The ball that bounces on the GP32 logo graphics wa

[MooCow]

I was playing my GP32 as normal, playing Pinball Dreams. Well the next time I went to turn on the unit it wouldn't turn on. The ball that bounces on the GP32 logo graphics was all messed up. Sometimes the ball bounces and then it freezes, othertimes it will get through that to the loader screen with the 3 options and then freeze there. Yes, the first thing that crossed my mind was BATTERIES. IT IS ALWAYS A PROBLEM WITH THE BATTERIES. But I switched out the batteries with new ones and it still happens. Tried removing the Smart Media Card, and it does not help. Does Pinball Dreams OC your unit? That is the only thing that I can think of that would have fouled it up. Is my GP32 lost, or is there something I can do to reset it so it will work.

 

[nerd of nerds]

honestly! did you try the batteies again? and have you been using other things that use oc the cpu? SCUMM does (i believe)....

 

[zboy9]

batteries have been a problem for me too, but keep trying. Don't just switch them out once, do it probably at least 5 times. I switched them out once and had bad batteries, so keep trying. Good luck

 

[Rico]

There is a small chance that your firmware has been corrupted. In this case you will have to reflash. If you can get to your free launcher at all, or even the GAME menu, you might have a chance to do this easily. If not, you will have to seek out mr_spiv on the #gp32dev channel of EFnet. He can reflash using JTAG. On the other hand, he might know the problem is to do with something else.

 

[MooCow]

Tried switching the batteries 4 times. So I don't think it is that. Only games that I have been playing are Pinball Dreams and GPEngine (and I never OC the GPEngine games). Yeah I had been reading about people screwing up their units upgrading the firmware and that is what I was thinking either the firmware screwed itself up or some program was running OC'd without me knowing. Can't get to the game menu or the free launcher.

 

[admin]

test19

 

[MooCow]

Has this happened to anybody else? If it is the firmware, is it common for normal programs to screw up the firmware? I would think that no program would write to the firmware because of the possibility of screwing up the system.

 

[mallrat37]

IMO I think that your firmware is knackered, that is what controls that screen afterall, perhaps a bad power supply (spike / dip) has caused the firmware to flip out.

get in touch with mr spiv and ask him what he thinks

 

[Twimfy]

Do you often switch the machine on and off really quickly for a reset? I've had some strange opening logo happenings* when switching off and on too quickly, luckily non of them permanent.

*One of them involved the warping of a justin timberlake video with the main logo and twice the normal speed.

 

[Swiss_Cheeseman]

You havnt flashed the firmware. Warranty should still be covered, just dont tell who you got it from anything about using unofficial addons/games/utils.

 

[Axeman]

OCing doesn't hurt the GP32 unless it's OCd to over 133Mhz. Most software automatically OCs to 133 or 132 anyway...