To pcfx staff: get a free pcengine flash cart by a review!

timofonic_ · 07/10/2006, 07:16 AM

Hello,

pcengine is one of my favorite retro systems and I like to learn new stuff of it. I discovered Neoflash created a 128M pcengine flash cart.

Neoflash is better known for their GBA and NDS flash carts, but they are now starting in the retro world too. All their carts use only USB instead parallel like other competitors, having a lot faster transfer rates and better compatibility in newer computers.

Their pcengine flash cart was released since april and even has a box a label. It has a proffesional looking and there are 64MB and 128MB versions.

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A this moment there are no other offers until now for a review, so it's quite possible they accept your offer.

Go to here and write a forum thread about your review offer, they will finally accept or not after judging your page. Please mention me in the forum post ;)

Best regards,
timofonic

PS: I'm not from neoflash staff, just an enthusiast about the retro scene and flash carts. I did some PR about uCON64 too (find my nickname here).

esteban · 07/10/2006, 01:15 PM

PM sent.

rolins · 07/10/2006, 04:53 PM

Crap, I don't maintain or even own a website. I guess I'm ruled out.

td741 · 07/10/2006, 04:56 PM

(Kinda OT)

I was curious to find out if any of these flash carts could act like a system card?..

I'd like to get a 1.0 cd system card so I can finally play through Altered Beast CD one of these days.

rolins · 07/10/2006, 05:11 PM

Quote from: td741(Kinda OT)

I was curious to find out if any of these flash carts could act like a system card?.. I'd like to get a 1.0 cd system card so I can finally play through Altered Beast CD one of these days.

Nope. These PCE flash cards can't be used as a system/arcade card.

TurboXray · 07/11/2006, 02:01 AM

QuoteNope. These PCE flash cards can't be used as a system/arcade card.

Actually, you can flash the TOTOTEK card with system card 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 - but 3.0 games will crash as it won't have the additional 192k of ram.
DS:loh will run normally for a little while though with a 3.0/64k setup.

So the NEO flash cart should be no different. The reason why is the original 64k of ram is located in banks $80-87, which is above the hucard address banks of $00-7F - so it remains attached to the system even when a hucard is plugged in ( although no hucard game in history took advantage of it when plugged into a PCE cdrom system)

Keranu · 07/12/2006, 02:13 AM

Interesting.

PCEngineFX · 07/12/2006, 01:56 PM

Thank you timofonic for the heads up on the new flash cart. I'm tempted to apply for it (I'm pretty sure I can get one), however I've been historically against placing emulation info & such on pcengine-fx.com (the only thing related are my homebrew Duo>PC conversion projects.) So I don't know how a huge review would fit in on the site.

esteban · 07/12/2006, 08:22 PM

Quote from: PcenginefxThank you timofonic for the heads up on the new flash cart. I'm tempted to apply for it (I'm pretty sure I can get one), however I've been historically against placing emulation info & such on pcengine-fx.com (the only thing related are my homebrew Duo>PC conversion projects.) So I don't know how a huge review would fit in on the site.

Also, beyond simply reviewing it, you'd have to put a banner on your site for the product. When I found out about that, I decided that it made more sense to simply buy the flash cart myself, no strings attached. Now, I might still whore myself out in the future, but it'll be for something that's worth it