Be there. Awesome!

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(1 replies, posted in Nintendo Consoles)

Hi. I got pulsar on a preflashed board from infiniteneslives.com. it saved the patterns and then one day...no more. It wipes the memory on powering down. If I only hit reset it saves it all. No difference if I hold reset while powering down. And this started like 2-3 days in.  So, Paul from inl got to troubleshooting. He thought it "could be" the board, so he was going to send a replacement board. But, I had asked about buying pr8 preflashed, so he did. He sent me it and a new battery.  Nothing changed on pulsar. Still wiping memory. AND...pr8 would load up, but be froze up. I have to hit reset, and then it comes alive with flashing blue cursors and green track lights. So, I start Thinking that my nes is having some issues. Sad monkey...
I couldn't find another nes today, but I did go ahead and try it on some clone systems. It didn't load on some, but a retron 3 loaded them. (And seemed to sound ok. I'm no expert, and spent all of 20 seconds throwing poo at the screen so it could have some info to process.) It saved all the pattern data from pulsar, the song/chain  info was gone. I think that is correct for this software.
Whew... so any ideas what might be wrong with this nes? Does anyone know where I might find the answer, or the info to get there?  Thanks.

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(18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Anyone use an sd2iec and save sid wizard files? I don't want to buy one and find out it doesn't work.

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(18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Not good..? So, the cart I have has some patched version on it. I start from slot, hit 8 for file browser, move down to sid wiz 1.7 and load. I can load songs from disk 9 and "play with" the instruments. They hang up on note off messages apparently. I can see a list of instrument names on disk 10, but they load corrupted and...wait...are they calling me a strumpet? Not nice. So back to making tables of instrument numbers. And I have to use dateljms to get any midi responsiveness. So. Is that it?
And what about saving? Im looking for another way than floppies. I have a 1571 that loads disks, but I havnt had any luck formatting and saving. And I dont want to use it. Any sage advice? Point me to the product to get for saving sid wizard files on a c64 please.

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(18 replies, posted in Commodore Computers)

Yeah...thanks. page 6, section 8 of the manual says " experimental at the moment and read-only..."  too good to be true for an all In one c64 chiptune cart Solution.  That sounds like an ad. Pretty cool cart, and software!

Damn, I knew I should've gotten two of these carts before they disappeared.  So I just started using trackers. Sid wizard being my first exposure. Ouch. So I can load instruments and songs from the cart using drives 9 & 10. CAN I save instruments or songs to the cart?! I've seen some conflicting reports. Frank buss seemed to say not at the moment. Does anyone know any ways to save to the cart?  I'm going to get an sd2iec, if that works with sid wizard, just trying to make progress until then. Thanks.