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Amazing! I've been using it with Dezaemon 2 and it's so much easier than using the original discs with their generic naming schemes.

Is there any way I can add my own codes to the cheat program? I was trying to play Assault Suit Leynos 2 with some cheats that were on gamehacking dot org, but the only built-in code on the cart is one that isn't very useful. I'd love to be able to add a few more!

Hehe, I did my best to make Dezaemon 2 Save Game Manager 3 as friendly as possible as I could :) Some edges still need to be rounded, but that will wait until next release ^^

Cheat codes addition feature is not available for the good reason that I want to add more codes in the future, and make theses built-in to Pseudo Saturn Kai so that everyone won't have to manually enter codes as on Action Replay legacy firmwares.
I recently (around October IIRC) noticed about gamehacking.org, and am interested in this site too ! But I couldn't verify if the codes from there can be re-used in 3rd party project ; if there are no problem with this point, then I shall merge their cheat codes to Pseudo Saturn Kai.

I see! That's good news! The staff at GH is very friendly and I think they'd be very excited about letting you use their codes on the cart! :)

It took me one week, but I finally had enough time to register at GH forums ^^; I didn't asked about the authorization yet, and merging the codes to Pseudo Saturn Kai is an huge task so patience is required :)

Just updated my carts.

Minor thing you guys might want to know; the firmware update includes adding a Rhea/Phoebe menu.

Thank you so much for all involved in getting this menu working - this makes the whole experience of owning the two best modern pieces of Saturn hardware so much more slick and it looks waaaaaaaaay better than the rather spartan Rmenu (though functionally there's nothing wrong with it I guess).

I cannot thank you enough.

You're welcome, and wish you happy gaming :) There are a bit more features than in rmenu (remember last played game, several sort methods, etc), so I hope this will make everyone enjoying even more their Rhea or Phoebe ODEs.

Adding support for Rhea/Phoebe menu to Pseudo Saturn Kai was not an easy task, so I really would like to thank Deunan Knute for the technical support and privateye for motivation and beta testing supports !

I noticed in the Rhea game list menu .gif, that sometimes when scrolling, it updates some lines/text slightly late, so for example, you scroll up one line, but it retains the title name from the one below it for a frame or so, but then it refreshes on the next frame and the proper name appears. Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it. I ordered a red 1M/4M/backup cart to use this on and I'm planning on upgrading it with this new Kai lite version. Nice job with all the new features. Looking forward to trying it out.

Thank you for the report ! I did noticed that before, but that's way less noticeable on real hardware; I will try to capture a video from my Saturn to be completely sure it doesn't causes problem.
By design of Pseudo Saturn menu module, this kind of glitch is possible, and shall do my best if this needs to be fixed ... but don't guarantee I will do it because menu graphical improvements caused a real mess on source code side :D

Hello there!
I flashed my AR 4 in 1 with PSKai 6.274 and it works perfectly. The new Auto Load function and various reset options are great improvements.
All the games I've tried run well, but the cheats doesn't work for me:
Marvel Super Heroes Vs. Street Fighter crashes when selecting the characters and Christmas NiGHTS (J) doesn't load, the video signal is lost instead. This can be due to my cartridge, since the "Vendor" and "Device ID" appear as "Unknown" although they're in green.

Good job anyway.

Thank you for the feedback :)
I know that not all cheat codes may work, and shall improve this in the future, so please be patient until next release. I'm surprised about Christmas NiGHTs support, because I thought I tested it here (IIRC, it required tweaks around master code).
Unknown vendor and device IDs of cartridge flash chips won't cause any problem regarding cheat codes. This just requires some precaution when installing Pseudo Saturn Kai, but after that there's no difference with legit flash vendor/device IDs.

Oh, alright, thanks. We'll see if it works better with the next release.

Is there any reason for the loader incompatibility issues when used in conjunction with a Rhea? For example, if I try loading Panzer Dragoon Zwei (J) on my VA0 Japanese console with a Rhea through Pseudo Saturn Kai Lite 6.274, I get a black screen with JHL, and it crashes when starting a game using CWX, but if I boot to RMenu first, then load the game, it works fine. I also tried patching the image with the included patcher app but that didn't make a difference - same behavior with the respective loaders. Also, the game was named "Not a valid saturn disc" in the menu after patching and it wouldn't load with RMenu at all - it would reset the system back to the Kai menu. I'm using a bin/cue image from the redump.org set. I converted both to .cdi using the same method with DiscJuggler.

The main reason about this problem is that Rmenu is closed source, which prevented me from re-using its game loading module.
Pseudo Saturn Kai use the same game loader for original optical drive and Rhea/Phoebe ODE, whose support is rotten for few games (including PDS) on some Japanese grey Saturns, so I guess your problem comes from that.

I recently added a workaround regarding this problem, but as my dev Saturn (Phoebe) is not concerned with it, I don't know if this works or not. So please contact me if you want to give a hand regarding beta testing :)

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