Satiator By Prof. Abrasive

[Knuckle Duster]

My Saturn's battery just died again, and going to a PS Kai memory cart & AR cart for backup saves of Shining Force 3 S1 has only led to corruption that won't load. Thanks, Obama.

Hopefully the Satiator save management is totally painless and it plays well with PS Kai. I don't want to touch the 4MB cart ever again.

[gamevet]

Does that happen whenever you change to a different game that requires a save?

It happened to me when I switched from Grandia to Powerslave. Luckily, I made backup save of Grandia to a cart, or I would have lost 2 hours of game time.

[zyrobs]

Ah, finally, a savegame manager.
Now it only needs an option to dump the full cart into one file, as well as restore it. Partially because I don't want to copy 100 files one by one, but also because from there it's a minor jump to dump any location from memory into the SD Card (bios, ROM carts, etc).

True, but I'd say it's still not that bad considering if you get it done it will probably last longer than the new used Saturn.

Yeah but for some people using a screwdriver alone is too complex of a task, using a soldering iron and a multimeter is straight up wizardry.

[Knuckle Duster]

Does that happen whenever you change to a different game that requires a save?

It happened to me when I switched from Grandia to Powerslave. Luckily, I made backup save of Grandia to a cart, or I would have lost 2 hours of game time.

It only happened because I made backups, and I did it with 2 different carts. The backups I made won't load in the game, when you move them back to the internal memory.

[TrekkiesUnite118]

Ah, finally, a savegame manager.
Now it only needs an option to dump the full cart into one file, as well as restore it. Partially because I don't want to copy 100 files one by one, but also because from there it's a minor jump to dump any location from memory into the SD Card (bios, ROM carts, etc).

There is a an app someone made recently on SegaXtreme that allows you to back up saves via the Audio Output of the system. Though to restore you need to make a disc with Psuedo Saturn.

I've been brainstorming about making an App that would work with the Netlink Modem to allow people to upload and download saves to and from a database.

[Knuckle Duster]

Hopefully the Satiator queue moves along and I can drop the 320+ CAD on this thing before the end of the month. I expect the country to fall apart and our currency to devalue a bit soon after.

[gamevet]

$320!

Passes out onto the floor.

[Knuckle Duster]

$320!

Passes out onto the floor.

Yeah, that's after the $15 USD discount.

Our dollar is floating around $.75 USD. I expect it to drop when the central bank loses it's grip on the housing market here. It's already printing money by buying back junk mortgages.

Our incompetent Crime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to unload massive, poorly thought out, universal welfare programs on the country when parliament returns at the end of the month. He prorogued and shut down the government last month to stop committees that were investigating his corruption. He will politically leverage those insane programs against the opposition, playing a game of who is holier than thou or more popular when it comes to "helping" people.

Nevermind that their pandemic emergency benefits and programs are set up to punish you if you try to go to work and earn money. Nevermind that all relief and deferral programs around rent, mortgages, etc. are about to expire and banks will come collecting next month; effectively murdering half of small businesses that weren't allowed to operate and earn for the past half a year, and never qualified for any sort of freezing. Our credit will be downgraded (again), our debt will grow exponentially just by the need to spend more and react to the already poorly managed situation.


If the queue doesn't move on the second batch of 1000 units soon, I wouldn't be shocked if Satiator costs me something like $400 + Shipping + Customs + Lost for months in Donald Trump's gloriously efficient USPS.

[Mad Moham]

Yeah, that's after the $15 USD discount.

Our dollar is floating around $.75 USD. I expect it to drop when the central bank loses it's grip on the housing market here. It's already printing money by buying back junk mortgages.

Sorry for taking the thread off at a tangent, but I've been showing people the 'Crack shack or Mansion' websites (check them out if you haven't already) whenever some boomer tells me I'm lazy for not already owning a huge house with a big garden and a gated driveway. I expect the mortgage situation to become exactly the same worldwide pretty soon, and I honestly don't know whether to be concerned or to just sit back and laugh at the insanity that we're all in.

[gamevet]

Please drop the word Boomer from your vocabulary. The people you are referring to are Gen-X, not boomers. It just sounds totally ignorant and retarded.

[Mad Moham]

Please drop the word Boomer from your vocabulary. The people you are referring to are Gen-X, not boomers. It just sounds totally ignorant and retarded.

You don't know who my social circle is, nor do you know their age range, boomer was the correct term. I can't say I've been lectured about my laziness by anyone from gen-x so far.

[zyrobs]

There is a an app someone made recently on SegaXtreme that allows you to back up saves via the Audio Output of the system. Though to restore you need to make a disc with Psuedo Saturn.

I've been brainstorming about making an App that would work with the Netlink Modem to allow people to upload and download saves to and from a database.

I know about that app, I'm posting in its thread. Incidentally, dumping as audio is how the King of Fighters 95 ROM cart was dumped by Steve Snake over ten years ago, so it's not a new idea. The problem with dumping through audio is that it's stupid slow and it needs extra scripts running on client side. Dumping to single file is simpler and faster, and now we have the hardware for it.

Madroms made an app a while ago that could load files from CD and copy into memory, it was an extension of the old Save Game Manager app, that was also used for the Dezaemon collection discs. I asked him to throw it together, so I can copy back my saves from corrupted memory cart to a new one: I dumped the flash rom - which it then died - and wrote a parser to get the save files out of the dump, then used Madroms' app to upload the saved files from an iso to a memory cart). I'm not sure if he ever released this application, and it was custom tailored for a specific format that I dumped data as - with separate filename, comment, file date, and other metadata blocks, it gets a bit muddy as to how exactly you store a Saturn save game. Funny story, after I wrote my rudimentary parser, a month later someone wrote a full fledged editor app that could take a memory cart file and copy in/out files in any format specified, with a sector viewer included.

Please drop the word Boomer from your vocabulary. The people you are referring to are Gen-X, not boomers. It just sounds totally ignorant and retarded.

There's quite a lot of political elite currently in power who still belong in the boomer category, the most prominent example being Trump. There's even people in power from the silent generation (!!!), like the Queen of England, and technically also Bernie and Pelosi.
But I don't know which age group that Canadian homosexual falls into.

[gamevet]

And those Baby Boomers were calling Gen-X lazy and without focus as well. Some things never change.

You don't know who my social circle is, nor do you know their age range, boomer was the correct term. I can't say I've been lectured about my laziness by anyone from gen-x so far.

They were talking about this on the radio about a month ago. The guy was in his mid 40s and his kid used that stupid line on him. He was like, WTF is he talking about? And then went on to talk about how that was the new way for kids to tell older people that they ain't listening. It's lamest line ever and just repeating it makes you sound like a Parrot. Just be your own man.

[roce]

CAD and AUD seem to be constantly taking hits. I hope you canucks and aussies are not keeping your savings in your local currency.

At least it provided a nice surprise in the other way, when I checked what PSIO would cost. Sticker shock but then converted from AUD it was no longer so bad :P

[Knuckle Duster]

Please drop the word Boomer from your vocabulary. The people you are referring to are Gen-X, not boomers. It just sounds totally ignorant and retarded.

OK Boomer.

Seriously though. Why? Boomers are a generation. They are blaming Millenials for everything. That's the joke of it.

Boomers curse about them wanting free rides in life, or make comments about school and college tuition. Blaming stupid kids for being lazy. The younger generations say OK boomer in a way to say "OK, shut up, you don't understand, you're confused." to old people that still throw themselves into every situation possible on Facebook and Twitter. I've seen more than a few bombastic old talking heads on American news media preaching and blaming "Millennials" on "Spring Break", carelessly spreading Covid-19 in Florida. And yet there I was shaking my head like: "Fucking boomers... Thinking a generation pushing 40 years old still goes on 'Spring Break' from college."

That whole generation had affordable houses and could go anywhere to get decent work. Their home assets skyrocketed in value, and building a home for 50 grand back in the day might have turned them into millionaires by now if they were in any inflated market. Yet they think the millennials are lazy and don't work hard enough. They think that the inflation in value that they reaped is going to magically repeat itself for their poorer kids that have lower wages, higher costs of education that is more competitive/devalued than ever, higher costs of living on food prices, and who are already priced out of most of the housing market. Boomers don't even know who they are complaining about half the time. Gen-X isn't half as bad in this regard.



On the Satiator front, does anybody know how difficult it will be to enable CCD/IMG/CUE/SUB support? I don't think Prof mentioned supporting it yet and I'm going to prep a hard drive library I can dump onto an SD card.