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Good news, MK II Unlimited 0.7 works just fine. I was too stupid to try hitting the "start" button on the top of the cartridge, which can apparently help with compatibility issues.
As far as I can tell the hack runs perfectly, I'll definitely be spending more time with it to find out if there's any issues.
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Originally Posted by mugenmidget
And thats what i would have told you had i not spend all of yesterday sick in bed.
It was like that with the previous version of MKU too,
that button might be related to that TMSS thing or to unload the NEO program or something.
I had to hit reset on the MD or the cart to fix some distorted sound in Micro Machines. Does that happen on other carts?
Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that. And not just for my own sake, I hope you're feeling better!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
I didn't even get the idea to mess with that button on my own, I had to read through the compatibility wiki: http://neoflash.wikia.com/wiki/Genes...atibility_list
Speaking of which, I think I might start helping with that when I start playing around with this cart again. So far so good, though, I haven't run into anything troublesome (except for my MKU blunder).
Sektor: I haven't tried Micro Machines yet. Do you mean the first version or some other one? I'll try it and check for you.
It was all versions but the sound works fine if I reset, so no big deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugenmidget
Alright, here's my Micro Machines findings. I experienced the same sound issues as you did on every version (96, Turbo Tournament 2, Military) except the very first. And resetting fixes it, just as you have said.
However, along the way I found out something potentially worse. Even though as far as I know there are non J-Cart versions of these games (which are the ones I tried), using the Team Player doesn't seem to work. Which is strange because Yu Yu Hakusho works just fine. I tried messing a bit with the port setup and flipping between EXTRA and MULTI but couldn't get 4 players to work on any of the versions.
It recognizes that I can play with 4 players as soon as I plug the Team Player in but the controls are completely messed up, with buttons for each driver bound in weird places. I tried recreating it in Fusion but the games seem to work just fine in there.
Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
Oops, I found out what was wrong. I was using two six button pads along with two three button pads. Holding "MODE" on the six button pads to put them in compatibility mode fixed the issue and now all the Micro Machines games work perfectly with the Team Player. Awesome!
Something interesting happened when I tried Wolverine Adamantium Rage. The cartridge seemed to freeze on the menu loading at 16M with an orange light on the cartridge. I hid the "START" button on top and it reset properly but then all I got were colorful patterns on the screen.
I tried a bad dump of the game and it booted just fine. So I'm not sure what's up with the "good version".
And another problem game seems to be the newest patch of Monster World IV. It does the "orange light" thing just like Wolverine and upon reset it shows a SEGA logo with an upside down G but freezes there.
Interesting. - On a semi-related side note: The newest Monster World IV patch is not necessarily the best version available. It's an unofficial patch, made by the person who translated the game into Italian, and not authorized by Demi, the author of the original English translation.
Ah, okay, well I tried the Demiforce version and I'm running into the same problems. The interesting thing is that the game in UCON reports that it has no Cartridge RAM/Backup Memory like other SRAM games seem to have. That seems like it could be a problem, any way I can fix that? Right now I'm just trying to change the save type in the NEO2 Ultra Menu but it doesn't seem to help.
Fortunately Conle over at the NeoTeam forums has fixed my Wolverine issue. Even though the ROM was supposedly a good dump (of the [!] variety) there were still a few errors that he fixed which got it working on the flash cart.
I'm pretty sure NeoVamp mentioned playing Monster World IV translated on this before, so I'd like to know what he did to get it working.
I think it may be one of the few games that used EEPROM saving or something like that but someone else probably knows more about it and could correct me.
Thanks for that information, I appreciate all the help. Just now I tried burning it with 24C01 as the save type (that's correct for EEPROM, right?) and it behaves in the same way.
I also didn't really expect this one to work but I tried Top Fighter 2000 MK VIII (the [f1] variant, the [!] version won't load at all) just now and that one gets to the title screen before freezing.
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Originally Posted by mugenmidget
It worked fine for me, try reflashing it.
I had it happen where Tekken 3 worked the first time i flashed but then the 2nd time it wouldn't run at all.
Haha goddamn you're good at this, works just fine after a retry. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoVamp
BTW, were you able to get a translated Monster World IV to work? That one I've been reburning and messing with ROMs but I can't get it to boot.
Haven't tried it yet, the whole BEEEEEEEEP thing and the 95% write failure's have kinda made me stop for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by mugenmidget
I'll give it a go tomorrow, maybe my laptop will have less write failure's then this pc.