ElDumper

🎮 A GB Cartridge Dumper, based on GBCartRead. It adds an Electron app that acts as frontend.

Both GBCartRead and ElDumper are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Created by [r]labs.

Pictures

Software

Hardware

Instructions

Flash the Arduino Uno with firmware/firmware.ino

Electron GUI (Linux & Windows)

• Download it from Releases
• Run ElDumper.AppImage or ElDumper.exe

Python CLI (Fedora)

• sudo dnf install python3
• pip3 install pyserial
• python3 software/python-reader/reader.py (check port /dev/ttyACM0)

References

• (SLOT)(BREADBOARD)(ARDUINO UNO)
• Cartridge labels go upwards. Pin 1 is the lower one.
• The left 74HC595N shifts the high ports of the cartridge.
• The right 74HC595N shifts the low ports of the cartridge.

Connections

(based on Hardware Picture 2)

• Connect 5V to the upper-right +
• Connect GND to the upper-right -
• Connect PINA3 to the 13-down trail (GB pin #3, orange cable)
• Connect PINA5 to the 10-down trail (GB pin #4, gray cable)
• Connect PINA4 to the 11-down trail (GB pin #5, white cable)
• Connect PIN12 to the 12-up trail (74HC595N pins #11, blue cables)
• Connect PIN11 to the 11-up trail (right 74HC595N pin #14, turquoise cable)
• Connect PIN10 to the 10-up trail (75HC595N pins #12, yellow cables)
• Connect PIN09 to the 39-up trail (GB pin #29, gray cable)
• Connect PIN08 to the 38-up trail (GB pin #28, white cable)
• Connect PIN07 to the 37-up trail (GB pin #27, brown cable)
• Connect PIN06 to the 36-up trail (GB pin #26, turquoise cable)
• Connect PIN05 to the 35-up trail (GB pin #25, blue cable)
• Connect PIN04 to the 34-up trail (GB pin #24, black cable)
• Connect PIN03 to the 33-up trail (GB pin #23, red cable)
• Connect PIN02 to the 32-up trail (GB pin #22, white cable)