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Can Someone School me on Taito G-Net with CF cards?

After reading this thread, I have one question about operations. I purchased a flashed bios IC with a CF card and reader... (in hindsight, I should have done it myself). Everything flashed fine, and the card came preloaded with a game. It all loads fine, but once the game starts, the audio overlaps, and the graphics glitch. Eventually, the system hangs and reboots. Am I correct in assuming the CF card is bad? Or should I be looking at other potential issues?
 
skate323k137 said:
Here guys, no more windows BS.

https://github.com/Alex-Kw/gnet-imager/blob/master/gnetflash

contribute if you want!

In all seriousness it's just a wrapper for the linux tool 'dd'. if you have a 1 hard drive laptop, you can install ubuntu on, this script would let you copy the raw game images quite easily. It's exactly how I do it in my own test setups, using lubuntu and a USB > CF adapter.

Also, located here, are exact copy's of all the mame CHD's, but extracted to raw already:

http://neohyphengeo.com/GNET/

Mods if you don't want that link here just remove it and/or let me know. I hope with this script and these extracted CHDs available, anyone can make these themselves. I recommend Cisco CF cards or other small capacity industrial type card. (Edit... Mixed luck with Cisco cards recently, GNET didn't like a lot of the 64MB ones, but 128s I've had better luck).

a 64 or 128MB card is enough to hold any one game at a time.

I hope, someone can find a way, to "bank switch" or similar a larger CF device, to create a lazy man's multigame. I have not been able to find a good/easy way to do that yet.
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Is anyone getting Trojan blockers when trying to download the gnetflasher? I'm not able to download it due to virus protection saying it is a severe risk "Trojan Win32/Vigor
 
I was having random crashing after load when I tried a 4GB card. When I got a gnet for myself listed on YAJ as non-working (it worked fine), my friend loaned me a card with RayCrisis on it which he said worked great on his board, but definitely crashed. Loading it on to a 256MB card worked. So what I'm saying is make sure the card isn't too big!

Don't bother with gnetflasher. Use the raw files and then image with HDD Raw Copy Tool on Windows (https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/), or dd on Mac/Linux.
 
trashedcabs said:
I was having random crashing after load when I tried a 4GB card. When I got a gnet for myself listed on YAJ as non-working (it worked fine), my friend loaned me a card with RayCrisis on it which he said worked great on his board, but definitely crashed. Loading it on to a 256MB card worked. So what I'm saying is make sure the card isn't too big!

Don't bother with gnetflasher. Use the raw files and then image with HDD Raw Copy Tool on Windows (https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/), or dd on Mac/Linux.
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The card I am using is a 256 MB Transcend Industrial. I found a 256 MB Sandisk. I'll try to reload the Transcend and also test the SanDisk. I hope it's just a bad copy. Thanks!
 
Pretty sure mine are all 64 or max 128MB Sandisk, but those are as expensive as the GB flavours now…
 
Sorry if this has been addressed somewhere, but just out of curiosity, do any of the conversions from other hardware have input lag or glitching issues like AW games on Naomi? Aside from those that need additional components that aren't on the G-Net.
 
claypot said:
Sorry if this has been addressed somewhere, but just out of curiosity, do any of the conversions from other hardware have input lag or glitching issues like AW games on Naomi? Aside from those that need additional components that aren't on the G-Net.
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Nope, no lag or differences on the GNET conversions from the original platform, except for Brave Blade which is missing the sound on GNET. Some of the games like RC De Go require special controls.
 
Wait, Atomiswave games have lag and glitches on Naomi?
 
ShootTheCore said:
Nope, no lag or differences on the GNET conversions from the original platform, except for Brave Blade which is missing the sound on GNET. Some of the games like RC De Go require special controls.
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Awesome. Good to know, thank you.
 
twistedsymphony said:
As far as I know there is no region differences between G-Nets.

Language is set by the G-Net Card.
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OK, so I have a Chaos Heat game (real). It's in Japanese, how can I change it to English?

Also, my G-Net start up screens are all in English, but I've seen the US manual and it's NOT in English, so there is a way to adjust language, although it could be BIOS based?
 
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XtraSmiley said:
OK, so I have a Chaos Heat game (real). It's in Japanese, how can I change it to English?
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I think the only way would be to sell it and buy the English version.

Or re-write the card, but that requires a bunch of special software tools, and you'd be ruining an original card in the process. (might as well just use a CF at that point)

XtraSmiley said:
there is a way to adjust language, although it could be BIOS based?
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not to my knowledge

I'm guessing you have Chaos Heat "V2.08J"
the J means it's the Japanese version. you'll want to source a new card that it's "V2.09O" where the O means it's the World version

Based on MAME dumps the known non Japanese Cards are:
Chaos Heat (V2.09O 1998/10/02 17:00)
Ray Crisis (V2.03O 1998/11/15 15:43)
Super Puzzle Bobble (V2.05O 1999/2/24 18:00)
Go By RC (V2.03O 1999/05/25 13:31)
Psyvariar -Medium Unit- (V2.02O 2000/02/22 13:00)

there is also the one "A" for Asia release
Zooo (V2.01JA 2004/04/13 12:00)

And this oddball "International build" Japanese release
Shikigami no Shiro - internal build (V1.02J 2001/09/27 18:45)

it's possible that others are out there, but if they are they're not dumped.
 
Thanks for the info @twistedsymphony. I'm a goober and miss-typed on the motherboard. You said all the motherboards are the same, what I was trying to say is my motherboard (without a game) is in Japanese. I have seen G-Nets that are in English (without a game). So the question is, is there any way to change the language on the motherboard or is I it based on the BIOS chip, or some other chip?

Does refreshing the BIOS for running take homemade carts result in a language change on the motherboard?
 
XtraSmiley said:
Thanks for the info @twistedsymphony. I'm a goober and miss-typed on the motherboard. You said all the motherboards are the same, what I was trying to say is my motherboard (without a game) is in Japanese. I have seen G-Nets that are in English (without a game). So the question is, is there any way to change the language on the motherboard or is I it based on the BIOS chip, or some other chip?

Does refreshing the BIOS for running take homemade carts result in a language change on the motherboard?
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If I'm not mistaken mine is still Japanese with the multi bios.
 
XtraSmiley said:
Thanks for the info @twistedsymphony. I'm a goober and miss-typed on the motherboard. You said all the motherboards are the same, what I was trying to say is my motherboard (without a game) is in Japanese. I have seen G-Nets that are in English (without a game). So the question is, is there any way to change the language on the motherboard or is I it based on the BIOS chip, or some other chip?

Does refreshing the BIOS for running take homemade carts result in a language change on the motherboard?
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I'm not entirely sure but I think it may actually take on the language of the last card loaded. I know I've seen my G-Net boards switch between English and Japanese. I'm not aware of any regional bioses.
 
Is there a way to verify that the mod bios has been correctly been installed?
Burned the Bios, set the jumper, watched the three status bars and now can't get any game to boot from three different CF's (original Chaos Heat still works).
I used dd to write the games to the cf's, any obvious mistake i could have made?
 
Yes I believe when loading a game it tells you the bios version on screen. When you say your cf games don't work... I. What way are they failing? Does it not recognize the card or does it load and reboot or something else?
 
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