Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
Is anyone here willing to dump a Megatouch MAXX Diamond for me?
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 28, 2014, 06:16:38 pm ---force 2005+ and all ion software will run on any harddrive.
2004 and earlier, all maxx, and all XL software must be run from a merit branded drive.
the merit hard drives have the firmware modified so that the software can check and see if the drive is from merit or not. if you view the model information on the drive in the bios you can see the manufacturer says "merit00" instead of "maxtor" or other similar string.
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Is there an echo in here?
mahkeymike:
--- Quote from: orizzle on October 27, 2014, 09:25:08 pm ---
I was able to remove a couple of checks to boot VMware into X and see a "touchscreen controller error" message. I tried making a dummy /dev/twscreen0(1,2,3,4) device and now I just see an all-black screen and no error. Wanted to see if you ever got any further.
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Interesting...
I tried installing a "patched ISO" via VMware once but never got to the "touchscreen controller error" The error i got seem to be related to cd/dvd drive emulation. I gave up on trying virtual emulation since i (at the time) had a few force and ion systems to test with. Currently im down to only having official Ion systems/hardware so my resources are limited.
I do however know how to patch out that touchscreen error on force software. You would be left with a main screen with no way to navigate though. Also, I never had a Maxx system/hardware so i cant help with Maxx.
mahkeymike:
Ion 2011+ is even easier to bypass hardware checks. And you can even use "upright" XL/Maxx touchscreens (17/19") and any XL/Maxx touchscreen controller (SMT3 "white" controller) This is not possible with earlier Ion software or any force software, atleast without major patching of binaries and manually adding driver modules. (Not worth the effort in my opinion.)
Essentially, you could buy a XL/Maxx upright cabinet on craigslist (local) and throw those ion parts in and have yourself an up to date 2011-2012 software ion for way less then ed12's quote of $300-400. Just some food for thought.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: mahkeymike on October 28, 2014, 06:37:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: lilshawn on October 28, 2014, 06:16:38 pm ---force 2005+ and all ion software will run on any harddrive.
2004 and earlier, all maxx, and all XL software must be run from a merit branded drive.
the merit hard drives have the firmware modified so that the software can check and see if the drive is from merit or not. if you view the model information on the drive in the bios you can see the manufacturer says "merit00" instead of "maxtor" or other similar string.
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Is there an echo in here?
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TL;DR. :P feels like friday but it's only tuesday. :banghead:
orizzle:
--- Quote from: mahkeymike on October 28, 2014, 06:48:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: orizzle on October 27, 2014, 09:25:08 pm ---
I was able to remove a couple of checks to boot VMware into X and see a "touchscreen controller error" message. I tried making a dummy /dev/twscreen0(1,2,3,4) device and now I just see an all-black screen and no error. Wanted to see if you ever got any further.
--- End quote ---
Interesting...
I tried installing a "patched ISO" via VMware once but never got to the "touchscreen controller error" The error i got seem to be related to cd/dvd drive emulation. I gave up on trying virtual emulation since i (at the time) had a few force and ion systems to test with. Currently im down to only having official Ion systems/hardware so my resources are limited.
I do however know how to patch out that touchscreen error on force software. You would be left with a main screen with no way to navigate though. Also, I never had a Maxx system/hardware so i cant help with Maxx.
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Which version were you able to patch? Want to work together to see if we can figure this out?
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