Serial is fairly simple although I remember midi having a wierd baud rate the pax should be able to do it. I suppose the difficulty would come with the clock part of it so everything stays in sync.

the psx faq by noca$h is also an excellent resource.

paulm wrote: June 7th, 2019, 4:48 am Is there a way with PSYQ to create an expansion rom header? or must it be hacked in manually/with a custom tool?

Look at romprod by sicklebrick (on this forum), or Romboot here - https://www.sinistersoft.com/romboot or run rom by barog (although I think with latter you need a CD in the drive).

I have also started looking at this, so if you want to compare notes it could speed things up. My expansion breakout board is nowhere near as pretty as your custom one. My idea is to add a header to break out the connector as well as an EEPROM.

I managed to remove the connector from an AR clone ...

Yeah its not very interesting really, the demo reel reminded me of the Demo One disc I got with launch PlayStation.

Funny one on the memory card though. I remember reading someone saying it wrote some data to the memory card but I never saw any evidence of this when testing.

It's too custom, and way more than a wiring job which is why there is scent information on it.

PC mice use PS/2, serial or USB.. The Playstation uses a slightly tweaked version of SPI. I don't think much reverse engineering had been done. I would say it's not possible to wire a mouse into a pad ...

Found the original archive - cant remember much about it as i rarely used it.

Link here https://github.com/danhans42/videopod/r ... T_DISC.zip

@Shadow - feel free to rehost here - file was too big to upload.

Enjoy

That's the one.. I have two of those.

I will get the disc dumped for you this weekend. I'll upload it here.

I have no idea how much they are worth to be honest. I am quite happy to just dump one for you, they are the PAL version (unsure if there is an NTSC version).

I actually got the disc, and the controller adapter along with a Sony refurbished SCPH-1002 years ago. Someone on eBay had a load of them ...

Hello and welcome,

I will check later today for you, if not I still have two of the original CD's and can redump them if needed.

Out of interest, does your demo unit have the white box that interfaces the controls to the control port? I just wondered as I have two of those too.

Thought this might be worth a mention here.

Seems that assemblergames.com will be no more by the end of June. It has looked like that has been on the cards for a while. I really do not want to get into a discussion about the way that site was run, or anything else speculative - thats not the point ...

Hello and welcome to the forum!

Basically, I had some knowledge and experience - all mainly Arduino/VS and Python - but my C skills were completely non-existent. Even now, my C programming is poor at best. I learnt what I know today by initially using the Yaroze environment to build simple console ...

This is great work and a great first post!! will give it a try.

So with this approach, along with the source version of siocons we pretty much can leave DOS behind for Yaroze development. Yay!

Thanks!

Work is still on-going. The ESP8266 firmware I am using seems to have some problems with incoming data that I am working through - I have been testing it with the modded versions of xflash and the ROM downloads were always corrupt.

Have started work on a simpler version for the ESP-32 wroom.

Interesting. Need to do this or something with my iMode cable.

Have now added progress bar in the SIO send functions, which works perfectly and looks much better.

Started looking at building a client in VS... gave up after 15 minutes. Will stick with Python3 and look at using QT, Tkinter or something to get a GUI. Also tried running at higher speeds, only ...

Thought I would bring this post back from the dead :-)
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Here is my setup from left to right -

PS2/Lan Adapter/200gb HDD
SCPH-7502 - My normal go to machine, Some 4 wire chip, Xplorer flashed with Unirom v6.
SCPH-101 - Has built in ESP8266 for Wifi code upload - ongoing ...

Thanks Dan, worked like a charm so far (dumped a few bioses and carts).
Sure it's slower than LPT but it's a really nice addition you brought there ! :)
Any possibility to add a progress bar on psx side while transfer occurs ?


Thanks for testing, and for the feedback.

Glad it worked for well ...

Seems the Python serial module (pyserial) is not installed by default. Forgot about that ooops - I will add that in the readme.

On Windows, go to a command prompt and type 'pip install pyserial' on a command line. You will need to ensure you have Python and PIP in your path.. this is usually done ...

What's new in X-Flash v1.2 - Beta 8

Serial Download Support - uses a standard simple serial cable


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Serial Download

Xflash now supports download over SIO(serial). It runs at 115.2k reliably using a simple standard serial cable as you would use for ...