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I don't, I was gifted this machine, the first one since circa 1985. I had a Hyperkin Ranger that arrived w/something broken off inside and felt so cheap I returned it and got the 8bitdo dongle. Planned on getting one off ebay (Slik Stik maybe) or one at a store near me (Quickshot Pro, meh) but held off bc I had this dongle arriving.

No worries. If that is indeed the problem, I wonder how @tjrtech was able to get his utility working under MacOS but not Windows? Of course, I know absolutely nothing about the differences between MacOS and Windows regarding low-level directory record order of files.

It's more likely I didn't read it properly. And if that's what you did, and it worked - then I'm more confident that the underlying issue is as I described (or related to it).

We will have a guide helping us for part of the time in each city, but we are also very experienced travelers and tend not to panic too much when we get lost. I think we'll probably have a few stories about how we took a wrong turn and wasted some time, but we'll survive.

That is precisely the method I used to solve the issue. Perhaps I did not describe it adequately.

I have found this also. Between some of us there is a shared folder on the PlusStore called "ELF Tests" which have a "Failed rom download" message on several of them.

I looked into this and it actually is a separate game that seems to use the Blue Rose Engine: Only released in France. It is a licensed game for the film Taxi 3 - there weren't Taxi 1 or 2 games on the GBA at least.

Well CALL is used in Mini-Memory and XB to launch Assembly, so you could say that is "part" of it as well. I lost my original one long time ago, would love to get a used one again just for my TI Bookshelf in my room, but they are like over $110 usd now, crazy prices.

Given that the Gamestation Pro reads directories in their low-level directory record order (which is basically the chronological order the files were created in on the SD card), if there's a LOT of files on the card I can see it just not seeing a new version copied over LATER. In theory it should overwrite the original FAT DIR entry, but in practice it might be creating a new entry, then removing the old, leaving it out of order and possibly beyond the limit of the number of files the software will read. Easy way to test it ... Start with the original games.ini file, open it in an editor, remove everything it contains (without saving), copy and paste in the ENTIRE contents of the one from the "AGSP Enhance" tool, and then save THAT back to the original games.ini file.

The PlusCart you updated is in the beta tester group. You should see an update option in the menu to "v2.3.20". Can you try if it works. Which ELF files did you tested?

Thanks for the reply! I honestly have never seen those movies. Are they any good?

Have you tried the Wayback Machine? My company -- founder and part owner -- just celebrated 25 years in business. Marketing wanted some stuff from years past to build a presentation. I sent the link to the Wayback Machine. There were snapshots of our website back to 2000.

Might be some insight here above btw

Just noticed your message about this, as I been reviewing all the pages as recently @RickyDean mailed me one of his extra boards. I been making up a list of parts I need to order from mouser canada and amazon, and I was wondering if you built yours yet or did you grab a extra board from Ricky as well? Let me know, as I located in Scarberia that place to East of Toronto, maybe we can get together as well for coffee, since I have not been in contact much with local fellow TI99'ers. Looking forward to hearing from you. Send me a PM if you wish. Take Care, and enjoy the rest of your day here in GTA at least the sun is out today, but still on the chilly side of the weather!

So do you not have a standard joystick (DB9, Atari compatible)? Loads available on ebay of all shapes and sizes.

Honestly, this sounds like a Retroarch problem rather than a game ROM problem. No issues here on my 2-port 5200. Having said that, it couldn't hurt to try a different copy just in case. Atarimania may be of help.

Yeah, it just uses the joystick trigger register. VBI is typically used and sufficient in most cases. I think this post is the beginning talk about the last iteration of the GUI's mouse driver. GOS Mouse Driver During SIO

I'm guessing kings quest, 1984.

Hey my brother got back to me about those psp videos. He was sure we had more but can't find them all. He found Hostel and Untraceable. He says Untraceable is still sealed. We must have got it from the discount bin and never opened or something. haha. Let me know if you are interested in either and I can get some pictures.

Quick controls check: Is there any way to move faster? I keep getting killed on later levels where multiple balloons drop at once. Not sure if it's just bad RNG or what, but sometimes they drop from both sides at roughly the same time, which seems impossible unless I'm doing something wrong.

Sure, but I've no controllers at all that work on it atm bc of the dongle issue. I didn't - I'll check them out. I've not gotten to dive into the software/game side yet, sorting out the controllers and the s-video.

Little update, been working hard on the last pieces- Got River Raid 2 today(already had the faux-patch), and got Pitfall 2 and the patch for it a week or so ago! Only missing Beamrider, Cosmic Commuter, and Ghostbusters CIB, plus a handful of patches-a couple here are repro's, Private Eye, Space Shuttle, but 99% is real deal.

Thanks for that; it's a lot easier to get an idea of what's going on with it. My suggestions follow: 2N3904 Transistor: check orientation (i.e., the flat side is facing the correct direction) R3, R6, R11, R14: check for solder bridges, things contacting other things that they shouldn't be, that the correct resistors were removed, etc. L3: Same as for the resistors. Pay particular attention around the crystal (Y1). If still installed, make sure that nothing can contact the RF shield. Now for the part that has me biting my tongue for a number of reasons: That's just... Wow. Not having seen this mod before, it's something of a surprise to see what the kit actually consists of, how much modification of the console is necessary to make it work, and the end result of the installed product. There are about a dozen things in the general area of that transistor which could go wrong, and it doesn't seem like there's a single point of failure than can be definitively pointed at. Hate to sound like a broken record, but go back and check everything for solder bridges, miswiring, shorts, etc. At the end of the day, it'll work - but that's a pretty prehistoric way of doing it. I'm not criticising you for going with this mod, but you may want to consider returning the machine to stock and installing a UAV. Should you end up doing this, the version with @-^CrossBow^-'s mount board is strongly recommended.

So far I have not seen or have missed any messages wanting me to take to Europe or bring back to USA equipment/parts to be used with the 99/4A, Geneve, or other. Not going to worry about it, but the offer stands.

Iirc it runs on a standard joystick as well on 128k machines, but you'd have only fire and movement with your standard joystick. I also assume you know about the two Doom engines on A8?