Post by stu232 on Aug 7, 2021 18:13:41 GMT
A few months ago while under the influence of vodka I decided it would be a GREAT IDEA to customise my carousel using some sort of tool that I found online.
I vaguely remember things going well and managing to add all the newer versions of Bruce Lee, but tonight I have connected my TheC64 and most of my games are missing, some games have missing screenshots and some games don't even load.
I've tried re-flashing the machine with the last official firmware but that doesn't seem to touch the Carousel layout.
Does anyone know if there is some sort of backup of the original carousel that I can flash back onto it?
Yes I know I'm an idiot for doing it while drunk.
EDIT
It's ok, I've just found this...
* Remove all cable from the Maxi.
* Take a screwdriver, take out the three screws at the bottom of the C64.
* Plug the USB A cable into your PC
* Press the "FEL mode" button on the board of the C64 Maxi, it is a very small button directly under the empty white socket on your left. Keep it pressed
* Insert the USB A cable into the Maxi on the BACKSIDE (next to HDMI)
* Start the Zadig software you downloaded and have it install the driver for the new unknown device. CAN TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES, be patient
* Start the "boot.cmd" inside the Windows folder of the FEL Rescue boot software and WAIT
* After a while you will see two additional drives on your PC with unknown filesystems. One is ~16 MB large, the other should be at around 180 MByte but that can vary based on how you mangled the ROM.
* Get the drive letter of the larger drive.
* Start Win32Imager and write the Nandb file straight to that larger drive (BE CAREFUL not to overwrite any real drive on your PC)
* Once this is done, "eject" the extra hardware on the USB port via the Windows taskbar command for ejecting stuff. (Not really necessary, you can simply unplug the Maxi).
I vaguely remember things going well and managing to add all the newer versions of Bruce Lee, but tonight I have connected my TheC64 and most of my games are missing, some games have missing screenshots and some games don't even load.
I've tried re-flashing the machine with the last official firmware but that doesn't seem to touch the Carousel layout.
Does anyone know if there is some sort of backup of the original carousel that I can flash back onto it?
Yes I know I'm an idiot for doing it while drunk.
EDIT
It's ok, I've just found this...
* Remove all cable from the Maxi.
* Take a screwdriver, take out the three screws at the bottom of the C64.
* Plug the USB A cable into your PC
* Press the "FEL mode" button on the board of the C64 Maxi, it is a very small button directly under the empty white socket on your left. Keep it pressed
* Insert the USB A cable into the Maxi on the BACKSIDE (next to HDMI)
* Start the Zadig software you downloaded and have it install the driver for the new unknown device. CAN TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES, be patient
* Start the "boot.cmd" inside the Windows folder of the FEL Rescue boot software and WAIT
* After a while you will see two additional drives on your PC with unknown filesystems. One is ~16 MB large, the other should be at around 180 MByte but that can vary based on how you mangled the ROM.
* Get the drive letter of the larger drive.
* Start Win32Imager and write the Nandb file straight to that larger drive (BE CAREFUL not to overwrite any real drive on your PC)
* Once this is done, "eject" the extra hardware on the USB port via the Windows taskbar command for ejecting stuff. (Not really necessary, you can simply unplug the Maxi).
