Pseudo Saturn Kai official thread

[cafe-alpha]

This is the right place to report issues regarding Pseudo Saturn Kai 🙂 Sorry for the delay.
I shall update the automatic selection of JHL loader for Decathlete USA. The change will be available in next public release.

BTW, do you confirm that other games load correctly with automatic loader ? Also, if possible please give another try with the game burned on another CD-R, or the original game CD-ROM if you have it nearby.
It's very likely to be a problem on Pseudo Saturn Kai, but in order to be sure it's not a caused by your CD-ROM drive (or the brand/quality/burning speed of your CD-R etc) that would be great if you can test with another CD-ROM.

 

[privateye]

Decathlete (USA) works correctly on my Japan Model 2 (HST 3220 bios 1.01) only with JHL loader. If launched automatically (I presume with the CWX loader) it hangs randomly during transitions. (PSK 6.545, black 4 in 1 cart).

On two different Saturns with BIOS v1.01 (CRC: 224B752C), I played four events in Decathlon mode and went in-and-out of different menus several times but did not encounter this behavior with the CWX loader. Stock all-in-one carts can cause many issues so, if it is not already shielded, please apply shielding to your cart (as shown here) and test again.

 

[halkieria]

On two different Saturns with BIOS v1.01 (CRC: 224B752C), I played four events in Decathlon mode and went in-and-out of different menus several times but did not encounter this behavior with the CWX loader. Stock all-in-one carts can cause many issues so, if it is not already shielded, please apply shielding to your cart (as shown here) and test again.

It happens consistently on my side only in the arcade mode, for triggering it select "400m race" as the fourth event, fail it (it's simple to fail it) and then retry it. This consistently reproduce the hang. In Decathlon mode strangely it never hangs. Btw, it could be the shielding but it's the first issue I have with my setup after 30+ burned games.

 

[privateye]

It happens consistently on my side only in the arcade mode, for triggering it select "400m race" as the fourth event, fail it (it's simple to fail it) and then retry it. This consistently reproduce the hang. In Decathlon mode strangely it never hangs.

Thanks for the info, this seems to be a bug in the game itself as it occurs when playing the following versions on Fenrir ODE via the official loader :

• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.001)
• DecAthlete (USA)

JHL loader does not fix the issue in either version for me, and the bug is fixed in the following versions :

• Athlete Kings (Europe)
• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.004)
• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.005)

As an aside, two characters were removed from the USA version so I recommend playing the European or revised Japanese versions instead. More info here :

Sega Saturn games with major region and version changes.

You might be surprised to learn that often games in the 90s could differ wildly depending on which region you where playing the game in. While it's a bit of a mute point due to 50hz, usually the PAL…

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[halkieria]

Thanks for the info, this seems to be a bug in the game itself as it occurs when playing the following versions on Fenrir ODE via the official loader :

• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.001)
• DecAthlete (USA)

JHL loader does not fix the issue in either version for me, and the bug is fixed in the following versions :

• Athlete Kings (Europe)
• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.004)
• DecAthlete (Japan) (v1.005)

As an aside, two characters were removed from the USA version so I recommend playing the European or revised Japanese versions instead. More info here :

Sega Saturn games with major region and version changes.

You might be surprised to learn that often games in the 90s could differ wildly depending on which region you where playing the game in. While it's a bit of a mute point due to 50hz, usually the PAL…

www.tumblr.com

Interesting! And maybe I understood why it didn't happen anymore for me. I guess that if you enter a record in the 400m race in Decathlon mode, the bug is not triggered any longer. That's why I thought that with the JHL loader it doesn't happen anymore, I set a record in Decathlon mode before trying again in the Arcade mode with the JHL.

 

[cafe-alpha]

Thank you for the investigation, @privateye and @halkieria ! Automatic loader setting is set back to original setting (CWX loader) and source code contains some comments regarding DecAthlete support in case someone reports a similar problem in the future 🙂

 

[mhmetalheart]

Hello, the satiator just updated to new ver. Can support change disc. Hope PSKAI can update soon.

 

[cafe-alpha]

Hello, the satiator just updated to new ver. Can support change disc. Hope PSKAI can update soon.

I was about to write that it's not possible to merge new features without the source code of Satiator official menu. Then I looked at its repository to find that it was updated recently !
So it should be possible to update Satiator Menu Kai but I need some time to check what's new on that source code, update and test Satiator Menu Kai etc. Please stay tuned 🙂

 

[ee574]

hello, i want to use pseudosaturn kai built in cheat in my another action play cartrigde, how could i extract or read code on data sheet? or where i can get code sheet? Thank you.

 

[ee574]

I found cheat data "SatCom_src_20240114\pseudosat_kai\cheat_codes\cheats_full_data_ram.c" and "SatCom_src_20240114\pseudosat_kai\cheat_codes\cheats_full_data_rom.c", but it is difficult to extract and recognize, is there any tool to convert that into readable data?

 

[cafe-alpha]

Pseudo Saturn Kai cheat codes handler was developed without regard of compatibility with Action Replay cheat codes handler (the interest of adding cheat codes feature was to make something better than Action Replay, not something similar) and for that reason the cheat codes list can't be imported from Action Replay cartridge.

 

[ee574]

thank you！Another question is that has Pseudo Saturn Kai provide any bin file which can be loaded by Saturn Emulator "SSF", the emulator can load cartridge(4MB Expand RAM, Backup RAM...etc) bin file.

 

[ee574]

 

[privateye]

@ee574 : flasher_full.bin is for flashing the full version of Pseudo Saturn Kai to Gamer's Cartridge or USB dev cart, it's not for use in SSF.
To use a cartridge in SSF, simply go into Option(O) -> Peripheral and set "Cartridge" to the feature that you wish to use. Nothing has to be set in the "Data Cartridge" field.

For example, if you want to use a backup memory cartridge then the Peripheral tab should look like this :

Latest version of SSF at the time of this post is SSF_PreviewVer_R33 and is available here :

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