So long as the YouTube dream doesn't destroy the fun in fixing these thingsI made a video that doesn't have shocking quality and also has some very basic editing!! Oh yea, this year we are aiming for like 50 youtube subscribers! - Or if we could get as many subs on youtube as followers on ebay that would be and achievement for me lol. Setting the sights low, very low
(subbed the channel as well!)So long as the YouTube dream doesn't destroy the fun in fixing these things
- It's for the people I build for more than anything. People love to see what's actually involved and what I do to their stuff. Hopefully it might be useful to somebody somewhere. Mostly its just me waffling on about things.sorry if you have posted already, what printer are you using?Last night I took my new found knowledge and made an sram copy of final lap!! And yes my little label printer is in fact amazing!!
I also made headway on Golden Axe - So I haven't been able to get it to save... in any cart configuration including on the exact PCB it would have originally been supplied on, I also built it onto a cart using both the 2003 mapper and 2001 mapper chips basically if there was a cart config I could set it up on, I did. So I decided to check the game files and see if my hack works...
You can see here my 2 versions of golden axe rom with one modified for SRAM and the original the standard eeprom... Now the interesting part, I loaded both roms into an emulator and then tracked what was happening after each game mode and screen to try and work out what was being saved. I spent hours and literally nothing would save at any point in the game. We have raised this on reddit etc but having read some bits I think this title was a rushed port! I think the devs originally intended the game to save but never actually finished the port and rushed out the title without a save feature. I'm currently seeing if this is something I can actually fix but first I need to understand what the original devs were actually intending to save in terms of game data... super interesting!
Oh and another interesting thing... When you take a rom pull that was meant to be an eeprom rom and convert it to sram the save data pointers can corrupt which in turn can cause crashes on the original hardware. So we have made a tool to reset the sram chip! Shout out to my mate Remmy here!
You know what I have really come to love the swan, its such a unique and obscure little console and because it was a Japan exclusive it opens up so many cool little projects. I love making things so that we can enjoy these more obscure titles in English and on the original hardware!
Got my PSU yesterday thanks so much Vince! Subscribed to your YouTube channel
I kept looking at this picture but couldn't figure out what was wrong.... Then, I thought you'd done an almost total conversion and swapped the d-pad over to the right hand side!
I kept looking at this picture but couldn't figure out what was wrong.... Then, I thought you'd done an almost total conversion and swapped the d-pad over to the right hand side!
Then I realised
oh and image is inverted because i sir am an idiot!You sir, are a legendIt's see through and purple
You sir, are a legend
Not there yet lolYou wont be saying that when you realise how badly I massacred the recording of PT2
im starting to get to grips with it all though. I guess the more stuff I do the better I should get at it all!Hey Vince switch arrived back yesterday. Thank you. And appreciate the change of sticks it makes a real difference. And for reasons unknown the charging fault no longer appears.... I can only think there was something stuck in the dock but who knows!Its half way through a rebuild! Getting the screens out of them - Total pain in the rear! I apologies profusely in the video of the tear-down but what happened has happened and its now a pile of parts
@dazzerd @rare - Stuff shipped this morning gents so with you in a few days max.
I didnt see anything really that would cause it port side so just keep an eye and if it does give up the ghost we can have another look - You are welcome on the sticks. I needed to do something to it oh there should also have been a few little stick covers in there for you 
