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[Deteacher]

Ok, so I have a Kroko cart and I love it. I know that it would not work in multi-cart mode on a 7800, but I figured "What the hell, let's see what happens." (No, I didn't fry my Kroko in doing this.)

So, I loaded up the Kroko with 7 or 8 games: Combat, Air-Sea Battle, Breakout, Indy 500, Football, Homerun, Video Olympics and Outlaw. I popped it in my Atari 2600 and tested the games and they all works flawlessly (as expected.) Then I popped it into my 7800 "just to see what would happen."

When I turned it on, I got an Indy 500 screen. The score was 0-85, but here's the strange thing. The track was one of the hacked tracks, not one from the original Indy 500. I selected through all the game variations and all of the tracks were from the hacked version. I put it back in the VCS and brought up Indy 500 and all the original tracks were there.

I'm going to post a video showing this "phenomonon" later this evening, but I'm curious how it would load 2 obviously different versions of Indy 500 when there's only one version installed on the Kroko? (BTW, that's the only thing that loads up on the 7800...no menu...no other games. It's the same every time I tried.

Pics and a video to come. Thoughts?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Deteacher, on Tue Nov 3, 2009 11:03 AM, said:

The track was one of the hacked tracks, not one from the original Indy 500. I selected through all the game variations and all of the tracks were from the hacked version.

How do you know about those hacked tracks? Did you put that game on your Kroko before? Then it might be that Kroko loads this version.

[Deteacher]

After I saw the weird track pop up, I looked it up in the hacks section. No, I never loaded the hacked tracks into the Kroko before. This one totally has me stumped. It's not a problem or anything. I just found it odd.

Once I get everything hooked up, I'll record it for posterity.

[Kroko]

Deteacher, on Tue Nov 3, 2009 6:36 PM, said:

After I saw the weird track pop up, I looked it up in the hacks section. No, I never loaded the hacked tracks into the Kroko before. This one totally has me stumped. It's not a problem or anything. I just found it odd.

Once I get everything hooked up, I'll record it for posterity.

I think the solution to this riddle might be quite simple

I tested all Krokodiles with all bankswitching modes. And I certainly also loaded multicarts on each unit. So if you have never programmed big multicarts before, then this could just be the remainder of what I programmed on the unit ... And I don't remember, which games I used for the different multicarts.

If you download a game, you just erase the space of the flash chip which is occupied by that game. So the rest of what I put on the device might still be there. I don't know what happens on the FB2, but it could simply switch to one of the banks at startup.

[accousticguitar]

I had this happen to me today. I don't think I have ever loaded Indy 500 on my Krok cart, but there it was when I plugged it into my 7800.