I have a few xplorer carts but my FX definitely has 0.35 flashed on it and works fine with the original caetla tools on my old laptop and on my XP machine with Catflap.

Cheers, I shall have a look when I am back at home. This is kind of what I had in mind...

Hi, Just toying with an idea. Does anyone know how feasable it is to bypass the BIOS calls to access the SIO channel used for the memory cards and controllers? I'm thinking of Spi IO expanders or even a large SPI EEprom for data storage. The Idea of an IO expander would be pretty cool to allow some ...

@rsoft..

The blog post you linked to in the first post is my blog . I kept meaning to add more detail to it but never got round to it. Thanks for the tip about using VPC for HITSEND, never tried that but will give it a go.

Looks good. But why not just use the FT245 and interface to an existing AR cartridge? Saves on trying to source the parallel IO connectors? Also your board overlays look like they follow the xplorer schematic very closely? If you worked with an original AR type board you would get faster data transf...

Hey hows it going people. Just thought I would say hello. Im Dan, 31 from UK. Love to tinker around with the PSX, not much active chat about the old dog elsewhere so thought I would join here. I have the alias danhans115 on assemblergames, and have done stuff with the PSone before - the psone usb ya...