NEO Myth MD 3in1 flash cartridge

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

Haven't tried it yet, the whole BEEEEEEEEP thing and the 95% write failure's have kinda made me stop for a while.

I'll give it a go tomorrow, maybe my laptop will have less write failure's then this pc.

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About the beep: what OS are you using? It looked like an older Windows almost but I thought TmEE said there wasn't a 9x driver so maybe it was just your theme. If it's 2000/XP here's how you disable the PC speaker noises:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000725.htm

If it's a PC with an older Windows I think you actually have to go into your computer and unplug the thing. But really this isn't a suitable work around considering the NeoFlash team should have never used that sound, there just needs to be a damn toggle for that noise.

I got Monster World IV working thanks to some help at the NeoFlash boards. The [f2] variant of the [T-Eng_DeJap+Demiforce] ROM in the GoodGen set has SRAM saving apparently.

The only thing is this version is not "1.02". Does this mean the translation is incomplete? I'll see how far in the game I can get!

It might only be this:

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1.02: This one dude, Ola Andersson, has been so unbelievably $$ '
qb' consistently freaky with bugging me about fixing the `qb
,d$b. remaining bugs in the game (most importantly being the ,d$b.
$$ ' flickering bug), I decided I owed it to him to finally ` $$
`qb get off my ass and fix it up. Thanks for waiting, dude!

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Not sure what the bugs are, but if I don't know about them they can't hurt me!

Dr. Neo had the following to say about Neo Myth MD region free Sega CD and Backup RAM support:

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yes,md myth cart can support mega cd function,we have test this point already,100% work.

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...but did not bother to explain at all how it works. Something's not right.

That's how it is in China. They tell you a feature exists and therefore it does. It is YOUR fault if it doesn't work for you.

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Originally Posted by mugenmidget

Dr. Neo had the following to say about Neo Myth MD region free Sega CD and Backup RAM support:

...but did not bother to explain at all how it works. Somethings not right.

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hahahaha classic, I know i should be pissed but i just can't help but lol at the ridiculousness of his reply.

oh btw, i used my old laptop to flash my NEO cart and it worked without problems,
so i don't know why this PC has problems flashing it,
it does not seem to have any problems from what i can tell from the hardware tab.

I'm running XP with SP3 on both laptop and PC btw.

ah well, at least i can flash with my laptop, only problem there is
that the neo flashing program does not resize itself to my 800x600 desktop.

so i can't see half of the program. http://www.sega-16.com/forum/images/icons/yuck.gif

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Originally Posted by NeoVamp

oh btw, i used my old laptop to flash my NEO cart and it worked without problems,
so i don't know why this PC has problems flashing it,
it does not seem to have any problems from what i can tell from the hardware tab.

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Might be a power issue. Remember that the USB has to power the cart while writing, and some USB ports won't be up to it. Connect directly to a USB on the motherboard, or a powered hub to make sure it can draw the needed power.

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Originally Posted by Joe Redifer

That's how it is in China. They tell you a feature exists and therefore it does. It is YOUR fault if it doesn't work for you.

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Hahaha, forgive my cultural ignorance! :)

I sincerely hope he is not talking out of his ass and that at the very least he'll rush out a software update to help with things, because I have tried loading every kind of BIOS image onto the cart with absolutely no result.

Was there ever a dump of the "CDX Plus"? I tried loading CDX through the flashcart and it told me that my Sega CD's BIOS was basically too new for it to handle. I've heard CDX Plus can work in these situations but they seem to be very rare so I wonder if an image was ever made.

BTW NeoVamp that's great to hear about your laptop working well, did you also go ahead and disable the PC speaker beep?

Guys, calm down a bit. You are aware that this is still in beta testing phase, right ? - For it to work with SCD it needs a [multi-region] BIOS flashed to it which it obviously does not have yet. I assume that one of the next the software updates will feature a SCD function that would allow you to flash the cart with either a multi-region BIOS or a BIOS of your choice.

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

Guys, calm down a bit. You are aware that this is still in beta testing phase, right ? - For it to work with SCD it needs a [multi-region] BIOS flashed to it which it obviously does not have yet. I assume that one of the next the software updates will feature a SCD function that would allow you to flash the cart with either a multi-region BIOS or a BIOS of your choice.

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Thank you for that answer but I wish that's what Dr. Neo would have said instead of "it's working 100%". :? But regardless I'm grateful for the functionality it does have at the moment.

Do you know how the "Backup RAM" cartridge functionality will work? I have never owned a genuine Backup RAM cart so even just explaining how those are used would be helpful.

No, atm all I know is that it plays Master System and Mega Drive / Genesis games (and 32X but I can't test that).

For everything else, we gotta wait until the software supports it.

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Originally Posted by mugenmidget

I have never owned a genuine Backup RAM cart so even just explaining how those are used would be helpful.

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You plug them in and they expand your internal RAM. The MegaCart however only allows to backup the RAM, not as a BRAM expansion.

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Originally Posted by mugenmidget

I wish that's what Dr. Neo would have said instead of "it's working 100%". :?

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Well, yeah, but he's Chinese so he's probably used to talk and write in Mandarin or Kantonese instead of English.

He said it "can" support MegaCD function but that message didn't say that it currently does or where to get the binary that lets you do that.

Does anyone know about how the boot process of MegaCD works? Does the bios contain all the commands necessary to activate it or is there a higher level init sequence? Is there any public code to use the MegaCD when booting from cart?

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

You plug them in and they expand your internal RAM. The MegaCart however only allows to backup the RAM, not as a BRAM expansion.

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But the Neo Myth MD should support BRAM expansion at some point, correct?

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Originally Posted by mugenmidget

But the Neo Myth MD should support BRAM expansion at some point, correct?

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That hasn't been confirmed and unless they designed it to be recognized as a RAM cart by MD games from the start then I think it's unlikely they can add it later.

It does have SRAM, so someone could write a MD binary that copies data from the MegaCD to the Myth SRAM.

Is there an ISO of the MD pro utility cd out there?

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Originally Posted by Sektor

That hasn't been confirmed and unless they designed it to be recognized as a RAM cart by MD games from the start then I think it's unlikely they can add it later.

It does have SRAM, so someone could write a MD binary that copies data from the MegaCD to the Myth SRAM.

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Oh, that's a bummer. I would have loved to play Shining Force CD on my Genesis. :( As far as I understand that game is impossible to finish without Backup RAM, is that correct?

Shining Force entry on wikipedia:

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After finishing both books, a third book can be accessed. Due to the memory limitations of the Sega CD console, saving progress made in book 3 must be saved on a back-up RAM cart since the Sega CD's internal memory isn't enough to save both games data.

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Is there an easier way to test if it is currently recognizable as a RAM cart?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-CD

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From the CD player, it is also possible to enter a utility to manage items in the game backup RAM and RAM carts

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Is that possible on the Mega-CD II?