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Thank you for the feedback. I updated my homepage with a warning that it's not an ODE, and added links to several places where to buy ODEs.

Oops, I forgot to mention about embedding directly into user program. That's the concept of libyaul's gdb stub and IMHO a smart solution for the ones in need of a full-featured debugger.

Q5. Is there an updated firmware than inside in Antime ISO? A5. Alternate firmware is Pseudo Saturn Kai, and as it allows to boot from CD-R it's convenient to test the application in "release mode". Example of usage is for example to use USB transfer to debug/improve/polish/etc a given feature...

Problem fixed ! Thank you @ArcadeTV for testing ! Note for WingmanSD users : please set controller to "Arcade Stick" mode (which is not the default one) so that game compatibility is improved.

I received some questions about USB dev cart, whose answers may interest other people interested in this project. So let's share them here. Q1. What should be PCB thickness? A1. 1.6mm, which is usually the default size when ordering the manufacturing of a PCB. Q2. Have you any tutorial using...

RmenuKai have this setting being locked to system reset, and (IIRC) as RMENU is providing system reset feature too I doubt that disabling it will solve the problem So the best I can do is to prepare a test utility to get more details about what's going wrong with your controller. On your side...

save_id is an extra feature of Gamer's Cartridge to revision history of saves (for example, to recover a save that was deleted or overwritten), so in normal usage setting it always to zero should be fine.

I don't think that there is a game requiring correct metadata to work, but there's maybe a weird case of game using language field to store save data (Bug IIRC, but I may be wrong) and generally speaking it's better to keep metadata as for example comment of a save may give some information...

Legally speaking, only uploading a patch of what is modified from original contents is allowed. But since that there are folks selling physical copies of translated games (for Ninpen Manmaru and many other other games too), I personally consider uploading a pre-patched disc image as a "bad but...

It's good you could find an appropriate compression algorithm. Let's hope that it will help to contribute to dump even more save data :) Regarding the 256KB limit, it is written in a SEGA technical doc (I don't remember which one) and AFAIK there's no game reaching such upper limit, but...

With Tamagotchi Park save, I did a "raw" dump of first 1MB from CS-1 space, and that 1MB ... fitted into internal memory (32KB) after compression. Because Tamagotchi Park save data is full of 00h, that's a champion result, but in typical case it's not negligible. BTW, the saves I received...

@malenko Roger, I will test if the save works and shall let you know about the result after that ...

Total is around 133KB : 5,056 SEGARALLY_0.RAW 29,440 TEITOKU3_01.RAW 40,356 TEITOKU3_02.RAW 40,356 TEITOKU3_03.RAW 1,888 T_FORCEV_00.RAW 19,964 WAD_MAPS_00.RAW And I was told to wait for 15 hours to receive another save ^^ So adding compression may help a lot.

Good luck in adding compression. Basically anything better than RLE should be fine, so you can for example use bzip2 because it was added in Rockin'-B Save Data Manager, hence shall be easy to merge into SGEX.