What is Going on With the Kazzo NES Dumper?

[Damned]

I was interested to purchase it because the Retrode 2 doesn't have any plugins that support NES / Famicom and the Kazzo does exactly that, with them even mentioning designing a brand new model, but I'm worried because...

We're doing everything we can to finalize the hardware and start production this month (Jan 2018) to support release by Feb 2018.

It's been five months since then and the Kazzo is still not in stock. When I sent in a support ticket bringing this up, asking them if they had cancelled their plans, they did not respond.

Can anyone with more experience with Infinite NES Lives tell me if this has happened before or if production is still going on? I'm just nervous, because there doesn't seem to be any other NES dumpers around and there are a lot of NES games I would like to dump.

Yes, I realize this is a forum for the Retrode and not the Kazzo, but the Kazzo doesn't have its own forums to ask on.

[mistermorcus]

I actually happen to know the answer to this. There was a project on Kickstarter called NESMaker and the project creators apparently made a deal with the folks at InfiniteLives to produce a new version of the Kazzo (and potentially updated firmware?) to go with the NESMaker software.  I think they are busy trying to finish everything to get the hardware fulfillment in for people that backed at that tier.

The NESMaker software is a front-end that helps users dynamically make their own NES games without ever actually writing or knowing the underlying code.  This will allow people to make their own nes game carts using the Kazzo.

I got my Kazzo from them a year or two ago and it was quickly delivered. Hopefully once the Kickstarter stuff gets sorted out they will be back to business as usual.

[Land95]

The hardware is now for sale.  The software is in early beta.

[Nori]

How is the save transfers from and back to carts on that thing?

[mistermorcus]

The last time I was using it to dump carts I was using the old firmware which uses scripts depending on the mapper that the given game is using.  It was not very straightforward and I never got save files to work with it.  They are working on new firmware for it to make the mapper selection easier but who knows how well it will work.

I was able to transfer some save files using my RetroUSB AVS however for Crystalis. It has a tool that connects it to your PC and can transfer save files to and from carts. I have heard other people not having as much luck as I did though so do this at your own risk.