Hey all,
Someone recently asked me about some Donkey Kong Country 2 hacks to put on a cart. I never did a large SNES game but I looked it up and it seemed fine. But for some reason its not booting up, and im looking for some possibilities.
The hacks are: Donkey Kong Country 2: Hard as Kongkrete and Donkey Kong Country 2: The Lost Levels.
Both are 4 Meg Hi-Rom, fastROMs with 2k SRAM and battery. So I got a Retrostage board and put it together, with the correct jumpers and all, even double checking with the pdf.
I patched the game, cracked the region protection, both dont have headers, both CRC codes are correct and the patched rom works in an emulator. The only thing I can think of is that the Retrostage boards come with 64k SRAM (but that shouldnt make a difference, the game would still turn on), the board itself is bad or that its a FastROM game. But for both games I used an M27c322 chip thats 100ns. Chips both verified correctly, so its also possible I prepped the chip wrong. I think I used the 'SlowRom' fix on both.
Anyone have any experience with this game not working or needing something special? All I get is a black screen and the game never turns over. Happened with both games. I haven't seen many people make them before so it might be one of those PIA games.
Someone recently asked me about some Donkey Kong Country 2 hacks to put on a cart. I never did a large SNES game but I looked it up and it seemed fine. But for some reason its not booting up, and im looking for some possibilities.
The hacks are: Donkey Kong Country 2: Hard as Kongkrete and Donkey Kong Country 2: The Lost Levels.
Both are 4 Meg Hi-Rom, fastROMs with 2k SRAM and battery. So I got a Retrostage board and put it together, with the correct jumpers and all, even double checking with the pdf.
I patched the game, cracked the region protection, both dont have headers, both CRC codes are correct and the patched rom works in an emulator. The only thing I can think of is that the Retrostage boards come with 64k SRAM (but that shouldnt make a difference, the game would still turn on), the board itself is bad or that its a FastROM game. But for both games I used an M27c322 chip thats 100ns. Chips both verified correctly, so its also possible I prepped the chip wrong. I think I used the 'SlowRom' fix on both.
Anyone have any experience with this game not working or needing something special? All I get is a black screen and the game never turns over. Happened with both games. I haven't seen many people make them before so it might be one of those PIA games.