Judas-Prime Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Forgive me if this has been covered, but i was curious is there is audio/video test software for the Jaguar. Something I could load on my Jaguar SD and do some basic stereo audio sweeps to check the left and right channels...stuff like that. again, i apologize if this has been covered elsewhere, i did a cursory search and found nothing specific to my search query. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Best Electronics sell a test cartridge which does basically what you describe, but I don't know if it's available for download anywhere. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 29, 2019 Share Posted September 29, 2019 Hopefully nobody will complain if I post this here. http://www.atari7800.org/jaguar/jagdiag5394.zip Mitch 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 I will give this a try on mine as I get little crackles in the sound sometimes, often at the same point ie in intro music. Does it on a couple of physical carts I have and the roms via SD cart so it is my Jag itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas-Prime Posted September 30, 2019 Author Share Posted September 30, 2019 I attempted to use this Rom with my Jaguar SD. The Rom loads and then just sits on a black screen. So Im not sure if its going to work with the Jaguar SD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 30, 2019 Share Posted September 30, 2019 It is probably failing one of the tests. Or it could be a bad dump though I don't think so. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 Here's instructions for it that I found. If you ever get it working. Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted October 1, 2019 Share Posted October 1, 2019 The instructions mention an up-to-6-second black screen on startup, so maybe you just didn't wait long enough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas-Prime Posted October 1, 2019 Author Share Posted October 1, 2019 13 hours ago, Zerosquare said: The instructions mention an up-to-6-second black screen on startup, so maybe you just didn't wait long enough? I just tried it again and waited a full minute....just a black screen. Could be an issue with the fact that the Test cart Instructions says that the Jaguar boot screen will be bypassed. This could be in conflict with how the Jaguar SD handled booting after a rom has been selected.....but I have no idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 Same for me, just black screen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 It gets stuck in a loop polling ASICTRL/ASISTAT/ASIDATA so maybe it needs something plugged into the DSP port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 The real cart works with just the cart. You can plug it into a serial port on your pc for advanced diags but it should work as is. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 I think I figured out what is going on. I hooked up my Jag to the serial port on my old XP laptop, fired up hyper-terminal and checked the the advanced diag settings. It appears it needs to be set to "auto run" for it to run the tests automatically on boot up. The settings are saved on the cart's 93C46 EEPROM chip. I seem to remember that there was a way to dump the contents of the chip but I can't remember now how to do it. If I am able to dump the save chip you should be able to load it on the JagSD cart and run the diag, I think. Mitch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judas-Prime Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 15 hours ago, Mitch said: I think I figured out what is going on. I hooked up my Jag to the serial port on my old XP laptop, fired up hyper-terminal and checked the the advanced diag settings. It appears it needs to be set to "auto run" for it to run the tests automatically on boot up. The settings are saved on the cart's 93C46 EEPROM chip. I seem to remember that there was a way to dump the contents of the chip but I can't remember now how to do it. If I am able to dump the save chip you should be able to load it on the JagSD cart and run the diag, I think. Mitch I wonder if setting the Jaguar SD to autoboot the SD card using this this rom would work. I'll try this when I get homer from work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 No, I doubt that would make a difference. The settings are saved in the on cart save chip. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 4, 2020 Share Posted September 4, 2020 So, I finally got around to dumping the EEPROM from the diag cart. I think the JagGD needs a different file extension but I don't recall what it is. Mitch jagdiageeprom.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 I was just curious if anybody was able to test this and see if it worked on the JagGD? I was thinking about trying to make one that auto-started at the controller test but if this one doesn't work I don't want to waste my time. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zerosquare Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 If you only want to test controllers, you can skip the trouble and use Matthias Domin's controller test program: http://mdgames.de/jag_eng.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 7 hours ago, Mitch said: I was just curious if anybody was able to test this and see if it worked on the JagGD? I was thinking about trying to make one that auto-started at the controller test but if this one doesn't work I don't want to waste my time. Mitch I have a JagSD, tried it before as mentioned above but can give it another go with the eprom file. Just put it in the same directory? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 I am not sure what the correct procedure is for adding one manually or what the correct naming convention is for it. I guess checking the instructions would be helpful. Let me see if there is one online, unless you got one with the cartridge. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Put it in dir so will try tonight but doubt it will make a difference. The cart loads the menu on power on so perhaps the process of starting a loaded file is slightly different, you would need to ask Saint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 I couldn't really find anything other than it needs to be in the same folder as the game. I am guessing it needs a specific naming convention. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Got it to work, I forget how I named the files, will check at work tomorrow. It cycled through a few single colour screens, ran a cybermorph demo then seems to have stopped at the screen with 7 vertical coloured bars, is that what you would expect? Ok just read the manual above, all works, parrot photo looks really good! What resolution is it? Will confirm file naming tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Saint posted the info in the JagGD forum. Same name as the ROM with the e2p extension. I'm glad to hear it worked. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str0m Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Yep just checked my SD card and that's what I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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