Nanoloop 2.5 won't boot on NDS and GBA micro; also buzz problem on GBA (Page 1) - Nintendo Handhelds - Forums

1 Jun 17, 2011 6:52 pm

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Ciudad de méxico, MX

the tile says it all, i'm a little frustrated because my brand new copy of nanoloop 2.5 (purchased from the nanoloop website) don't work on the gba micro that i've just borrowed, and in a nintendo Ds it isn't booting also. i'm guessing that perhaps is the fact that the custom cart PCB don't have a friendly shape for the cart pins?

the second problem, is a weird buzz on the GBA classic, it always loads the NL cart perfectly, but in the second it access the flash memory at the beggining, a buzz is very present and i hate it.

won't you NL users on a gba classic have this? perhaps this revision of the cart is faulty or my copy is a little akward.

please share your experiences, so far i'm only having bad times everytime i try to use this thing.

2 Jun 17, 2011 7:03 pm

pixls

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Philly, PA, USA

Well they're new carts I bet the initial run is bound to have a few duds, I know WDUWSTS was having issues with his 2.5 cart he got at blip. He just sent it back to Oliver as far as I know.

edit: dummy spelling

Last edited by pixls (Jun 17, 2011 7:03 pm)

3 Jun 17, 2011 10:26 pm

PULSELOOPER

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São Paulo, Brazil

I wonder why Oliver took off the nano forum.

4 Jun 18, 2011 4:06 am

wedanced

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San Francisco

Like pixls said. I just contacted Oliver. Mine wouldn't start at all and then randomly it started working but there was a problem with loading the memory. I kept getting the 2 error. Then one day... Nothing it just stopped booting again.

5 Jun 18, 2011 4:54 am

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It may be your cart. I'm running it on a micro and haven't noticed any flaws.
I got mine from Kitsch

Also,

PULSELOOPER wrote:

I wonder why Oliver took off the nano forum.

iirc he said because of overwhelming amount of spam on it.

6 Jun 20, 2011 5:21 pm

Analog

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Ciudad de méxico, MX

Oliver answered. i'll sent it to him. thank for the input guys.

7 Jul 5, 2011 7:18 am

wedanced

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San Francisco

wedanced wrote:

Like pixls said. I just contacted Oliver. Mine wouldn't start at all and then randomly it started working but there was a problem with loading the memory. I kept getting the 2 error. Then one day... Nothing it just stopped booting again.

FYI the second one he sent me was only 25% functional. shit is fucked. no fm, no noise channel, and fucked up rectangle waves. He probably shouldn't be putting out this product until he fixes all this nonsense.

8 Jul 5, 2011 4:19 pm

Analog

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Ciudad de méxico, MX

FUUUUUUUUUUUUU

refund ftw then

9 Jul 7, 2011 11:44 am

oliver

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Hello

I'm sorry for all the inconvenience.

The issues that appeared with some 2.5 carts (sporadically missing sounds, sometimes nanoloop won't start) are due to a timing problem: In version 2.2, I had set the memory access times (wait sates) to a very low value in order to speed up processing. For 2.3, this setting was not necessary anymore, but it didn't hurt either, so the code remained there. The new chip used in 2.5 appears to be lesss tolerant to such tight timing so that some units occasionally fail. This can be fixed with a software update that sets the timing parameters back to standard values.

I will send out USB-adaptors to everyone as soon as they're ready (which, according to the factory, should be next week).

Oliver