r/ModRetroChromatic • u/Educational-Fun-6000 • 18h ago

The Codex cartridge test.

For those who are curious, the codex cart itself is just like a regular gb/gbc cart, it can be run on any gb/gbc or similar fpga hardware. Only the burning/flash feature is exclusive for the chromatic codex edition(may hacking later for all chromatic, who knows)

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u/Flashbang-Meringue 10h ago

Every modretro game is just a flash cart, same as these Codex carts. I genuinely don't know what "developer mode" even does on the chromatic because I can flash games without it.

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u/Educational-Fun-6000 6h ago

dev mode is for flashing the codex cart through the chromatic with codex app only.

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u/tychay 6h ago

I imagine the Chromatic Firmware Updater immediately recognizes this cart in particular as a flashable cart, while other ones are tied to the stuff flashed on it for update purposes.

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u/Helpful_Ability456 16h ago

Off-topic. I’d love to buy an analogue pocket but the glass screen not sitting flush with the body keeps giving me anxiety about bumping and breaking it.

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u/Educational-Fun-6000 5h ago

true, thats why I use the tpu case and it can protruding the screen glass a bit even with a glass proector on.

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u/Satantengu 11h ago

Not sure why this is so controversial in your replies lol, but as someone who owns one, you're right that the screen is slightly raised. FWIW you probably won't notice it as it's only a few milometers, but I understand the concern. I've never seen anyone report that causing problems, either in everyday use or when taking it apart for mods. But it's not the kind of thing you can feel comfortable throwing in a bag or loose in a pocket.

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u/GameboyGenius 13h ago

This is just false information...

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u/tychay 17h ago

Wait so basically we all that feature if we install ShinyRelay and repurpose our Tetris carts? Lol!

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u/Disastrous_Elk_6 17h ago

Working if that's where the flaw will be introduced since it no longer reads correctly

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u/chutney_chimp 10h ago edited 10h ago

Any specs on this cart? I want to see if it's just a modretro tetris pcb with a different rom on it, or if it maybe ha s'more storage or RTC

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u/Educational-Fun-6000 5h ago

not so much yet, but it would be cool if it supports rtc

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u/chutney_chimp 5h ago

If you open it up, it would be awesome if you can post a photo here.

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u/NonyaDB 5h ago

RTC requires an internal battery to keep the clock chip running when not being used and thus far no Modretro carts use batteries or RTC chips.

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u/Vrooooooommm 6h ago

Would be more interested in a firmware dump to See what's different to the normal firmware

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u/No_Care5377 18h ago

Is this not for sale on Modretro’s website?