SNK original development kit pics
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And another one, with DEV carts
What a monster
Wow. Thank you for this.
On the right side of that picture... Is that the same type of PCB/flash cards that NTM bought? The ones that had Darkseed on them?
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Seems the very same one indeed
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I was thinking the same thing. This is fascinating to see though. Thanks dragonpt!
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These pics are from the Programmers Guide of Nightmare Tony's that was released several years ago.
http://www.hardmvs.com/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf
The dev equipment starts around page 88. While my Dev boards are similar to those in the manual and in that pic, it isn't exactly the same. SNK has several different boards like this and seemed to mix and match Prog and Char dev boards depending on the needs.
http://www.hardmvs.com/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf
The dev equipment starts around page 88. While my Dev boards are similar to those in the manual and in that pic, it isn't exactly the same. SNK has several different boards like this and seemed to mix and match Prog and Char dev boards depending on the needs.
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That's a great find. Does anyone know of any floating around? Having worked in games development from PSX/Saturn era to PS3/360 era's you take for granted that the dev hardware will always be around. Also, current system dev hardware - even though you pay for it - is on 'loan' and needs to go back to the platform holders when you're done.
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That size is crazy. Do any members own any dev kits?
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neoturfmaster has some dev equipment in his collection
if you look on their facebook page ngdev has pics of their in-house dev equipment
they are pretty slick & looks like a major upgrade to the equipment pictured above where you have to burn and manually place eproms to test code
their boards allow to debug & read/write to memory registers directly
if you look on their facebook page ngdev has pics of their in-house dev equipment
they are pretty slick & looks like a major upgrade to the equipment pictured above where you have to burn and manually place eproms to test code
their boards allow to debug & read/write to memory registers directly
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This. So much hidden knowledge still out there to be discovered.
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For those who have not yet seen it and are interested, here is the footage of the snk programmers that matches the photo from above:
Go to 11:05 in the video for the programmers part of the video. You'll get another good look at the dev kits and learn about their project development process as a whole.
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Go to 11:05 in the video for the programmers part of the video. You'll get another good look at the dev kits and learn about their project development process as a whole.
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Well...briefly after you joined this forum 4 years ago I was actually posting about it, linking the development BIOS file as well..why haven't you paid attention!? ;P
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My teachers asked the same thing.
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Indeed I did
btw that does kinda explain some odd things in the background of some stages...but I'll hold that talk for another post.