I've released v0.57 of the menu today. The highlight of this version is that you now can use the SNES Myth as a cart dumper.
Since the Myth lacks a Cic/Ciclone it relies on an original cart being plugged into back of the Myth. So I added a feature that lets the Myth menu read the boot cart's contents and write it to an SD card.
I've verified that this works for ROM (unless the cart uses SA-1 or some other special chip), and it should hopefully work for SRAM as well.
The dumping speed is currently ~10 kB/s, which is limited mostly by the SD standard enforcing CRC calculation on all data written to the card, and this being done on a 2.68 MHz CPU (I could potentially run some of the code with FastROM timing for a slight boost).
That's interesting. Makes me wonder if I should get rid of my Super Wild Card DX2.. Is there possible to implent BRAM saving from cart to SD and vica versa? Or does that already exist?
Hilmarf wrote:Is there possible to implent BRAM saving from cart to SD and vica versa? Or does that already exist?
You mean the flash cart's BRAM, or the boot cart's?
From cart to SD exists in both cases. The other way around is currently not supported, but I plan to at least have support for auto-restoring the flash cart's BRAM from SD.
I mean't the boot cart. If it was possible to transfer BRAM from SD to the boot cart I would actually buy this product Then I would have no use for my SWC, as that's the only reason why I have kept it. I just like to have full control over my savegames, but I hate floppys ^^
Hope you implent that, although I guess neocash don't give you anything for improving their products...
Hope you implent that, although I guess neocash don't give you anything for improving their products...
They have. Though if you divide it across all the hours I've put into making my improved menu it probably comes to about the same hourly salary they pay school kids to do garden work during the summers.
That's not why I started working on the menu though. I just wanted to do some SNES deving; I got the flash cart for free; and their original menu was open source, so I had something to start with.
(I could potentially run some of the code with FastROM timing for a slight boost).
Then I would have no use for my SWC, as that's the only reason why I have kept it. I just like to have full control over my savegames, but I hate floppys ^^