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No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 10:18 pm
by hrechkaness
A month ago, I tried loading up a SNES rom and was able to play it for about 5 minutes before the game froze and the music kept play. I reset the Mister and was able to get back to the game and it crashed again after 5 minutes. A week later I tried loading up a new SNES rom and it "loaded" the rom, but it would just hang up on a black screen instead of playing the rom. Then eventually it did that with every single emulator core/rom I tried going forward. When trying a NES rom I got a Disk 1A error message on the top left, googling has not yielded any results for what that means. I thought it could be bad RAM that was the problem so I ordered new RAM from Mister Addons(which cost a pretty penny btw). When the part came in and I replaced it, the games still won't load. I tried the memtest in utility and don't have a clue how to read if the ram is working properly or not, I'll post an image. I'd have a tough time believing the RAM I just bought would be broken though.
I am looking for troubleshooting suggestions to get to the bottom of whats going on. I just hope my DE10 Nano isn't broken because that would be out of the budget to try to replace at this point.
(The things I've tried so far, tried different roms/cores, swapped out the RAM.)
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 10:43 pm
by jca
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/MemTest_MiSTer
It does not look very good: no memory detected.
Are you sure you plugged it correctly?
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sat May 13, 2023 11:14 pm
by pbsk8
it's the de10 nano
since you bought a new ram and still not detected
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 12:19 am
by hrechkaness
Yeah, tried re-seating both RAM and every time it says RAM undetected. I think my DE10-nano is toast :'(
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 12:24 am
by hrechkaness
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 11:14 pm
it's the de10 nano
since you bought a new ram and still not detected
Was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Someone said to try Sonic for genesis as that game doesn't use RAM and if it works, can rule out the sd card being the issue. Sure enough, the sonic games worked just fine. Looks like the de10 nano is likely the cause :'(
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 3:59 am
by Longtime4321
That sucks, DE-10 Nano's are expensive v_v
Good luck getting it repaired
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Sun May 14, 2023 11:14 pm
by pbsk8
hrechkaness wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 12:24 am
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 11:14 pm
it's the de10 nano
since you bought a new ram and still not detected
Was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Someone said to try Sonic for genesis as that game doesn't use RAM and if it works, can rule out the sd card being the issue. Sure enough, the sonic games worked just fine. Looks like the de10 nano is likely the cause :'(
what power supply are you using? just in case to rule it out as well.
Re: No games are working on the Mister FPGA anymore
Posted: Wed May 17, 2023 3:34 am
by hrechkaness
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 11:14 pm
hrechkaness wrote: ↑Sun May 14, 2023 12:24 am
pbsk8 wrote: ↑Sat May 13, 2023 11:14 pm
it's the de10 nano
since you bought a new ram and still not detected
Was hoping that wouldn't be the case. Someone said to try Sonic for genesis as that game doesn't use RAM and if it works, can rule out the sd card being the issue. Sure enough, the sonic games worked just fine. Looks like the de10 nano is likely the cause :'(
what power supply are you using? just in case to rule it out as well.
Not sure exactly what it is, it came with the kit I order. I'll attach a pic of it.