> Do you know where to find the cable? I'd be interested in mixing the schemes,
> as follows:

I've been told that "Matt's Game Exchange" in Concord, CA carries them.

I will be calling them soon to see if they still stock it.

> 1) developing with the serial cable
> 2) burning a final cd-r with netbsd and userland tools that works "as is"
>    without the cable

Yep, this is clearly the preferred technique.

> I can definitely contribute the method for booting recent pal consoles
> from a regular cd-r.

Let's hear it!! That was the first experiment I was going to try anyway.

> Cool. I'll be interested to see in the CDs boot on your US console as
> well. They should :)

If they don't then it is a Bug.

> Ah, darn. If you have *any* info about that I'm taker (I have the schematics
> from Marcus Comsted's page, but I have two left hands :)

That page has been my main source of hard docs so far. I'll recycle some
old breadboarding equipment to make my adapters. We should start looking
around for a PC Board fabricator so we can eventually mint a run of
adapter boards.

The real sticker is the custom connector for the DC serial jack. I really
do not want to make people crack open their DC's, so if _anyone_ out there
can find an independent supplier of the weird plug that's used, I'd love
to hear it. If we could eliminate the need for the NeoGeo cable, that'd be
ideal...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com