Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Hi all, I got this PSX Snac adapter this week from https://MiSTerFPGA.co.UK and it works great. However I’m not sure how I’m supposed to save games when using the Snac adapter?

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I’ve put a blank.mcd file in my PSX games folder but when I try to mount the file it doesn’t appear.

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Re: Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Controllers and memory cards both come in on the same connection.

So if you want to save while SNAC is enabled then you need to connect a real memory card.

The way to do that is with a multi tap.

You plug that into SNAC port 1 and then plug your controller and memory card into the multi tap's port 1.
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Re: Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Easy time to use save states

https://youtu.be/vVhaeBYRLTk
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Re: Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Or you can just mount a memory card in slot 2 if you are only using SNAC on P1.
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aberu wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:11 pm Or you can just mount a memory card in slot 2 if you are only using SNAC on P1.
Cool. How do I do that?
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Re: Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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Swainy wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:29 pm
aberu wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:11 pm Or you can just mount a memory card in slot 2 if you are only using SNAC on P1.
Cool. How do I do that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyhGE862kkw

Like this.

You just choose the psx .sav file. Each one of these is a memory card. If you want a blank one use this --> https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/PSX_MiS ... /empty.mcd
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Re: Memory Card & SNAC Adapter

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A handful of games will ONLY save/read to memory card slot 1, R4 a favorite of mine is one of them. I saw provisions on the snac adapter I bought from ebay for memory cards. I got crafty on a rainy Saturday and made a custom memory card pcb using sweeps from a chip socket for my psx snac thingy. Worked out perfectly, copied my records on real hardware to cheap mem card and MiSTer loaded them just fine. @OP, I bet under that cover you'll find the holes to add a memory card on your snac.



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