broken wrote:CZroe wrote:Wow. I was extremely critical of Terra Onion through the entire process and I openly refused to buy one until they apologize to the people who were just trying to help (still waiting on an apology to RetroRGB/Bob).
I’ve seen this mentioned several times recently. Let me make this very clear: Bob and Alex spoke several weeks ago and sorted out their differences. It originally started as a misunderstanding that snowballed from there. I think we have all been there before.
Maybe Bob will pop in here and comment on it, but I believe this has been resolved.
Thanks, Todd. I wish I knew about it sooner. I saw a few jabs back and forth this year and assumed it was still going.
strygo wrote:CZroe wrote:... I finally ordered an UpperGrafx UGX-02 on Saturday (alternative to SSDSys3 but with digital video).
Please create a thread with your experiences once you've had a chance to test the unit!
Well, that was the plan but the thing isn't even coming on.
Tested multiple TG16 consoles.
I'm digging through this thread again because I recall reading something about some consoles needing to have a ground connection soldered for SSDSys3 to work... but maybe that was something else somewhere else because I'm not finding it.
Edit: I recall where I saw that thing about SSDSys3 not working until you restore some ground connection. It was Ms Mad Lemon's SSDSys3 review (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bVWvTqwkq0 ).
https://forums.terraonion.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=67 Those ground points seem to be connected on the TG16 for me.
FBX wrote:UperGrafx also has noise in the audio too unfortunately. The video is digital perfect though, but the main problem is the menu and functions are Japanese-psychopathic. In order to get ISOs to work on it, you have to use a SPECIFIC version of an outdated program, and even at that, you have to do some editing in the CUE file. It was a horrible mess to deal with. The menu would randomly glitch out and crash too.
Bob tried talking to the guy that made it in the hopes he would support more modern and common image formats, as well as fix some of the issues, but he said the guy was stubborn and refused to change it.
Yeah. You've told me about the noise and I was prepared to just tolerate it.
I re-watched Bob's video while I was prepping my SD card. There's no getting around the clunky menu but there are definitely better methods for handling the CD image peculiarities.
I happen to be a paid user of "outdated" CloneCD but I didn't even bother to retrieve my key and install it.
Their "How to setup CD-ROM2 system" page tells us to use "CD Manipulator," which is current enough to support Win10 and rips straight to their supported format. I ripped my own discs with CDM, no editing/renaming files required. It's current enough to support Win10 just fine, unlike the real CDRWin (where SSDSys3's BIN/CUE comes from). I don't have anything that rips to BIN/CUE but I hear SSDSys3 got a few similar formats after launch (BIN/CUE/WAV?).
Granted, CDM is already an extra hoop if the game you're working with is already ripped or, you know, downloaded.
At least there's no need to burn your files and re-rip thanks to virtual drive software. Just mount the image and rip super-fast with CDM. I think Bob was lucky to even find CD-ROM² games in CloneCD format since I'm not seeing them in the wild. What I did find was a full N.A. English set with a lot of titles I was missing from my REDUMP set but it was all in MAME CHD format. Extracting to BIN/CUE with CHDMAN was tedious, even with the batch files I wrote to do 7 at a time. I still had to mount the extracted BIN/CUE and rip again with CDM. CHD was the biggest hurdle to getting my own set together and SSDSys3 wouldn't have been much easier (no CHD support).
I guess I understand why the creator doesn't want to accommodate downloads vs. backups in Japan's current climate. Some guy even got arrested for hacking SFC Mini (SNES Classic Edition) for his coworkers. Understanding doesn't make it suck less.
I doubt the creator is going to be able to work on it much since he's in San Diego for the next 6 months (learning English at SDSU). Probably didn't bring his lab.