Glad i'm not the only one who noticed this. If this is the loading speed even with fast microSD then it sucks ass. Would not surprise me if cutcenes in games like TotK stutter.Yeah, I noticed the MIG was slow to boot the dude's game in the OP, not sure if it's the MIG's fault or just a sub-par SD card being used.
Nope. No internal flash or EEPROM.The RP2040 has its flash integrated like every modern microcontroller?
Assuming that both of those chips are not the same (I doubt they would be using dual RP2040, for what purpose?) then it is possible that one of them is the flash chip.They would be making bank if that was the case. If they were RP2040, that would probably be a $10 flash cart. Though if we ignore the missing silkscreen, the number of pins lines up, the crystal oscilator there is probably 12MHZ, question is though, which mostly disproves this theory, is where is the flash? They would need flash to run a program (the only other alternative is running it from RAM, requiring a re-program on each boot).
What FPGA though? I don't think they even make FPGAs small enough to fit in that footprint.The RP2040 has no internal flash but this doesn't stop you from loading the firmware into its RAM from the FPGA.
I'm sure there are FPGAs in this form factor. They mentioned how they had issues with ordering the parts so it's probably a more obscure part. The left chip has most traces going to it so i assume that is the FPGA. Right chip has the matching pin pitch/count for a RP2040 but we will see.What FPGA though? I don't think they even make FPGAs small enough to fit in that footprint.
Read a couple months ago in the open source DS flashcard thread how the 2040 isn't quite fast enough to comfortably work as a ds flashcard. If that's true then it's not likely it can replace an fpga in a switch flashcard.Assuming that both of those chips are not the same (I doubt they would be using dual RP2040, for what purpose?) then it is possible that one of them is the flash chip.
I guess we are past the days of needing an entire FPGA to make a flashcart work (for sure there is no FPGA in this thing nor would one fit) and the RP2040 seems likely here due to its PIO, which is a feature unique to the RP2040 which allows it to emulate hardware I/O very similarly to what was being done with FPGAs on flashcarts for other consoles.
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What FPGA though? I don't think they even make FPGAs small enough to fit in that footprint.
FPGA or RP2040 but we don't know. It's possible to dump it if you know all the lines etc, but the data might be encrypted.how did they make this?
can we dump the code inside this cart?
Possible, but another thing: Every FPGA I have ever seen has a high pin count, and the one you showed there is BGA (understandably, since the size doesn't allow for a lot of pins otherwise), but the one in the MIG is not.Read a couple months ago in the open source DS flashcard thread how the 2040 isn't quite fast enough to comfortably work as a ds flashcard. If that's true then it's not likely it can replace an fpga in a switch flashcard.
Also, there are tiny fpgas out there (finally I get to use this pic).
I think this one probably use one of those chinese fpgas.
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I think that’s just a regional/translation thingWhat do you mean by "sample"? Is it just a piece and not the whole thing?
noIf you are already banned, signature check don't really matter, andcan the MIG read Repacked XCI's, that is the question.
It's a British and to a somewhat lesser extent European way of saying test version/demo version/review version of something not yet available to the general public.What do you mean by "sample"? Is it just a piece and not the whole thing?
If it's coming from Russia it might be hard to get chips due to sanctions.....just saying.I'm sure there are FPGAs in this form factor. They mentioned how they had issues with ordering the parts so it's probably a more obscure part. The left chip has most traces going to it so i assume that is the FPGA. Right chip has the matching pin pitch/count for a RP2040 but we will see.