Pseudo Saturn Kai : still WIP ...
Written by cafealpha no commentsFirst, I fixed USB dev cart legacy firmware-like screen that wasn't working at all. Well that's a developer-oriented feature that I seldom use, but that needs to be fixed anyway
The fact I seldom use this feature was the starting point of the problem : modifying a module apparently not related with that feature caused major bug ... software development in a nutshell
Thank you Shazz for beta testing my firmware
There are still other bugs remaining, and I plan to fix theses soon 
And, (what's more important), game loader was sometimes loading game, sometimes not. Loading game backups is Pseudo Saturn Kai main feature, so I really don't want it to fail
Origin of this bug was unclear, but I fixed/improved many things at once, and game loaded every time after that, so let's hope I won't have to face with it in the future
One additional "bug" was game loader being kicked to multiplayer screen, and it was caused by ... game corrupted dump
First half of the game IP header was filled with zeros, so Saturn couldn't even recognize it as a Saturn game ...
I "fixed" what I could on firmware side by displaying something like "bad game dump/burn ?" message before kicking to multiplayer screen.
Let's hope it will reduce the amount of "can't load xyz game ! Hurry up to fix your bloody firmware !!" kind messages after release
And of course, there were many, many minor fixes, for example :
- Added scrolling help messages under menus
- Credits screen ... stub (names missing), and only in Save Data Manager for the moment
- Added alternate menu exit keys : it is now possible to do something like "A/C:select, X:delete, Y:info, Z:whatever" in a single menu. This is preliminary work for Action Replay codes addition
So firmware development is continuing ! Everything is in good way :
Pseudo Saturn Kai development is going well. Please disperse.
(Screenshot from The Naked Gun)
Nothing to see here
(Mr Nielsen, you're missing us
)On a positive note, I tested Bubble Bobble (listed as incompatible in Pseudo Saturn compatibility list), and it worked fine
I absolutely don't know why it works fine. I suppose that registers cleanup and running RAM cleanup code from ROM just before loading game helped a bit ... well at least it works 
Completely unrelated note : I uploaded 10+ years old videos of me playing Tetris Attack puzzle mode ! You can enjoy the videos in my Tetris Attack page , or directly in the appropriate youtube playlist for theses videos.
Tetris Attack puzzle mode ending screen
Completely unrelated note : I uploaded 10+ years old videos of me playing Tetris Attack puzzle mode ! You can enjoy the videos in my Tetris Attack page , or directly in the appropriate youtube playlist for theses videos.
Tetris Attack puzzle mode ending screen