Given the number of posts on the respective forums, I would like to suggest that the Saturn and Dreamcast forums be merged into a "sega" forum (which would be for any sega console related development questions) and the existing "nintendo" forum be expanded to cover all nintendo console development posts. So basically the forums would then be: General development Sega console development (including arcade boards based off sega consoles) Nintendo console development (including portables and arcade boards based off nintendo consoles) Sony PS1/2/3/P development (including arcade boards based off sony consoles) Microsoft console development (XBOX, 360 and arcade boards based off same) Arcade (general arcade stuff) Computer Support
It would keep it more tidy and since theres only a few posts every so often sounds like a great idea :thumbsup:
I have reviewed the idea, and in order to keep the content as organized as possible, it is best to just make more forums. The idea being, less searching is better (compared to one lump forum)
Ps2 Tool thread request. Can I also make a suggestion regarding organising forums & threads. It is clear to the people providing the PS2 Tool information that it has become quite a cumbersome elephant with many trunks! I don't think anyone could have forseen the number of units that were going to suddenly spring up at such low prices, the interest they would cause or the number of issues that these units presented. As such most AG users (myself included) were quite happy to create new threads whenever something new appeared. We are now at the point where there is a LOT of very useful information scattered across a pile of different threads. Can we organise a sticky (or two) marked as "PS2 Tool basics" and "PS2 Tool advanced" where the bulk of this information can be decanted? I think it might be useful to have these created, checked over and verified as working (i.e. that the information is correct) and then just lock them. Any further discussions can then take place inside threads where we don't have to continually refer new users to previous posts or threads that are so garbled they make little sense. If this is of interest then please let me know as I have 3weeks of quiet time from college and would be willing to start the process, with some assistance (cough - Unclejun!). It wouldn't be a manual, just information you might find useful to just get up and basically running. Lot's of images, lot's of straight forward stuff. If no interest, then fine - Happy wading!
Parris is right, having a dedicated sticky Tool thread would be better than having to repeat the same stuff over and over to every new Tool owner.
Actually, as babu once suggested to me - how about we start populating the assembler dev HW wiki pages with what we collectively know about the TOOLs? Let the sticky point at that & be a collating point for suggested input?
The sticky could also be the collective point for questions not yet answered in the wiki. The wiki is a better place for putting walk-thrus/specs & the like than the forums. [Sorry for the double-post!]
Limey, sorry for not replying. I guess the Tool owners on the site are increasing in number (Manchester 10 & Dirty Dozen for starters), plus there are longer standing owners such as UJ who have been quietly amassing and discussing various aspects of the PS2 Tool. All that information is available to anyone keen on digging, but guides would be a better idea imo as it's scattered currently across many threads. Some of those discussions run into several pages of information, a lot of it now no longer immediately available. Kev mentioned the possibility of creating a sticky for certain aspects of it, which I would appreciate. As for having the information elsewhere in a wiki, I've never done it before tbh! Compiling it and then deciding on the best means of presenting it seems one option.
