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dhaunet
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:14 am Post subject: Problems with new SF7 - please help |
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I received my Game Doctor SF7. I use SEGA Genesis model 1 power adapred (9v, 1.2A, center negative). Then I connect power supply I can hear a short noise from floppy (but led isn't blinking). It have 32MBit inside and 64MBit in expansion slot.
SNES outputs a blank screen to TV, no matter if SF7 is connected or not. I tried it with and without 64MBit memory extension, with regular and blue DSP passthrough, and it doesn't start. I gently pushed the BIOS chip. I cleaned contacts on both SF7 and SNES side by inserting and removing passthrough adapter for 20-30 times (this works on my Genesis, Saturn and MSX).
Still nothing. Please advice what should I try next. Or should I ask Tomy for repair? Obviously shipping back and forth will be equal to cost of the unit itself...
I heard about some sort of security chip in SNES. I use old-style big North American SNES. Do I have to change something in it?
Please help me! Thanks a lot!
Last edited by dhaunet on Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:22 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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dhaunet
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 4:09 am Post subject: |
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Update: I had a very nice chat with Tomy over MSN. He suggested trying SNES with a cartridge game first, and if it's not working - replace it with another SNES. Sounds like a great advice. I'll go buy a crappy 2$ sports game cartridge for testing. I'll keep everyone posted on my SF7 journey |
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dhaunet
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:38 am Post subject: |
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I brought SNES back to store, and they checked it with a cart, and it was toasted! I didn't got a replacement yet, but soon I will Hopefully this time all will work fine |
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timofonic
Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 80 Location: Europe, Spain, Malaga
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:26 am Post subject: |
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Or buy games with SFX and DSP |
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dhaunet
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2003 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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Honestly, I'm not interested in games with special chips inside. I bought SF7 to see if I can have some fun with SNES homebrew development. Running your code on actual hardware is quite rewarding (well, at least if you are from the same geek crowd as me) |
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dhaunet
Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Toronto, Canada
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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I got a working SNES, and now everything is working great! SF7 is a very good unit. Learning how to use ucon64 with "-gd3" and "-s" parameters was a cake.
Blue DSP adapter doesn't help running Mario Kart, so it's kind of useless.
96MBits of ram are very handy. I can load a lot of games and then just use them.
Shared BRAM for all games is a bit of the problem, but once you get to know how to save and load it to/from disk, all it reasonably fine with saves.
I didn't tried parallel port upload yet, but will do so soon. I still have to finish Phantasy Star 2 on my MD64Pro and play some Metal Slug on my NeoGeo CD
Life is good! Thanks ToToTEK! |
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The Dumper
Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 49
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Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 3:43 am Post subject: |
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The blue DSP passthrough adapter works fine with Mario Kart. Did you perhaps mean Pilotwings? Pilotwings needs a patch to work with the blue DSP adapter. |
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cdiablo
Joined: 25 Jul 2003 Posts: 26
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Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2003 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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The Dumper wrote: | The blue DSP passthrough adapter works fine with Mario Kart. Did you perhaps mean Pilotwings? Pilotwings needs a patch to work with the blue DSP adapter. |
Dumper can you tell me where to find this patch 4 pilotwings. Are there any other patches to use to use games on GD7?? Thanks dude. |
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The Dumper
Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 49
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Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: |
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There is also a Super Bases Loaded patch you need if you are using a HiROM DSP1 (like in the blue DSP adapter) with a LoROM DSP1 game. These patches can be used on a SWC system too.
I think you can find them here:
http://defaced.co.uk/ |
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