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I'm ready to buy one once it's ready, and heck I'll test things out if needed
 
Man, a lot has changed here since I checked last. I'm having a hard time parsing through the thread. Is there ANY ODE that is confirmed to work for single games available at the moment? I'm on my 3rd DVD drive and sick of tracking down compatible hardware
 
I currently have 2 of the old ones - not really liking the idea of buying new ones for the HDD support
The talk before was that the first one could be updated with a firmware update - I guess that is no longer the case
 
BladeZX said:
I currently have 2 of the old ones - not really liking the idea of buying new ones for the HDD support
The talk before was that the first one could be updated with a firmware update - I guess that is no longer the case
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you missed this:
electric_monk said:
I do intend to try and backport the hard disk support to the old version of the PCB, I haven't yet confirmed if it'll work or not
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Considering no one else has tried to make an ode that does what his new one will kinda shoes how niche the need must be. Unfortunately you pay for that kind of R&D. If his first design was created with the specific intention of supporting all 246 games and never did then I might be a bit unamused. The fact he will try to backport his code is a big bonus.
 
Mitsurugi-w said:
If his first design was created with the specific intention of supporting all 246 games and never did then I might be a bit unamused.
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it wasn't. the first design was intended for Konami 573 use, specifically for rhythm games on that platform like DDR.

It was the community here that encouraged him to expand the functionality to include 2x6 use but even then it was clear from the start that it was disc only despite many people expressing desire for hdd support.
 
I'm interested in one, don't care if HDD is compatible or not as I worked out a solution with a CF reader for HDD games. The Toshiba DVD-Rom on my 246B is starting to show signs of failure, this is my second one so far. I'm pretty sure we are the ones buying all of the compatible IDE DVD-Rom drives on ebay lol
 
I have the original one so looking forward to either a firmware update or if needed to buy the new one.
 
I have money ready to burn when these become available, will they continue to support Konami 573?
 
Testing is going well with the new ODE I think it's mostly working but I'm having a weird issue with SC2 where after the first load it prevents my 256 from loading any other game (including re-loading SC2). electric_monk hasn't been able to reporduce this on his setup unfortunately.

I've also gone through and minimized all of the hdd images and tested most of them. with the minimization I can get 100% of the discs and hdds on a single 256GB thumbdrive, this includes all of the taiko games, racing games, and even satellite games for both 246 and 256.

Most of my testing has been swapped to the newer game set on Archive.org which has much more complete and properly dumped discs and dongles.
I did finally get my Pi selector up and running with this new set and the new ODE but there are two issues:
1. the Pi selector software doesn't handle dongle or drive image names with spaces. I had to tweak two .sh files to include quotes around the file names to get this working
2. the ODE has a line limit on the screen text and many of the new drive image file names push it beyond this limit, so at least the longer files will need to be renamed.

or alternatively the whole new game set can be completely renamed to remove spaces as well.

One Pair of games I've never been able to get running (even without the ODE) is Zoids Infinity and Zoids Infinity EXP
has anyone ever successfully loaded these on a 256? if so I'd like to know what the secret is.
 
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