Flash ram and other

[Br-aIN]

RE2 WILL work on the Z64!!!
I'm sure it will work.
In about one/two weeks Visoly Inc. will
release a new bios which allows you to play RE2 and include a solution of the Fash -double EEprom problem. To play RE2, z64 will load the half of RE2 into the 32 MB Ram and later (or in the game)
it will load the other 32 Megs.
The peoplz from Visoly Inc. said that they will find a solution for the problem of the new save chips in the way to emulate it (like the save-fixes from Titanik) or release a hardware-part which you plug
between card and z64 witch has the new save
hardware in it.

[rvd]

Does Visoly Inc. have a website? If they do could you post it.

[Br-aIN]

It isn't very hard to find, but here it is: www.visoly.com (http://www.visoly.com)
Uh, oh this page is sooo hard to find...
Sorry, but it's very easy.
To get the information I wrote, I had to phone them. (I'm german so I phoned the german one's)

[rvd]

oopps now i feel like a dumbass. I tried that but maybe i missed a letter or something.

[Onnichiwa]

I'm sure that they will find a solution to the Flash-RAM problem, but I'm sceptical about being able to play RE2 without an hardware upgrade.

Nevertheless I hope it's true.

[_kid]

> release a new bios which allows you to play RE2 and include a
> solution of the Fash -double EEprom problem.
The double eeprom support relates to the ability of the Z64 of saving
the eeprom content if the boot cart has a 1k eeprom. This feature is
quite easy to implement.
The flash support is quite different: the flash chip behaves very
differently from a standard ram and the Z64 does not have the
emulation hardware for that. They could devise some form of builtin
crack, but it's neither easy nor automatic (otherwise someone would
have done a program doing that by now, as it happened with paladin for
the pal<->ntsc conversion)

> To play RE2, z64 will load the half of RE2 into the 32 MB Ram and later (or in the game) it
> will load the other 32 Megs.
Yeah this story is old by now. But unfortunately it's outright
impossible, for 2 reasons: first this assumes that the game does
only use half of its rom at time, never accessing the other part,
whereas this is possible it's quite unlikely. second this assumes that
the Z64 has a way to determine when to load in the second half of the
game and this is not possible at all. They could have devised some
clever patch only working for RE2 that actually modifies the game to
be two separate roms but it's a VERY difficult thing to do, and hardly
worth -- for it would be inusable for the future 512M games anyway.

> The peoplz from Visoly Inc. said that they will find a solution for
> the problem of the new save chips in the way to emulate it (like the
> save-fixes from Titanik)

The patch are not so easy to write, for the best N64 cracker available
(Titanik) was not able to do a generic patch for all the 1k eeprom or
all the flash games; what makes you think that visoly will be able to
perform such a feat?

> or release a hardware-part which you plug between card and z64 witch has the new
> save hardware in it.

Visoly is just a reseller. Their ignorance about the product shows
that: the cart on the boot cart slot can only be used for the CIC and
EEPROM chip, as the cart port on the Z64 does not allow fractional
decoding (that is either the N64 sees the whole cart OR the N64 sees
the Z64 in place of the cart and ONLY the CIC and EEPROM of the boot
cart...)

Assuming that both harrison and visoly actually said what was reported
in these forums, they have shown either (or both) an extreme
ingnorance about the inner working of their products or a willfull act
of disonesty, advertising a feature that their product can't have. In
either case their professionality is to be put under doubt....

[rvd]

How long was it before Bung thought up a solution for DS1 saving?In other words the time between the first game came out which used DS1 till the DS1 adapter came out?

[Br-aIN]

I only wrote down, what the peoplz from
Visoly Inc. (GER) meant.