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pcfreak324

When I was a kid, in our local arcade somebody figured out you could skip the first level by climbing the first ladder, going right a little and sort of back jumping. Mario then would kind of fall through the edge instead of crashing. Has anybody ever heard of this trick? It was nearly 40 years ago and my recollection of it is pretty hazy but I'm ...

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What is even more confusing is that we now have three Master System cores with different features and compatibility, that all use different rom folders. ColecoVision core : best for older games; plays SMS games that use legacy video mode , SG-1000 games and SC-3000 cartridges; has SK-1100 keyboard support SMS core : best for newer games; plays SMS ...

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Nice post thank you , is there anyway to fix rotation on a crt for crazy kong. Even with VGA scaler game is upside down. You could try this patch: Crazy Kong Flip Screen & High Score Save @ scoresaves.com However, when I last tested it, the Crazy Kong Sprite was flipped. It might be related to an issue in the MiSTer core. See github for a simi...

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Discover a collection of patches for the game Crazy Kong and its variants that can enhance your gaming experience. To apply these patches, begin by making a copy of the respective game's 'mra' file. Next, open the file using a text editor and navigate to the '<rom index="0">' element. Insert one or more of the following patches just befor...

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Samurai Shodown RPG is a copy protected game. For troubleshooting, you could try another image with the copy protection removed. Search for "Neo Geo CD Copy-Protection Removed Games" on archive.org.

pcfreak324

Trying to play the msu1 nes games, I was able to play Megaman 4 just fine. But Zelda 1,2 and megaman 1 all give me a blue screen as soon as it boots saying that sram isn't found. Has anyone else run into this? I had the same problem. The SNES core only supports SRAM up to a size of 128kb, while the default SRAM size in Project Nested is 256kb. Try...

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Not sure if it is of any use for MiSTer, but over at smspower.org a user called silvervest recreated the custom gate array IC inside the SC-3000, the MITEC-2, and published the Verilog source on GitHub:

https://www.smspower.org/forums/19292-S ... Engineered
https://github.com/silvervest/mitec2

pcfreak324

Just to add to your observations, the Colecovision core supports the SK-1100 keyboard and can run most SC-3000 cartridges. Tape support is missing, however. The Sega SC-3000 Survivors MEGACART is not working because the mapper is not supported (yet).

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NightShadowPT wrote: ↑Sat Jun 04, 2022 1:35 pm Dumb question... I cannot seem to get the right directory name to put the Roms in... I've tried "GnW", "Game&Watch" and "GameWatch"...

The folder has to be named "Game & Watch".

pcfreak324

Happy birthday, MiSTer! And thanks to sorgelig and the countless other devs. The DE10-Nano would be nothing without your work and commitment.

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shaitan wrote: ↑Sun Jan 23, 2022 2:43 am Does this still require a one-off new Main or has all that been rolled into the current release?

I use the current Main from the official repository and it works.

pcfreak324

Aspie wrote: ↑Sat Dec 18, 2021 1:19 pm Thanks pcfreak324. What would I need to add to the mra?

I didn't test it, but the example from the MiSTer wiki should do the job:

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<!-- begin kill screen fix -->
    <patch offset="0xf7d">
FE 04 38 02 3E 04 47 A7 17 A7 17 A7 17 80 80 C6 
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    </patch>
<!-- end kill screen fix -->

pcfreak324

I guess this is normal behaviour. You can edit the mra to include the kill screen fix if you want to continue further.

pcfreak324

I have the same problem with the garbled type screen. Is it because I use VGA output instead of HDMI? Older builds from puu work fine.

pcfreak324

Every Master System from around the world has its own Bios, so having the option to choose the Bios in which we had our Master System at the time is the most correct and beautiful, as it is possible in Retroarch ^_^ If you just want a BIOS to be loaded at the start of the core, then this is already possible. Get the desired BIOS, use a hex editor ...

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The Colecovision core has a real hardware equivalent: The Dina 2 in one console , which runs both Colecovision and SG-1000 games. Regarding keyboard support, the Colecovision core supports the SK-1100 keyboard and can run most SC-3000 cartridges. Tape support is missing, however. In my opinion what is missing the most with this core is disk and tap...

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You can get these games to play by fixing the header. More details can be found over at Krikzz' forum.

pcfreak324

The problem is that the core has no way to tell if there is new data to be saved. Continuous or periodic autosave would increase the wear on the storage medium. That is why autosave was implemented the way it is, that it only writes the data from RAM to the storage medium when the user opens the OSD.

pcfreak324

You can play Adam games on the Colecovision core as long as they are in cartridge format. Floppy and tape loading is not supported and would be very difficult to implement (at least that is what gyurco told me in 2018).

pcfreak324

You could try the mra file for Street Fighter Alpha 3 Challengers Edition (USA 210408) where everything is already unlocked.

pcfreak324

If I were you I would buy a hitbox controller. A hitbox is more precise, because it doesn't have a joystick. It can be used both for 80s games that require a 4-way stick and for newer games that requre an 8-way stick. It is also perfect for playing console games intended to be played with a dpad. It takes some time to get used to the hitbox, but it...

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Some games like Duke Nukem 3D and FastDoom have VESA 2.0 support. With VESA 2.0 the graphics card can be better utilized thus increasing the overall performance in the games. To use VESA 2.0 a software driver is necassary. I tried several builds of UniVBE but with no success. Builds prior to 5.1 do not support VESA 2.0. Newer builds had severe grap...

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Edit the MiSTer.ini on the root of your SD card and set controller_info to 0.

pcfreak324

Ok thank you for trying. I have no idea what could be the issue. I always used the COM port and never tried to connect via network. Maybe other users can help you. Without the debugging information from MiSTer's console, it is difficult to find out what is wrong with the alternate mra files for Crazy Kong. One last guess is that you have incompatib...

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Do you get the message "Welcome to MiSTer (www.MiSTerFPGA.org)" before being asked for username and password?

After the login, does it list the contents of your SD card when you type "cd /media/fat; ls" at the command prompt?

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Aspie wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 4:25 pm I have a command prompt /root#

Started Crazy Kong and nothing has happened

Well this is strange. Do you get an output if you press some random buttons on your controller?

pcfreak324

I turned off the MiSTer. Connected my laptop to it. Turned on MiSTer. Opened Putty. Selected logging. Chose a name and location for the file. I started the Crazy Kong core that is giving a black screen. Clicked open on Putty. There was no file created. First you need to start your MiSTer. Then you connect with PuTTY. You will see a black console w...

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Aspie wrote: ↑Sun May 23, 2021 11:06 am I turned on logging and clicked open and nothing happened

Did you try opening the file with Microsoft Editor/Notepad? You could also try renaming the file to *.txt if it helps.

pcfreak324

Aspie wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 7:51 pm I've download Putty, connected the MiSTer to my laptop, and then that's me stumped

Looks like you're almost there. You need to turn on logging in PuTTY's settings:

pcfreak324

Sorry I don't have a clue on how to use PuTTY. Where are the log files stored? The log files are created by PuTTY from the console output of your MiSTer. They are stored on the hard disk of the computer that was used to connect to MiSTer. You can get instructions on how to use PuTTY on the MiSTer Wiki: https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/w...

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