The SNES Cart Tales of Phantasia cart [NTSC-J] initially appears to overdump to 8MB.
I believe this is actually an issue where the Retrode is confused because Tales of Phantasia is a 48mbit ROM (No Special Chips though - its just big)
I noticed that the forceSize option for SNES only goes up to 32mbit. Would it be possible to support 48mbit roms in a future firmware release so that Tales of Phantasia could be played?
Thanks for you time
-SLK
I occasionally have problems with the autodetection of size with the SNES slot - so just ensure it does the same thing when you do the following:
* Have the Retrode unplugged
* Plug in the game
* Connect the Retrode
Quote from: starlightknight on 11/May/2012 08:24:40 PM
The SNES Cart Tales of Phantasia cart [NTSC-J] initially appears to overdump to 8MB.
I believe this is actually an issue where the Retrode is confused because Tales of Phantasia is a 48mbit ROM (No Special Chips though - its just big)
I noticed that the forceSize option for SNES only goes up to 32mbit. Would it be possible to support 48mbit roms in a future firmware release so that Tales of Phantasia could be played?
Thanks for you time
-SLK
So does the 8MB ROM execute in an emulator or not? Are you getting any errors?
The SNES header format officially doesn't support non-power-of-2-sized ROMs, so autodetection fails for those titles. Would you care to tell me the checksum of the cartridge, so I can add the information to the firmware?
By the way, have you TRIED entering 48 Mbit as [forceSize]? I can't confirm it right now, but it might just work. However, if the 8MB dump doesn't run, I'm pretty the 48Mbit one won't either.
The dump does not run - Snes9x says [bad checksum] and i get a blackscreen. I did try doing the following:
[forceSystem] snes
[forceSize] 48
[forceMapper] 1 (Snes9x says HiRom)
But then the rom came out as 512 bytes, interestingly enough.
A good ROM dump has the following info as reported by Sne9x:
File: C:\SNES\Tales of Phantasia (J).smc
Name: TALES OF PHANTASIA
Speed: 35/FastROM
ROM Map: HiROM
Type: 02
Kart contents: ROM+RAM+BAT
Header ROM Size: 64Mbits
Calculated ROM Size: 48 Mbits
SRAM size: 64Kbits (64Kbit)
Actual Checksum: 7C57
Header Checksum: 7C57
Header Checksum Compliment: 83A8
Output: NTSC 60Hz
CRC32: E9946B84
Licensee: Unknown Company
ROM Version: 1.0
Region: Japan
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Let me know if there's anything else I can provide to assist, or if you need me to test a beta firmware
Thanks a ton!
Also - the bad dump from the retrode gives the following info:
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File: H:\TalesOfPhantasia.83A8.sfc
Name: TALES OF PHANTASIA
Speed: 35/FastROM
ROM Map: HiROM
Type: 02
Kart contents: ROM+RAM+BAT
Header ROM Size: 64Mbits
Calculated ROM Size: 64 Mbits
SRAM size: 64Kbits (64Kbit)
Actual Checksum: D238
Header Checksum: 7C57
Header Checksum Compliment: 83A8
Output: NTSC 60Hz
CRC32: 4C75685A
Licensee: Unknown Company
ROM Version: 1.0
Region: Japan
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I'm having the same issue this user had.
Has anyone successfully used this cartridge with their Retrode? Using 48 for [forceSize] does not work, nor does the 8MB dump. I get the same bad checksum message and a black screen. I'm currently using the .18c firmware, and I have not tried the .18d-beta firmware yet though the release notes don't give me much hope.
Thanks in advance for any help!
It seems this is not the most active forum of late, but I'm still around.
Let me know if there's something I can try or further information I can provide.
Thank you!
This is a special mapping scheme that will require non-trivial firmware development to work. I've posted a "feature suggestion" into the respective section of the forum (http://forum.retrode.org/index.php/topic,38.msg288.html#msg288), so whenever a developer finds the time to do some work, they can find it.