polyex Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 When I start the test cart and it is supposed to go to the Linearity Pattern, I just get a blank screen. I tried pressing buttons to go to the next test, and get nothing, its like the program just locked up or something. I am using the VecMulti and I press reset and get the menu, and the really odd thing is all the games and other software I run seem to work fine. I tried the test cart image I am using in Mame and it comes up fine. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Try changing the filename to test.bin. I'm pretty sure I saw the same problem on my VecFlash and that's what I had to do. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyex Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 33 minutes ago, playvectrex said: Try changing the filename to test.bin. I'm pretty sure I saw the same problem on my VecFlash and that's what I had to do. It did happen to be called Test.bin instead of test.bin .... but no change. Just a blank screen instead of Linearity Pattern. Machine gets super quiet when it goes blank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Maybe you have one of the VecMulti's that needs to be reflashed by @Richard H. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard H. Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Try this .bin TestCart.bin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyex Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Richard H. said: Try this .bin TestCart.bin 4 kB · 3 downloads Thanks Richard, that one worked! What was different? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ls650 Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 I've also found that the VecMulti seems to be a bit fussy over filenames. Recently I tried playing a version of Birds of Prey hacked for joystick control, and it wouldn't load with the original filename, which was fairly long. I shorted the name to birdprey.bin and now it loads! (Great game BTW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyex Posted March 14, 2020 Author Share Posted March 14, 2020 10 minutes ago, ls650 said: I've also found that the VecMulti seems to be a bit fussy over filenames. Recently I tried playing a version of Birds of Prey hacked for joystick control, and it wouldn't load with the original filename, which was fairly long. I shorted the name to birdprey.bin and now it loads! (Great game BTW) Interesting, this one was short though it was called test.bin and did not work. Different checksum with the newer one Richard posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard H. Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 11 hours ago, polyex said: What was different? Perhaps you had a bad copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polyex Posted March 15, 2020 Author Share Posted March 15, 2020 2 hours ago, Richard H. said: Perhaps you had a bad copy. Interesting, I used mine and one from archive.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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