Lik sang Coders Cable - Give Up - Post your results

charlieangel · #1 07-03-2001, 22:00

Ok I have given up on the Lik sang coders cable.
I have tried every way and I have replaced the 47uf capacitors with 0.1uf ones. No diff. It also has a MAX 3232 CHIP.

Basic config of the cable was 5 capacitors at 47uf each and a Max 3232 chip.

I load serial slave cd. Borders turn blue. I upload dreamrip. Border turns red. I change port speed, then type in ok and after that the screen come sup with some weird çåßœ text and nothing happens. It doesnt even show the track listing or anything.

Please post the stats on your cable eg: where u got it, what chips it has and what capacitors an dif it works.

Thanks

Cameron · #2 09-03-2001, 12:09

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charlieangel (08-03-2001 06:00):
Ok I have given up on the Lik sang coders cable.
I have tried every way and I have replaced the 47uf capacitors with 0.1uf ones. No diff. It also has a MAX 3232 CHIP.

Basic config of the cable was 5 capacitors at 47uf each and a Max 3232 chip.

I load serial slave cd. Borders turn blue. I upload dreamrip. Border turns red. I change port speed, then type in ok and after that the screen come sup with some weird çåßœ text and nothing happens. It doesnt even show the track listing or anything.

Please post the stats on your cable eg: where u got it, what chips it has and what capacitors an dif it works.

Thanks

Hithere
Listen, I purchased one of the Lik-Sang cables, and went just about crazy trying different things with it.
I never ever did see blue or red borders, but when I sent the SREC file to the DC unit, I did not see any '>'. I did see a ton of numbers and letters running down the PC screen.
In final desperation, I unplugged everything, and took it all to another machine, where everything ran fine the first time.

So, do not give up.
Maybe try it on someone elses PC?

I am pretty confident that if you see the Blue and Red borders, then things are O.K. with the cable.

Also when you sent the SREC file to the DC unit, did you see a message on the screen saying "change baud rate to 115k, and select o.k.?

I never saw the message until I changes machines.

I hope this helps.

Cameron · #3 09-03-2001, 12:17

BTW, any idea which pieces of data need to be written to a CD after it has been extracted?
There are tons of files and the audio etc.
Not all will fit onto a CD.
Do they have to be written in any specific order?

Thanks,

Cameron · #4 09-03-2001, 12:21

BTW, any idea which pieces of data need to be written to a CD after it has been extracted?
There are tons of files and the audio etc.
Not all will fit onto a CD.
Do they have to be written in any specific order?

Thanks,

emulsoin · #5 09-03-2001, 16:37

I could have sworn it was a different max chip... anyway just buy one...

cameron - i think you have a bad serial slave. also you need to burn all the files to that you get. they are zipped... unzip them and then use extract on iso files and use raw2wav on raws

charlieangel · #6 09-03-2001, 21:55

Thanks cam...

Ok, I switched to another computer and now the cable works. But It pauses every few seconds.. and only download about 1 meg in 30 minutes! then after that it speeds up and downloads waaaay fast but shortly after it is speedinga long with no pauses it dumps a lot of garbag eto the teraterm window and stops. I hav eused macro and not macro... my capacitors are now 0.1uf tantelum ones.

emulsoin · #7 10-03-2001, 11:52

This happens with about half the games i do... i hate it so much... i heard its because of scratches but i tried it on a really scratched one and it worked ok... ones that dont work for me are
crazy taxi
HOTD2
blue stinger
and power stone

terence · #8 05-04-2001, 08:41

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charlieangel (10-03-2001 05:55):
Thanks cam...

Ok, I switched to another computer and now the cable works. But It pauses every few seconds.. and only download about 1 meg in 30 minutes! then after that it speeds up and downloads waaaay fast but shortly after it is speedinga long with no pauses it dumps a lot of garbag eto the teraterm window and stops. I hav eused macro and not macro... my capacitors are now 0.1uf tantelum ones.

I have the same problem, after a while, then whole bunch of characters show on the screen, does this mean that game is no good to rip??

thanks

Hippo · #9 05-04-2001, 09:44

Just a suggestion but are you running any other programs which could be causing it to run out of memory when receiving data. I had trouble at first until a exited all the programs running in windows and turned off the screensaver. If you go to http://go.to/selfboot it has a lot of useful information on ripping DC games.

Mr Bob The One Eyed Sheep · #10 05-04-2001, 11:47

I had the same problem but then i installed rambooster and everthing worked fine.
I set the alarm level as high as it would go and the target ram to half of wot i have installed.
I have 256mb ram
alarm level is set at 63
target level is set at 128
You can download it for free allover the place just do a search and you will find
hope that helps?

DreamcastKeV · #11 07-04-2001, 11:30

hate that stuff.... it works most of the time for me (LS cable) but i couldn't get gauntlet legends or quake3... pretty sure it was due to scratches though. successfully gotten pro skater 2, soul calibur, shenmue, vigilante 8 (that i can remember) so try one of those games... too bad about not functioning on your computer though. did you try it b4 replacing the capacitators