiCad)
This project does not support piracy! You are only allowed to play games you own yourself and you have to create your own ROM images.
- Open Source hardware and software
- no BGA packages (DIY friendly)
- no original chips from victim modules needed
- FPGA based logic
- Lattice LCMXO2-7000HC-6TG144C
- flexible (everything goes through the FPGA)
- updatable (internal FLASH can be updated over UART)
- expandable (free ressources for new features)
- 64 MiB (512 MBit) QSPI FLASH for ROMs
- can be split into multiple parts for smaller ROMs
- download is slow compared to SD card based carts
- once a ROM is flashed the boot is as fast as the original module (no need to select and load the game every startup if you want to focus on a specific game)
- can be expanded in the future (QSPI FLASH chips can use the same pinout for bigger memory because they don't need additional address lines)
- 8 MiB (64 MBit) dedicated for cart menu
- 256 KiB battery backed up SRAM for savegames
- SRAM can be split into multiple savegames
- emulates all cart based savegames
- EEPROM 4 KBit
- EEPROM 16 KBit
- SRAM 256 KBit
- SRAM 3x 256 KBit
- FlashRam 1 MBit
- RTC
- only used by Animal Forest
- integrated FT232RL USB-UART
- direct UART TTL connections if you want to save the money for the FT232RL
