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Funding Assistance - XaviX e-kara carts
#379287 - 11/02/18 09:37 PM
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Team Europe are going to set themselves up to dump e-kara carts (Sean dumped 3, so we have cart pinout etc. established already)
They've picked up some batches of US and European carts but could help with covering the funds (about $50 worth)
*edit* done
There are also probably 100 Japanese carts for it that will need dumping at some point, so it's worthwhile them getting this setup, so if anybody wants to donate those for dumping in the future they can. (although not the priority right now)
On a related note, I've been working improving some XaviX stuff myself
The current state of e-kara is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN41YO9a9DA obviously will be more interesting once inputs and sound work properly, but it's still promising.
Also XaviX, I started adding controls to Monster Truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RajHGY8yYAg
and got Fooball + Madden Football to get a bit further https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuATet7IG-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpErzAUrT-M
Also got Lord of the Rings booting to a title screen
![](http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/pics2018/ttv_lotr_title.png)
(and of course there's the Taito / Namco nostalgia stuff I've covered in recent blog updates) https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018/10/19/expanding-the-emulated-mappyverse/ https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2018/10/12/slapping-a-tiger-would-be-a-poor-life-choice/
Not Xavix, but I made this Kyle Hodgetts junk playable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6JJhkuwKQ
Peter and Shoutime are working together to pick up a few Japanese XaviX titles, but Peter is funding that out of his own pocket. (although again, help might come in handy at some point, because it's a lot of work and money getting some of these out of Japan, but if that's the case I'll mention it another time)
Everything we can get (that we don't already have) helps with figuring out the details of this thing, because while it's a lot of individual games, the architecture of very much like one of a console, so all sorts of ways to do things.
but yeah, if people could donate a it to Team Europe for picking up these e-kara carts and stuff to build a dumping rig, that would help at this stage :-)
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Re: Funding Assistance - XaviX e-kara carts
[Re: Haze]
#379299 - 11/02/18 10:48 PM
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>Not Xavix, but I made this Kyle Hodgetts junk playable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV6JJhkuwKQ
Good work. Great to see this now in working shape.
>Peter and Shoutime are working together to pick up a few Japanese XaviX titles, but Peter >is funding that out of his own pocket. (although again, help might come in handy at some >point, because it's a lot of work and money getting some of these out of Japan, but if >that's the case I'll mention it another time)
>Everything we can get (that we don't already have) helps with figuring out the details of >this thing, because while it's a lot of individual games, the architecture of very much >like one of a console, so all sorts of ways to do things.
>but yeah, if people could donate a it to Team Europe for picking up these e-kara carts >and stuff to build a dumping rig, that would help at this stage
I can see that Xavix work being a long haul and then some. Sean and hap doing Tiger Electronics along with some other handhelds here and there while you and others doing almost all the Xavix stuff. Good luck with that area of emulation.
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Re: Funding Assistance - XaviX e-kara carts
[Re: Haze]
#379375 - 11/05/18 03:37 AM
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Managed to raise about $160 for this after posting it on Reddit too, so Klaus / Team Europe have picked up a collection of US cartridges, a collection of UK/EU cartridges, and 20 Japanese cartridges all of which should make good inroads towards getting a good portion of the cartridges for this system dumped.
Once they've got the cartridges and a dumping setup established we'll start to catalogue what is dumped and what is remaining for the system (as I said, there are in total somewhere between 70 to 100 Japanese cartridges I reckon, 10 US cartridges, and probably 7 or 8 EU/UK ones so we're still only scratching the surface on the Japanese ones)
There are also some spin-off systems that were released in Japan with minigames etc. that might have their own cartridge sets, needs more research.
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