Interest Check: Pre-made upgraded 161-in-1 multicarts - All spots filled - 2025 UPDATE

[Flain]

My vortex mvs not coining up in my 4 slot ..
But fine in one slot ..

Pretty much speaks for it being my 4 slot may be dirty pins ..

As an owner of 2x 4 slots, a 2 slot and various 1 slots, it's nearly always dirty pins . Even if you just move a cart from one machine to another.

 

[jdigital7]

99% Iso Alcohol followed by dexoit can do wonders for both pins and slots. Dexoit actually works well.

 

[KingRolo]

Are these carts known to have issues in 3-5 consoles, or maybe its just my console that needs some repair? I have also tried it in another 5v console (POW/POW-2) and there, it simply will not boot properly.

I have exactly the same issue with my AES vortex cart (and my MVS vortex cart via a Fusion converter), on my 3-5 system. Again, I thought it was power supply related, but using the original or a decent third-party PSU shows the same graphic corruption.

Out of interest, have you done a recap of your 3-5 system, as that was next on my list?

FYI @leonk my 3-5 CPU is marked as a HD68HC000PS12.

 

[1credit]

As an owner of 2x 4 slots, a 2 slot and various 1 slots, it's nearly always dirty pins . Even if you just move a cart from one machine to another.

Yeh i have a few of each too ..
And your right …

I guess i need to clean house!
. Time to do some house work on the cab

 

[leonk]

FYI @leonk my 3-5 CPU is marked as a HD68HC000PS12.

moved my reply to the main thread on this cart.

 

[alex2005jp]

Out of interest, have you done a recap of your 3-5 system, as that was next on my list?

Unfortunately I haven't. I dont have any soldering skills, so all my consoles are unopened
My plan was to sell the 3-5 in favor or a 3-6, but since there is no guarantee for now that a 3-6 will work, I will just wait a bit.

 

[kiun]

Same graphical issue with vortex cart and aes 3-5. Weird thing is some games looks just fine (kof 98, xenocrisis).

 

[Ince]

I also get graphical issues on my 3-5 5v. This improves with using a higher voltage but this doesn’t always resolve the issue.

My 3-6 9v works fine but I have bad jailbars (which I need to fix).

 

[jj1929]

I also have graphics issues on all games on the Vortex cart on my AES 3-5 9v. It has the Hitachi CPU so I am going to try switching this to the Toshiba CPU.

 

[thegreathopper]

It's dead simple. Five wires from the programmer to the cart, unzip one small program, put in two lines in command prompt, and press enter. Wait about 6 seconds. Sometimes you have to install a driver. And would save the international shipping costs.

I sure don't mind doing it, but I know international shipping is awful.

The FT232H is cheaper/easier. Don't have to power the board separately, you don't have to mess with quartus, and don't cost a few hundred bucks.

https://www.amazon.com/Teyleten-Robot-FT232H-High-Speed-Multifunction/dp/B09XTF7C1P

Not having much luck with this, did anyone try using the Teyleton FT232H above, mine shows no sign of life and unable to see anything on the 161 board.

Presume the Teyleton is dead on arrival so ordered another.

 

[thegreathopper]

I may have cracked it.

00000000000000000000000000000000C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C6318C631;
SIR 10 TDI (00E);
RUNTEST 50 TCK;
SDR 95 TDI (400000000000000000000000);
SIR 10 TDI (01A);
RUNTEST 50 TCK;
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF);
SIR 10 TDI (00E);
RUNTEST 50 TCK;
SDR 95 TDI (400000000000000000000000);
SIR 10 TDI (012);
RUNTEST 400000 TCK;
SIR 10 TDI (006);
RUNTEST 10000 TCK;
SIR 10 TDI (3FF);
RUNTEST 10000 TCK;
STATE IDLE;

Time used: 0m5s239ms
svf file programmed successfully for 422 commands with 0 errors
shutdown command invoked

 

[alex2005jp]

The issue you see is not specific to a revision, but a fundamental difference between the 2 systems which I've yet to figure out. I've seen 3-6 systems that show the same graphical issues you have. I believe the issue might go beyond the power supply used and is at the component level. But I don't have enough AES revisions here to confirm this. If you still have both AES systems, and are able to open the 3-6 and 3-5 systems, can you look at the CPU and report back? It would either be a HD68HC000PS12 or TMP68HC000N-12. I'd be especially interest to find out what is in the 3-6.

Just took some photos, the 3-6 that works with rewrite's cart has the HD68HC000PS12 one. Hope this helps!