Mario Bros. XE for Maxflash carts

[tep392]

Hello,

 

Those of you with Atarimax Maxflash carts might be interested in this. I've just finished modifying the 64K Mario Bros XE game rom to work on the Maxflash carts. The bank switching method of the flash carts is different from the XE carts, so I had to move code around and change memory references. The cool thing is, since the program runs out of rom, it will work on machines with 64k of RAM. The xex version that's out there requires 128k ram. I've posted the files with some instructions on the Atarimax forum.

 

http://atarimax.com/flashcart/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4339#4339

[+Stephen]

Thanks - will have to try this.

 

Stephen Anderson

[Kjmann]

Hello,

 

Those of you with Atarimax Maxflash carts might be interested in this. I've just finished modifying the 64K Mario Bros XE game rom to work on the Maxflash carts. The bank switching method of the flash carts is different from the XE carts, so I had to move code around and change memory references. The cool thing is, since the program runs out of rom, it will work on machines with 64k of RAM. The xex version that's out there requires 128k ram. I've posted the files with some instructions on the Atarimax forum.

 

http://atarimax.com/flashcart/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4339#4339

 

Great Job!!! too bad the Maxflash cartridge studio Can't be setup to automatically start a specific selection from the menu instead of just the first one on the list.

[tep392]

Great Job!!! too bad the Maxflash cartridge studio Can't be setup to automatically start a specific selection from the menu instead of just the first one on the list.

 

 

I hadn't thought of that since I'm using an 8mbit cart and have it loaded with games. It should be simple to change the line of code that selects the bank to shift everything by one slot. The xex could then be put in slot 1 and the cart set to automatically run that slot. I'll give it a try tonight.

[Kjmann]

Great Job!!! too bad the Maxflash cartridge studio Can't be setup to automatically start a specific selection from the menu instead of just the first one on the list.

 

 

I hadn't thought of that since I'm using an 8mbit cart and have it loaded with games. It should be simple to change the line of code that selects the bank to shift everything by one slot. The xex could then be put in slot 1 and the cart set to automatically run that slot. I'll give it a try tonight.

 

Cool! looking forward to it

[classics]

Great Job!!! too bad the Maxflash cartridge studio Can't be setup to automatically start a specific selection from the menu instead of just the first one on the list.

 

I have added this feature to the software, you can now specify which slot to auto-start.

 

Just download the newest version at the bottom of this page:

 

http://www.atarimax.com/flashcart/documentation/

 

It should be compatible with existing workbooks. For those it will stay at slot #1 until you modify it.

 

Steve

[Fres]

Very nice! Thanks, Tep392 for the new workbook and Steve for the update to the software. I've been waiting a while for this one.

[tep392]

 

Cool! looking forward to it

 

Turned out not to be so easy because maxflash software puts all the 8k roms at the lowest banks regardless of which workbook slot they are in. I struggled with this a while until I contacted Steve and he explained how it worked. I was shocked at how quickly he updated his code to allow different slots to be selected for startup. Thanks Steve!

 

It actually works out better for me that it's done this way, because I can put the 7 roms at the bottom of my multi cart menu, and not have to scroll thru them. They will still end up in the correct banks of the cart image. The xex goes wherever I want it.

 

tep392

Edited November 26, 2009 by tep392

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