Midway Vegas + CF Card Reader

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I've been told my more than one person that the Midway Vegas PCB set doesn't play nicely with many CF Card readers and many CF cards themselves.

I have a Cart Fury I'd like to drop a CF card reader in to as a replacement for the hard drive. Does anyone here have any experience with running CF card readers via Midway Vegas PCBs? I'm looking for which CF card reader to use... which CF card... etc...

I know people have been able to get it to to work... it's just a matter of which reader to use and which memory...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Frizz,

I can point you to the ones I've used with Gauntlet Legends. It works fine but boots to a blue error screen then resets and works perfectly. Everyone who's gone the CF route with this game reports this same issue.

Chad at ArcadeCup was selling solid state drives for GL that apparently work fine and I'm guessing might work for you.

You can also talk to ToplessZ about this as he seems to be a subject matter expert on this topic.
 
CFDISK.5H from http://www.pcengines.ch/
Transcend 133x and Sandisk 30mb/s brands have always worked best for me.

My Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy boots right up without a blue screen or resetting issues but from what I've gathered your mileage may vary depending on how picky Vegas can be.
 
Jigz,

Which specifically do you have in your Gaunt Legends/Dark Legacy machine and how big is the CF? I'd like to try replicating your setup exactly to see if I can get the same results.
 
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ToplessZ made us a CF to run a Sportstation NBA on NBC Gold/NFL Blitz 2000 Gold, and it worked just fine. The only problem is figuring where to mount it, as it comes with an IDE adapter, but I figured that out.

I'm sure he could tell you if there are any specific issues with certain brands...
 
ToplessZ made us a CF to run a Sportstation NBA on NBC Gold/NFL Blitz 2000 Gold, and it worked just fine. The only problem is figuring where to mount it, as it comes with an IDE adapter, but I figured that out.

I'm sure he could tell you if there are any specific issues with certain brands...

IIRC he told me he quit using CF on Vegas boards because he was getting inconsistent results -- it works on some and not on others.
 
I found that the transcend 133x work best. The cheap cards will give you issues after reading and writing several times. The CF to IDE can be the cheap 2.00 Hong Kong specials.
 
Also I have had hit or miss luck on GDL and Legends.. I think the issue is if you have a Vegas 777 middle PCB or a Durango and what revision the U19 is on each. I stopped selling the GDL and Legends CF because I could test it on my PCB and it would work and then buyer would tell me it wouldnt work on theres and I had too many returns.
 
Yep, 4gb is sufficient for Legends or Dark Legacy, while the CHD may be from a larger hard drive the actual game data does not occupy past the available space.

Really? The 4gb part works for GDL? I thought the CHD image was larger than that.
 
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Has anyone tried Cart Fury? That is the game I am interested in doing the swap with. Is it a matter of just decompressing the CHD to the CF drive?
 
I put one in a Cart Fury, but can't remember much about it. I'll have to see if I still have any notes on it when I get home. I seem to remember that it worked until a high score was achieved. It might have locked up on trying to write the high score data.
 
Has anyone tried Cart Fury? That is the game I am interested in doing the swap with. Is it a matter of just decompressing the CHD to the CF drive?

I have NOT, but interested in your results. I dont have a Cart Fury to test on.
I HAVE done
Road Burners - varying results
2049-No Luck at all with CF, SD, SSD
BL/SH- Works with CF
GDL - varying results
Legends- varying results
War FA - varying results

by varying results I mean, works on some boards not others. The durango middle PCB seems to be the problem child. The Vegas 777 seems to like CF better, but Im not 100% on that. BUT the durango middle PCB works perfect with Blitz/Showtime.

I know this doesnt help you though, sorry.
 
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Well I ordered a couple of drives from PC Engines (I got two because I hate spending $5.80 shipping on a $2.10 Item)...

I also ordered two different types of CF cards from Amazon (to get free shipping). I picked up a Transcend 133x 4MB card and a Sandisk 30mb/s 2MB card... the CHD file is only just over 600MB so... we'll see...

:)

 
Well I ordered a couple of drives from PC Engines (I got two because I hate spending $5.80 shipping on a $2.10 Item)...

I also ordered two different types of CF cards from Amazon (to get free shipping). I picked up a Transcend 133x 4MB card and a Sandisk 30mb/s 2MB card... the CHD file is only just over 600MB so... we'll see...

:)


I hope you meant 4GB? I should have tested this for you ahead of time, but Ill burn it to a 4GB and a 2GB right now and see if it fits
 
hmm may be bad news for you, but the uncompressed hunk size is 2504132,
I think that will require a 8 GB card.
 
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