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[vaughan80]

I've just acquired a caanoo and have started the process of putting emu's and roms onto the device.

When I launch Picodrive and load a rom, the screen splits in half. Top half is the caanoo menu, the other is a garbled, grey fuzzy mess. If I move the analogue stick the menu responds. It does this with every single rom I have tried. Has anyone else encountered this, and if so - how can I fix it?

I am also having trouble loading roms into the NES (GPFCE) emulator. When I load a rom, it says there is an error.

It is also worth noting that I have tried this with both the old firmware, and the latest version.

Can anyone help me out?

[vaughan80]

It is also worth noting, that for the Picodrive - I have downloaded some new rom files, from a different source, in case my originals were corrupted. They do not work also.

[erico]

Really strange, I ran both and never got to any of those problems.
I use latest firmware.

Maybe it is a problem with the rom itself.

[vaughan80]

Really strange, I ran both and never got to any of those problems.
I use latest firmware.

Maybe it is a problem with the rom itself.

I thought this, but it does it with all of the roms I have tried (approx 40 for each emu).
I have also downloaded the emulators again and done a fresh install on a new SD card. Same Problem... Anyone?

[Reesy]

from what you describe it sounds like Picodrive is crashing and is leaving the LCD in 16bit mode, the normal caanoo menu runs in 24bit which is why it looks strange when you crash out of Picodrive. As to why the emulator is crashing, I have no idea. Have you tried running uncompressed roms? Are your roms zipped using 7zip? If an unzipped rom works then maybe its to do with the compression used to "zip" the rom.

[vaughan80]

from what you describe it sounds like Picodrive is crashing and is leaving the LCD in 16bit mode, the normal caanoo menu runs in 24bit which is why it looks strange when you crash out of Picodrive. As to why the emulator is crashing, I have no idea. Have you tried running uncompressed roms? Are your roms zipped using 7zip? If an unzipped rom works then maybe its to do with the compression used to "zip" the rom.

Hi Reesy, I have tried uncompressing the roms and I am still experiencing the same problem. Although... had a couple of roms work earlier today (shinobi notably), which were zipped. Makes me think the vast majority of my roms are screwed. I'll have to test each one in turn i think.

Regarding the NES emulator, no matter if the roms are zipped or not, the emulator will definitely not work. I get "error loading rom". I've also tried roms from a different source, same issue.

[rohezal]

Did you use maybe the pico drive emulator for a different device like the wizz?

[Reesy]

from what you describe it sounds like Picodrive is crashing and is leaving the LCD in 16bit mode, the normal caanoo menu runs in 24bit which is why it looks strange when you crash out of Picodrive. As to why the emulator is crashing, I have no idea. Have you tried running uncompressed roms? Are your roms zipped using 7zip? If an unzipped rom works then maybe its to do with the compression used to "zip" the rom.

Hi Reesy, I have tried uncompressing the roms and I am still experiencing the same problem. Although... had a couple of roms work earlier today (shinobi notably), which were zipped. Makes me think the vast majority of my roms are screwed. I'll have to test each one in turn i think.

Regarding the NES emulator, no matter if the roms are zipped or not, the emulator will definitely not work. I get "error loading rom". I've also tried roms from a different source, same issue.

Something else must be going on then, you mentioned you used a new SD card..was this freshly formatted. The fact that you are having problems with 2 separate emulators would suggest your issue is with the SD card. The only other thing I can suggest is to run Picodrive from a telnet session, this way you may get to see the actual error which is causing Picodrive to crash..the error may shed some light as to the exact issue.

[Akabei]

I'd go with reesy's first suggestion. There is this tiny, little program called SD Formatter by Panasonic. You should give your sd cards another try, after a fat32 format.

[vaughan80]

thanks guys / girls. i'll have a go with that and get back to you.