Still have your NES? Ok, this is about a very cool piece of hardware to have then.
The description is like this:
CopyNES is basically a modified NES frontloader that has a small add-on board, and a DB-25 plug mounted to the back to allow it to be connected to a PC via the parallel port. The original prototype had an LCD display on it, but this was deemed redundant so I removed it. The PC shows all the status information required.
The basic premise of operation is there’s a host program that runs on the PC which sends commands and 6502 code to the NES in the form of “plugins” which are simply 1K blocks of data that get loaded into the NES’ internal RAM. These plugins are what make the whole thing so flexible- if a cart comes along that has not been dumped, you can write a plugin to dump it.
However, there is a note attached that reads like this:
NOTE: CopyNES does *NOT* allow you to “play back” games. It is more of a tool to dump carts, reverse engineer carts not emulated/dumped, and things like that. With a RAM cart it can be used to run some things like homebrew code and such.
So I leave it up to you to decide if you still wanna have it. I for myself, would have jumped at it, however, I have done away with me NES ages back *sob*
Get the CopyNES here
