EMS 64MB USB Cart in Linux? (Page 1 of 4)

Well, there are possible two, maybe three options:

1. Use Wine. But because of driver issues, it might not work out right. I haven't managed to get it working.
2. Use Cedega. Costs money. Probably won't work any better than Wine because of driver issues.
3. Use a virtual machine, running Windows. This option seems most likely to work.

Ok, maybe 4. Contact HKEMS and make them write Linux driver. Highly unlikely to ever work, since they don't even seem to understand English properly.

One last thing: Don't get upset that the EMS cart doesn't work on Linux- none of the other ones work properly with Linux either.

Last edited by arfink (Mar 13, 2010 8:53 pm)

the bleepbloops work on linux, like a charm. Just to let you know guys

I use virtualbox (last time i checked the USB works ok, but not perfect, mostly speeds problems).

What the hardware do when communicates the device with the pc? if there's a virtual com port thing there's a possibility to make it work, just run

dmesg | tail

plug the cart, then run it again and see what it tells you.

good luck!

Actually, a wild guess but i think that the reiner ziegler software work with the BB carts. Is the very same software/hardware . the same with the smartboy cart, but if someone tests it feel free to correct me.

ALL OF MY LOVE.
ALL OF IT.

This is pretty awesome, especially considering it's only done in 152 lines of C. I have a few simple suggestions though (this makes me feel arrogant, it's your software and you can do what you want with it):
1. Take out the gotos
2. Fclose when you're finished with I/O (this is probably not necessary, but just in case)
3. Replace the x ? foo : bar stuff with if statements, even though it's a pain in the ass it makes the code more readable
4. More functions, shorter main, and maybe breaking those functions off into their own seperate header/implementation files
5. A command-line argument parser would be cool, so that way by checking the last four characters in the filename you could easily pass off program execution to either a ROM I/O function or a RAM I/O function
6. I'm not sure if there's any sort of mechanism to actually make individual object files is in your makefile (I could be totally up my own ass here), but I would throw this in there somewhere for good measure (it's great if you're lazy):

%.o: %.c include.h
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $@ $<

7. More comments!
8. Obvious filesize checks and boundaries that will obviously be implemented eventually

I would be more than willing to make some of these changes if you're okay with it (although i'm not at all familiar with git, nor am i familiar with the specifics of the actual cart). I'm just a freak about clean code.

Last edited by PlainFlavored (Mar 21, 2011 10:13 am)

i have still not managed to get the original drivers working on my computer. i cant get a guest OS to recognise a hardware device when the hostOS does not have a working driver for it. for some reason it wont work unless the host os has a working driver. how did you do it teomat?

if he doesnt reply, cause he just registered to say what he did.... is there anyone else who knows how?

please help ^^

Last edited by ev0l (Mar 21, 2011 2:42 pm)

You do know that not everyone on this planet has english as their first language. Write to them in chinese instead