GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 Community, GoldenEye X, Nintendo 64 Games Discussion

[zerojett]

i noticed a cardslot or something on the back of the 2.0 gameshark.

what is it? what did it do?
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[kcghost]

I'm pretty sure its just a heatsink. tere is no complicated wiring insid, just four on each side elevated metal pieces. If you rip it off and examine it, you will see it's clearly a heatsink, although with a strange design that looks like a card reader.

[zerojett]

dang... hopes up for nothing.
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[Wreck]

It really is a cardslot.
Interact was going to release data cards for certain titles that included a ton of GameShark codes on them. You just slide it into the back of the cheating device, start up the console, then download the new cheats. To my knowledge, they've only ever made them for two or three different games. Mortal Kombat Trilogy (or 4) and an RPG like EverQuest are the ones I can remember. You could try looking it up on the Internet, if you'd like some more information.

[zerojett]

i took it apart, and there isnt much inside. only exactly 8 flimsy rods. i am not sure what they were used for. hmm...

wreck, if you could back this up with a link, id be happy. ill go digging for a bit. ill tell you what i find.
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[kcghost]

Holy Crap, I cant believe that thing is a card slot! Here is a copy of the Gameshark Manual, it mentions it as a "Smart Card Slot"

http://www.world-of-nintendo.com/manuals/nintendo_64/game_shark.shtml

That looked sooo much like a heatsink though! Oh well, apparently they had planned to use it in the future when they made the product, but it was pretty-much scrapped. Most likely because expanding the memory on an already unstable barely working piece of crap basically, was too risky. I wonder however, if its possible to take advantage of this card slot, if it had originally been intended for a standard flash card, maybe its possible to add codes from the PC using these eight connections and avoid getting a good gameshark ....

[kcghost]

Im working on a little project involving my gameshark . Can someone please take their Super Gameshark (Something with the rs232 port on its back ) and try to take good pictures of the circuitry? Particularily the port connections. I have some experience with serial connections and rs232 ports and such, and I have tried (I believe sucessfully, but i can't be sure, its a long story) in the past to convert 9-pin to the 25 pin rs232. Smart Cards such as the one on the back of the gameshark 2.0 are standard, if I can make an accurate connection it may act like it was a port and I can upgrade my firmware to 3.2 or 3.3 or something. Also transfer codes. Of course, it may not work since the GS 2.0 was not made for a PC connection. But I assume (im not sure, I havent looked at a Super GS' circuitry) that Datel or Interact or whoever was ery lazy with the Gamesharks, and only had two "real" models, the rest are just the same boards with firmware updates. One with a port, and one with a smart card, they might not have even changed much, im thinking they converted the smart card to a port and slapped a firmware upgrade on it, so I think a computer connection may be possible.

Anyway, back to point, somebody please take pics of thier Gameshark (with a port). Thanks in Advance.

[zerojett]

http://hcs.freeshell.org/images/gspro33.jpg
and...
http://hcs.freeshell.org/images/gspro33b.jpg

off of google. best i can do. it should work. both are from a 3.2 i believe. have fun...
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[kcghost]

Thanks, I cant believe I didn't even see those! I think this might be feasible, just found a pretty relative doc on it: http://www.epanorama.net/documents/smartcard/pc2videocrypt.html

However, it turns out I might need to actually buy something, ewww. I am the cheapest persion the planet, it talks about some voltage converter or something, as well as some open driver circuit thing, which sounds more important than the voltage converter. Pfft, I got a 2-buck gameshark, Im just gonna see if I can do without it. Now I might have something to do with my good ol soldering iron besides fixing my crappy headphones!

[zerojett]

ehh... too lazy to read it... umm.... keep me posted on your progress. i wouldnt mind being able to hook my 2.0 up to pc, if that is your plan, of which i am assuming it is.

lol. i am cheap too! i didnt even pay for my nintendo stuff. got it from my brother or my dad bought it. thats what happens when you are a teen, eh?
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[00Dark]

i really hope that u can figure out how 2 hook a gs 2.2 to a pc cause i got one one ebay and it came yesterday but it crapped out (the led is the only thing that works;the rest of it wont start up) and i want 2 reflash it and correct it.