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privateye

Jan 11, 2022

		cafe-alpha said:

I'm unable to test that because the 1MB/4MB RAM portion of my Action Replay cart no longer works with any of my Saturns. I'm guessing that the address pins for RAM access can't be read; if true, that's not surprising since the cart is in so-so condition.

It's important to note that these 1MB games have corrupt graphics when using an Action Replay*¹ or official 4MB RAM cart:

King of Fighters '96 *²
Real Bout Fatal Fury (not the special edition)
Samurai Shodown IV

(*1) Not with all Action Replays, though. My AR (the one that is currently borked) used to work fine with all three games, but I can't recall if these (and other 1MB) games exhibited graphical corruption when loading a 4MB game beforehand.
(*2) 4MB hack... is available and includes new features not found in the vanilla version (e.g. faster loading times, bosses already unlocked).

In most cases, loading Samurai Shodown IV (Amakusa Kourin) with an Action Replay cart will result in corrupt graphics, regardless of what game(s) you have (or have not) loaded beforehand.

		draco said:

Do you confirm that these games have no graphical corruption when loaded straight away from cold boot? As I mentioned above, it's normal for these to have graphical corruption on official 4MB RAM carts and (most) Action Replays.

		draco		Jan 11, 2022
			It would appear that I get corruption on the very first power on walking up to the system. But after a quick power cycle it's been cleared. I can then soft reset among all 3 of those SNK games and even mix in loading of non-RAM games without issue, but when a 4MB games is loaded the corruption returns and will not go away until power cycled. It doesn't matter how many regular games, or even 1MB game that plays nice with 4MB (Metal Slug) I try. Cart is stuck in 4MB mode until hard power cycle. This is anecdotal, as it's been many years. But I don't remember trouble with corruption from my old AR cart at all when loading something like Samurai amakusa from the actual disc. As for your dead cart, it's possible the RAM section is fine but in just poor contact with the Saturn. This just happened to me when I dug out the old 2.01 cart. The menu portion loaded fine, but loading a RAM expansion game returned the cart required screens. I had to mess with cart positioning quite a bit for the menu AND the RAM to work. The new cart actually took a dozen resets in the Saturn to work. Once I found a sweet spot, I took a fine point sharpie and drew a dashed line across the cart face even with the shell of the system. Like a depth gauge. So far, I can now take out and install the cart to work reliably by lining up this marker line with the top of the Saturn shell.

		cafe-alpha		Jan 12, 2022
			To sum up things simply, compatibility issues are weirder than expected As it's not possible to do some testing, please wait for the next occasion privateye and me will have to use a cartridge featuring expansion memory.

		draco		Jan 12, 2022
			Again, not a problem. I can play the 1MB only games, just takes an extra power reset. Just thought I'd report it.

Ace_of_DiscaL

Feb 4, 2022

		draco said:

It's a little rude to say "back up Saturn", because NO Saturn is simply EVER a "back up" OK?

		Coyote676		Feb 18, 2022
			Hi there, I hope I’m writing this in the right place. I’ve been all over the internet trying to find answers on this but keep coming up short. I was gifted a Saturn with action replay this Christmas. The AR had Pseudo Saturn Kai Lite 6.314 pre flashed. I mostly play NTSC games so I haven’t had any real issues. My question is this though - I’m trying to find the data manager feature because I keep running out of space on the systems internal memory but there is no option for the data manager on the PSK main menu. Was this a feature added to a later version of PSK? If so, would a simple download and “flash” to the new version add this functionality? Thanks in advance for any help

		privateye		Feb 18, 2022
			Lite firmware does not allow you to transfer save files to the Action Replay's cartridge ROM so Save Data Manager utility is not included. That functionality might come in the future once existing features are refined and higher-priority features are added (e.g. full support for Satiator ODE).

Coyote676

Feb 18, 2022

		privateye said:

Gotcha - thanks for the quick reply.

Would AR support the non “lite” firmware or is there not enough space for that? I could have sworn I read something out there about the space on the AR being limited.

		privateye		Feb 18, 2022
			There's not enough space (full firmware is 1MB and Action Replay only has 256KB to play with) and AR doesn't have any additional features that the full firmware is designed to take advantage of (e.g. SD card for importing and exporting save data).

		TheIceberg		Apr 23, 2022
			Ok I want to post an issue with the latest version of PSK 6.483 and the game The Hyper Golf or Valora Valley Golf. This is tested on a white Saturn using PSK lite on an Action replay cart. This was tested using a real copy of The Hyper Golf. The system will boot to the Sega logo then will display a black screen and do nothing. The disc will continue to spin but will not access. This game worked in the previous version of PSK I used which was 6.274. Valora Valley Golf does the exact same thing. Thinking possibly that Pebble Beach Golf Links might do the same thing since they are similar games software-wise I tested a real US copy of the game and there is no issues with that game. Thank you!

		privateye		Apr 23, 2022
			@TheIceberg... : As is the case with Pebble Beach Golf Links, The Hyper Golf and Valora Valley Golf (EUR / USA) require the JHL loader. Next version of Pseudo Saturn Kai will be fixed to make these games playable directly from the automatic loader but, for now, you must force usage of the JHL loader by pressing the Z button in Pseudo Saturn Kai's main menu. @cafe-alpha... : I have attached the header info of games to add to the JHL autoset list.

cafe-alpha

Apr 30, 2022

		privateye said:

Thank you

@TheIceberg... : Compatibility settings will be updated in next release of Pseudo Saturn Kai. Until that moment, please push Z button while selecting "Start Game" in boot menu to run these games, as indicated by @privateye....

sylph4

Jul 28, 2022

		TheIceberg said:

Have the same problem with Thunder force gold pack 2, while 1 works. But holding Z doesn't help

privateye

Jul 28, 2022

		sylph4 said:

Thunder Force Gold Pack 2 works fine for me with the default CWX loader in both the full and lite versions of Pseudo Saturn Kai. Are you booting the game from an ODE like Rhea/Phoebe or Fenrir, or from a burned disc? If it's the latter, please make sure to burn a good disc image (e.g. from the Redump set) to reputable media.

sylph4

Jul 29, 2022

		privateye said:

Burned disk, worked on previous firmwares, also works on pc in retroarch

privateye

Jul 29, 2022

		sylph4 said:

Before I tested Thunder Force Gold Pack 2 on my Phoebe ODE but, this time, I tested a burned disc with Pseudo Saturn Kai Lite v6.483 (latest public version flashed to Action Replay) and PSK full v6.502 (private beta version) - with both firmwares, it loads just fine with the CWX and JHL loaders and I'm able to play Thunder Force AC and Thunder Force IV.
How long ago was it that you verified the game to be working on a previous firmware? I'm wondering if your Saturn's laser has worsened over time...

sylph4

Jul 30, 2022

		privateye said:

Hm, will try to burn another cd-r, but no problems with any other disk at all on my saturn

Also to mention, if cheats are chosen, loader recognizes this game

UPD. no difference with another disc. Console is ntsc-j, later first grey model

sylph4

Aug 29, 2022

		privateye said:

I solved the problem partially by adding shield to my 4-in-1 red cart, game boots! The only problem now, that beginning FMVs play with shutter, but play fine, if cart is pulled out at game start, strange ¯\_()_/¯

		bobrocks95		Sep 2, 2022
			Has anyone tried Super Tempo with Pseudo Saturn Kai? The game will boot, but fails to play the intro music, then crashes when trying to start the game from the main menu, with music looping in the background. Could of course be a bad burn- I will double-check both loaders and what version I'm running tomorrow and edit this post! EDIT: Same behavior with both loaders, Pseudo Saturn Kai version 6.408. It doesn't look like the 2 newer versions really do anything for game compatibility, but just add some Fenrir ODE features. If anyone else has this game available to test it would be much appreciated just because I'm so low on CD-R's ^_^; I'm also just now finding out about testing C1 and C2 error rate on burned CDs and I wish I had a drive that could do so, but they're all quite old and the feature doesn't seem to be supported for roughly the past decade... I forced my drive to do it in Nero DiscSpeed but no telling if it's accurate or not, and it only read the audio tracks at the start of the CD, not the whole disc.

privateye

Sep 2, 2022

		bobrocks95 said:

Super Tempo works fine for me with the default CWX loader. If you're using one of those all-in-one cartridges then your first port of call is to add shielding in order to fix compatibility issues caused by electromagnetic interference: PPCenter :: Pseudo Saturn Kai Compatibility List...

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