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Using SRAM with Dragon slayer 6

Moniz
msx novice
Posts: 25
Posted: March 26 2008, 21:26   
Hello everyone!

Recently ive bought a load of games and with it there came 2 pana amusement cartridges, one with FM and on without (SW-001 and SW-004, the last one has FM)
Both of these cards has a Sram build in, but what is the difference between these 2 ?
Dragonslayer 6 does recognise the sram from the SW-004, but not from the SW-001 ?!?!?!
something wrong or does it even depend on what game I'm playing, could it be full ? do I need to erase something and how?? whaaaa help!

thanks!


[D-Tail]

msx guru
Posts: 2891
Posted: March 26 2008, 22:39   
The SW-004 FM-PAC has the FM-chip on board and from the top of my head, 16kB of SRAM. The regular PAC cartridge, I don't know. Probably doesn't have any SRAM at all, or maybe it is accessed differently (other I/O ports)? The reason that DS4 does recognize the SW-004 SRAM is that the cartridge is being used for sound as well, so I guess that makes sense.
manuel
msx guru
Posts: 3183
Posted: March 27 2008, 11:35   
Um, the sole purpose of the SW-M001 (PAC) is to provide an SRAM back-up-save facility for games. It should be fully compatible with FM-PAC for the SRAM part. However, if the software that is supposed to use it does not use the proper search algorithm, it may not be detected. I'm not sure how this is for DS6. I'm guessing it is a bug in DS6, or, unlikely, your PAC is broken.
Try to insert both and see if you can use the FM-PAC commander (_FMPAC) to copy SRAM data from the FM-PAC to the PAC. Should work
 
 







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