I started a thread in the wrong section some weeks back but never got a reply, so maybe I will have better luck here. Anyway, I picked up a Kazzo some weeks back to dump my handful of Famicom prototypes. Unfortunately I can't get it to work at all. I am running Windows 8. I have installed the driver that came with the software package and am using the anago GUI version. I am just trying to dump a standard retail Fami cart (Mario 3) out of simplicity, but after selecting the appropriate mapper and telling it to dump, I just get "Reader Open Error." I have tried to run the device on a Windows 7 and on a Vista machine as well, but have the exact same results on both. Any ideas?
Have you tried the command line version? I used that for my games before I knew about the GUI version.
Thanks for the reply. I will give that a try once I figure out how to get the command prompt version to work. I am wondering if the driver isn't installing correctly (or possibly the board is faulty). Did you have to do anything special in the installation process for the driver? I just run the lib-usb program or whatever it is called, pick the INL programmer from the devices list, and then click Install. Is that enough?
To get the prompts, hold Shift, right click and open command prompt there, run the program and it'll print the formatting. I installed my drivers a while ago, but it's worth looking into as they are tricky. Someone else seems to have had your problem and details how to fix it. http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7912&start=150 EDIT: Also make sure the switch is not in Bootloader mode.
Well I installed the driver from the INL_Retro-Prog.inf file using the Windows Hardware Wizard. Still no good. I did try running the file "kazzo_test" that's included with the software and receive the notification "Could not find USB device "kazzo" with vid=0x16c0 pid=0x5dc." Can anyone confirm if that file does indeed check if the Kazzo device is connected? It sounds like it is saying that the device is not detected at all. The switch is indeed in RUN mode and the LED on the board is constantly illuminated as well. I will give the command prompt dumping method a try tonight, though I'm not hopeful that doing that will resolve the issue I'm having.
And solved. I was told that I needed to flash the board with the Kazzo firmware instead of the INL firmware. Now it works just fine!Thanks for the suggestions!
Anybody here proficient with writing Kazzo dump scripts? I have a few Famicom prototypes that are not supported by Kazzo ' s included script library.
