EDN8 OS v20-BETA. Large update incoming

[SkinnyV]

It doesn’t have anything to do with not having enough space. Less technically enclined peoples keep trying to come up with excuse why it’s not Krikkz’s fault he is not fixing this. He didn’t explicitely say yet that he won’t fix the bugs of this firmware but if he doesn’t, it will be entirely his own decision as people even offered to mail him an affected console and everdrive and from what I understand he ended up refusing. His customers tried for months to figure out what caused the issues and the last finding was that it seemed that it might have to do with everdrive n8 used in conjunction with a famicom to nes adapter (even Krikkz own adapter), but by that time it seem there was no more plan to deal with this firmware.

[Sarge]

At a minimum, the issues I'm experiencing aren't related to a Famicom/NES adapter. Whether other issues, many of which I believe were more file system related, are due to that, I have no idea.

[SkinnyV]

Truth is, I wouldn’t be surprised if those issues re appear with the new everdrive n8 pro. It is highly unlikely krikkz will code everything from the ground up again and he will most likely build upon his previous code. Another reason why we shouldn’t hold our breath for him open sourcing the old firmware.

[OverlordManny]

Hi All,
I just made an account to post this.

I have an original Famicom that would run the Everdrive N8 on OSv16 fine but not any of the OSv20 RCs. I was getting grey screens when booting nearly all games except for Lagrange Point for some reason, (which ran great... at least in the intro) and a garbled menu when I would do a long reset. My Famicom needed a recap anyway so I went to console5 and got a cap kit and a 78S05 (a 2 amp version of the 7805, the original is 0.5 amp I believe.) Since replacing the caps and the regulator everything is working great on OSv20 rc7. I've tested about 15 games and no grey screen or garbled menu on reset. I didn't even do a full format this time, I just deleted the old EDFS folder and copied over the OSv20 folder.

Hope that helps someone.

[fernan1234]

That's interesting. Maybe the OSv20 RCs need our consoles to be in tip top shape to work well 

Hopefully the next N8 will also fix the problem with consoles that have a NESRGB installed where sometimes there is speckling all over the picture, requiring a random number of power resets to clear up.

[brianvgplayer]

Hopefully the next N8 will also fix the problem with consoles that have a NESRGB installed where sometimes there is speckling all over the picture, requiring a random number of power resets to clear up.

I'm a bit confused here. I thought it was fixed in V20 since it no longer occurs on AVS like it did with V16. I didn't have the speckling on the AV Famicom or model 2 NES at all. I heard v16 fixed it for some systems, though. Not sure why it's still coming up on some systems. 

[Retrothunder]

Krikzz im seeing that your working the the everdrive N8 Pro would that updated everdive work mapper30

[radel1996]

First i wanna to see a fixed 20 OS for MMC3 Games thats how don't have crashes anymore

[Mr.Filz]

I have an everdrive n8 famicom style, and a rgb modded AV Famicom. And i still have issues with the white artifacts and lines on screen. Especially with Rockman 5 and 3 or Batman Returns.  The everdrive is loaded with OS 20 rc7. But i had this issue before with 16. Is there a way to fix it?

[my2k2zx2]

I took my famicom style n8 with the 60-72 adapter over to a friends house today.  I had left the micro sd with R20v5 by accident, but figured I would try anyway to see what happened.  To my surprise, the thing loaded up and we were able to play without any problems.  The only difference between my 2 front loaders and his front loader was that his lockout chip was disabled with the one pin removed.

Why would this work on with the famicom style and adapter?  We tried it about 50 times and it boots up every time.  Never stuck once on OS INIT or any other error.  Seems that mine and everyone else with the adapter cannot get it to work.  Has anyone else tried disabling the lockout chip and see if that made any difference?

[Svin83]

Just wanted to say thanks to Krikzz for all the hard work he has put into this.

Thanks a lot 

[brianvgplayer]

Not sure the lockout chip is the issue since the errors happened to me on the official top loading NES using the Famicom N8 with adapter.

The first post from Krikzz recommends RC4 if you have artifacts with other versions.

[my2k2zx2]

Ok, I wont open up mine and cut the pin if that might not work.  I wonder why it works in my friend's?  Next time I head over there I'll see if I can get him to trade consoles.

[Sarge]

I don't think it's the lockout chip, either. I've got three front-loaders, and two exhibit issues with RC6, and one doesn't. All of them are unmodified outside of a resistor mod on one.

[Link83]

It might help locate the cause if anyone with multiple systems that are working/not working can list which motherboard revision is inside each system.