Hello !
I met an issue with Top Gear Rally and the last Kernel update (T3). Can't load any race anymore when using BOOT WITH ADDON mode. Everything works fine with my other 20+ games though.
1. Game console type: Game Boy Micro OXY-001 Famicom Edition
2. Firmware version: 5 (displayed 99 in menu)
3. Kernel version: T3
4. MicroSD type: Samsung Pro 32Go (gray one) 90MB/s read 80MB/s write UHS-I Class 3
5. MicroSD format: FAT32
6. MicroSD cluster size or allocation unit size: 32K
7. Bug description: Can't launch any race on Top Gear Rally (U) anymore with T3 kernel in BOOT WITH ADDON mode (worked fine with T2 kernel before though)
8. Bug reproduce steps:
- Launch Top Gear Rally (U) with BOOT WITH ADDON mode (here Save, Reset and Sleep functions activated)
- Launch the 1st Championship track (some other races may launch but will quickly crash right after for most of them)
- Notice that the game crashes (black screen and sometimes weird sound can be heard)
1. Game console type: Game Boy Micro OXY-001 Famicom Edition
2. Firmware version: 5 (displayed 99 in menu)
3. Kernel version: T3
4. MicroSD type: Samsung Pro 32Go (gray one) 90MB/s read 80MB/s write UHS-I Class 3
5. MicroSD format: FAT32
6. MicroSD cluster size or allocation unit size: 32K
7. Bug description: RTS saved previously with T2 kernel does not work anymore with T3 in some games
8. Bug reproduce steps:
- Launch Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure with BOOT WITH ADDON mode (here Save, Reset and Sleep functions activated)
- Try to load a RTS that was saved previously under T2 kernel
- Notice that the state is broken
1. Game console type: Game Boy Micro OXY-001 Famicom Edition
2. Firmware version: 5 (displayed 99 in menu)
3. Kernel version: T2 (can't be tested on T3 due to 1st bug above)
4. MicroSD type: Samsung Pro 32Go (gray one) 90MB/s read 80MB/s write UHS-I Class 3
5. MicroSD format: FAT32
6. MicroSD cluster size or allocation unit size: 32K
7. Bug description: Omega menu breaks the ingame display in some games as Top Gear Rally
8. Bug reproduce steps:
- Launch Top Gear Rally with BOOT WITH ADDON mode (here Save, Reset and Sleep functions activated)
- Display the Omega menu with L + R + Start
- Exit this menu
- Notice that the display is now broken
Note: Seems to be here a context loss. On a SuperCard MiniSD, the context is lost as well if trying to load a save (created during a race) outside a race because the "3D" engine has not been initialized yet but works fine if the save is loaded after the game engine is initialized through a race on the SuperCard. May be a lead to explore.
Scrolling file name is a nice addition in T3 kernel BTW.
I would like to add some suggestions as well (I know some of them would require some time to develop):
- allow to delete/copy/cut/paste and rename files and folders
- allow to delete a game in NOR Flash memory even if it's not the last one (maybe it's impossible due to limitations of memory addressing of this kind of Flash, don't know). Because writing games to NOR Flash memory (which is long, about 1Mbit per second) becomes quite useless over launching them directly from PSRAM (very fast as well).
Other than that, it's really a great piece of hardware, the performance is awesome (like on a real cartridge) and loading times are soooo faaaaaast. It's really nice to see a few guys still developping a good Everdrive in 2018 for the "old" GBA.