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Oink! Oink! ...sach mal, kannst du bei SOE den sram richtig speichern bzw laden? hat glaub ich nix mit deiner firmware zu tun. +pilotwings geht nur mit diesem DMA dings ausgeschaltet...!?! das sind die einzigen games die ich in all den jahren finden konnte, die nicht richtig auf meinem PPak laufen! Hast du die gleichen bugs, oder hast du eine lösung für das problem? Ich kann erst ruhig schlafen wenn ALLE games perfekt laufen... oh mighty manu, please send some help! -und danke nochmal für deine grandiose arbeit!!!

Hi, first let me say nice job with v3.0 but I have a couple questions.

1. I can't seem to get my theme to save after selecting it do I need to do anything specific to save it.

2. Next can you work on a method to re-flash stock firmware back to the cart?

Nice job again!

Pilotwings (E) works fine here. If you need some more info to troubleshoot I'd gladly provide it, though I don't know what that would be...

Found a strange bug, but i dont know if this is a problem of your custom-firmware or a general problem of the PowerPak hardware. I use the C3.00 Mufasa firmware.

First of all i must explain that my PAL-SNES console had a mod and can manually be switched between NTSC and PAL Mode. This means, that all different rom-versions of a game works (japan/european/american).

To run into the bug, i did this and i can be reproduce this every time here:

- i played the NTSC-ROM of "DR. MARIO" on my PAL-SNES a little bit

- then i go back to the PowerPak-Menü with a double-klick on Reset-button (i dont turn-off the console)

- now i insert the game "BUST A MOVE (Puzzle Bobble)" and strangly now i only get a blackscreen when the game starts. nothing happens now and i can not play the game.

- after turning-off the SNES with the ON/OFF button and then turning-on again, i tried "Bust a Move" again and now it works normally

- then i wanted to know, if other games than "Dr Mario" also causes this problem in "Bust a Move" when they are played before, but i could NOT find another game which causes this. i tried about 20 different games and only "Dr Mario" makes this problem. seems like, when i play any other game before "Bust a Move", no problem comes and the game starts normally

- next i wanted to know, if "DR Mario" brings problems also to other games, when it is played before and the SNES is not turned off. But i tried about 10 different other games AFTER "Dr Mario" and they all worked normally

Strange hm? Only this combination - "Dr Mario" and then "Bust a Move" without turning-off SNES ends in a blackscreen. Seems like "Dr Mario" uses certain areas in memory which were not cleaned correctly after a Reset on SNES and this memory-areas then causes the blackscreen in "Bust a Move".

I can not say, if this also happens with original firmware, because i dont wanted to change back now, only to test this. But i believe, that this problem also happens in original firmware.

Maybe other users can write here, if they can reproduce this bug? Would interest me, if this prolem is only here on my SNES or if others can repriduce it. But i think, it could be reproduced on other SNES-consoles also.

Regards and happy christmas. Your custom-firmware is superb, MANU. Good work.

Regards,
Tom

Hello ManuLöwe. Sorry for the long time (about 3 years *lol*) that i needed, to write this answer here, but i simply forgot to react here on the side and write the result.

Yes, your newer "update.rom" seems to solve the issue with "Bust a Move" game, when "Dr. Mario" is played before. Since this update until now, i never had this issue again.

Thanks for fixing this thing, your firmware is great and also looks great. Menues are very clear and i also like the used fonts and graphics of Mufasa theme alot.

Best regards

Strange issue here: Can't use joypad at all in the menus..it works in-game after the powerpak menu but not in the powerpak ui..I've tried several firmwares..I'm willing to pay if there's a way you can map it so I can move around the interface using buttons as I think my powerpak cart is damaged somehow..

Hy again ManuLöwe.

In my last entry which i made about 1 hour ago, i forgot to ask one thing.

Is there a chance for a function in future firmware-versions, that the PowerPak can not only autoloading existing srm-files (SRAM saves) but also CREATE such files? This would be a big improvement in my opinion, because when user have, for example the GoodTool-Romset on their card, then all roms have extremely long filenames and when the users manually must rename all srm-files exactly in the same long names it's a very nervy thing. I remember, that i did this for about 200 srm-files some years ago, but now with all those new romhacks, i have again hundreds of new roms which all have no srm-file until now.

Don't understand me wrong, it's no problem to copy 10 or 20 srm-files and rename them in the name of the respective roms. Don't think i am lazy *lol*. But doing this for hundreds and hundreds of roms, for example the ones in the GoodTool Romset, is really annoying. Therefore the question, if there is a chance for a "creating SRAM files" function in future PowerPak firmwares or is this simply not possible?

Or and this would be an alternative way, exists any kind of a "tool" on the PC, which could automatically rename srm-files in the same names of some tagged roms from a list? Sadly i am not capable by myself to write such a batch-file or tool. Do you know such a program or is it possible for you to create it?

Best regards

Just load em all once in a row with zsnes and all games have their correct sram file added!! But it would be a nice feature, as a 10 Year anniversary Powerpak user I know what you mean!
Greetings!