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Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: December 20th, 2019, 9:14 pm
by Dedok179
szalay_1 wrote: December 19th, 2019, 6:30 am Getting starting..
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It's great that you are still recreating this project. It will be very interesting to know the results of all these works.

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: January 8th, 2020, 12:59 am
by Administrator
Are you writing the code for it? The schematic needed to be updated too so I hope you know what you're doing with it otherwise you're wasting time/money :?

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: January 16th, 2020, 1:16 am
by szalay_1
"It was worth a try once no ?"
I did it once.. and it won't work with regular XP/PAR.rom
"you're wasting time/money"
Probably yes, but we now know it doesn't work..
Like you said..Except if :
"It needs a lot of programming to get it to work as intended"

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: March 12th, 2024, 8:28 pm
by Orion_
I can confirm that the PSX Blaster design doesn't work.
I simulated the logic in a software and it is wrong, RD_USB goes low require AD17 AND !AD17, which is impossible.
Also, the logic voltage are mixed up, some logic chip have 5V, some other 3.5V, and the USB chip receive 5V logic on its pin where VCCIO is tied up to 3.5V.
I made the board and apart from the ROM booting (I used n00brom for testing), the USB chip is not recognized and the logic signal are bad (can't make RD_USB low at all)
I'm planing on making a new working cartridge for dev (like an xplorer cart but using USB)

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: May 29th, 2024, 6:15 am
by szalay_1
Yes, what I was afraid of..

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: June 9th, 2024, 9:22 pm
by Administrator
Orion_ wrote: March 12th, 2024, 8:28 pm I can confirm that the PSX Blaster design doesn't work.
I simulated the logic in a software and it is wrong, RD_USB goes low require AD17 AND !AD17, which is impossible.
Also, the logic voltage are mixed up, some logic chip have 5V, some other 3.5V, and the USB chip receive 5V logic on its pin where VCCIO is tied up to 3.5V.
I made the board and apart from the ROM booting (I used n00brom for testing), the USB chip is not recognized and the logic signal are bad (can't make RD_USB low at all)
I'm planing on making a new working cartridge for dev (like an xplorer cart but using USB)
Wow okay. You took our open-source hardware design, tweaked it and gave zero thanks :naughty

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: June 9th, 2024, 10:37 pm
by Orion_
Shadow wrote: June 9th, 2024, 9:22 pm Wow okay. You took our open-source hardware design, tweaked it and gave zero thanks :naughty
The entire board was redesigned, the 7805 was dropped, the logic and software was made from scratch.
should I give you credits just because I used an FT245 like you ? I don't think so.

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: June 9th, 2024, 11:05 pm
by Administrator
The logic and software is non-existent. I'm talking solely about the hardware. You based your hardware design off of our hardware design. Without our design, you wouldn't have tweaked it to make your new version.

We supported you years ago by buying a copy of Yopaz IceStar from your website and advertised your game on PSXDEV.NET. Yes it's an open-source project with no license, but something as trivial as a 'thanks' would have been nice at least.

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: June 10th, 2024, 12:31 am
by Orion_
whatever

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: June 10th, 2024, 1:05 am
by Administrator
Orion_ wrote: June 10th, 2024, 12:31 am
Shadow wrote: June 9th, 2024, 11:05 pm The logic and software is non-existent. I'm talking solely about the hardware. You based your hardware design off of our hardware design. Without our design, you wouldn't have tweaked it to make your new version.
I repeat, the only common thing between my cart and the psx blaster is the FT245.
You're misinterpreting the point, but anyway I hope the hardware helped you.
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Orion_ wrote: June 10th, 2024, 12:31 am oh really, thank you for advertising a game I sold maybe less than 20 copies worldwide, this saved my life ...
Pas de problème! Perhaps if you worked on your attitude instead you'll sell a few more copies.

Re: PSX Blaster (USB Comms Link)

Posted: July 26th, 2024, 5:53 am
by Xrider
Tool for use this software :
https://youtu.be/gOZYXtqee9E