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celerizer / Press-F-Ultra

Nintendo 64 port of Press F, a Fairchild F8 emulator
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Cannot load ROMS from Everdrive 64 v3 flashcard #1

Open jedipimp81 opened 3 days ago

jedipimp81 commented 3 days ago

Thank you for creating this emulator. I have followed all instructions in the Readme file. When I start the emulator, I get a black screen which displays "Boot to BIOS" in white text. The only buttons that work on the N64 controller is the up and down d-pad buttons which change the cursor from an arrow to a flat line, and the B button which produces a visual distortion image which crashes the emulator.

I have made sure to have acquired the right BIOS files (and ROM files) and placed them in a folder named "press-f" as directed. I am using an Everdrive 64 v3 with a PAL Nintendo 64.

I'd like to help out in any way I can with this emulator. I hope this issue can help you in some way.

celerizer commented 3 days ago

"Boot to BIOS" displaying but the A button not responding should indicate the BIOS are seen to exist on the SD Card but can't be read for some reason. Pressing B here backs out the emulation to a Channel F with no ROM loaded.

I can introduce some error handling for accessing the files if you would like to tell me the output of it. For now, can you confirm the BIOS files are both of size 1KB?

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Thank you for creating this emulator. I have followed all instructions in the Readme file. When I start the emulator, I get a black screen which displays "Boot to BIOS" in white text. The only buttons that work on the N64 controller is the up and down d-pad buttons which change the cursor from an arrow to a flat line, and the B button which produces a visual distortion image which crashes the emulator.

I have made sure to have acquired the right BIOS files (and ROM files) and placed them in a folder named "press-f" as directed. I am using an Everdrive 64 v3 with a PAL Nintendo 64.

I'd like to help out in any way I can with this emulator. I hope this issue can help you in some way.

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celerizer commented 3 days ago

On hardware, this program has only been tested on my Everdrive 64 X5, but I believe libdragon should support other Everdrive versions as well. As well as checking the size of both ROMs to be 1KB, the "press-f" directory is in the SD root, correct? (should be sd://press-f/sl31253.bin and not something like sd://roms/press-f/sl31253.bin)

jedipimp81 commented 3 days ago

"Boot to BIOS" displaying but the A button not responding should indicate the BIOS are seen to exist on the SD Card but can't be read for some reason. Pressing B here backs out the emulation to a Channel F with no ROM loaded. I can introduce some error handling for accessing the files if you would like to tell me the output of it. For now, can you confirm the BIOS files are both of size 1KB? … On Tue, Nov 19, 2024, 6:14 AM jedipimp81 @.> wrote: Thank you for creating this emulator. I have followed all instructions in the Readme file. When I start the emulator, I get a black screen which displays "Boot to BIOS" in white text. The only buttons that work on the N64 controller is the up and down d-pad buttons which change the cursor from an arrow to a flat line, and the B button which produces a visual distortion image which crashes the emulator. I have made sure to have acquired the right BIOS files (and ROM files) and placed them in a folder named "press-f" as directed. I am using an Everdrive 64 v3 with a PAL Nintendo 64. I'd like to help out in any way I can with this emulator. I hope this issue can help you in some way. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AH5UPFXNTZIDXYMSXCDUYCD2BMTSLAVCNFSM6AAAAABSB5GXNKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGY3TCOJQHAYTEMY . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: @.>

Hello, I tried two sets of the BIOS files and they were 1k.

jedipimp81 commented 3 days ago

On hardware, this program has only been tested on my Everdrive 64 X5, but I believe libdragon should support other Everdrive versions as well. As well as checking the size of both ROMs to be 1KB, the "press-f" directory is in the SD root, correct? (should be sd://press-f/sl31253.bin and not something like sd://roms/press-f/sl31253.bin)

Hmm you know what the folder is in a subdirectory. I’ll try moving it to the root folder and seeing if that makes a difference!

jedipimp81 commented 3 days ago

Hi @celerizer

I believe I made some good progress today! I moved the press-f folder from a sub-folder to the root directory of the SD card. I also changed the names of the BIOS files to exactly how they were named in the readme (mine had extra descriptor words in it). That seemed to work! The emulator booted to what looked like a list of ROMS available (although they were blank). See first attached pic.

Then I tried booting them and I go to the hockey and pong games (the built-in games I think). See second attached pic.

Occasionally, I would get a Lib dragon error page when trying to select other ROMS. See third and fourth pic.

It’s good progress! I might try rebuilding the ROMS in the folder again and maybe trying other ROMS to see if I just got a bad batch.

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jedipimp81 commented 2 days ago

Sorry, one more question! Does the Press-F-Ultra emulator prefer the Channel F ROMS be in .bin or .chf format?

celerizer commented 2 days ago

It makes no difference; they are both raw cartridge dumps.

celerizer commented 2 days ago

Are you copying the files over using a Mac? The files prefixed with ._ are metadata that is typically invisible in MacOS but will be seen on everything else. I suppose I should make the file browser ignore those and entries with blank filenames (I'm not sure why so many of those are showing in your case).

I will make these changes and push a new build later today.

jedipimp81 commented 2 days ago

Yes I am using a Mac. They may explain the ._

I’m going to try new ROM files to see if they make a difference as well.

Thank you so much for your help. I greatly appreciate people like yourself building up the retro emulator community for all of us to enjoy!

celerizer commented 2 days ago

Hello, I've just published a new release here that should hopefully fix the issues we've discussed:

https://github.com/celerizer/Press-F-Ultra/releases/tag/r2

Thank you for your interest!