Extrems wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 17, 2022 11:05 pm

1μF, 10V.

Thanks! Much appreciated.

TL;DR: C162 had gone bad as well. Removed it. Does anyone know the capacitance of C162? The ribbon cable connector leg for the V+ trace was destroyed. I bypassed it by connecting directly to battery terminal. Used through-hole instead of SMD to replace R16. Soldered directly to IPL chip. Need to at...

PR is here:
https://github.com/seewood/iplboot/pull/1

Docs on my fork are here: https://github.com/yo1dog/iplboot#compi ... r-picoboot

OH YEA! Got it! I miss-read the docs. version r26 of devKitPro is only required if you are compiling for the old qoob or viper mode chips which had limited space. Doesn't mater for PicoBoot. So you can just use latest devKitPro. Getting it compiling was pretty easy after that. I'll be submitting pul...

I tried stealing usleep.o and nanosleep.o from the latest version and using them to link. It worked... in that it linked and compiled successfully. But after flashing my pico I get only a black screen. Not sure if the problem is those libraries or something else. Would like to get my build environme...

More digging. I searched through all the symbols in all the libraries in my normal/latest devkitpro installation looking for where usleep was defined. Found it: find /opt/devkitpro -name '*.a' -exec bash -c "echo {}; nm --defined-only {} 2>/dev/null | grep usleep" \; ... /opt/devkitpro/dev...

Ah I realized I could use the --verbose flag in addition to -v. Some more information: linking ... iplboot.elf powerpc-eabi-gcc -Wl,--gc-sections,-v,--verbose -nostartfiles /home/mike/projects/devkitppc-amd64_26/amd64/devkitPPC/lib/gcc/powerpc-eabi/*/crtend.o /home/mike/projects/devkitppc-amd64_26/a...

Been a while since my C days and I am have a hell of a time getting IPLBoot to compile as it requires an old version of devkitPPC (r26). https://github.com/seewood/iplboot#building-with-minimal-code-fits-in-qoobsx-and-vipergc Following the instructions, I found version r26 of devkitPPC here , pulled...

Very cool stuff. Way over my head but; if Extrems was able to port IDE-EXI to SP1, could the same be done for SD support? SD2SP1 perhaps? ha I assume not. I only ask because I am considering modding an SD adapter for sd2sp2 functionality to my DOL-101. The M2.Loader sounds amazing but I'm guessing i...

Fixed it! Funny enough, the problem had nothing to do with that big mess. It was the ribbon cable. It just hit me that I remembered seeing slight discoloration on one of the ribbon traces. I found more corrosion in the ribbon connector. Cleaned that out and it works again. Now to get my EE brother-i...

Actually, looks like C169 is not supposed to be there... Hard to find a good image of the motherboard but I found this:

https://github.com/webhdx/PicoBoot/blob ... g?raw=true

Calendar settings would never keep even after replacing the battery. I found a lot of corrosion on the MB next to the controller board ribbon cable. Clearly someone had spilling something on the GC long ago. I hit it with some isopropyl alcohol and a toothbrush. Here's before and after: http://i.img...

Have you seen PicoBoot? It's an IPL injection mod using a Raspberry Pi Pico. No disc required.

https://github.com/webhdx/PicoBoot