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Just to rule a few more things out... What other cards are in the system? Run CRCOS7 against the file you copied to the SCSI. Make sure the file isn't bad. It shouldn't any more difficult to boot from SCSI than from HFDC. Very peculiar. I'll check back tomorrow or Saturday.

i'm wondering if my 1.5 DSR is bad. as soon as it hits the card the geneve swan gets colorful. The 1.6 does not do that, but it won't boot with the 1.6 on my card. Anyone got a good binary of the 1.5?

Perhaps I am getting slightly better 44,460

Thank you for your kind reply. Added!

Its a fantastic port!

Freaking amazing!

I can confirm the same with Space Invaders and Pico Frogger. I found a workaround in Space Invaders. After you lose all your lives, then you can press Menu to exit. Can't do that on Pucofrogger.

Another attempt (remember - new stuff can done, rebuild walls etc + remember 2, itd just concept-art)

Wow, this is simply awesome!

I see it loading MDOS from the LOAD-SCS file and I see MDOS is starting message, but after about 5 seconds the SCSI drive stops accessing and the geneve just freezes. This happens on both my new SCSI card and an original REV F with Michael Becker update.

It's legendary kusoge, among the worst games on the Super NES. As a result, it's frequently reviewed by YouTube content creators, particularly the yellers like AVGN. That notoriety probably explains its high market value. (Don't buy it, though! It's crap! It's like the Simpsons arcade game, if it had been made by the people who made Bart vs. The Space Mutants!)

This doesn't emulate the PIA enough to avoid compatibility problems. In particular, it will fail with any software that does 800/OS-B style initialization, such as this startup loop from Star Raiders: A162: A9 00 LDA #$00 A164: AA TAX A165: 9D 00 D0 STA $D000,X A168: 9D 00 D4 STA $D400,X A16B: E0 0F CPX #$0F A16D: B0 03 BCS $A172 A16F: 9D 00 D2 STA $D200,X A172: 9D 00 D3 STA $D300,X A175: 9D 67 00 STA $0067,X A178: E8 INX A179: D0 EA BNE $A165 With the PORTB snooping scheme you describe, this would capture $00 writes and assume that the extended memory window should be turned on since it sees bit 4 cleared. But that's not what happens on the PIA, because the PIA doesn't have four registers, it has six registers, and two of them are the data direction registers DDRA and DDRB, stacked on top of the same $D300 and $D301 addresses as output registers ORA and ORB, selected by bit 2 of PACTL ($D302) or PBCTL ($D303). When this code runs, the PIA hasn't been initialized yet -- Star Raiders is a diagnostic cart -- and so all of its registers are set to $00 from hardware reset. This causes $D301 to write to DDRB instead of ORB and change port B to input (a no-op) instead of changing port B outputs. To properly emulate PIA port B, it's necessary to shadow writes to both ORB and DDRB at PORTB ($D301), and bit 2 of PBCTL ($D303) to select between ORB and DDRB. Then, actual banking state can be computed as (ORB or not DDRB).

No, same game.

This may be a silly question, but do you have the right eprom in the Geneve to boot from a Scsi? Isn't that version 2.00?

I recently threw a bunch of SNES games together to sell as a lot and noticed that Bebe's Kids was far and away the most expensive of the bunch. What's the story behind this game? I know it's based on a TV show and the game itself is poorly rated. Is it going for a lot because of rarity? Or morbid curiosity driving up interest?

It is impossible on Evercade. Maybe on Evercade 2. Is there a commercially licensable replacement BIOS for both consoles, though?

Great job!! My oldest son just came back from bowling in Vegas a couple of weeks ago (I'm not sure what the tournament was but he was at Southpoint). He's way better at real bowling than Intellivision bowling. I'd guess most people are better at bowling on video games.

The Capcom one has a lot of great games. There is a Capcom Super Pocket, but it loses some of my favorites (Vulgus, Commando, Mega Man 2, Mega Man X, Legendary Wings) and one of the few good RPGs Evercade has, Breath of Fire. Also 1942 and 1943 are not very playable on Super Pocket. If you want the Capcom games, I would get it, but otherwise I don't like the EXP that much. The sound is really awful and the battery is iffy. I am hoping the sound improves on the EXP-R, even though the speakers are still downward firing instead of front firing. Also if you want the Lynx collections look sharp as their prices are rapidly shooting up.

Looks great! I'd play!

The picture I posted shows this as well for >1200. We agree! I don't have a Geneve configured with an EPROM at this time, so I can't test the loader on real hardware. What do you mean by the above statement? Does it get to the OS title/version text then lock? Or is it locking in LOAD-SCS? You can hold the "DEL" key after the OS starts to load to force autoexec to load from DSK1. This might get you to a prompt.

Both of my Scsi cards are set for that, the setting has worked fine in the past for my original, and from @humeur's pctures the one I bought from him was working fine with that setting. Now I have never tried booting from the Scsi, as I was not up to date on the process and file. Need to repair a peb box to try them again.

This OPEN+USR trick works with Atari DOS 2.5, as the OPEN sets some IOCB pointers and the USR disables the BASIC ROM, moves RAMTOP and other vectors, and then pass the control to the DOS's builtin binary loader. This year, the multi-platform games had a very big runtime embeded, so a 1050-enhanced density disk (130K) was not enough and I had to change to MyDOS and use a double density disk. The problem was that there were no equivalent routine in the DOS code, but a XIO command was available to load binary files in MyDOS. I needed to disable BASIC and move the vectors before the XIO, so I had to include it in assembly at the end of the USR routine. Can you see why? Then, it is not a bug, they are just different menu versions for different DOS-es. Anyway, did you try to play .XEX tenliners like "Chase Me!" from the menu in 2024's ATR? ++V

Could you make a simple (straight) cord replacement? I want to keep the original cord but lose short the coil. Does this product yet exist?

I get it to start booting with this setting, but then it freezes and never displays the dos prompt.

Another attempt (not more) at illustrating what it could look like in the middle of the action: