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Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:23 pm
by kubbie

Anyone getting just a black screen for Alcon after the last update that had slapfight and Tiger Heli? Alcon loaded fine until I updated this morning.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:34 pm
by jca

No black screen for me on HDMI 1080p but yesterday update was before Tiger Heli. I just noticed that the core and mras (except Alcon) have been updated 5 hours ago.
I will run update and report back.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:41 pm
by jca

Update done and Alcon gives a black screen but the sound is here. One thing to note is that Tiger Heli has been added, Slap Flight mra has been updated but Alcon mra has not been updated.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 12:59 pm
by MikkyTee

Slap fight gives me a missing file error, edit: same as alcon.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 1:13 pm
by jca

For me Slap Flight and Tiger Heli are OK but still with the top of the screen messed up.
How did you get your Alcon.zip?
I would delete it and run update all again.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 4:48 pm
by MikkyTee

Ok, i got it from update all, works for some folks and not others. Cant understand why that would be the case but it is.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:33 pm
by Chris23235

Same for me, I just tested it as I hadn't updated yet. Alcon worked before the update (as well as Slapfight) and after the update just Slapfight works (but the graphic corruption at the top of the screen is gone). When launching Alcon I get a black screen and sound. It is no sync issue as I can pull up the core menu just fine.
Apart from the title screen are there any differences between Alcon and Slapfight? I only knew this game under Slapfight because of the 8-Bit computer conversions.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:52 pm
by jca
Chris23235 wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 6:33 pm

...
Apart from the title screen are there any differences between Alcon and Slapfight? I only knew this game under Slapfight because of the 8-Bit computer conversions.

From Github: Alcon MRA (This is a simple ROM swap of the foreground characters).

Note: The core has been updated 2 hours ago but not Alcon.mra.
I cannot test at this time.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:44 pm
by jca

See: viewtopic.php?p=66591#p66591

No guaranty, you get what you paid for.


Re: Alcon Black Screen

Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2022 5:00 am
by xterc

I just updated the ALCON MRA. I included the colour ROMs as part of the MRA, so the old MRAs will display a black screen. This was needed as Tiger Heli uses a different color palette.

Alcon is just a swap of graphics used in the title screen sequence, it is otherwise identical.

Anton.