sickle wrote: ↑May 22nd, 2022, 5:07 am
@leafy
Aaah nice one!
Congrats on getting it up and running,
If you're up for it it might be possible to play some of those games with the nocash unlock if you add a switch to your mod chip. I vaguely remember for example that Medievil works fine with no$, but moans when it finds the chip as you enter the 2nd level.
The swap trick is pretty easy if you have a cart in:
- jam the sensor down
- go to boot -> stop disc
- stick your own disc in
- boot
(note: that's currently broken for memcard-based boots, but that fix is in the next update. you could just lift the disc out and replace it while it's spinning.. but don't look at the laser, be careful, etc)
Well, that game Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories! seems to do a check that stops it at the anti-piracy screen even when loading using UNIROM from memcard without any modchip installed. I'm sure there is a patch for the ISO though.
Yes, the memcard-based boot is what I used on the PS One model (SCPH-101).
I have not tried this latest version of UNIROM, been doing other stuff, but I will soon. Does the swap trick work for memcard-based boots now?
Did you hear? Apparently a developer of Alien Resurrection put cheat codes into the game that not only stop the disc spinning, but then actually will allow loading of code without a reset. Modern Vintage Gamer on Youtube has a video showing loading a burned disc simply by using a series of cheat codes (button press sequences on the controller),
I'm curious if it uses the same method as the no cash unlock. Not that I understand it much.
I still need to fool around with the homebrew... I've been programming microcontrollers a bit lately instead.
thanks again and great work done by all involved!