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https://www.analogue.co/support/resource/super-nt-and-mega-sg-preorder-faq

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There are no differences between this Super Nt and Mega Sg production run and previous production runs.

 

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On 2/10/2020 at 1:37 PM, Enragedwhale said:

Yup just updated to 4.7 and it’s the same behaviour with an original pal sms desert strike cart. 

If you press start (pause) it locks up except for the first few seconds of a mission.

 

Is this still happening with the recent update?

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On 2/20/2023 at 12:59 PM, dudeguy said:

Not for a long time. Theyre putting all their eggs in the Pocket basket for now since they know most people just want it for emulation and they dont think anybody still uses those systems you mentioned to play cartridges.

Looks like updates happened for all except the original Nt Mini.

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On 12/22/2020 at 7:04 PM, spspspsp said:

I have spent a while playing with the Noir, and overall I am extremely pleased with it.

 

I am, however, having trouble with one game. I have a Star Versus cart that _will not_ load on FW 6.5. I was able to run this on 1.0, but now it just says "RAM CHECK FAIL" and spits out a hex address. It still runs on my AV Famicom.

Has this issue been resolved now?

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When should we expect to see the next firmware updates (official and/or JB) for Nt Mini, Super Nt, Mega Sg, DAC, and Noir?

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On 6/6/2022 at 6:07 PM, Atariboy said:

Those don't get looked at and addressed, so there's no point.

 

I mostly posted out of surprise that a once fixed bug is now rebroken (Digital Foundry Retro found it on the lead up to the Super Nt launch and it was quickly fixed).

What is the the best current place to post issues so they get looked at and addressed by Analogue support and development staff? Is there a different GitHub or other place where they track and ultimately tackle outstanding issues?

 

Did something change with this topic? I can no longer view it unless logged in?

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On 4/13/2021 at 9:26 AM, mario64 said:

Dragon's Lair and World Tour Racing

I encourage you to dump these with a DiscImageCreator-compatible drive and submit hash information to redump.org.

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On 6/2/2022 at 5:07 AM, Atariboy said:

I thought the Mega Lo Mania bug on the Super Nt was fixed back about when the system first launched (Several pixels on the intro screen with the sword are misplaced and appear at the top of the screen)? Happening for me on the latest firmware in both the European and Super Famicom roms.

 

If it was indeed resolved at one point like I thought, it's interesting that a once fixed bug is again broken. But not the first time I've heard of that happening. 

I don't see that bug listed on the issue tracker. Maybe create an issue ticket there?

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And yet the original iNES header format was sorely lacking and incomplete, as there has been continued development and expansion of NES2.0 headers within the past year or so. Emulator devs had to have internal hacks in their emulators for some roms in order to represent the correct behavior that could not be expressed in iNES.

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This new format simply represents the information that something like MAME or some other emulator reads from a config file, like this: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/intv.xml

 

This new format is better, as it doesn’t have dependencies on a config file, new Intellivision homebrew can be created without needing config file updates. Not to mention it’s a PITA to have an FPGA have to parse an xml config file like this.

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Even dumping those supplemental chips may not be enough; if there’s a volatile RAM chip or non-volatile EEPROM chip, those may not have data to be “dumped” yet are vital aspects of the cartridge that need to be represented and emulated. There could also be wiring differences on the PCB.

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It's not that simple; ROM dumps don't necessarily contain information about supplemental circuitry and other hardware. Which is why NES headers are required to provide information about this hardware (mappers). I believe Intellivision falls into this category.

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34 minutes ago, XtraSmiley said:

A long time ago Kevtris said no there would not as it works and the FPGA is out of room.

Not expecting new features, but rather fixing existing bugs in Hi-Def NES (like the Metroid FDS audio bug).

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Will there ever be any future firmware updates for Hi-Def NES or is a dead unsupported product at this point?

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8 hours ago, SegaSnatcher said:

Realistically speaking, where should Analogue go from here?   

They should focus on fixing bugs in their existing products and adding enhancements to them.

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So when will we see minor fixes (not new cores) to the original Nt Mini, including but not limited to the serial number bug (always displaying a bogus number of something like 00001), FDS audio emulation bug with the doors in Metroid, etc. 

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On 9/26/2020 at 5:02 AM, GarrettCRW said:

Another Mega Sg issue that needs tending to concerns playing Lunar on the Sega CD. The game literally reboots when you push Start on the title screen, and a quick Google search reveals that this has been outstanding for quite a while.

I don’t see that issue listed here, can you add it?

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On 8/16/2020 at 12:18 PM, BlueBart said:

Hey guys, what is the link to the discord where Kevtris posts?

https://discord.gg/UDu5ztY

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On 7/19/2020 at 6:38 AM, atmn said:

Regarding Hi-Def NES, is it safe to downgrade?

I wanna try out this feature from v.2.25

 

* Removed interpolation and associated menu. I needed the logic gates in the FPGA to fix the other things.

 

I have downgraded my HiDef NES firmware before and it worked fine.

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On 5/4/2020 at 2:31 AM, Atariboy said:

Top Gear.sfc for instance will be listed below Top Gear 2.sfc despite being the first game in the series. I'm not sure of conventions

It is sorting alphabetically; a space has a lower ASCII value than a period (and all other printable characters). You could add a trailing space so that 

Top Gear .sfc

will be listed before

Top Gear 2.sfc

as a period is less than the digit two.

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On 11/10/2019 at 5:52 AM, spoonman said:

My main gripe with the Analogue Nt Mini, aside from them being out of stock for years now, was how unstable the NES carts were.

This has been addressed with improved NES cart connector and now in stock.

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On 2/9/2020 at 4:28 AM, Atariboy said:

And you were right about my Colecovision Choplifter issue, SegaSnatcher. An alternate rom is working just fine for me now (I was under the impression these annual 'No Intro' sets had the bad dumps weeded out of them, but apparently some still exist).

There is an outstanding issue in github with lots of bad ColecoVision roms in the latest Smokemonster pack:

 

https://github.com/SmokeMonsterPacks/EverDrive-Packs-Lists-Database/issues/101

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On 11/13/2019 at 1:47 AM, ErebusMaligan said:

I know at least my Startropics rom works on my everdrives just fine but doesn't play audio on the JB core.

Smokemonster made fixes to these a few years ago. You can find them here under NES/NT Mini/NT Fixed/

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On 11/11/2019 at 2:23 AM, ErebusMaligan said:

The NT mini as you mention has the NES cart stability issue.   It was bad enough that I swithced to using my famicom everdrive for the most part instead of an NES one, just because famicom carts are considerably more stable in it due to their lower center of gravity.

 

Most of the time I just use everdrives, a famicom one for the Nt mini

Why not just use the JB firmware for NES (and other core) ROM loading from the SD card? I just use the cart slot for my FDS RAM Adapter.