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GJTASer2018 wrote:
@RadRedRooster, are you getting any error messages when you try to load the ROM?
No, nothing - just a green screen. By the way, I'm using a ROM from the No-Intro ROM set.
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What does ROM analysis say (click the checkmark/question mark icon in bottom left corner)
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
What does ROM analysis say (click the checkmark/question mark icon in bottom left corner)
Inferred from iNES header; potentially wrong ------ BEGIN NES rom analysis: Found iNES header: pr=128,ch=128,wr=8,vr=0,ba=0,pa=0|1,brd=MAPPER010,sys= Since this is iNES we can (somewhat) confidently parse PRG/CHR banks to hash. headerless rom hash: SHA1:718CA80AF63338E259D16DC1116B983D10A8400D headerless rom hash: MD5:B9BF590722289C1ED7F8EEEDF297AB46 Could not locate game in bizhawk gamedb Could not locate game in nescartdb Attempting inference from iNES header Chose board from iNES heuristics: pr=128,ch=128,wr=8,vr=0,ba=0,pa=0|1,brd=MAPPER010,sys= Final game detection results: pr=128,ch=128,wr=8,vr=0,ba=0,pa=0|1,brd=MAPPER010,sys= "" Implemented by: class PxROM_FxROM END NES rom analysis ------
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Looks like the ROM is just bad. The headerless hash should be MD5:6288936a2c92b11096cb4f825f4d5070 / SHA1:a4346a6d83a148933879f7a6a2cf67c1979704ee according to no-intro: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=45&n=1737
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
Looks like the ROM is just bad. The headerless hash should be MD5:6288936a2c92b11096cb4f825f4d5070 / SHA1:a4346a6d83a148933879f7a6a2cf67c1979704ee according to no-intro: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=45&n=1737
Thank you very much! In the future, I will compare every ROM that doesn't work with the information on DAT-o-MATIC.
Post subject: Wipeout 64 on DevBuild 107c7b7034 with AngryLionn Problem
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There seems to be a menu bug. You get stuck in the Menu for challenges and the game wont react anymore. This thread on the MupenPlus Git exactly describes that problem: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-user-issues/issues/586 Something about a Counter Problem? Hope that helps. Here is a TASproj to recreate that problem. Just load the save Data and go into the Challange / Race menu. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luGFeoLQhWt56EN7AEtHMDLxSf_N4NQq/view?usp=sharing
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I don't know if this is a bug or intentional, so I'll just mention it here. Also, this is specifically about the PC Engine core. Anyway, there are a lot of PC Engine games with debug cheats that require you to hold buttons before booting the console. The problem is that Bizhawk doesn't seem to register you are holding any buttons if you do it before a core is loaded. Normally, with other systems, all you have to do is reset the game while holding the buttons and it would work. But in the case of the PC Engine, the console itself doesn't have a reset button, so Bizhawk doesn't have a reset button either. The only way to "reset" a game is by rebooting the core, which of course, ignores any buttons being held. I tried other emulators (like Ootake and Magic Engine) and it recognizes buttons being held before a game is loaded, so I suppose this is a Bizhawk-only issue. Is there be a workaround for this?
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RadRedRooster wrote:
CasualPokePlayer wrote:
Looks like the ROM is just bad. The headerless hash should be MD5:6288936a2c92b11096cb4f825f4d5070 / SHA1:a4346a6d83a148933879f7a6a2cf67c1979704ee according to no-intro: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=45&n=1737
Thank your very much! In the future, I'll compare any ROM not working with information found on DAT-o-MATIC first.
Checking with a good ROM, there does seem to be another issue which causes a green screen. The iNES header reports MAPPER010 (MMC4), but Punch Out uses MAPPER009 (MMC2). Simply changing byte 0x6 of the ROM header from 0xA0 to 0x90 will correct this issue.
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RGL wrote:
There seems to be a menu bug. You get stuck in the Menu for challenges and the game wont react anymore. This thread on the MupenPlus Git exactly describes that problem: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-user-issues/issues/586 Something about a Counter Problem? Hope that helps. Here is a TASproj to recreate that problem. Just load the save Data and go into the Challange / Race menu. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1luGFeoLQhWt56EN7AEtHMDLxSf_N4NQq/view?usp=sharing
CountPerOp refers to a hacky number that is forced to be the amount of cpu cycles every instruction takes. This is not at all accurate to console, but mupen has bad timings everywhere so this can help some games. Our version of mupen (April 28, 2013) predates this hack option (added on December 13, 2013). Does the same issue occur with the Ares64 core?
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
Does the same issue occur with the Ares64 core?
Yes, I finished a race went back to the menu and in the challenge menu inputs are ignored. Althought with Ares you can actually see that the core doesn't get anymore inputs at this point. With Mupenplus and Angrylion all Frames were green.
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I was trying to open a Nintendo DS ROM into Bizhawk 2.8, but I accidentally set the core to Nintendo DSi. Now, I can't change it back to Nintendo DS core because the firmware is not found. Update: Fixed that problem by editing true on DSi mode on config file to false.
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Already open issues on it, it's not really resolvable without UI to change sync settings without the core loaded (which is an open PR). You can manually change settings in the config file in the meantime, or just give it all the firmware it's requesting.
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ReyVGM wrote:
I don't know if this is a bug or intentional, so I'll just mention it here. Also, this is specifically about the PC Engine core. Anyway, there are a lot of PC Engine games with debug cheats that require you to hold buttons before booting the console. The problem is that Bizhawk doesn't seem to register you are holding any buttons if you do it before a core is loaded. Normally, with other systems, all you have to do is reset the game while holding the buttons and it would work. But in the case of the PC Engine, the console itself doesn't have a reset button, so Bizhawk doesn't have a reset button either. The only way to "reset" a game is by rebooting the core, which of course, ignores any buttons being held. I tried other emulators (like Ootake and Magic Engine) and it recognizes buttons being held before a game is loaded, so I suppose this is a Bizhawk-only issue. Is there be a workaround for this?
Could not reproduce. Buttons bound to keyboard or gamepad can be held through core restart. If you need a workaround, pause before restarting, then hold the buttons (or use the Virtual Pads), then unpause.
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Post subject: MelonDS unable to save
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As of version 2.8, the MelonDS core is unable to save. Save states work as intended and it'll save ingame without any error, but nothing is created in the SaveRAM folder (and yes, my paths are fine), and as such no save is found upon reloading the core or doing a hard reset (save is still around when doing a soft reset, though) So until it's fixed, gotta use save states only. The MelonDS forums suggest updating the romlist.bin file, but I can find no such file in the Bizhawk folders (which might be the issue), and I wouldn't know where to put it anyway
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Migo wrote:
As of version 2.8, the MelonDS core is unable to save. Save states work as intended and it'll save ingame without any error, but nothing is created in the SaveRAM folder (and yes, my paths are fine), and as such no save is found upon reloading the core or doing a hard reset (save is still around when doing a soft reset, though) So until it's fixed, gotta use save states only. The MelonDS forums suggest updating the romlist.bin file, but I can find no such file in the Bizhawk folders (which might be the issue), and I wouldn't know where to put it anyway
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/issues/3165 This was already reported and fixed. You can manually flush SRAM as workaround in the meantime (Ctrl+S).
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CasualPokePlayer wrote:
RadRedRooster wrote:
CasualPokePlayer wrote:
Looks like the ROM is just bad. The headerless hash should be MD5:6288936a2c92b11096cb4f825f4d5070 / SHA1:a4346a6d83a148933879f7a6a2cf67c1979704ee according to no-intro: https://datomatic.no-intro.org/index.php?page=show_record&s=45&n=1737
Thank your very much! In the future, I'll compare any ROM not working with information found on DAT-o-MATIC first.
Checking with a good ROM, there does seem to be another issue which causes a green screen. The iNES header reports MAPPER010 (MMC4), but Punch Out uses MAPPER009 (MMC2). Simply changing byte 0x6 of the ROM header from 0xA0 to 0x90 will correct this issue.
Worked like a charm. Thanks again!
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I'm playing a DS game and when I save my game, it says my game was saved but when I reboot the game, the save is gone and I have to start over. Tried both Pokemon Diamond and HeartGold. Although, randomly it did seem to save ONE TIME. I was playing for like 45 minutes then I saved. Later I booted it back up and my save file was there but it said 0:03 which is when I attempted to save earlier, but not 0:45 like it should have been. I was messing with some settings and stuff. I think I even flushed SaveRAM around that time but not sure if that had anything to do with it. It seems to save just fine when I play a GBA game, though.
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stupidhead wrote:
I'm playing a DS game and when I save my game, it says my game was saved but when I reboot the game, the save is gone and I have to start over. Tried both Pokemon Diamond and HeartGold. Although, randomly it did seem to save ONE TIME. I was playing for like 45 minutes then I saved. Later I booted it back up and my save file was there but it said 0:03 which is when I attempted to save earlier, but not 0:45 like it should have been. I was messing with some settings and stuff. I think I even flushed SaveRAM around that time but not sure if that had anything to do with it. It seems to save just fine when I play a GBA game, though.
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/issues/3165
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I don't know if anyone posted this before, but i'm posting anyway I was looking to the sound channels with Snes9x core, but i found that disabling sound channels doesn't work, and disabling channel 1 disables all sound (Bizhawk 2.8) (or it's only on me?)
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jmosx36 wrote:
I don't know if anyone posted this before, but i'm posting anyway I was looking to the sound channels with Snes9x core, but i found that disabling sound channels doesn't work, and disabling channel 1 disables all sound (Bizhawk 2.8) (or it's only on me?)
https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk/commit/c93ceae462c25dba3964453f8b254fa4e016c56c This is fixed in 2.9.
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GBHawkLink can't play audio from multiple Gameboys and it needs to be fixed.
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MarbleousDave wrote:
GBHawkLink can't play audio from multiple Gameboys and it needs to be fixed.
This appears to be intentional. I've opened a feature request on the issue tracker.
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I'm facing a problem while opening my TAS Project. I made the TAS in the older version of the game and was opening the project in the newer version of the game but this was showing. The names of both the versions of the game are same.
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MrTASer wrote:
I'm facing a problem while opening my TAS Project. I made the TAS in the older version of the game and was opening the project in the newer version of the game but this was showing. The names of both the versions of the game are same.
Are you able to load the older revision and .tasproj, export as .bk2, load the newer revision, and import .bk2?
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Hey look buddy, I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like "What is software," because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. For instance, how am I gonna stop some high-wattage thread-ripping monster of a CPU dead in its tracks? The answer: use code. And if that don't work? Use more code.
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Yeah, I did the same and this worked Thank You
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