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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah the Saturn has a friendly little door with the battery behind it and you can just pop it in and out because it was somehow designed by someone who didn’t want people to suffer in the future The pro play is to replace the SRAM chip in the Saturn with a FRAM chip so you never actually lose your save data which drains the battery far slower because now it's only used for the system clock. 
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Null of Undefined posted:Yeah idk maybe it's confirmation bias but it really feels like hardware mods are disappearing and all that effort is getting put into FPGAs. I mean, I like FPGAs, but the main thing I like about this hobby is tinkering and optimizing. But the last 2 systems I wanted to mod had really cool hardware mods that just aren't available anymore (wanted the rgb atari 2600 board too). I wish these people would at least open source their projects if they're just gonna abandon them. Yea and specifically for the NES there isn't really a standout FPGA console that plays real carts. There is the NT Mini Noir, but that's like $1k on Ebay now. Even though they finally did a firmware update after 2.5 years it's certainly better, but it's still got some issues that seem unlikely to get fixed. The RetroUSB AVS only does 720p, no direct mode for scalers to take advantage of and similarly to the NT Mini Noir it has some game compatibility issues that seem unlikely to be fixed. I'd like an HDMI mod for the NES to bypass all of the cart compatibility issues. I've got some homebrew carts that either wont work or have issues on the Noir. Semi-related, I've been using my NT Mini Noir with my Pixel Morph scaler, I don't understand how they do it but the Morph can trick the NT Mini Noir into thinking it's connected to the Analogue DAC and pulls a direct signal that can scale it to 4K  Can also force the direct mode with the Super NT and Mega SG I believe.
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Is there a community consensus on the go-to recommended DMG gameboy LCD upgrade? Have one that's been lingering with a busted LCD and ideally I'd like as turnkey solution as possible without hacking up the case or anything. This isn't really a case of not being able to find an upgrade kit, I'm just not in the community enough to tell what a good kit is from a bad kit, etc. Thanks!
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I want to convert a game in BIN/CUE format to ISO format. I saw a recommendation on Reddit for WinBin2Iso, however that program wants a single BIN file as input, while I have 2 - GAME(Track 1).bin and GAME(Track 2).bin. Is that relevant to the conversion? I feel like it would be since both Track 1 and Track 2 have data, albeit Track 1 has more - 544MB vs 41MB for Track 2. E: nevermind I found an ancient program last updated before 9/11 that can convert multi-bin disc images into a single bin, then I can use WinBin2ISO to make an ISO file. Annath fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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katkillad2 posted:The RetroUSB AVS only does 720p, no direct mode for scalers to take advantage of and similarly to the NT Mini Noir it has some game compatibility issues that seem unlikely to be fixed. What’s the advantage of direct mode over just prescaling the 720p output?
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Annath posted:I want to convert a game in BIN/CUE format to ISO format. When a game has multiple BIN files they're usually soundtrack, so only getting one in the resulting ISO will mean you have a game that plays perfectly but is missing music.
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Null of Undefined posted:So do y'all think they're ever gonna re-stock the Hi-Def NES mod or nah? I might be willing to sell a modded NES with it if you're interested. Front loader, prototype (updated to current FW) HDN installed by the man himself.
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njsykora posted:Just look at a general teardown until you see the battery tbh. Though the Saturn apparently has a door on the back specifically for grabbing the clock battery out of its holder. The DC's is right there when you pop the cover off but it's also soldered to the controller port daughter board so is much more annoying. There's an iFixit guide for replacing it with a soldered in holder for a normal 2032 though. You can also just get a ML2032 socket so it fits on the board and you can just plug-and-play new ones.
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XtraSmiley posted:I might be willing to sell a modded NES with it if you're interested. Front loader, prototype (updated to current FW) HDN installed by the man himself. No I wanna do it myself that's the fun part
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Annath posted:I want to convert a game in BIN/CUE format to ISO format. ISO doesn't support multitrack discs, you're probably breaking the game by trying to do this conversion.
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KingEup posted:What’s the advantage of direct mode over just prescaling the 720p output? Someone else could probably explain it better than me, but scaling output that is an unaltered signal seems to be better/preferable than scaling output that is already being scaled by something that might not necessarily be scaling it correctly to begin with. I was just pointing it out because you can get a direct mode signal from the MiSTer and other FPGA consoles which has become more relevant now that things like the Tink4K and Morph4K scalers exist. In practice though, probably not going to be a noticeable difference to the average person for something like the NES.
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katkillad2 posted:Someone else could probably explain it better than me, but scaling output that is an unaltered signal seems to be better/preferable than scaling output that is already being scaled by something that might not necessarily be scaling it correctly to begin with. I was just pointing it out because you can get a direct mode signal from the MiSTer and other FPGA consoles which has become more relevant now that things like the Tink4K and Morph4K scalers exist.
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You folks don’t understand how pre-scaling works. All it does is skip/discard lines. No processing involved. But yes, you need a line multiplied source to start with if you want to pre-scale properly. I was under the impression that the RetroUSB AVS can output a clean integer 3x scale. This would make it the perfect candidate for pairing with the retrotink 4k. KingEup fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Apr 24, 2024 |
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while we're on conversion chat, anyone know what to do with HCD format files? it's like a cue, sorta, but using the cd TOC I think? anyway nothing I know actually seems to run these or convert away from the format. I've seen tools to change iso or bincue to HCD, but not the opposite. I guess people use them for injecting virtual console games? ideally I'd like to either play them in bizhawk or convert to a format that will.
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makere posted:ISO doesn't support multitrack discs, you're probably breaking the game by trying to do this conversion. I haven't actually tested the resulting ISO yet. But if it doesn't work, would combining the two BIN files into one still work, as long as I just use the resulting single BIN and don't convert it to ISO?
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makere posted:ISO doesn't support multitrack discs, you're probably breaking the game by trying to do this conversion. You’re not, OPL Manager does this for CD based PS2 games and so does POPpy, the utility to convert PS1 games into PS3 pkg files. It’s perfectly fine to convert them just because some systems can’t handle bin/cue files properly.
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Annath posted:I haven't actually tested the resulting ISO yet. What are you playing them on and why don’t you just used chdman to package it all into a chd instead if that’s an option Love that chdman
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History Comes Inside! posted:What are you playing them on and why don’t you just used chdman to package it all into a chd instead if that’s an option Duckstation and I have no idea what a CHD is.
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Annath posted:Duckstation and I have no idea what a CHD is. It's just a compressed CD format that combines the .bin and .cue files into a single file. https://archive.org/details/chd-converter.-7z
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Yeah duckstation should be fine with chd files https://wiki.recalbox.com/en/tutorials/utilities/rom-conversion/chdman Just extract whatever flavour of that is relevant for your OS into whatever folder all your cue and bin files are and run the cue to chd batch file, it’ll chug through them all and spit out a chd for every individual game.
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Just CHD it my man
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Annath posted:But if it doesn't work, would combining the two BIN files into one still work, as long as I just use the resulting single BIN and don't convert it to ISO? What is the platform of the media? Are the .bin tracks 2048-byte MODE 1 sectors are are they 2352-byte RAW ones? Is it CD-ROM XA? If yes, does it actually contain MODE 2 Form 2 sectors? Like if you have a bog-standard PC-CDROM with separate .bin tracks, the first of which is 2048-byte MODE 1 and the rest red-book audio, then the first track .bin file is your .iso. Or if you have a 2352-byte MODE 1 track then you can use a simple utility to discard the ECC data and get a .iso. But like, if you have a PlayStation disc, you can't make an .iso from it, since they're in CD-ROM XA format and frequently make use of non-ECC 2352-byte sectors to store FMV. This is why folks have to use specialized tools (or at least, CD-ROM drive emulators) to manipulate PlayStation discs. Annath posted:Duckstation and I have no idea what a CHD is.
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Do I need to replace the battery in my ps2?! It's a fat model from ca. 2002 if it makes any difference.
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bone emulator posted:Do I need to replace the battery in my ps2?! If you want but it's not like, going to explode or anything like that.
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bone emulator posted:Do I need to replace the battery in my ps2?! Not really, I’ve just found some games freak out if the save data time is in the past so it’s peace of mind for me. I’ve never seen a CR2032 leak or explode so unless you care about your system time it’s not something you need to do. Especially since to get to it you need to completely tear the system down to the bare motherboard.
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How are Pirates: Legend of the Black Kat and Pirates: Legend of the Black Buccaneer not related? So weird. Anyways playing Black Kat and it is very breezy.
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Crackbone posted:Just CHD it my man Yup. You must use BIN/CUE for ODEs on real hardware, but CHD is the go-to for everything else. Saves a little storage space and is widely supported these days. Compressed Hunks of Data. It was invented by MAME devs to work with games and software not stored on ROM chips (optical, HDDs, flash, etc).
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Is CHDMan pronounced "chadman" or "chudman"?
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It's like how you say challah
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:It's like how you say challah 'aint no challa back girl.
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Annath posted:Is CHDMan pronounced "chadman" or "chudman"? Given the H is Hunks, I'd go with the latter This means a group of CHD files are chuds Island Nation fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Annath posted:Is CHDMan pronounced "chadman" or "chudman"? you have to say "I'm a chaaad maaaaan" every time
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Null of Undefined posted:No I wanna do it myself that's the fun part Well, you know what could be twice as fun? You can uninstall it, and then re-install it in your NES! Awesome fun! :P
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XtraSmiley posted:I might be willing to sell a modded NES with it if you're interested. Front loader, prototype (updated to current FW) HDN installed by the man himself. I might be interested, depending on price...
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I posted this in the mister thread the other day, do this for your chd stuff it makes it really easyTatsuta Age posted:I wrote a basic wrapper for chdman after I got sick of moving the binary around when I downloaded a new pack of stuff for disc games that use .bin/.cue. Maybe it's useful for somebody else here so I put up a gist of it.
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Annath posted:Is CHDMan pronounced "chadman" or "chudman"? Seeh'Duh-máhn
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Going through Brute Force. Why sabotage a perfectly acceptable third person shooter by calling it a Halo Killer when its exclusive to the same platform and isn't even an FPS?!
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CV 64 Fan posted:Going through Brute Force. Why sabotage a perfectly acceptable third person shooter by calling it a Halo Killer when its exclusive to the same platform and isn't even an FPS?! "Halo killer" was being looked at as the one weird trick to good marketing for a time by hack PR people (so all PR people) and it took a really long time for them to realise that it was marketing poison. Killzone was the first time I noticed it being rolled out, but it was still being used in 2008 for loving Haze of all games.
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