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Summary of Contents for 64drive

Page 1: ...D E V E L O P M E N T T O O L USER S MANUAL 121414 ...

Page 2: ...nu to see more specific attributions and software revision information NOTICES CONTENTS COPYRIGHT INFORMATION iv NOTICES iv CONTENTS v Introduction 1 Physical Considerations 1 In Case of a Problem 1 Getting Started 1 Check Formatting 1 Install the Menu 1 Copy Image Files 2 Turn It On 2 Getting Around the Menu 2 Loading an Image 2 After You re Done 2 Menu Options 3 Use Saves Folder 3 Reset Button A...

Page 3: ...gram and loads it Within just a moment you should see the menu for the first time Getting Around the Menu The buttons control the menu much the same way as they do in most games Introduction The 64drive is a tool designed to be used with the Nintendo 64 video game console for the ends of game development and or modification Conceived out of frustration at the lack of options available on the marke...

Page 4: ...ontroller and copy the entire contents into a virtual con tainer file stored on the memory card The menu supports 6 of these virtual containers so that if you run out of space on your real Controller Pak it may be set aside You may move around the pak contents as whole but at this time re moving individual entries is unsupported All software designed for the N64 console utilizing a Controller Pak ...

Page 5: ...s stopped Tools The 64drive_usb tool is available from the support website With it you can trans fer your homebrew images to the cartridge for testing and debugging You can also read and write directly to the USB FIFO using a set of memory mapped registers The specifics are detailed in the separate Hardware Specification document avail able from the support website USB Mode The 64drive has a dedic...

Page 6: ...ther parts of the world received cartridges whose notches are inset by about 1cm It is possible for software running on the N64 to detect what region of console it is using Some titles were able to adapt to these changes and apply video and sound changes to work in both regions Others were hard coded to only accept one region It is possible to have the 64drive to fake the proper region but since t...

Page 7: ... 7101 and the BANK jumper immediately above the CIC footprint should also then be shorted closed This selects an alternate bootload er that is compatible with the new CIC No compatibility problems have been found as a result of using this method Otherwise there are patches in the wild for both these two situations Troubleshooting Startup Problems I am using CompactFlash and loading is erratic or g...

Page 8: ... the effects I m seeing or inexplicably broken Delete the settings cfg file from the memory card and let the menu rebuild it Sector too close to MBR error Please email me at the support address Filesystem issue This may indicate a problem with the FAT table Put the memory card in a computer and run a disk integ rity scan such as chkdsk Settings cfg is corrupt Delete the file and try again ...

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