Just flashed the Megadrive img with /rom remount, works a treat, you can even add mega cd / sega cd roms, BUT you have to load the bin rather than the cue file.
your solution is more elegant as it only remounts when the intended file is added to the SD and otherwise has no impact.
love it!!
Steve
This is the other option I noticed :) I figured that either way is just as permanant as you are flashing the img file.. But your way avoids doing anything to the rootfs (which is obviously a little safer) could you pm me the config stuff or share it anyway as there are 2 other things I want to...
Cheers, let me know where I can get the config stuff and I'll give it a go.. It's easy enough to extract the existing rom partition so can throw that on SD with any additionals :) once I have that working, I have other enhancement ideas (but need to prove this first)
Thanks
Steve
Does anyone know where I can find the unpack and repack tools for playing with the img files, Ive managed to mount them in Ubuntu, Ive managed to extract the squashfs image for root fs and modify it, I'm struggling to find instructions on repacking... maybe i'm not searching hard enough but the...
OK I have done some digging, I don't have time right now to do anything but.. Within root.img you can access /etc/fstab (this is where mount points are set for the underlying OS. I rekon, I'm you updated /rom to mount to /dev/mmcblk0p1 with an fs type of auto and repack and flash, the device...
It's only a text file so I can't imagine it would be that big?
If you can repoint the loader to read the ini from data, is it not possible to do the same but point it to the SD Card? I appreciate no sd = no games in this instance but extracting the games to the sd is no biggie :/ I'm gonna get...
@rrifonas those instructions are amazing :) 60MB should be a fair few roms compressed :)
I do wonder if there is a way we can create a symlink? (or remount the SD card to \rom) (my knowledge of Linux is limited) to the SD card from the rom partition allowing us to add roms with images etc to the...
I just bridged the solder points in mine to use the external port and drilled a small hole in the back to depress the recovery button without opening the case again lol. No point me sharing my backup, I already used the patches and converted from a Megadrive to a genesis by accident.. I just...
Is it possible to advise on the method of creating dumps? And additionally is there any documentation around on how to create a modified image?
It would be good for me to make a full backup (as I already screwed up once)
Steve
Thanks for taking the time to reply, I'm not normally as stupid as to do this, but turns out on this occasion I was (I thing I assumed there would be some kind of check done on the image before it was applied)
As mentioned, one of my controllers also developed a fault (which was fortunate) so I...
Don't worry about my previous question, I have got around the issue, turns out that my device also had an unfortunate hardware issue and required replacing.... (genuine) I now have a new unit and will not be D**king around with this one (beyond the SD and sega cd patches)
Random question, if someone out of sheer curiosity (and stupidity) decided to randomly try to flash the 'Legends' flashback firmware to the 2018 Megadrive / genesis flashback unit which failed, and then the original firmware was reflashed... and boots fine BUT all the built in games have...
btw i feel this a good time to remind you guys that sea of thieves was made by rare, who also made DKC1-3 and DK64, alongside banjo kazooie and conker's bad fur day