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BUGS

If you're experiencing a problem with one of my programs, please fill out and submit the following bug report form. You may also want to check out my list of known problems.

If what you want to tell me is really more of a suggestion or a request for enhancement, please use the suggestion form instead.

Bug Report Form

Don't expect me to solve a reported problem in a short time; sometimes, I'm even too busy to answer your messages.. Anyway, every bug report is carefully considered and I'll do my best to fix the program, especially if it is in the general interest. Also, take a look at the Known Problems section of this page before sending anything.

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Known Problems

JoyEmu

Windows 95 locks up if I try to load JoyEmu at startup.
Use JoyEm instead of JoyEmu; be sure to put the emulator as the first command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT; you could try to insert the command in different positions, depending on your configuration.
JoyEmu/JoyCP have a virus in it!
Nonsense. JoyEmu and JoyCP are virus free. The original package is AV certified (run pkunzip -t and you should get correct AV certification from Simone Zanella Productions for each program). There is an old version of antivirus package (Pc-Cillin) which emits false reports for them, but McAfee VirusScan or F-Prot don't issue any warning.
Right Ctrl and Alt Gr are not correctly emulated.
This problem is fixed in versions 3.1 and later.
My PC locks up when I try to calibrate my joystick/joypad under JoyCP.
This bug is fixed in version 4.1; it was caused by a bug in system bios.
Under Windows 95, the system locks up between the screen that tells you that the system is being shut down and the screen that tells you that it is safe to power off the system.
This problem has been reported with motherboards equipped with Intel TX chipset, if JoyEm(u) is active when you shut down Windows 95; it is not a big problem in itself; just turn off emulation before shutting down and everything will work as expected. Actually, emulation should always stay disabled, except when really needed, because in this way you will get the best performance from your system all the time. By the way, this behaviour happens sometimes even when JoyEmu was not loaded, and seems a problem connected to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Num / and Num Enter are not correctly emulated.
This problem is fixed in versions 4.0 and later.

Under real Ms-Dos, with cpu-intensive programs in foreground I experience lock-ups.
This can happen especially with keyboard emulation via mouse; it is caused by a slow mouse driver; replace the driver or use Windows 95. Sometimes, even joystick emulation can cause such a problem; it is always a speed issue, which should be partially relieved by version 4.0 (which is faster). Anyway, under Windows 95 the problem disappears.

RegBak95

When the program is run during the startup of Windows 95, the text cursor appears when it shouldn't.

Put in your AUTOEXEC.BAT a command that writes something to the text screen before the command line for RegBak95; this problem does not appear if no splash screen is installed.

CartXXX

Some titles are reported incorrectly.

A few rom images have the title in Japanese; the title use a special character set, which is unreadable on non-japanese PC; if CartXXX detects such a title, it uses the file name for the title. Another problem is caused by incorrect headers for Super NES roms; since there's a byte which indicate if the rom is hi or lo rom, but many old console utils ignored it, as a consequence that byte is incorrectly set and CartSNS read the name from the incorrect location. Version 1.4 and later of CartSNS tries to address this problem by using some euristhics and a weight function to guess where the title is actually stored; of course, this routine may fail.

Some makers are unknown.

CARTGB, CARTSNS and CARTGEN have an internal table which they use to report the maker for each rom. Since this table was built from a bunch of rom images I could put my hands on, this list could be incomplete (even though it is bigger and bigger at every release of these utilities). For Genesis roms the problem is even worse, since the copyright field (which includes a code for the maker) is formatted in several incompatible ways and CARTGEN can only guess where in the field this code is located. This is not a limitation of the utility, but a lack of strict specs by Sega :)

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