Paprium: The Official Thread Mk 2

[majinga]

Say, can you identify the rest of those chips on the copy of Paprium you liberated from its
black gunk? Does is still function, or am I remembering incorrectly and you cannot get it
to run on your system/s?

I posted the last chips under the gunk some pages ago. Do you want some more detail?
The cart still working, i had problem to run the game on some of my MDs, normal incompatibility of the game.

[nieds16]

I've always wondered if these type of auctions are purposely engineered between a few people to go back-and-forth to artificially inflate prices.

True, but if real I would imagine the first goes high then people flood the market, and it drops quite a bit. Also, ebay tries to inflate prices as well. I have ended items before. If you select already sold (they would give very few options to pick from) ebay will show it as sold and for the price you were asking for which simply isn't the case.

[avlon]

True, but if real I would imagine the first goes high then people flood the market, and it drops quite a bit. Also, ebay tries to inflate prices as well. I have ended items before. If you select already sold (they would give very few options to pick from) ebay will show it as sold and for the price you were asking for which simply isn't the case.

Really? Interesting. Thanks for sharing that as I had no idea. Definitely deceptive on their end!

[highlandcattle]

Let us know how you feel in 2029 when you finally get the game.

I preordered both Pier Solar and Paprium. So yeah I know what I signed up for.

[Gadispalembang]

http://www.hardwarebook.info/Mega_Drive_Expansion


This might potentially be of interest for anyone trying to get the game to work without
a Sega CD. It mentions on the expansion port's B23 pin connecting directly to the
B21 pin of the cartridge port itself.





This is a photo of my VA3 Model 1's expansion port, serial 39X15763.
It appears to have a ceramic disc capacitor grounding pin B23, that
same pin which goes to the cartridge's B21 pin.

EDIT: That is a 101 ceramic capacitor, which is rated 100pF. Don't know of
the voltage, but 50v is typical.

[NinMicroSega]

I've always wondered if these type of auctions are purposely engineered between a few people to go back-and-forth to artificially inflate prices.

That's a given.

I recall reading that NintendoAge members artifially upped the price to a mediocre game on eBay using this very method. I don't remember which game it was. It could have been a Genesis or SNES game for all I know.

[nieds16]

Really? Interesting. Thanks for sharing that as I had no idea. Definitely deceptive on their end!

No worries. Sold about 85% of my games years ago to buy my wife's wedding ring. This happened a couple of times as I listed about 250 items total and made mistakes on descriptions. Once it got too far into the listing you couldn't change without ending. Those listing showed up as sold listing. As we have plenty of people that post as "buy it now" then cross post on multiple sites be aware this can be misleading to the true market value. I only look at auctions to determine that info.

[Gadispalembang]

I posted the last chips under the gunk some pages ago. Do you want some more detail?
The cart still working, i had problem to run the game on some of my MDs, normal incompatibility of the game.

I mean, EVERY chip that was covered in the gunk. If you updated that post, then I'll take a look at it. By the way, I
MIGHT have found something useful in regards to V3 Model 1's running the game fine. I made a post in the
Faulty Paprium Carts topic right here: https://www.sega-16.com/forum/showth...l=1#post872352

[NinMicroSega]

No worries. Sold about 85% of my games years ago to buy my wife's wedding ring. This happened a couple of times as I listed about 250 items total and made mistakes on descriptions. Once it got too far into the listing you couldn't change without ending. Those listing showed up as sold listing. As we have plenty of people that post as "but it now" then cross post on multiple sites be aware this can be misleading to the true market value. I only look at auctions to determine that info.

She better be celebrity chef and pornstar levels of wife material in order for me to do that.

[nieds16]

She better be celebrity chef and pornstar levels of wife material in order for me to do that.

Lost the ring within a year. We stopped at an outlet mall on the way to visit my parents. Drove an hour back to try to find with no luck (it was a long shot). Still married but no ring. Maybe one day when I can afford again I will go down that path again, but it is still a bitter sting.

[zredgemz]

With all the talk of this game not running on so many models of the original hardware, I'm starting to worry that it's, low-key, potentially damaging any and all models merely as a result of its use. Can anyone confirm that we aren't inadvertently damaging our model 1's do to any overlooked components not being compatible with the hardware? I don't want to damage my consoles playing this game.

I'm aging the hell out of it, testing stuff, leaving it running while I'm posting stuff on here, etc. And it's gotten warm before. That was weird as hell.

Note: playing on an HDG Model 1 w/ TMSS. I'm on a VA6, I reckon. I can't remember which one I have hooked up, but it works. I'm only buying/collecting model 1's, and I have about 4 of them. I should see if it runs on all of them.

The game is properly level shifted if you are worried about that. was like ten pages back or something.

[Barman]

Wow, thanks for that info!! Will sure help those who try the method explained by Barone.

[NinMicroSega]

Lost the ring within a year. We stopped at an outlet mall on the way to visit my parents. Drove an hour back to try to find with no luck (it was a long shot). Still married but no ring. Maybe one day when I can afford again I will go down that path again, but it is still a bitter sting.

Damn, man. You should have paid for insurance on it.

[nieds16]

Damn, man. You should have paid for insurance on it.

Insurance not offered. Custom made by an artist.

[Gadispalembang]

As far as hardware goes within the cart, according to majinga's findings on page 60 and 79 of this topic, we have:
ALTERA 10m02scu169c8g FPGA
STM32f446zej6 Microcontroller
ISSI IC42S16100 DRAM
LCX245 Buffers
LCX257 Multiplexers