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    Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

    _CARTDMPDAT and _CARTDMPHDR are saves generated by "indirect dump" feature of Save Data Manager. This feature allows to export the contents of a backup memory cartridge to another cartridge on the same slot by using Saturn internal backup memory as a temporary copy area. As a consequence, the...
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    SEGA Saturn 29th Anniversary Game Competition - Discussion Thread

    I thought about this hack when I wrote the goofy review for my entry. I'm glad that it contributed to something :)
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    SEGA Saturn 29th Anniversary Game Competition

    My entry is "Jacky Car" which is a racing game adapted from the eponym game for TI calculators here : Ti-Fr v3 ! Basically, it's like OutRun, but viewed from top, and without beaches, and without open cars too. It also shares some common points with PONG (regarding the lack of fancy graphics)...
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    Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

    It is a pleasure to announce that Pseudo Saturn Kai v6.541 is released and available on my homepage :) https://ppcenter.webou.net/pskai/#download In addition of Action Replay and other clones of cartridges, Pseudo Saturn Kai also supports some optical disc emulators so please have fun with it...
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    Save Data Manager on Burned CD?

    (Just for the information : this issue was caused by Save Data Manager wrongly thinking that it was booting from an environment with Satiator ODE already initialized and because of that it was endlessly waiting from the answer of a command to Satiator which was causing the almost black screen on...
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    Radiant Silvergun - Training Mode in Saturn version

    BE PRAYING BE PRAYING BE PRAYING
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    Save Data Manager on Burned CD?

    @privateye reported me this issue recently and there was similar reports on other SNS too, so your CD-ROM drive is not going bad. Please don't trash it. I will try to fix this issue but TBH I have no idea of what is causing that. If lucky then it shall be fixed in next public release :)
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    Convert save from SSF to Retroarch format?

    SaveRepack utility should be helpful for you : from PC utility, just select the save files and generate an iso file that can be played on real hardware or emulator. And from there, the selected saves can be copied by using "Save Data Import" feature. More information is available here : SEGA...
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    Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

    It's not a problem related to laser because in that case the contents from CD-ROM would either be unreadable at all or the disc would be spinning strangely etc. As you can see on the screen capture, there's a difference of 16 characters between the corrupted characters displayed on screen and...
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    Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

    Dragon Force II not working with some cartridges from ebay or aliexpress is a known issue : https://ppcenter.webou.net/pskai/compat/#hw_issues Basically, this is caused by the messy PCB routing of the cartridge. Pseudo Saturn Kai itself and your Saturn are unlikely to be at the root of the problem.
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    SDLoader v0.12: run binaries from SD Card and backup/restore saves

    Some speedup tricks : - When dumping internal backup memory or cartridge, bytes at even address are FFh and consequently don't need to be dumped. - Bit shift on Saturn is not super efficient, so instead you may want to use a mask table and do an AND to get the status of each bits. - If not...
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    USB dev cart project

    Yes, it still rules !! I sell USB dev carts but I keep my own cart :) Thank you !! The main reason why I'm hurrying is to send the carts before the shipping fee increase on June 1st. So feel free to remove the thread on the front page after that time.
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    USB dev cart project

    Sorry to hijack this thread but this is to inform that I have (a few) USB dev carts available for sale on my blog : https://ppcenter.webou.net/devblog/article148/usb-dev-cart-flash-sale-2022-05-17 First public release of USB dev cart was more or less 10 years ago, so let's consider this as an...
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    Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

    Thank you :) @TheIceberg : Compatibility settings will be updated in next release of Pseudo Saturn Kai. Until that moment, please push Z button while selecting "Start Game" in boot menu to run these games, as indicated by @privateye.
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    SEGA Saturn 27th Anniversary Game Competition

    Intention of my message wasn't to get a better ranking but simply to clarify what this was able to do. So please restore back its ranking to 4th.
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