Igor Posted March 21, 2019 Author Share Posted March 21, 2019 Are you stuck on the screen that shows all of the controls or the screen that says "Loading ROM list..."? You can put your ROMs wherever you like. Please share the directory listing for your SD card, that may help in working out what's wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 No, I was stuck on this screen after PLEASE WAIT, that says retrohq.co.uk. So I only left like two roms in a folder ROMS, and I got into that folder finally. Then I tried to load Centipede and it's stuck on the LOADING ROM.... screen. SD card has: _preview menu ROMS menu.bin menu2stg.bin README.md Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 21, 2019 Author Share Posted March 21, 2019 Hmm I wonder if you have the very first version of the new menu, can you download the latest from the link in the first post on this thread, install that and try again. If it doesn't work send me a message and we'll see what we can work out. I know some models of the Lynx had issues with some power management that the new loader does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 (edited) I'm using the 1.0.2 version. My Lynx II has the McWill screen, if that matters. In general this menu is running at a snail's pace I guess on this system of mine. Edited March 21, 2019 by Greg2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GadgetUK Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 No, I was stuck on this screen after PLEASE WAIT, that says retrohq.co.uk. So I only left like two roms in a folder ROMS, and I got into that folder finally. Then I tried to load Centipede and it's stuck on the LOADING ROM.... screen. SD card has: _preview menu ROMS menu.bin menu2stg.bin README.md Have you tried copying everything off the card to a PC, then reformat the card and copy everything back? It's no that unusual to get problems like that with the Everdrives from time to time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 I've tried everything, I just can't get it to consistently progress through the menu load, as well as load games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefred Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 If you want games that can save on the SD cart then the game needs to be coded that way. You also need to provide a correctly sized save file on the cart. The Lynx can not create files, re-size files or re-name them. I was planning to make a separate directory for saves. /saves/flappy.sav /saves/awreiko.sav /saves/shaken.sav ... All the sav-files are 128 byte long at startup and the content is full of 0xff as a real eeprom. Patching old games may be difficult. But at least this opens up a new option for making new games. You could easily code a game to use eeprom or SD if they are available. Have you had a chance to update the roms to save on the SD yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+karri Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 No. I have recently spent time on some new entries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi41 Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 First of all, thanks for your work! Great menu loader. Especially having the preview picture on a separate button. I have a small enhancement request, if it's technically feasible. Would it be possible to sort the game list by long name, if romlist.txt is used? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted October 5, 2019 Author Share Posted October 5, 2019 Technically that's doable, though at the moment I don't have much time to look into it. There'll be a new loader soon, so I might get back to some enhancements on this one when I'm working on that. If you could log an issue here so I can track it - https://github.com/ikromin/atarilynx/tree/master/lynxsd-menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoshi41 Posted October 5, 2019 Share Posted October 5, 2019 Issue added in github. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 Out of curiosity was any more work ever done on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 21 hours ago, Tempest said: Out of curiosity was any more work ever done on this? Don't think so. Igor contacted me about the issues I was having, but it was still performing horribly for me. Then he stopped responding for over a year, and sent me a message which I didn't respond to. The new stock menu from RetroHQ I feel is superior to this one anyway, works very swiftly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Greg2600 said: Don't think so. Igor contacted me about the issues I was having, but it was still performing horribly for me. Then he stopped responding for over a year, and sent me a message which I didn't respond to. The new stock menu from RetroHQ I feel is superior to this one anyway, works very swiftly. New stock menu? Where I can that? I'm having many of the same issues you were. The menu only seems to want to come up a third of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 28 minutes ago, Tempest said: New stock menu? Where I can that? I'm having many of the same issues you were. The menu only seems to want to come up a third of the time. Oops, well I upgraded to his newer LynxGD, and it's part of the firmware on that. Unfortunately I think you're kind of stuck with the older one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 16 hours ago, Greg2600 said: Don't think so. Igor contacted me about the issues I was having, but it was still performing horribly for me. Then he stopped responding for over a year, and sent me a message which I didn't respond to. The new stock menu from RetroHQ I feel is superior to this one anyway, works very swiftly. No further work on it, Lynx SD is legacy now so not planning to support it. I've had quite a few things happening in real-life so been a bit busy to respond to everyone, sorry! The LynxGD is a marvel and its standard menu is amazing (except for the fonts @SainT). The source code is available for anyone to hack though, I've had it released for as long as the menu has been available - https://github.com/ikromin/atarilynx/tree/master/retrohq_lynxsd/lynxsd-menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 What's the difference between the Lynx SD and the LynxGD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 3 hours ago, Tempest said: What's the difference between the Lynx SD and the LynxGD? Not a ton I don't believe, although the GD has the ability to save EEPROM games. Perhaps @SainT could retrofit his GD menu for the SD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 22, 2021 Author Share Posted March 22, 2021 The GD is significantly faster with ROM loading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmm Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Hi, i have the same issue and same configuration of greg2600. I updated now for the new menu and now i am stuck. Can someone tell me where i can find the old/original menu files ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 1 Author Share Posted January 1 @SainT do you have the original files on your website? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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