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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 542 |  Posted: November 07 2003, 21:40 |
Does anyone know how I can make the ZANAC-EX rom image work with the ESE-SCC Sram cartridge ?
I can use Konami games, and other MegaROMS, but Zanac-ex does not work, any ideas?
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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 878 | Posted: November 07 2003, 21:46 |
Did you rename properly the file extension?:
ASCII 8K: *.8K (ascii 8K bank)
ASCII 16K: *.16K (ascii 16K bank)
KONAMI SCC: *.SCK/SKN (SCC Konami)
KONAMI WITHOUT SCC: *.KNM (Konami normal)
R-TYPE: *.IRM (Irem)
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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 542 | Posted: November 07 2003, 22:13 |
Tried most switches - not sure which to try - that is why I have asked  |
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snout
msx legend
Posts: 4991 | Posted: November 07 2003, 22:19 |
If I understood Ivan correctly you need not use switches, but rename the ROM file to a file with the appropriate extension. Apparantly the ESE-SCC ROMloader uses he file extension to determine the mapper type.Did you give it a try already?
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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 542 | Posted: November 07 2003, 22:21 |
i dont know what sort of ROM image Zanac-ex is? do you? you are correct - the different extensions relate to the type of cartridge
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: November 08 2003, 01:31 |
As you were told in #msxdev, it's ASCII 16K.
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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 542 | Posted: November 08 2003, 14:18 |
i set the extension to .16k for a standard 16k ROM cartridge - but no success 
Is there a decent copy of the image to download? Is there a version that will work with the Sunrise CF ?
Thanks for you help
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sunrise
msx professional
Posts: 649 | Posted: November 08 2003, 14:47 |
I become a little worried as people suggest that our CF-interface should be blamed for software that doesnot seem to work.
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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 878 | Posted: November 08 2003, 19:31 |
I'm not sure if cartridges like Ese-SCC, MegaFlashROM, MegaRAM, Zemina carts, etc can load all ROMs.
Maybe some ROM dumps need to be patched to work with them.
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Ivan
msx professional
Posts: 878 | Posted: November 08 2003, 19:34 |
I'm referring to ROM files downloaded from Internet to use with emulators.
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sunrise
msx professional
Posts: 649 | Posted: November 08 2003, 21:01 |
Mapit.com seems to be handy program
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djh1697
msx professional
Posts: 542 | Posted: November 09 2003, 11:43 |
No one was blaming the Sunrise product - it works fine I have a disk copy of Zanac-EX that will not work with the CF product - probably because the way it is hacked, any suggestions ?
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sunrise
msx professional
Posts: 649 | Posted: November 09 2003, 14:48 |
See my remark above !
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GuyveR800
msx guru
Posts: 3048 | Posted: November 09 2003, 14:58 |
It's not the fault of CF, it's because of MSX-DOS2.
MSX-DOS2 has memory handling routines that do allocation. Your Zanac-Ex crack access the Memory Mapper through direct I/O, screwing up the DOS2 memory handling routines, crashing the MSX.
As sunrise said, use a program called map.com (and sometimes map2.com or mapit.com) to disable DOS2 memory handling and it will work fine.
Any DOS1/Disk-BASIC1 program that uses the memory mapper will get problems running under DOS2/Disk-BASIC2 without disabling the DOS2 memory routines.
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pitpan
msx master
Posts: 1368 | Posted: November 10 2003, 10:21 |
AFAIK, ZANAC-EX is a 32 KB ROM with no mapper. It should run fine without any switches, booting it from ESE-SCC or RAM directly.
Perhaps the problem is that the cartridge has its own copy protection, but it shouldn't be a problem using ESE-SCC. For example, some Konami games test if they are beeing booted from RAM, and if so, they hang.
Kind regards,
Ed R.
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