Author Topic: Turbo Everdrive  (Read 875 times)

Bonknuts

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Re: Turbo Everdrive
« Reply #30 on: December 27, 2013, 10:32:15 AM »
Chilly Willy said he was working on a unified OS for all Everdrives and I assume that includes the TED. As a homebrewer himself he may make any space that's actually there accessible. I guess we'll see.

 I wonder who wrote/made the TOS rom for the TE. I did ask Krikzz if the fpga could be updated to support new hardware (specifically asked for full sf2 mapper range), but he said that can't be done through SD card.
 
 I do know that the 64k of base CD ram is there (as it should be), so I'm gonna continue with the SF2 graphic upgrades. The nice thing about the card, is that it allows for hucard+cdram or hucard+cd projects. I've heard reports that people with Duo and SuperCDROM units, can actually use the system card 3.0 and still run SuperCD games. I'll believe that when I see it (it's not supposed to work like that. CD 2.0 yeah, but not CD 3.0). But if that is true, that'll be a pretty nice feature for CD translators. Most of the system card rom is just 12x12 and 16x16 SJIS fonts, which isn't needed for English translation games. You could put custom fonts in that space as well as custom code. Not even just translations, but homebrew CD games. I haven't tested that out, because I need to take apart my CD drive and reassemble it (last time I took it apart, I didn't put it back together right and the CD spindle is sitting too low for the CD to spin).

 Edit: Seems there's something weird with this card and Duo/SuperCDROM units. I'm hoping it's a clever feature on the card and not just a matter of a bus conflict losing to hucard open bus area (unmapped/non-mirrored rom). Supposedly, Populous only works with the TE card on Duo/SuperCDROM units. Not the older CD addon units.
« Last Edit: December 27, 2013, 02:20:59 PM by Bonknuts »