Description
The NES MMC Blaster Lite is here! This programmable cartridge can do a variety of the more advanced NES mappers (see below) that were used in many titles during the NES era!
No soldering, no hassle! Simply pop the board into the RetroBlaster Programmer with the NES/FC adapter and write your game to it. The RetroBlaster software will automatically remove any header and pad your game file to fill the Flash memory chips on the board. It takes all the guess-work out of making your game playable on a real console!
The NES MMC Blaster Lite cartridge can be configured with a variety of different mappers, and includes a custom multi-region CIC chip so that the cart works in both NTSC and PAL regions* without any fuss, plus it handles changing all PRG/CHR/WRAM and mapper configurations automatically.
If you get the MMC1 Blaster, for example, it can do ALL SxROM configurations – and it’s all handled automatically based on what game you’re writing to it.
Boards with more than one mapper on it, like the “MMC2 / MMC4” or “MMC3 / MMC6” Blasters, will be able to play games from either mapper, all handled automatically.
**NEW IN 2025**
The MMC Blaster Lite got an upgrade! It now also has the option to support some extra mappers as well as the holy grail of NES games – Nintendo World Championship 1990! Supports configurable time limits to mimic the dip switches on the original game – all handled in software! See mapper details listed below!
The NES MMC Blaster Lite comes with the following features:
- 512KByte of PRG ROM
- 512KByte of CHR ROM
- 32KByte of PRG RAM
- 8KByte of CHR RAM
- CR2032 battery + holder – for easy replacement years later
- Automatic mirroring and mapper configuration
- Multi-region CIC
Mappers supported (click the mapper name to see supported games) :
NSF (INES mapper 31, for chiptune carts)
NES-EVENT (Nintendo World Championship 1990)
FME-7 / Sunsoft 5B COMBO (no expansion audio)
VRC 1/2/4/6 COMBO (mappers 21,22,23,24,25,26,75) (no expansion audio)
*If your console’s LED blinks after inserting the Blaster and powering on, press RESET (usually takes between 4-8 resets) to lock the cart to your console’s region. You only need to do that once when changing the region the game is playing on, after that it remembers. The CIC defaults to the NTSC region out-of-the-box.
daltonblackwell (verified owner) –
I used the NES MMC Blaster Lite to make a physical copy of the Mario Kart ROM hack of R.C. Pro-Am for NES. When paired with the Retro Stage programmer and cartridge shell, it worked great! NES games are a little more confusing than other console games to setup but their instructions and software made it easy! Very very happy with how it turned out! Highly recommend!