GaryMcT said:
Just got a Wiz. Installed Pocketsnes 6.5. With pocketsnes_fast.gpe, I get the loading screen adn then rows of brightly colored lines. With pocketsnes.gpe, I get the loading screen and then a black screen that I have to reboot to get out of. Any ideas? Wrong firmware or otherwise? It came with version 1.1.0 firmware on it.
Most unfortunate! Here are the steps I would take, in order, to try resolving this:
0) Check your firmware revision - it should be 1.1.0 - if it's not, immediately proceed to step 3. (EDIT: just reread your orig post - you already checked this - however I saw another thread that mentioned a recently purchased WIZ have a different Rev of 1.1.0 (rev 255, I believe) on it. Check and post your FW revision here so we can corroborate this. Mine's Kernel Rev 222, and it runs SNES just fine.
1) Delete and reinstall PocketSnes. Make sure you have version 6.5.0. I personally recommend getting your files from OpenHandhelds.org - I've had 0 trouble with anything I've downloaded from there. While on the subject of reinstallation - it's possible (albeit slim) that your decompression program is doing something weird/stupid and not properly pathing files and/or creating the correct directory structure. I'd install PocketSnes in its own directory on the root of your SD card. Double check the file structure of the directory to ensure that all the files are where they need to be. If not, or if in doubt, try a different decompression program (I personally use WinRAR, though it once had trouble with 7z files - it wasn't creating empty directories that it needed to, hence why I bring this whole topic up in the first place)
2) Reformat your SD card and reinstall SNES. Format it for FAT32, default alloc size (if using the windows formatter).
2 and 1/2) Try the above steps with a different SD card or (to rule out the SD as a problem entirely): the Wiz's NAND instead of an SD card.
3) If all else fails, try reflashing your firmware, even if you have 1.1.0 already installed. Download a fresh copy (openhandhelds.org should have that too) and reflash with that, on the weird chance that some noncritical part of your FW is corrupt, but is preventing programs from running. It's a bit of a shot in the dark, but it's worth trying.
4) Pray to whatever god(s) you believe in and try again?
5) Wiz is possibly hosed - RMA it if you can and don't want to dig further into this.
Optional extra paranoid version of the above steps - MD5 checksum every file you download before unzipping onto your SD card.
