is it possible to move the eprom editor to load when both A B buttons held over the rom this would free up pause for screenshots like the origional gui
I just received my El Cheapo from K-Retro, if I boot off of the Benn Venn boot.bin, it loads and shows the firmware as .08 - if I copy the boot.bin from the v20240409-a.zip file it will not boot and just says no boot file.
How odd. I’ve just downloaded the menu again and put it on my SD card (16Gb in this case but 8Gb is what I recommend and sell in our shop), and it loads up no problems. Do you have the CONFIG.BIN file on the card as well? If that’s there, the only thing I can think of is that the SD card is not compatible. What brand is the card?
Shouldn’t make any difference, I use mine with a BennVenn screen too. Would you be able to email some photos or a video of what’s going on so I can see it? Email is support@k-retro.com
Thanks for doing this and giving the menu screen a facelift. It is much appreciated. I had a lot of problems with .lnx ROM files to begin with with both the original and your boot.bin file. It turns out that a lot of my ROMs weren’t compatible. They worked in my emulator but not in my El Cheapo. The only reason I could find was files that show as 129KB worked where files showing as 128KB did not, same goes for 256/257KB. Is there information in that extra 1KB that enables the files to work?
Hello! Glad you like the improvements and thank you for your support! What you're describing sounds like LYX files to me, these are going to be slightly smaller, the LNX files are just 64 bytes larger and contain a header at the start of the ROM to provide additional information about the ROM. ElCheapoSD expect LNX files and I know there are tonnes of LYX files out there that have a .LNX extension. I'm working on an online utility that will be able to fix your LYX ROMs, will try and get it finished this week. At the moment it can convert 256K LYX files to 512K LYX files, but that won't help you in this case. The utility is here - https://atarigamer.com/lyxconverter. Check back in a few days, hopefully I've had time to update it by then.
Thanks for the reply. The files I downloaded did have the correct extension but it seems they are LYX files in disguise so now I know what to look for I won’t make the same mistake again. I found an archive with most of the commercial releases so I’m just enjoying playing Desert Strike for the first time. Happy Days.
Hi, I just install the El CheapoSD Menu on my ChepoSD and it will not load the games. It will boot and I can change the themes, the sorting files is very fast (119 ROMS) but when try to load it will get stock on LOADING ROM. It will work with the original .BIN file from BennVenn.
Hello! That's odd isn't it? ElCheapoSD Menu uses the same API but that works by sending a ROM number to launch a ROM. I am guessing something is going awry during sorting. Can you try and format your SD card and copy the menu and the ROMs back? If that doesn't work please join our Discord server for a chat - https://discord.gg/SnDrdJTkUk
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is it possible to move the eprom editor to load when both A B buttons held over the rom this would free up pause for screenshots like the origional gui
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. At the moment I don’t have plans on adding screenshots but when/if I do, it would make sense to change buttons.
I just received my El Cheapo from K-Retro, if I boot off of the Benn Venn boot.bin, it loads and shows the firmware as .08 - if I copy the boot.bin from the v20240409-a.zip file it will not boot and just says no boot file.
What size is your SD card and is it formatted as FAT32? It might be worth re-formatting and copying it after that.
8gb, fat32 just formatted it before copying the files.
How odd. I’ve just downloaded the menu again and put it on my SD card (16Gb in this case but 8Gb is what I recommend and sell in our shop), and it loads up no problems. Do you have the CONFIG.BIN file on the card as well? If that’s there, the only thing I can think of is that the SD card is not compatible. What brand is the card?
Sandisk, i also tried with a 16gb PNY card originally.
Very odd, the config.bin is on the card, it works with the OG menu fine. It’s a Lynx 2 with the Benn Venn LCD if that makes a difference….
Shouldn’t make any difference, I use mine with a BennVenn screen too. Would you be able to email some photos or a video of what’s going on so I can see it? Email is support@k-retro.com
i had this issue as well the fix for me from windows was to rename the BOOT.BIN to BOOT without the file extension then rename it back to BOOT.bin
Hi
Thanks for doing this and giving the menu screen a facelift. It is much appreciated. I had a lot of problems with .lnx ROM files to begin with with both the original and your boot.bin file. It turns out that a lot of my ROMs weren’t compatible. They worked in my emulator but not in my El Cheapo. The only reason I could find was files that show as 129KB worked where files showing as 128KB did not, same goes for 256/257KB. Is there information in that extra 1KB that enables the files to work?
Hello! Glad you like the improvements and thank you for your support! What you're describing sounds like LYX files to me, these are going to be slightly smaller, the LNX files are just 64 bytes larger and contain a header at the start of the ROM to provide additional information about the ROM. ElCheapoSD expect LNX files and I know there are tonnes of LYX files out there that have a .LNX extension. I'm working on an online utility that will be able to fix your LYX ROMs, will try and get it finished this week. At the moment it can convert 256K LYX files to 512K LYX files, but that won't help you in this case. The utility is here - https://atarigamer.com/lyxconverter. Check back in a few days, hopefully I've had time to update it by then.
Thanks for the reply. The files I downloaded did have the correct extension but it seems they are LYX files in disguise so now I know what to look for I won’t make the same mistake again. I found an archive with most of the commercial releases so I’m just enjoying playing Desert Strike for the first time. Happy Days.
Just need a new screen next : )
We're going to have new stock of BennVenn mod kits soon, probably a couple of weeks from now 😎
Sweet!
Hi, I just install the El CheapoSD Menu on my ChepoSD and it will not load the games. It will boot and I can change the themes, the sorting files is very fast (119 ROMS) but when try to load it will get stock on LOADING ROM. It will work with the original .BIN file from BennVenn.
Hello! That's odd isn't it? ElCheapoSD Menu uses the same API but that works by sending a ROM number to launch a ROM. I am guessing something is going awry during sorting. Can you try and format your SD card and copy the menu and the ROMs back? If that doesn't work please join our Discord server for a chat - https://discord.gg/SnDrdJTkUk