I just got my BLU from Lik-Sang a couple of hours ago. I spent a few minutes playing the pack-in game, Dungeon & Guarder, but I'm not really into Double Dragon games so I figured I'd get some emulators up and running.
I put a blank 128M SMC in my card reader, formatted it, created the \GPMM directory, and put a few FXE files in there, including the overclock tester. The results were pretty alarming:
The boot screen is OK. D&G plays fine. Nester ran OK but it was slow. I don't know if it runs at 66 or 133+.
EVERYTHING ELSE has a big fat white bar across the top portion of the screen as soon as the CPU switches to 133. It's not right at the top, like a border, but a big wide stripe with corrupted graphics around it about the size of my thumb. This happened on the startup screen of OS9X, the overclocking test at 133, everything. The results are a lot like this guy described, but it's white not grey. Unfortunately his post got some replies but nothing conclusive.
Even with the white bar there the games are still playing. The GP doesn't hang or crash or reset, which I guess is what happens if it won't OC to a certain speed.
Did I just get stuck with a really lame BLU that can't even go to 133? I get the impression from all the postings that there should be NO problem at 133 speed.
Should I try to get Lik-Sang to replace it, or is there some way I can fix the problem myself? I put USD$300 into buying the GP32 BLU bundle, a card reader, and blank cards.
I put a blank 128M SMC in my card reader, formatted it, created the \GPMM directory, and put a few FXE files in there, including the overclock tester. The results were pretty alarming:
The boot screen is OK. D&G plays fine. Nester ran OK but it was slow. I don't know if it runs at 66 or 133+.
EVERYTHING ELSE has a big fat white bar across the top portion of the screen as soon as the CPU switches to 133. It's not right at the top, like a border, but a big wide stripe with corrupted graphics around it about the size of my thumb. This happened on the startup screen of OS9X, the overclocking test at 133, everything. The results are a lot like this guy described, but it's white not grey. Unfortunately his post got some replies but nothing conclusive.
Even with the white bar there the games are still playing. The GP doesn't hang or crash or reset, which I guess is what happens if it won't OC to a certain speed.
Did I just get stuck with a really lame BLU that can't even go to 133? I get the impression from all the postings that there should be NO problem at 133 speed.
Should I try to get Lik-Sang to replace it, or is there some way I can fix the problem myself? I put USD$300 into buying the GP32 BLU bundle, a card reader, and blank cards.
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