Hi!
I have recently received my cart, and I have several issues, ranging from minor to game breaking.
1 - the cartridge shell is scratched. Admittedly this is more an annoyance than anything else and doesn't prevent playing, but I thought that it was supposed to be a repro (and as such, new) shell so I don't know why it would be scratched, and for ~500 euros I guess I was expecting it to be in a better condition.
2 - My console is a 3-5 rev with a 3.3 unibios. When running the cart the console is stuck in a reset loop. I see the unibios boot screen, a 'Checking Games' message and it immediately reboots and the same happens. Over and over again. I tried several SD cards (Samsung, Sandisk, with varying sizes) and it doesn't change a thing.
So in order to check what is wrong I borrowed another AES from a friend. I don't know what rev it is as I can't open it, but it's a 5V one (like mine) and I noticed that the RGB was darker than mine. Also, it's running a stock bios.
My tests were run with the exact same setup/cables, the only difference is the console itself (and the bios, as mentioned).
Results:
- Original games run fine on both consoles, with sound and all.
- Multi cart stuck in reset loop on my AES
- Multi cart working as expected on my friend's AES, except that there's no sound (apparently the issue that Darksoft just found a solution for). I ended up using this console to update the menu to the latest.
So yeah, it appears that I can't run the multi cart on my AES, despite original games working flawlessly.
It seems that mathewbeall had the same issue (on page 2,
AES Multi Cart Troubleshooting and help), but apparently it fixed itself somehow. It didn't happen for me, unfortunately.
3 - When using the multi cart on my friend's AES, I set the system to MVS and it seemed to work fine on some games, however on some others (eg. garou, last blade 2) the game froze on the first screen ('warning, this rom cartridge is for use...' blabla), and I need to hit the reset button for the game to load, but for some reason it does so in AES mode. Is there a way to make it work in MVS mode?
4 - Not really a problem, just curious: when the cart programs a game the screen is full of flickery white pixels/artefacts. But then it works fine. Is it the normal behaviour?
And that's it.
Obviously not being able to run the cart at all on my AES is the biggest issue.
Any help would be very much appreciated, I can't wait to finally be able to use this awesome cart at its full potential and have some good Neo-Geo fun
Thanks in advance.