On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Piero Cavina wrote:
> Do you think that it would be possible to make a multicart for 4K games
> without dip-switches, that is with software menu selection of the games?
> (like that Vectrex multi made by Sean Kelly) - or has it already been done?
I don't believe the 2600 is, for the most part, equipped to handle menu
driven multi-carts. There are a few cludgey ways to make multi-carts
though. Using dip switches is the most common. Using a timer like the
32-IN-1 cart is another. I believe there were a couple of menu driven
multicarts released by HES in Australia. I believe they used a 16K
bankswitching scheme and used 2K for the menu, 8k for one of the games,
4k for another game and then another 2k for the last game. Kevin Horton
has a more detailed explanation in his file sizes.txt on his web page.
I wonder if this method could be used with the 128K super cart?
Chris Pepin
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