rideordie71

Thank you for the explanation(s). I only have to make the game once a year. I can justify finding a donor and paying a little bit more for it (they may start getting more scarce now that I have announced which game works for this) since it has been announced that following TSB's will and can be grander because of MMC5 capabilities. I welcome anybody to make their own repro cart of TSB 2017 (or any year), I mean just the satisfaction of having put it on an actual cart to play in your NES is just as wonderful as playing the game, and in a way could be just as awesome as the feeling the designers have that they made this possible and so many people love playing them. My hat is off to those who spend many hours designing the awesome TSB game variants. Thank you, Mike

New to the forum (just joined) however, I have been visiting for a while and making myself a Temco Super Bowl cart since 2015 release. Why was the mapper changed to MMC5 this year instead of the traditional MMC3 for the rom? MMC5 is quite an expensive donor to use to put this on a cart. Romance of the three kingdoms 2 is NOT cheap at all, I had to use the Famicom version (still not cheap) with 60-to72pin adapter just so that I could play on real hardware. I know that QBViking and Techmonster use MMC3 but I wanted to stick with what I have been every year. Not that it matters anymore since I have already made the bought the expensive donor and made the game but what was the reasoning for using MMC5 if you are not using the full potential of the mapper? MMC5 maxes out at 1MB for PRG and CHR but it is not being used here in the rom. Maybe because the ram needed is 24KB??? Any clarification would help. Again, it really doesn't matter at this point since I already put forth the effort to put this on a physical cartridge for myself.