Paul Holbrook Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 I finally got my Concerto cart and am soooo looking forward to playing. However, I am having a difficult time getting any of them to work. Most say unrecognizable type and if they don't say that they have this messed up screen. (See pic) I have downloaded NTSC games and all from Trebor's rom page... Can ANYONE help me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 For some systems Concerto doesn't work at all. My AT84 Serial console, not one game would work, many wouldn't even fully load. On one of my A3 units ~80% of the retail library works perfectly fine. Out of the remaining 20%, half have minor issues, and the other half are a no go or showstopping issue. Under that same A3 unit, most homebrews tested play great too. Overall, in my lot of consoles, it's a 50/50 split between behaving like the AT84 Serial mention or the A3 Serial. If you're sure the cart slot on your console is clean, and you are already utilizing valid ROMs, there may not be much else that can be done outside of waiting for batari to provide an updated Firmware (Current version is 0.95), for these Pre-Production cartridges. When a new firmware is ready for testing, it will be posted in the Concerto Firmware thread. The only other item you may want to check is the SD card you are using. I had much greater success with a newer (SanDisk) 32GB Ultra Plus card, than older 16GB, 4GB, and 2GB cards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 If all the Concerto code runs fine, it's not the cart slot. SD card or firmware version would be the first to check. I still haven't played with any of these yet. Not even the old Mateos cart <shame>, but whatever, the devs got paid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Hmmm... I get that screen sometimes too. No biggie. This thing is still in Dev mode. It works for most of what I want it to and I'm happy for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 3 hours ago, Paul Holbrook said: Most say unrecognizable type Is this a message you get from the Concerto firmware? What kind of SD card are you using and what is the serial number prefix of the machine (EP, AT84, AT85, A1, etc)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NISMOPC Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 12 hours ago, DrVenkman said: Is this a message you get from the Concerto firmware? On one of the demos in Trebors pack, can't recall which one, I was getting that same message of unrecognizable type from the actual Concerto. It was a .a78 file, but was a very long file name, so I assume that might be the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 7 minutes ago, NISMOPC said: On one of the demos in Trebors pack, can't recall which one, I was getting that same message of unrecognizable type from the actual Concerto. It was a .a78 file, but was a very long file name, so I assume that might be the issue. The demos are all over the place - many of them won’t run because they were written on various emulators over years or decades now with no way for many people to test them on real hardware. Now if he’s getting that issue with any of the retail NTSC releases, that sounds like something with the SD card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonie Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 With me, it's the demos, so that makes sense. A1 console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Holbrook Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 Thanks all!!! I got it all working now!!!!! And I am adding pokey one 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 50 minutes ago, Paul Holbrook said: Thanks all!!! I got it all working now!!!!! And I am adding pokey one Don't, unless you want to use your Concerto without a shell, it won't fit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Holbrook Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 29 minutes ago, CPUWIZ said: Don't, unless you want to use your Concerto without a shell, it won't fit. It's all good... I can have a friend make a bigger shell for me... I would just love to hear all the pokey games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 2 hours ago, Paul Holbrook said: Thanks all!!! I got it all working now!!!!! And I am adding pokey one Glad to hear you got it working! What was the fix? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Holbrook Posted February 9, 2021 Author Share Posted February 9, 2021 Finally got Fred to send me the CORRECT download for it. I screwed it up in the first place... I did something wrong. Not sure what it was lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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