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This is very cool! I own the original pcb of this. Has anyone tested it on real hardware?
 
Amazing stuff @iq_132 !

Asure said:
Am i the only one that remembers the Toki video with the Sh1t F4ak guy on keyboard in the end? It seems this video is gone, i cannot find it anywhere.
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Nah i remember that too but it looked more like a troll video than something real... After seeing this i guess it could of been real!

Asure said:
(Toki / Juju Densetsu was created on very similar development hardware.)
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I think POW etc hardware is quite similar design too i'm surprised many other conversions have not happened yet...
 
Asure said:
Ok, this managed to fly under my radar, around march 2021 a nice port of Cabal was released.
Some more info here: https://neo-source.com/index.php?topic=3751.0

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar9JP_OnBhI&t=46s


Am i the only one that remembers the Toki video with the Sh1t F4ak guy on keyboard in the end? It seems this video is gone, i cannot find it anywhere.

(Toki / Juju Densetsu was created on very similar development hardware.)
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I had actually started to do Toki, but the cheap/lazy sprite routines I was using for Cabal slow it down too much on Neo-Geo hardware. If I re-visit it again at some point, the modifications will be much more involved.

jammajunk said:
This is very cool! I own the original pcb of this. Has anyone tested it on real hardware?
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I had hoped by releasing it, someone would test one one of the MVS flash carts, but so far I haven't heard anything. Maybe some day I'll get one of those carts and start doing some Neo-Geo development again.

Hammy said:
Amazing stuff @iq_132 !



Nah i remember that too but it looked more like a troll video than something real... After seeing this i guess it could of been real!



I think POW etc hardware is quite similar design too i'm surprised many other conversions have not happened yet...
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Thanks Hammy! POW is just different enough to be a pain, but I really would like to do some work on it some day.
 
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I fired it up on HBmame and it runs very well, i see what you mean about the flickering...

Seems to happen each time a bullet is fired (player or enemies) , i would make a guess that this bullet code would need to be moved to "vblank" time so it gets updated "out of view"

Anyway, like you say - it need hardware testing before getting too worried :)
 
I tried running it on real a real MVS, and no, it did not seem to work. It could've been the way I built the .neo file, but I'm usually successful using the neosdconv tool.

I can post a video of the colorful pattern it flashes on screen if that might help. The Unibios is locked out when it boots, so I can't do the memory viewer or anything.
 
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Would anyone with a Darksoft cart be willing to test this out for me? I have gotten reports that it's broken on AES mode and I have made a few updates.
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I tested Cabal out quite a bit as part of beta testing for the latest Darksoft cart Menu update.

The latest Cabal release doesn't work on my AES Revision 3-4, although it works fine with @djsheep 's AES Revision 3-3. On my AES, it hangs with a black screen if I use the UniBIOS and it hangs with a blue screen if I use the stock SNK BIOS. The prior release from October worked fine with the UniBIOS but would go into a crash-reboot loop on the stock SNK BIOS on my console.

Happy to help out with any further testing or details - let me know.
 
Looks like Cabal is in good, working order. Time to move on to the next port.
 

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iq_132 said:
Looks like Cabal is in good, working order. Time to move on to the next port.
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Did the last bit of flicker get resolved?

Terra cresta was totally unexpected for your next one :D
Another hardware with several games available on it.... Shame these ports are not like writing a mame driver ;)
 
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