SD2SNES Rev. K Assembly Guide

This series focuses on building your own SD2SNES cartridge for playing backups of your originals. It also contains clues for debugging and repair guides.

  1. SD2SNES Assembly – Description
  2. SD2SNES Assembly – Required Tools
  3. SD2SNES Assembly – Getting the Source and initial preparations
  4. SD2SNES Assembly – Creating PCB files and ordering the PCB
  5. SD2SNES Assembly – Ordering the required parts from the BOM
  6. SD2SNES Assembly – Part and Inventory management
  7. SD2SNES Assembly – Sorting and final preparations
  8. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 1 – BGA
  9. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 2 – FPGA, Memory and MCU
  10. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 3 – Level Shift and Resistor Arrays
  11. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 4 – Power Regulators, Inductors
  12. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 5 – Audio Circuit
  13. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 6 – Chicken Food (Resistors, Capacitors, misc. small parts)
  14. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 7 – CIC chip
  15. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 8 – Clocks
  16. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 9 – Connectors, Slots, Battery
  17. SD2SNES Assembly – PCB Assembly Step 10 – Final pieces
  18. SD2SNES Assembly – Initial Pre- Powerup checks
  19. SD2SNES Assembly – Checking for Shorts
  20. SD2SNES Assembly – Final inspection
  21. SD2SNES Assembly – Initial Powerup (Out of SNES)
  22. SD2SNES Assembly – Power Rail Checks
  23. SD2SNES Assembly – Initial Powerup (In SNES)
  24. SD2SNES Assembly – Building and flashing the Bootloader
  25. SD2SNES Assembly – First startup with Pre- Built Diagnostics Firmware
  26. SD2SNES Assembly – First startup with Pre- Built Firmware and loading first game ROM for testing
  27. SD2SNES Assembly – Building our own Firmware
  28. SD2SNES Assembly – Building our own User Interface
  29. SD2SNES Assembly – Building our own FPGA Configurations
  30. SD2SNES Assembly – Wrapping it up: Building your own full firmware package
  31. SD2SNES Assembly – You did it! Some final words!
  32. SD2SNES Debugging – Common faults
  33. SD2SNES Debugging – Identifying Fault Categories
  34. SD2SNES Debugging – Technical Specifications

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