Recent content by electric_monk

Hey all, sorry for the delay replying. I'll add a new list tonight, I had hoped to have restocked by now but trying to keep costs down (due to tariffs/etc.) things are running a little behind, so probably easier if people can just add themselves again :)

I got your PM yes, I'll add you 😊

Sorry yes, I was sick the past wee while, I'll add you to the list :)

The list was on my site yes but I removed the signup sheet before I turned it into a datafile for my e-mail script ;) If anyone still wants on just PM me your e-mail and I'll stick it on the end of the list manually. The list is quite long and I'm doing it in chunks so it'll take a few weeks...

Yeah, `.hdd` should be fine for a hard disk file. Also try it without the autorun.txt file, just in case (the dongles have drivers on them as well as the game binary itself, so there's the chance for shenanigans on any given game).

Since it's a 246 it might also require the workaround for the misbehaving drive search on the 246 hardware/BIOS. Create a text file called autorun.txt in the root of the USB drive and place the following in it: interface set slave disk search

Very unscientific using my little test PS2 card reader and `find`: find . -name \*.bin -exec ls {} \; -exec PS2MemoryParser {} \;|grep -e memcards -e " FPGA" ./246_memcards/zoidsinf-b3900076a.bin 2004/06/19 16:55 126002 FPGA 00000000...

Ah, but the interesting question everyone is discussing here (and would take too much time) is how each separate game actually interacts with that driver, like do they all just slam it in every boot, or do they gate it on the first boot NVRAM check (which I think occasionally fails? This could...

If you're interested in the inner workings you can use PS2 memory card tools to read the .bin files. I did so for Dragonball Z during some debugging and also partially just out of curiosity (and for fun I also made my own tool to actually extract the filesystem from the file) and in there you...

I've got three pinball machines - Earthshaker (with the "collapsing building" mod), The Simpsons Pinball Party and Ghostbusters Premium (with the ECTO-1 topper). I think of them as slow, medium and fast.

Yup, it's the only reasonable way I can think of to do it (certainly don't want to mess around with a third project that emits a static library and trying to have that compile to something like artifactory for the other projects to pull or something) ;) The only real pain is that git really...

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 - been too busy with the new version and also unrelated stuff 😊 It's obviously in my interest to keep the code between both as similar as possible anyway, though...

Yup - I've been hoarding chips, and though I did manage to get most of the other parts, some vital parts are still missing. Sadly, with no end in sight, I can't really give an estimate 😿 Most companies are giving year+ estimates on Digikey/etc. but these seem to be lies, stuff just comes in...

The last firmware I released was the December 2021 one on https://issues.tattiebogle.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=mantis:ide_simulator:firmware - it contains some Namco stuff, and some other stuff (like USB writes working better for the ATAPI ZIP drive emulation). The only issue I was aware of I...

Still investigating SC2 (using soulcl2b-sc23vera.bin/sc21-dvd0d from the sheet) but I think I've narrowed it down to some IDE bus oddness, relating to the game attempting to do some master/slave detection (apparently poorly). At least for that version of SC2, if I run the command interface set...