At @ames sega mega drive red screen

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Ah the firmware dump I'm using is from a post @dcuk7 shared on page 4 of the custom firmware for sega flashback 2018 thread. I tried to compile the files into a single image with a package-file using something called afptool but the resulting .img wouldn't flash.

Android Tool looks like it might be the answer! dcuk7's firmware dump only has a parameter file and a bunch of .img files, no config .cfg unfortunately. Can I create one from the parameter file? It appears to have partition addresses and sizes in it towards the end:

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CMDLINE:console=ttyS2,115200 androidboot.selinux=disabled earlyprintk init=/init initrd=0x62000000,0x00800000 root=/dev/rknand_rootfs rw rootwait mtdparts=rk29xxnand:0x00000800@0x00000800(misc),0x00004000@0x00001000(recovery),0x00000800@0x00005000(boot),0x00000800@0x00005800(resource),0x00002800@0x00006000(kernel),0x00007000@0x00008800(rootfs),0x0001E000@0x0000F800(rom),0x00004000@0x0002D800(emulator),-@0x00031800(data)

Although I'm not sure which value is the address and which is the size (if this even is what they refer to?!).

Thanks for your help!
 

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Ok I'm definitely getting closer, managed to unpack one of the official ATGames firmware files which contained a config.cfg file. Imported that into Android Tool and have got the following setup:

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I get some error creating image object if I click Run, not entirely sure why?
 

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Turns out all it needed to complete successfully was unchecking the top row (parameter), I then flashed all the other partitions and it's working great again.

Image from iOS.jpg

Thanks again for your help!!
 

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Hello all, first thanks to https://gbatemp.net/members/rrifonas.155635/ for help, i had two sega with red screen and i manage to fix them both.

First it was fix like this, i even posted a youtube video how to fix it, here is the link

And all passed fine.

On second on I had i problem because it was CW0081: NA, i could not manage to initialize firmware, but after soldering motherboard and full flash all passed ok.
Now i have two sega that i have fixed, thanks again all on help, I am sorry i could not make it sooner on my answer, but never is late :)
 
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Hello. Sorry for commenting on an old topic but i cannot download sega_update.img from the official site, i have the same problem, stuck in test mode.

Please help me.

Regards.
 

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