Concerto firmware thread

[Concerto firmware thread]

On 1/16/2021 at 6:49 PM, DrVenkman said:

Meant to add, I tried this one as well but it doesn't work on my (NTSC) systems. After loading, the title screen is a scrambled, impossible mess of corrupted colored lines on a white background. If I press and hold a button, some of the graphical mess changes but you can't start a game let alone play. 

Up until this I've been able to replicate every one of the issues you've encountered; no more, no less.  The One on One fix works fine on my A1;  If I remember correctly the only substantive hardware differences in my console are that it has (the usually more quirky) Oki RAM and no expansion port.

[Concerto firmware thread]

_{I've been testing out my cart in my spare time and, unfortunately, have nothing new to add other than to say that my A1 console has exactly the same behaviors as DrVenkman.  Minus the being able to at least get past the loading of TowerToppler and Realsports Baseball on a cold boot.  Those get stuck before completely loading no matter how long the console has been off.}

 

_{It is, however, running my small programming project perfectly well.}

[Concerto SD-card multicart ordering info]

My wife was a real dear and intercepted the mail on Tuesday, so I got to  unwrap it this morning!  Got a POKEY installed and the firmware updated to 0.95 without issue.  No problems reading an old class 4 16GB PNY SD card, and the memory test comes through clean.

Great work on this fun piece of kit, and Merry Christmas to you all.  Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go play some Joust with the kids...

[Concerto SD-card multicart ordering info]

20 hours ago, Lectronimo said:

Mine was supposed to be delivered today also. Was accepted in Oregon a week ago and said it was on schedule for delivery in Arizona today. The status did change today but now it's in Washington near Seattle, so it took a detour north. Grrrrr. Reverse Oregon trail for real!

Same thing here.  Salem to Portland Metro via Tacoma, WA.  I could have walked down and picked it up from Batari directly in less time.  Here's hoping for Christmas Eve delivery!

["Dragonfly" preorder]

Count me in, too.  Amazing stuff here.

[sd cartridge for 7800?]

4 hours ago, Jinks said:

3 people with less than 50 posts that no 7800 guy ever heard of are going for this. Hopefully not just resellers.

Hey, I resemble that remark!  Not a reseller, though; just getting my feet wet in 7800 dev and not that active on the forum.

That said, I've been looking forward to this for a long, long time and I'm greatly impressed by what folks in this community have achieved.

[E.X.O. [WIP]]

Since A7800 is a MAME derivative, does it support input recording?  Might be a way to replicate the screen transition issue unless it is extremely timing sensitive...