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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...

I was wondering if it was a 246B issue (looks like there's a couple on eBay just now, one very rusty and one with no DVD drive, in Italy and Japan respectively, and not clear if either work), though if it's also happening on the 246C then hopefully I can reproduce here since I already have one...

More custom - I'll generally release when I think I have a new feature working, or to fix a specific bug (which may be part of getting the new feature working). If I'm just working on stuff I won't release as it may not be ready yet. The real issue is that when someone says "Yes, this does work...

Just to try, could you install the firmware at https://issues.tattiebogle.net/view.php?id=9#c68 ? It has stuff for DOS PCs that tweaked the timing, perhaps that'll make a difference. DOS PCs are very, very widely varied in their timing and behaviour so this locks it down a lot more.

Tried a few different PCBs with a few different variations of firmware (some older, some newer than yours) on my 246C, but Tekken 4 booted up each time, so not sure what the issue is yet. Other than that I was using the IDE cable the 246 came with, a Samsung EVO 64GB SD card, I regenerated the...

(sorry if I missed where you replied, I did re-skim the past few posts but didn't see it) Is the image from the dump, or did you make it from the DVD? If you try without the SD card inserted (though it obviously won't boot) do you still see the FF command/Reset: hard during IDENTIFY PACKET...

That's pretty odd - I've definitely used Tekken4 for testing (I forget if it's what's actually installed on my multidongle right now) so I'm not sure what might have gone wrong. The fact it seems to time out trying to do a read (it executes a hard reset in the log during a read, implying it...

@BladeZX Hey sorry, got a bit behind (changing jobs, wife is pregnant), but I'll see if I can make some time to at least hack something together to test it experimentally in the next couple of weeks :)

Yes, I'm still around 😊 If the website lets you place an order that means there's still stock (and it only places a hold for the money when you order, the charge doesn't go through until it gets packed/ships, so if me or my wife, who does the packing, are both incapacitated then you won't lose...

Sadly it won't be ready for a wee while. I want to refactor some stuff to make it cleaner to add new device types (like the support for that Roland synthesiser and its ATAPI ZIP drive is a wee bit of a hack on top of CD support). I have at least started the refactoring, though :)

Haha yes, I was just kidding 😊 I'll definitely add adding TOC support to the TODO list though, I found the cdrdao source to figure it out though it's not super well documented.

@mathewbeall You mean me, right? ;)

Very odd. I've now tried different IDE cables and also every combination of DIP switches on my 246C, and a bunch of PCBs and I cannot make it not work. These questions only really make sense if your USB stick and SD card are set up the same, but are there any other files? What filesystem are...

@nem With the updated firmware linked a few posts back? Were you able to capture any "monitor" output and if so did it lock up at the same point?

I tried a Kingston USB stick (Datatraveler G4 8GB, it has something wrong with it where it only runs at USB1 speeds even in my Mac/etc. though it's supposed to support USB3) and that also booted okay with that same firmware, so I'm a little flummoxed right now. It'll definitely be interesting to...

Which USB stick are you using? There's a few different standards for USB mass storage and it could be a bug that a device I don't have access to is causing (which would take out the USB serial interface too). Other than that, does the same freeze happen if you try it via SD?

Interesting, yours and mine both get as far as "READ (10): address=00 00 00 10 size=00 01" (address 0x10 is the location where the ISO9660 data starts), after which mine reads some different locations then starts loading huge piles of data, whereas your log shows it just spinning on 0...

Instructions here - basically, copy the firmware onto an SD card/USB stick, then plug the ODE into a computer where it should appear as a virtual serial port. Open the serial port to get a command line, then use the 'flash upgrade <file>' command to load the new firmware. There's two banks, so...