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flynnsbit

Maybe Access would suit your needs? It's simple and fast, and if you need more than 400 game profiles, you should be able to nest the menu structure. It will require you to pick the game's executable, manually, though. Thanks mate, I had a look at it after your initial release post, but indeed the manual sorting is a big obstacle. @bbond007 / flyn...

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Because if it self-corrupts, it's always going to do that, so a backup doesn't do me any good. Sounds like I should just delete the main pack and the update script option if it isn't working for anyone. No one else has chimed in saying it was working so maybe I should start over? I don't want something out there that is corrupting immediately like...

flynnsbit

totally guessing based on the information, you need the newer ao486 bios files. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/ao486_MiSTer/tree/master/releases boot0 and boot1 from here into your ao486 folder. Also make sure you don't have an extra ao486 folder not on your hdd like on the sdcard (meaning delete any other a0486 folders leaving only the one you wa...

flynnsbit

How long ago did you last run update all? What was the duration between updates?

flynnsbit

there may be software that uses both cards simultaneously, and in the absence of two monitors This reminded me of the GB2P and GBA2P cores: https://www.retrorgb.com/2-player-gb-gbc-gba-custom-cores-for-mister.html These cores have a feature where the HDMI and VGA video output of the MiSTer can show different screens. Mabye some code can be reused ...

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It did update the boot VHD though which I also use for my large eXoDOS VHD. Still, I dont think that is the issue because if I boot Windows 98, that now struggles to browse the disk now (it used to work fine before). It's a real mystery. Oh that should be fine to update the boot one yeah. adding SmartDrv cache is the only thing left I can think of...

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The Top 300 script is only designed to update the Top 300 VHD that is like 20GB or so. The directory structure will be difference as we changed the ExoDOSConverter mid stream (prior to fixes it would create dynamic games folders and would be some what random) post fix it uses static entries from a database. I don't know why that would cause disk is...

flynnsbit

maybe Smartdrv.exe? Make sure you have it loaded. I have an exodos 120GB disk around somewhere. It has been ages since I set that up but don't remember having these issues.

flynnsbit

I'm having issues too. Sometimes DOS struggles to read my 120gb eXoDOS VHD. Sometimes it's fine but lately it struggles to read it. When I try to view thew contents of the drive with the DIR command I see the list of files but then DOS freezes when it gets to the bottom of the list and attempts to print the available disk space information 120 gb ...

flynnsbit

I did a full fresh download from Archive, checked everything, then updated, checked FAT tables, disk space. Nothing wrong beside only have 39MB free on E: after it is all said and done. Showed how to del Phantasm to free up 2GB on E:. Recorded the whole thing. If you think your are out of clusters, show me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3oHy_dxoOk

flynnsbit

There's not enough space in the FAT filesystem for the number of files on it. It has too many entries and corrupts itself. FAT32 (File Allocation Table 32-bit) has the following limits: Maximum file size: 4 GB Maximum number of files in the root directory: 65,534 Maximum number of files in a subdirectory: Unlimited (limited only by available disk ...

flynnsbit

Damn, yesterday while updating I also got the full drive error... time to re-read the thread, or install from scratch :D Is E:\ full? escape out of the menu, to dos E: dir and see how much free space you have. Probably full, if so you can just delete a game like E:\games\PHANTASM and that will free up over 2GB if you don't play that game. Then run...

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thats exactly whats happening. In this scenario we might have to remove the stub disk in the second vhd that is a stub place for the D: drive and use a different utility to map the drives. There is something that can do it beyond the way I do it with SUBST but I need to find it. c: has to be the boot vhd d: has to be the CD drive E: has to be the ...

flynnsbit

I restored my backup. Im trying to add another .vhd to put my added games on. Whenever I mount it MyMenu won't boot and I get an error stating that "Secondary VHD not mounted" Please mount a games VHD to mister and restart. Its probably mounting your vhd first (taking over the E: drive) and moving the others to a different drive letter. ...

flynnsbit

Aren't these super dim if you run them from 5v instead of 12v. Not sure why you would want to power it with usb when you lose so much by not using the 12v port.

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dehydrated lemur wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:22 am
is there an easy way for me to erase all the files i added on e: by accident? lol

I don't delete on purpose in any of my scripts.

Restore from your perfectly good backup copy?

flynnsbit

I use ImDisk and it gives you mounting abilities like windows does for those FAT16 images. https://sourceforge.net/projects/imdisk-toolkit/

flynnsbit

I pushed the Pre-Release 2.0.2 to the default release version finally. If you run the standard update for Top 300 you will get the new MyMenu. Post any issues here or on Github and I will get to it when I can. Remember, if you know how to fix things you can always fix it and submit a PR of the change to the repo for Top 300 updates. TDL is still th...

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The game Alien Carnage does not seem to work. Open scenes and cutscenes and mission select works fine. However , when you choose a mission and the actual game is started, the game starts, however with a rapidly blinking screen. This makes it unplayable. There is a turbo option in the in game settings. go turn that off. or if it is off turn it on.

flynnsbit

weird. The first script just pulls the second script down from github. Just use the second script. I only have it setup this way so I can change the script if I needed to. It used to happen a lot back in the day but I haven't changed the script in a year.

flynnsbit

So, @flynnsbit, can you help us prove that the error is on our side and find out what the error is? Sorry, was hoping the gif of me downloading the script clean from github yesterday and then running it would prove that. Can you do the exact same thing on your mister? SSH into your mister or F9 if you are going to do it directly cd /media/fat/Scri...

flynnsbit

Worst case you can just go download the update.zip from github, mount both VHDs in windows, and copy and paste the corresponding contents of each folder into that drives corresponding VHD file. That's all the script is doing, + downloading the latest FastDoom and doing the same thing. Which you can also do manually if you desire. https://github.com...

flynnsbit

So, @flynnsbit, can you help us prove that the error is on our side and find out what the error is? Sorry, was hoping the gif of me downloading the script clean from github yesterday and then running it would prove that. Can you do the exact same thing on your mister? SSH into your mister or F9 if you are going to do it directly cd /media/fat/Scri...

flynnsbit

Nothing to do with the "file entries" or running out of something, FAT system, etc. It's a fat32 disk, nothing special. I use it on all of my real systems as well... If anything, it could be out of disk space which has been a problem. The update obviously can't run if the VHD for C or E is full. I don't know what version you have, but th...

flynnsbit

The updater works just fine. I use it every day and I even use it to constantly swap between the Preview release and back to the main version. I also use it daily for my PCXT image. If you are having issues, you have something up. Because of the way the updater mounts the .VHD and syncs with it, linux "can" flip the disk to read-only if y...

flynnsbit

remove and reseat your sdcard, check it in a normal pc and make sure it is still working. if thats not it, remove your analog board off the top, test, then remove the memory, test. the DE10 can run without all of those things

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pbsk8 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 28, 2022 3:33 pm
is there a way to show wallpapers on crt tv?

here it only shows the noise background

yes, set the [menu] to use the scaler.

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[menu]
vga_scaler=1

Also for the other person wanting to get the static back, just keep pressing F1 to cycle through all the background options when on the main menu.

flynnsbit

you could always include the second floppy in the vhd in a folder like flppy2 and then in the autoexec put "SUBST B: C:\FLPPY2". That should work 99% of the time.

flynnsbit

sacredbanana wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 2:09 pm
Alone in the Dark in this collection has no music. Any way to get that working? It's just not the same without that soundtrack!

It uses Redbook audio (CD-Audio) and unfortunately the AO486 core doesn't support that. I could do this fake MP3 hack but it wouldn't be the same and it is complex to setup.

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