Found issues with 2 games on most recent JB firmware as well as official firmware

handheldgamefan commented 2 years ago

In a nutshell Mighty Final Fight crashes on title or soon after, but if i insert it into the famicom slot via an adapter to play US games it works perfectly fine. The second game is Metroid (US NES version), haven't tested the FDS version. Anyway there are lines going down the screen like the cartridge is dirty or not seated correctly when I have taken apart and fully cleaned the game. I also confirmed it by rolling back to the stock official firmware 1.0 and both games work fine as they should. I dunno if these games were already mentioned having issues, but just in case not I wanted to post here. I also e-mailed Analogue support about the official firmware already and was told the issue was forwarded to the team.

huhx0015 commented 2 years ago

I am also seeing the same vertical line issue with Metroid (US) NES version with the latest JB firmware.

BobsYurUncle commented 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure the vertical line issue occurs only when playing off of cartridge.

R.C. Pro Am has a vertical line issue for me when using the cartridge. Loading a ROM off the SD card doesn't have any issue. However, reverting back to JB Firmware 6.5 got rid of the lines when playing off cartridge.

tjanas commented 2 years ago

Has anyone heard back from Analogue Support regarding this issue?

handheldgamefan commented 2 years ago

No sadly

Stopper33 commented 2 years ago

Definitely an issue with the Metroid cart. I've tried it with two copies. The copynes rom works fine.

PizzaCube commented 2 years ago

the $500 console should get top priority for fixes . its the most expensive one they sell.

the noir mini firmware seems really buggy compared to the last one and the old NT mini

also still waiting for the analog duo to show up since it says coming in 2021. (i doubt it) they have stopped speaking to the public about just about everything.

W4JEW commented 2 years ago

Do these games work well with the stock firmware but not with the jailbreak firmware?

Have you logged support cases with them directly (I.e. not here on GitHub for firmware they’re not responsible for)? If not, you should so they can track it.

Analogue isn’t a very big company. There are only handful of employees - and Kevtris who’s effectively is 50% of Analogue (as far as I’m concerned).

I’d venture to say they’re tapped out with trying to get Pocket and Analogue OS out the door and probably don’t have cycles to focus on these bugs.

They’re good about fixing issues. But you have to manage your expectations reasonably.

PizzaCube commented 2 years ago

for a small team They seem to launch a new product all the time and they just announced analog OS before making sure the old products they sell are really stable...

the super nt and mega sg are getting all the attention for fixes and so is the pocket and it is not even being sold..

also they did not say if the old consoles are getting that new OS or what and i am still not sure what most of the advantages are for it?

tjanas commented 2 years ago

They said the existing consoles will not be getting the new OS, and I fear Analogue will forget about them and will abandon future firmware updates for them, just like the did with the Nt Mini that was released in 2017 (they never released any bug fix firmwares for it after 2017).

W4JEW commented 2 years ago

AFAIK, the OS is not and was not ever intended for the other consoles. It's the foundation for the Pocket. There was going to be an OS on the Pocket in the first place because they started demoing the fact that you could use it for music creation. I think Analogue OS is more marketing than anything else.

The Pocket has been a work-in-progress for probably about 2 years at this point. They announced Duo but you'll notice they haven't started to take orders for them yet. And once they do start taking orders, if history repeats itself, it will be another year before it comes out. The SuperNt and MegaSg were the same way. They might do a little bit of work in parallel, but most is serial - one system after the other. Then a few firmware updates while they're working out the kinks.

But going back to the reason this post is on GitHub to begin with.... You mentioned the issue exists in the official firmware. Have you contacted Analogue to let them know? Have they at least acknowledged it and provided you with a support ticket number? If you haven't done these things and haven't received a support ticket number, I can tell you they probably don't know about the issue and they aren't tracking it to fix it.

tjanas commented 2 years ago

I recommend everyone with an issue with real carts to bring it up with analogue, both in the form of submitting a ticket with them, as well as on social media (Twitter).

PizzaCube commented 2 years ago

They said the existing consoles will not be getting the new OS, and I fear Analogue will forget about them and will abandon future firmware updates for them, just like the did with the Nt Mini that was released in 2017 (they never released any bug fix firmwares for it after 2017).

i submitted a ticket with the jumpy status bar issues.... we will see if they do something . i dont know why they dont just open a github page and just read what people are saying.

scottlinux commented 2 years ago

May I present a $500 NES console. Original cart.

metroid01 metroid02