If I recall, you need the DVD drive attached to test a boot up.

Streetwalker wrote: For inspection, you don't even need a magnifying glass, just take a photo with your phone (turn flash and hdr off to get stable focus), and zoom in.

Well, my life just changed... lol

A Windows 7 Virtual Machine, might be a route to try. Then attach the USB virtually to it and try the same old programs. Or go all the way to an XP virtual machine to really match the era for that flashing tool. Just a random untested idea.

Pin 1 appears to connect directly to the FPGA at it's PIn 3. Could it be bad programming? I forgot if we have gone over this before, but have you checked if FPGA Pin 54 goes high to 3.3v ? If so, that would mean the FGPA is programmed successfully. However, I don't know if that means if it was progr...

Are you able to try a different Gamecube?

Has anyone done a real world side by side test comparing the output from the official Gamecube component cable to the analogue version of GC video? I use the official cable with my NEC XV29+ but would switch to the analogue GC video if there was even a small increase in noticeable clarity.. https:/...

This is a dupe that I posted on assembler, but it does complete my comments in this thread as well. @happy_bunny I have a working Shuriken V3 tonight. 1478492116453_6662433546_c3e4c212_v1.jpg My problem from day 1, was physical orientation of the direction for R2 and R3. I fell for the same mistake...

zeldaxpro Possibly related, but I can not be sure. There are 2 pads on the underside of the Digital A/V port, that seem to be easily damaged when removing the original port, for the Shuriken. These two points were damaged on one of my Gamecubes, and they disabled the video. I ran jumpers from them t...

Ah! Ok cool. That makes sense. Well if that ever happens, then great.

Is it for sure supposed to read 3.3v when running normal? I thought that 1.8v - 2.2v was expected.

Right. I was just offering it up as a possible explanation for why your Xilinx programmer never managed to work over JTAG. Mine never did over JTAG either. Yours might have over serial like mine did.

Impact's Direct SPI feature was dropped after 11.x So I downgraded from 14.x to 11.x to program it without using the JTAG connection.

If you zoom in on the schematic (make sure it's the V3 schematic), the gamecube mainboard video connector is on the left. CSEL is pin 3, and CLK is pin 22. Looks like they connect to FPGA pin 5 and pin 41 respectively. I am going to try to trace these paths back toward someplace on the gamecube side...

What specific points on the Shuriken itself did you connect your programmer to, when you programmed it?

Yes, I have 2.1v there also. happy_bunny mentioned that I trace c_sel and clk for a good connection to the fpga.

I built a 2nd Shuriken v3, so I may swap to that soon.

@zeldaxpro I think you and I are at the exact same point. I successfully programmed tonight with the same results. I checked the same points for voltages as you. If younare also following my other thread on assembler, you can see more details about how I programmed. (I know, I'm spamming alot) At th...

I need help making sure I am setting up a SPI flash correctly in impact. I am using the Gamecube to power the board. I have 3.3v where expected on the M25P40. JP1 with 4.7K Resistor: With Impact, I initialize chain. It detects the xcs200a. Good start! It the asks me to load the .bit file. I load gcv...

What is the purpose of the save settings option, in Swiss? If I choose my DVD drive to load up Wind Waker, after the game is detected I can press X for options. I then can change a number of settings, such as force widescreen. (Still not sure the difference between Persp and Force). At the bottom it...

Still tyring to program this. Thought I would post a log. I would appreciate any suggestions. This log contains some errors at the top, where I did not have my power connected well. Onec that was tight, I proceeded to attempt erasing the flash. It fail. I tried it several times. I also then attempte...

Connected my programmer. Followed steps from Xilinx documentation, linked earlier in this thread. I was able to make the proper .mcs file, from the original .bit file. Using gcvideo-dvi-shuriken-v3-2.3.bit

Once loaded up, Flash fails to erase.

Swapped the flash mem for another. Same result.

Still no verify success. Address results change too. Starting to wonder if my "old pc" is odd. The northbridge is an nforce 2 ultra, so the southbridge is one in that really old nvidia chipset series. I then tried another parallel port. A 1x pci-e card in my 1st gen i7 system. I bound a Wi...

The diagram you've found in my posts was for using the board only (not attached to GC). In your case don't put battery or other power source! Fear not. I used the GC for power. I did not add any battery or additional voltage. I did ground parallel pin 18 though. I just attached it to the GC chassis...

Get the compiler from here 5.9.0 or newer. https://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/files/Setup%20Releases/ What am I compiling? Can I not just download the ready to go .bin from github? https://github.com/ikorb/gcvideo/blob/master/HDL/gcvideo_dvi/bin/gcvideo-dvi-shuriken-v3-2.3.bit I download...

I switched to SPIPGM. My flash erases fine. However during programming I get mismatched size warnings. Verify is full of errors.

Where does a capacitor go in your diagram? I don't see one. Why is pin 1 and 14 blue?

I'm using a M25P40

TALANTO wrote:You can probe the red one for voltage to see if it's working with the "wrong" fpga :

I measured 2.1v at that pin to chasis ground.