Games write their configuration to the backup ram. We could either catch those writes and read what would make things more complicated or just do a backup when you switch game. We opted for the latter.
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It would be nice if it backed up to a file on the SD card (within the game folder) that way you could have a backup-file for every game, and not just a few of them.
The first time I flashed the cart, I got a green screen after power cycling.
I reformatted the card and deleted the hidden files (I'm on a Mac) and now it works just fine (done about 10 reboots).
Another thing, the text on the menu says to press START + RIGHT to load the next game and START + UP to go to the menu, however on my cart it's reversed! START + UP goes to the next game, and START + RIGHT goes to the menu. Is this a known problem or any ideas about that?
Cheers.
I reformatted the card and deleted the hidden files (I'm on a Mac) and now it works just fine (done about 10 reboots).
Another thing, the text on the menu says to press START + RIGHT to load the next game and START + UP to go to the menu, however on my cart it's reversed! START + UP goes to the next game, and START + RIGHT goes to the menu. Is this a known problem or any ideas about that?
Cheers.
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It is supposed to be like that. Start + up = next game and start + right = menu. Unsure why it mentions the other way around for you, didn't notice that myself. Which version of the menu are you using?
Darksoft never sleeps, posted answer just before me.
on my cart:-
Menu = Right & Start
Games = Up & Start
Never seen help screen but IMHO feel it' just got mixed up. Am sure it will be sorted in time.
Ps. I feel up should go "UP to menu" and right ( or left ) Side step cart slots.
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Other than the issue with Pulsar I haven't had anything go wrong with my multi. My buddy with your competitor's multi is green with envy right now.
Question though....is it possible to have it always just go back to the game select menu by default and not to the 3 games loaded or is that something we can request in later fw?
Question though....is it possible to have it always just go back to the game select menu by default and not to the 3 games loaded or is that something we can request in later fw?
I guess you mean, that it goes directly to the game list, instead of showing the Metal Slug anymation, right?
Yes. I do like the animation though.
Question: what if the flashing process fails fore whatever reason? I mean: what if the cart turns with bad firmware (bad SD card, power failure, anything). How can it be recovered? is the flashing process handled by the firmware itself, or is it hardware-based?
As long as the bootloader is intact you can always restore the FW the same way you update it. This was a feature added very early on with the protos since I corrupted the proto and had to send it back to DS to fix. In the event that the bootloader becomes corrupted which is VERY UNLIKELY you can restore it using a device like the Discovery.
I can confirm this. Power blinked while I did initial install. Reinstalled everything on the sd and everything was fine.
Cool, good to know. So, the firmware update process does not touch the bootloader, I'm assuming? so if I upload a bad/corrupted firmware, is it just as simple as copying the good files again to the SD card and rebooting the MVS board?
That's correct.
