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Main informations about Spaghetto (our dumper's name) and the process aiming to retrieve data from a game cartridge.
The Spaghetto family
Under this bizarre name is hidden the name of the dumper designed by ENES. The very first question coming to the mind is "but why Spaghetto ?".
In fact, we were in lack of inspiration. Jeandubois made falling its cooking book ... and so here is the result. Obviously all the other names related to ENES stay around the pasta and sauces names.
Until now, there are 3 models of Spaghetto : Spaghetto 1, Spaghetto 2 and Spaghetto 3. The second one is a technological evolution of the first one : connector more accurate, better completion and the ability to change the ending connector ... and so on to dump other types of cartridges.
Spaghetto 2 inside sight
Spaghetto 3 inside sight
- Added on : 12 October 2005
- Updated on : 11 January 2006
What is a dumper ?
Basically, a video game cartridge can only be read by the game system which it belongs to. It is a bit annoying when we aims to grab the cart content.
One of the tools enabling to read inside the cartridge is called a dumper. This machine is directly connected to a PC. Simply speaking, the dumper reads data from the cartridge and send them to the PC.
The whole collected data correspond to a dump, also called rom in the emulation world.
- Added on : 12 October 2005
What Spaghetto is able to dump ?
At the beginning of ENES, our first goal was to dump NES games (PAL and american NTSC). Indeed, japanese carts are FAMICOM games (japanese NTSC) with a totally different format ... especially if we forget the FDS (Famicom Disk System which where floppy disks).
Since the October 13th 2005, Spaghetto is technically able to dump everything. All has been done to make it flexible : extension port, flexible ending slots and adaptive software (Carbonara).
By default, you may only dump NES cartridge corresponding to the UNROM type.
- Added on : 12 October 2005