gamer-stu Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 (edited) Hi all, I am trying (in vain at the moment) to update my 800xl's U1MB firmware using the following instructions and the latest firmware updates from Flashjazzcat's excellent website: Ultimate 1MB and Incognito BIOS and XEX Loader: User Manual (PDF) In the instructions (again, using the L method to side load from U1MB), it references a firmware.atr. However, I cannot find a firmware.atr to load in the following roms: Ultimate 1MB Firmware Update 07-12-2016 I can load flash.xex with no problem, but when I try to point it to specific romsets, which I have placed in the same side2 directory as uflash.xex, I can't see any of the roms. In fact I don't see how I can "select" a location on the SIDE2 using this method -- I can only select d1 - dxxxx. What am I missing? For the most part, I have been trying to update the whole shebang with ultfull.rom, but as mentioned, I cannot "find it" from within uflash.xex. Any clues? Edited January 15, 2017 by gamer-stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 Sounds like the loader currently on your SIDE cart doesn't have the file system driver included to enable navigation of the FAT as D1:. Do you have any kind of SIO2xxx device? It seems I neglected to add the full firmware archive to the latest update... I will endeavour to put that right. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer-stu Posted January 15, 2017 Author Share Posted January 15, 2017 Hi Flashjazzcat, thanks for the reply. I do have an sio2sd, however, when I tried to bring that up with any of the roms in the sio2sd as d1:, Spartados didn't recognize it as a valid dos disk. I guess because it is a rom, and not an atr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 If you make yourself a 720KB ATR, you can format it and copy UFLASH and the ROM into it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer-stu Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 If you make yourself a 720KB ATR, you can format it and copy UFLASH and the ROM into it. This makes perfect sense. Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamer-stu Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 (edited) Ok, I created a Spartados formatted 720k atr (2880 blocks of 256 bytes) with MakeATR. I then added uflash.xex and ultfull.rom to the atr and copied it to the sd card. I loaded said atr in to d1: of the sio2sd, executed uflash.xex in spartados and I am now able to "see" the rom from uflash. Everything updated nicely and I now am up-to-date. Thank you Flashjazzcat! Edited January 16, 2017 by gamer-stu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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