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[gwald]

Hi, psxdev's

Wow it's been a long time since looking at the PSX stuff, sadly not much around on the internet these days
I had my 2001 setup on a harddrive which crash 5 years ago and looking to get setup again.
I'm a Net Yarozee, I still have but it didn't get much use because I quickly moved to a gameshark and psydev

I spent 3 hardcore months, 3D programming and 3D max.. and did some cool colour look up swapping with some mindcraft'esk modeling/animation.. programmer art really


Good to see psxdev still going strong, I think the net yaroze/psydev was and still is an easier intro into 3D programming compared to openGL/directX complexities anyway.


I got a action replay, and I think the xplorer (no label) carts and the PC comms ISA card (but no cable) but don't have an old PC


I guess most of you guys dev on your old PC's right


Cheers

[gwald]

I'm having that issue, I got the 8bit ISA comms card, Action replay and (I think) an xplorer card... and a net yaroze.
I don't really want to use the yaroze stuff (slow) and I don't want to buy a PC that's 20 years old

Does a USB parallel port work?
ie:
http://www.jaycar.com.au/IT-Products/Co ... e/p/XC4847

if so with which comms software? PSXSerial?
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers

Just use your Yaroze DTL-H3050 serial cable with PSXSERIAL.
If your computer does not have a RS232 (male DB9/COM1) port, use a USB to RS232 adapter.

If you want faster transfers with faster debugging, you'll have to get yourself an old computer with a parallel (male DB-25/LPT1) port that supports SPP mode and use your Xplorer/Xploder with CAETLA. I'm not going to explain how to set that up, because it's been covered many times before on the forums (use the 'Search' bar at the top).

If you have an Action Replay V3, you don't need the Comms Link (ISA card) to use it since DATEL added the communication layer in the V3 itself.

Hi, I didn't want to bump the UniROM thread
The two carts I have have the same software (so not xplorer like I thought), the top of the screen says:
Caetla ver .0.35 (c) 1997-2000 K-comm.

Is this what you meant by V3? do you know if these can communicate via LTP1 port?

I've found a USB Parallel LTP1 cable, it says Mode: SPP Mode (Support Printer only)
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sunix-Utp102 ... SwcBhWVUiY

http://www.sunix.com/en/product_detail. ... 4&pid=1145



Anyone tryied using a a USB LTP1 on these carts?

[Shadow]

http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=139

Apparently the V3's can, but I never tried.
I still have one, but right now, I am much too busy to mess with that.

That SPP USB adapter is interesting... I wonder if it will work because that would be pretty cool.

[gwald]

http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=139

Apparently the V3's can, but I never tried.
I still have one, but right now, I am much too busy to mess with that.

That SPP USB adapter is interesting... I wonder if it will work because that would be pretty cool.

Well, I just bought one, so I'll let you know.

[gwald]

http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=139

Apparently the V3's can, but I never tried.
I still have one, but right now, I am much too busy to mess with that.

That SPP USB adapter is interesting... I wonder if it will work because that would be pretty cool.

I just got it now and plugged it in to the PC:

[22718.652346] usb 2-1.7: new full-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
[22718.746541] usb 2-1.7: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2305
[22718.746546] usb 2-1.7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[22718.746549] usb 2-1.7: Product: IEEE-1284 Controller
[22718.746552] usb 2-1.7: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[22718.761071] usblp 2-1.7:1.0: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 0 alt 1 proto 2 vid 0x067B pid 0x2305

WinXP




This is correct right?

Well yeah, they will work with the ISA CommsLink because that's your missing parallel comms and voltage converter in the chain. If you didn't have that, you need to build a FreeWing. I have a really old scheme of that somewhere and I started on a PCB but that was years ago... I can't even remember where it is in the forums. Either way, it's a very limited setup. The Xplorer/Xploder is the best as far as the old parallel port stuff goes. It's funny how you said every cartridge works, because I have some cartridges that have a DB-25 port, but when I opened the case and looked at the PCB, only the grounds were soldered.

Anyway, the Xplorer doesn't need to go through the CommsLink ISA card. The problem would be you're using an OS higher than Windows 98, or your DB-25 cable is wired wrong. Your parallel port must also be on address 0x378 and set to SPP mode in your BIOS. The IRQ doesn't matter.

I have one those mp3 player carts, it's just i don't how to dump cart roms with my currrent ezoray sysytem.

You can dump the ROM from the PIO addressing and transmit it via RS232. Just need to do a bit of programming

[sickle]

I guess maybe even though it's SPP, it's not as fast as an EPP or ECP port? On my mobo's BIOS I have to select at least ECP before I get any kinda stability

Have you tried with both Caetla and XPlorer ROMs btw? They both use pretty different protocols. (XPlorer being a fucking nightmare with a lookup table and Caetla using 2 pins instead I think). Maybe one will work a little better than the other?

Interesting links:
http://retired.beyondlogic.org/spp/parallel.htm
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/parallel-port2.htm

Here's my settings on Win7 btw:

[gwald]

Hey man,
Ah, my screen shots were of winXP virtualbox... and it got tricked into thinking it had a LTP when it doesn't :/
The actual USB to LTP adaptor has no I/O memory no IRQ, same with the USB to serial.
And going by what I've seen most PSX coms software require an I/O address and an IRQ... so that's the problem.
So, no.. haven't tried it anymore.
If anyone wants me to test the USB adapters with a coms software that doesn't require I/O or IRQ, I'll be happy to tho.
But I doubt it exists

But, I'd rather just start dev'ing on my NY, especially now that I got the SDK working on linux

[sickle]

Hahah, at least you have something to work with now