How to Net-boot NAOMI/Tri-Force/Chihiro Using Pi-Force Tools

[mR_CaESaR]

Load the game, go into test mode and reboot from there.Something like that I remember from when I still had a NetDimm setup

Tried that, couldn't get into test mode - I just have a black screen.

I'll continue trawling through the forums.

 

[jassin000]

Someone recently was having issues loading the Atomiswave ports on Naomi.
I believe it was finally solved with voltage adjustment/and or adding another dedicated JVS PSU.
This was really strange because the person mentioned they had a Blast City cab, which should have provided enough juice for everything.

I forgot who it was, but I remember trying to trouble shoot it with @twistedsymphony and it was really odd.
Naomi games booted just fine, but Atomiswave black screened.

 

[mR_CaESaR]

I'm using a sun psu so I'm assuming that should be also enough juice..

I'm a massive n00b with it, so it's probably just me... I'm using the same logic with transfergame.exe <IP> game.bin which works fine for the naomi games, just not the AW

 

[plasticfactory]

Perfect. Thanks!

That did the trick.

Now to figure out atomiswave stuff

At least for me, no special tricks required. I just load the Atomiswave roms the same as Naomi and it works perfectly.

 

[jassin000]

Perfect. Thanks!

That did the trick.

Now to figure out atomiswave stuff

At least for me, no special tricks required. I just load the Atomiswave roms the same as Naomi and it works perfectly.

Yea same for me, nothing special about Atomiswave conversions at all, they load just like normal Naomi BINz.

 

[mR_CaESaR]

At least for me, no special tricks required. I just load the Atomiswave roms the same as Naomi and it works perfectly.

Yea same for me, nothing special about Atomiswave conversions at all, they load just like normal Naomi BINz.

Are you able to specify specs?

Naomi 1/2? Board revision?
Multibios or normal region bios? What version?
Bin loading method? Pc, pi with adafruit or pi with piforce web?

Thanks.

 

[plasticfactory]

At least for me, no special tricks required. I just load the Atomiswave roms the same as Naomi and it works perfectly.

Yea same for me, nothing special about Atomiswave conversions at all, they load just like normal Naomi BINz.

Are you able to specify specs?

Naomi 1/2? Board revision?
Multibios or normal region bios? What version?
Bin loading method? Pc, pi with adafruit or pi with piforce web?

Thanks.

Naomi 1, Multibios, JPN, Piforce web.

 

[mR_CaESaR]

OK, PiForce web might be the key here.

I'm trying to get it to work, but I'm having some technical difficulties atm

Edit: PiForce was definitely the answer!

Here I am able to load Dolphin Blue with no issue on my setup with a multiregion bios set to US (haven't really tested other games yet)

 

[plasticfactory]

Does anyone know of a general troubleshooting guide for something like this adafruit board? I've never done a kit like this, but know my way around a soldering iron.

I don't have any issues with my piforce web setup, but when I power on the Pi 3 B+, screen, with the SD image and nothing happens.

I'm assuming it's regarding the screen, but nothing looks off to me.

 

[obcd]

Isn't there a description on the adafruit website how to use and test their display?
It might use a normal raspbian linux image but would proof the hardware is functional.

 

[KinG_SoPa]

Hello everyone,

So i figured out the issue. I had to go into the piforcetools.py file and change anything that said Adafruit_CharLCDPlate() to Adafruit_CharLCDPlate(busnum = 1) and then put the sd card back into the raspberrypi and boom text and backlight working

@plasticfactory after assembling the adafruit, install the piforce in the SD card and follow that step above it worked for me , if you want go to page 17 on this tread to read more

 

[plasticfactory]

Setting Up The Raspberry-Pi with Pi-Force Tools
To assemble your Adafruit Pi-Plate LCD/keypad there is an excellent guide on the Adafruit website.

The official repository for Pi-Force-Tools can be found on GitHub. However what you really need is to download the SD card Image. This can "burned" to the card in windows using a program called Win32DiskImager. This is how most Raspberry Pi images are placed on the SD card. The process is as simple as selecting the image and selecting the SD card, but even still there are lots of guides. There are guides for Linux as well.

Once the image has been burned You should be able to install it in your Raspberry Pi with the Adafruit Pi-Plate and plug in power to check that your Pi-Plate and SD card image is functioning properly. Chances are you'll need to adjust the contrast to see anything, also note that it could take 20-30 seconds to fully boot.

No dice.

Does anyone know if I should remove this now that it didn't work?

 

[twistedsymphony]

The SD image for the Adafruit display isn't compatible with the Pi3+ only the normal Pi3 (and Pi1 and Pi2)

 

[plasticfactory]

The SD image for the Adafruit display isn't compatible with the Pi3+ only the normal Pi3 (and Pi1 and Pi2)

Okay, that got me somewhere. I switched to a pi 3 and now the ACT LED lights up. However, still no screen activity.

 

[KinG_SoPa]

Hello everyone,

So i figured out the issue. I had to go into the piforcetools.py file and change anything that said Adafruit_CharLCDPlate() to Adafruit_CharLCDPlate(busnum = 1) and then put the sd card back into the raspberrypi and boom text and backlight working

Try this now @plasticfactory

 

[plasticfactory]

Still no change.

 

[twistedsymphony]

have you tried adjusting the contrast through the full range?

 

[plasticfactory]

Yes.

 

[mR_CaESaR]

Is it possible the adafruit has been soldered incorrectly?

 

[KinG_SoPa]

Is it possible the adafruit has been soldered incorrectly?

Make sure you solder this chip correctly. As you see in the picture i had solder it the wrong way @plasticfactory