Todo

Nintendo carts: document how to open them

Add pictures, and a video guide, to each page

Add instructions on how to dump save files

Document common ROM chip serials. E.g. 6th, 7th and 8th character of the “MX” line on MX (Macronix) ROM chips seems to be the ROM size.

Split this into individual tables for each console, and put them on the respective dumping guide pages

General Disc Dumping guide: add more information on advantages of certain disc drives (e.g. Plextors)

GB/C: update the tool overview table and then move back to actual page

GBA: update the tool overview table and then move back to actual page

Create Atari Cartridge dumping guide.

Possible Atari Lynx Dumper?

Clean up and finalize the Virtual Boy guide

Clean up and finalize the Famicom Disk System (WIP)

Sega Game Gear guide with JoeyGG or a custom PCB or Sanni adapter

Create GBA e-Reader guide

Create guide for Bandai Wonderswan. Sanni adapter requires harvesting cartridge slot from a real Wonderswan.

Create guide for Neogeo Pocket Color. Hidden Palace mentions using a Tengu Neo Geo Pocket Dumper. no-intro forum link mentions the Tengu too plus Sanni

GB: Document this GB dumping homebrew for GBA https://github.com/Lorenzooone/gba-dump-gb

GBA: Document gbaxxdumper

DS: add guide for DSi dev cart dumping https://archive.org/details/godmode9-dsi-dev-cart-version-2019-11-01-203045

MD: Flashkit Programmer MD

Rewritable Hard Disks and Flash Media

Floppy Disks

Is it worth dumping each chip individually for some carts? Examples of carts where this would be useful: different parts of ROM exposed depending on PCB configuration, some kind of circuitry for byte-swapping the ROM output (2)? Maybe just looking at the PCB is enough to find special cases like these.

Add explanations of why the different pieces of info are useful to record to Gathering and Submitting Dump Info (Detailed) / and generally just why its good to use common/open source methods.

Hiccup's notes: https://hiccup.miraheze.org/wiki/Notes_to_assist_with_dumping_guides

It may be a good idea to overdump (dump past the maximum known capacity) from some carts on some systems, to make sure all the ROM is dumped (even if the capacity is written on the ROM chip), and then analyse the overdump to find the actual size. Maybe this is something that could be done by the dumping hardware itself - maybe make suggestion on Sanni github discussions.

Hardware: integrate Lesserkuma's cart_reader_dumping_compatibility_chart.xlsx

Some carts may have DLC in the save data. Add a note to the dumping guide pages about this.

Game Boy: add info on cart/box serials (and non-standard carts if relevant)

Rewritable Hard Disks and Flash Media: add instructions on how to censor personal information without altering the surrounding data structure (e.g. FF/00-out file contents without modifying the filesystem metadata or shifting data)

nintendo cart pages: add info on “front of cart”/box serials (and non-standard carts if relevant)