gambler172 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 (edited) Hi Franko checked your latest version.Unfortunately touching the bed,raises my score and not my hitpoints And the titlescreen is not shown correctly.Draker is completely missing.And QUEST is shown only at half. Greetings Walter Edited March 1, 2015 by gambler172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 2, 2015 Author Share Posted March 2, 2015 Hi Franko checked your latest version.Unfortunately touching the bed,raises my score and not my hitpoints And the titlescreen is not shown correctly.Draker is completely missing.And QUEST is shown only at half. Greetings Walter Try this. The PAL version of Draker Quest: test_beta2_pal.bas.bin test_beta2_pal.bas.a78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Hi Franko NTSC is no problem,cause i have also NTSC systems.I tried the PAL version on one of my PAL systems,but the titlescreen problem and the hitpoints problem are the same greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hi Franko NTSC is no problem,cause i have also NTSC systems.I tried the PAL version on one of my PAL systems,but the titlescreen problem and the hitpoints problem are the same greetings Walter I'm using MESS and I have no cuttle cart 2 to test but this is what I get for the title screen in NTSC: I don't know if I mentioned this or not but the HP counter only goes up to 100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 3, 2015 Author Share Posted March 3, 2015 Has anyone else with a Cuttle Cart 2 experienced what Walter has mentioned? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Hi Franko what Mess version do you use? I used Mess 1.53 on my laptop.The titlescreen is correct here,but there are many bugs.Try to play it on Mess,until you get the first key.... But raising hitpoints in the bed,works here If you send me your Email,i could send you some pics,i made with my ipod. Btw....keep up you great work greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hi Franko what Mess version do you use? I used Mess 1.53 on my laptop.The titlescreen is correct here,but there are many bugs.Try to play it on Mess,until you get the first key.... But raising hitpoints in the bed,works here If you send me your Email,i could send you some pics,i made with my ipod. Btw....keep up you great work greetings Walter I'm not sure but it could be version 0.155. There's a tutorial and how to install it with XM support here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hi Franko i used Mess 1.55 and your game works great. However on my CC2,it has the bugs,i told you about. But i also asked CPUWIZ to burn it on a board and check it about the bugs,i had. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Hi Franko i used Mess 1.55 and your game works great. However on my CC2,it has the bugs,i told you about. But i also asked CPUWIZ to burn it on a board and check it about the bugs,i had. greetings Walter The title screen is totally messed up on real hardware, using my Megacart board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hi Franko, It looks like the problem is you're dim'ing memory locations that aren't actually RAM locations in the 7800. dim title_parta_x=$3006 dim title_parta_y=$3007 [...] The "extra" user RAM not used by 7800basic runs from $2200 to $27FF, so your dims have to stay in this range of addresses. A couple points to help you trim the usage back... You use these to values for coordinates to "plotsprite" the title graphics, but you can just use constants directly in the plotsprite command. No need to define variables if the sprite doesn't move. You're not counting up the memory locations in hex. The next memory location after $2209, for example, would be $220A. Cheers! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 It needs to be determined, why it does work in MESS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 It needs to be determined, why it does work in MESS. He's mentioning something about enabling XM support in MESS... maybe that's the key issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 It needs to be determined, why it does work in MESS. Totally agreed. I threw it on my mental TODO pile yesterday, and took a quick look at it this morning. It seems like the a7800 MESS driver sets up $3000 as part of a RAM mirror. Looking appendix 1 of the 7800 Software Guide, it seems to support that idea... 0000 | | | TIA Registers | |_________________________________| 001F 0020 | | | MARIA Registers | |_________________________________| 003F 0040 | | | RAM | | (6116 Block Zero) | |_________________________________| 00FF 0100 | | | Shadow of Page 0 | | (TIA and MARIA) | |_________________________________| 013F 0140 | | | RAM | | (6116 Block One) | |_________________________________| 01FF 0200 | | | Shadowed | |_________________________________| 027F 0280 | | | 6532 Ports | |_________________________________| 02FF 0300 | | | Shadowed | |_________________________________| 03FF 0400 | | | Available | |_________________________________| 047F 0480 | | | 6532 RAM -- Don't Use | |_________________________________| 04FF 0500 | | | Available | |_________________________________| 17FF 1800 | | | RAM | |_________________________________| 203F 2040 | | | Block Zero Shadow | |_________________________________| 20FF 2100 | | | RAM | |_________________________________| 213F 2140 | | | Block One Shadow | |_________________________________| 21FF 2200 | | | RAM | |_________________________________| 27FF 2800 | | | Same as 2000-27FF | |_________________________________| 3FFF 4000 | | | Available | |_________________________________| FF79 FF7A | | | Reserved for Encryption | |_________________________________| FFF9 FFFA | | | Available (vectors) | |_________________________________| FFFF ...it seems the docs (and MESS) need updating, but when I have the time I'll first need to go in and verify all of the mirrors. Does the title screen glitching dynamically move, like it was reading values from a floating bus? @Mord: Good guess, though it seems to happen even without XM enabled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Try the latest build: test_beta2.bas.bin test_beta2.bas.a78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Does the title screen glitching dynamically move, like it was reading values from a floating bus? I'll try the new ROM tonight. No flicker, just this (looks like all sprites are stacked on top of each other)... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Cool. If I remove the higher mirror addresses from MESS, this is what I get... I still need to do testing to see what sort of values I get back from a real 7800 for this address space, but it looks to be on the right track. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 I have been able to map a real RAM chip into $3000-$3FFF, for what it is worth. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Come to think of it, it is impossible for it to be a RAM mirror, my MCP cart uses $3000 as the hotspot to write to. That would blow up the mirror location and it doesn't. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Yeah, there's the HSC too. It looks like Eckhard checked this out a while back too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Yeah, I just remembered that I touched on this subject last year. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/220455-megacart-modification-3-wires-pld-magic/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hah. That's perfect, and saves me testing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 This is what the title should look like: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 This is what the title should look like: title.jpeg Yeah, your new a78 looks like that now, even in my fixed MESS. I was showing WIZ how your previous version looked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted March 17, 2015 Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hi Guys do not forget to play the game.....while the game in Mess works very well,there are some bugs,i reported. greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted March 17, 2015 Author Share Posted March 17, 2015 Hi Guys do not forget to play the game.....while the game in Mess works very well,there are some bugs,i reported. greetings Walter Try the latest file http://atariage.com/forums/topic/229946-working-title-draker-quest/?p=3199436 I had to change some dim values like RevEng said as some had non-existent values. Other values had to be changed as I got some weird flickering results with MESS but let me know if there is weirdness on actual hardware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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