Support TV type override (NTSC / JP roms on N64 PAL)

[landsat77]

Firmware version of the flashcart

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Menu version used

0.0.0.5 Alpha

Description

Using PAL Fra RGB modded N64

Using no-intro roms, the same files are working well on my X7 and ED64+

Menu boot at 576i/50 or 480i/60 (ini settings)

Pal roms works fine, i found no issues yet.

USA / JAP Roms :

F-zero X => Works Fine Star Fox => Works Fine Resident Evil USA / JAP => black screen nothing happens even after a couple of minuts Ogre Battle 64 USA / JAP => black screen nothing happens even after a couple of minuts Wave Race USA / JAP => Boot but freeze some seconds later Gex 3 => black screen nothing happens even after a couple of minuts 007 The World is not enough => boot but stuck on region lock screen Paperboy => boot but stuck on region lock screen Megaman 64 => => boot but stuck on region lock screen

I try to send rom over USB-C, same issue than loading over the menu.

How to reproduce

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Expected behavior

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[networkfusion]

@landsat77 , just for confirmation, please can you also add the exact command you sent to sc64deployer and sc64deployer version (./sc64deployer.exe -V). Also, please confirm the output is the same with the very latest menu version from rolling release (pressing start should have a timestamp against 0.0.0.6) which is very useful for future revisions.

[networkfusion]

Also the output of ./sc64deployer.exe -info to show the current FW version on your cart.

[landsat77]

sc64deployer.exe -V sc64deployer 2.17.0

sc64deployer.exe info ←[1mSC64 information and current state:←[0m Firmware version: v2.17.0 RTC datetime: 2022-03-03 14:03:43 +01:00 Boot mode: Bootloader -> Menu from SD card Save type: None CIC seed: Auto TV type: Passthrough Bootloader switch: Enabled ROM write: Disabled ROM shadow: Disabled ROM extended: Disabled 64DD mode: Disabled 64DD SD card mode: Disabled 64DD drive type: Retail 64DD disk state: Ejected Button mode: User Button state: Not pressed LED blink: Enabled IS-Viewer 64 offset: 0x00000000 FPGA debug data: Last PI address: 0x00000000 MCU stack usage: CIC: 96, RTC: 120, LED: 88, GVR: 312

Sending roms : D:\Summer 64>sc64deployer.exe --port com9 upload "F-Zero X (USA).z64" Uploading ROM [F-Zero X (USA).z64]... ←[1;92mdone←[0m ROM title: F-ZERO X (U) [!] Save type set to [SRAM 256k] Boot mode set to [Bootloader -> ROM]

F-Zero boot fine

D:\Summer 64>sc64deployer.exe --port com9 upload "Paperboy (USA).z64" Uploading ROM [Paperboy (USA).z64]... ←[1;92mdone←[0m ROM title: Paperboy (U) [!] Save type set to [None] Boot mode set to [Bootloader -> ROM]

[landsat77]

Using the last sc64menu.n64

Loading Paperboy (USA).z64 have the same result.

[Polprzewodnikowy]

By default sc64deployer has the same default behavior regarding "TV type" boot parameter as current version of N64FlashcartMenu. Currently game receives the same value as reported by the console. sc64deployer can override this value, to do this use --tv [region] parameter in the upload command to force TV type setting to the other value. There are more options available in the sc64deployer. Information about these parameters is bundled in the application and accessible via --help option. Note that different commands accept different parameters. Please look at the screenshot below:

To summarize, try running sc64deployer.exe upload "game.z64" --tv ntsc to boot NTSC game on PAL console. Also don't really know why you had to put --port com9 argument, deployer should automatically detect and use correct SC64 device.

Support for overriding TV type and save parameters will be coming soon to the N64FlashcartMenu.

[landsat77]

using : D:\Summer 64>sc64deployer.exe upload "Paperboy (USA).z64" --tv ntsc Uploading ROM [Paperboy (USA).z64]... ←[1;92mdone←[0m ROM title: Paperboy (U) [!] Save type set to [None] Boot mode set to [Bootloader -> ROM] TV type set to [NTSC]

Works fine now, tested with Paperboy and Resident Evil 2

[ottelo9]

I had the same problems with Altra64 and fixed the auto region detection (see commit1 commit2. Maybe the code snippets can help?! But I don't have time to deal with it at the moment.

[Polprzewodnikowy]

Partial support has been merged in https://github.com/Polprzewodnikowy/N64FlashcartMenu/pull/71 There's still no support to do manual override

[Polprzewodnikowy]

Manual TV type and save type override has been implemented in this commit: https://github.com/Polprzewodnikowy/N64FlashcartMenu/commit/621e50cf7b78e5b427267ec59931ca461d9c8371