Official TI-Boy CSE Alpha Thread

[Max Lee]

Gold. I'm sure it has  enough space judging by the other replies, but it stops halfway through and gives me that error.

[Hexatron]

Use a silverlink. I had to borrow one from one of my friends to send Pokemon Gold.

[DJ Omnimaga]

I personally had less troubles sending stuff using a direct USB cable, but with Silverlink it usually worked fine too (although sometimes slower and didn't detect the calc randomly). The only time I had problems transferring apps larger than 300 KB was when I used a black serial cable.

[Streetwalrus]

Actually the SilverLink works a lot better with Tilp for me. Except for sending OS's. For that I need to use DirectUSB or TI Connect.

[Max Lee]

Silverlink is the one using the I/O port right?

[TIfanx1999]

The silverlink is one of the cables that uses the I/O port. It has USB on the other end. The other method that uses the I/O port is the old graph link, but most people don't use that anymore. It plugged into the parallel port for communication.

[DJ Omnimaga]

The silverlink is one of the cables that uses the I/O port. It has USB on the other end. The other method that uses the I/O port is the old graph link, but most people don't use that anymore. It plugged into the parallel port for communication.

Or serial. Mine was a serial cable since it had 9 pins. I think there are serial cables with much more pins, though.

[Streetwalrus]

DJ nope. RS232 is 9 pins. Cables with a similar looking connector and more pins are either VGA (15 pins) or parallel.
And IIRC the parallel cable was a homebrew cable.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Oh ok I was sure there were bigger ones.

[TIfanx1999]

DJ nope. RS232 is 9 pins. Cables with a similar looking connector and more pins are either VGA (15 pins) or parallel.
And IIRC the parallel cable was a homebrew cable.

Serial ports come with various numbers of pins. I think the original design was 25 pins.

The graphlink I had was an old gray one and required a 25(i think) to 9 pin adapter. I thought the graphlink was a parallel cable, but thinking back it was probably a serial cable. I'm almost certain.

[Streetwalrus]

Parallel ports are just plain gpio. Many bitbang serial protocols on it.

[tr1p1ea]

Works awesome so far i have tested:

Worms - works well and is playable
Pokemon Red - Runs magnificently
NBA Jam - Works well but is a bit too slow to play
Final Fantasy 3 - intro into game+dialog works then freezes
Mortal Kombat - Freezes during startup brand logos

All in all a fantastic effort and the scaling+colour switching is great, i will try to get more information on the ones that freeze.

[rw24]

I know. Mario is a little slow, though.
A little... um... well...
But, hey, in Pokemon Blue (my little brother plays Red) the frame skips don't even matter, it runs like full speed (is it just me, or are the number buttons for frame skip?)

[Streetwalrus]

Yeah if it didn't change on the CSE (no reason why it would) then numbers set the frameskip.

[Asian]

I don't know anybody else with a CSE, so I can't find this out by myself:
For games like pokemon, will multiplayer work with cables (calc to calc)?
(this would be used for the right half of the PokeCenter's)