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mega drive v4 install.

Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:03 am

Got my mega drive v4 in AWESOME! Time to mount it up.
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Post by emu_kidid » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:26 am

nice! but what about all those games that require slot 1 for saving?
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:31 am

I have one soldered under the board.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:34 am

Lots of hot glue
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Post by emu_kidid » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:34 am

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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 4:47 am

And a little closer
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:06 am

Have to find a place for the switch but there's time for that later.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:15 am

Holy crap that was so much easier than the month I spent making wasp work with an FFC adapter.
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Post by emu_kidid » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:40 am

Are you using a >64GB SDXC and that's why Swiss isn't filling out the space on the left or is it an older build where I wasn't populating it?
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:59 am

Hhhm. I didn't even notice that. It is R260, 32 gig sandisk sdhc.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:33 am

Okay I updated to R264 and still no capacity info. Attached is the card I'm using.
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Post by keropi » Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:59 am

:shock: when did SWISS started looking like this?

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damn, I missed lots of updates... :o
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Post by liquitt » Fri Jul 04, 2014 2:03 pm

cool idea! :)
please search before you ask - a lot has been discussed already!
(or use google with "site:gc-forever.com *term*")
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we also have a wiki filled with knowledge
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Post by megalomaniac » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:37 pm

can you put your SD card into slot B and read the capacity successfully??
weird why its not showing up in WKF/WASP menu..



i never noticed how perfect the WASP SD slot fits within the space of the memorycard port
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:55 pm

Prepping for mega v5 on another gamecube.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 5:56 pm

Thanks mega! That was my next try see if it reads capacity through SD gecko.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 6:02 pm

Figured a little bit of pre tinning couldn't hurt.
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Post by marcus9199 » Fri Jul 04, 2014 7:45 pm

Woo hoo!
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Post by megalomaniac » Fri Jul 04, 2014 10:59 pm

looks good
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Post by marcus9199 » Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:22 am

Okay so on the three cubes I have wasp fusion on they all read capacity from SD gecko in slot B with my sandisk 32 GB card. But dose not show from wasp SD reader.
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Post by megalomaniac » Sat Jul 05, 2014 12:44 am

under current investigation, been working with emu_kidid to isolate and resolve this...
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Post by marcus9199 » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:44 am

Not sure if this is common knowledge but it wasn't for me. I had a bad flash on one of my wasps. I was able to recover by booting from a functioning wasp with swiss change my device to read off my SD gecko. I then left the machine running and swapped wasps. Then ran the swiss flasher from the SD gecko. And no more soft bricked wasp!!!!
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Post by megalomaniac » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:42 pm

hot swapping can only be done two ways:
1. unplugging the FFC and hoping not to short something out reconnecting
2. plug n play adapter ti easily pull the the wasp out, then allow a safe way to swap and reconnect while in denergized status, then plug everything back in...


another way to recover from a bad flash is WASP connected to WASP
the good wasp is first in the chain. boot into swiss with the good wasp, remove SD card and insert into second wasp.
then with SD gecko, boot swiss again and begin flashing. The 1st wasp will be in passthru, 2nd will be main receiving the update.
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Post by iamdablasta » Sat Jul 05, 2014 7:46 pm

megalomaniac wrote:hot swapping can only be done two ways:
1. unplugging the FFC and hoping not to short something out reconnecting
2. plug n play adapter ti easily pull the the wasp out, then allow a safe way to swap and reconnect while in denergized status, then plug everything back in...


another way to recover from a bad flash is WASP connected to WASP
the good wasp is first in the chain. boot into swiss with the good wasp, remove SD card and insert into second wasp.
then with SD gecko, boot swiss again and begin flashing. The 1st wasp will be in passthru, 2nd will be main receiving the update.
Can you infinitely connect wasps together for increased capacity, technically? Really just curious.
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Post by novenary » Sat Jul 05, 2014 8:16 pm

How would that increase capacity ?
To answer your question, no. First because of the maximum amount of power the GC can feed into them, and also because of current/voltage drop over long wires. Especially with those very thin conductors that are FFC cables.
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