#227 ROM Dump Stuck in Loop

[Jaden Peterson]

• Arch Linux
• TiLP v1.18
• TI-84 Plus CE
• DirectLink

Output: https://pastebin.com/vJV4Zpiv

[Jaden Peterson]

No errors are produced, it just keeps showing the transfer dialog and the calculator shows the program being run over and over again.

[Lionel Debroux]

Your log doesn't show anything wrong yet :)

Running the program over and over again - 256 times in total - to dump a different memory portion every time is in fact how the TI-eZ80 Flash dumper works. Unlike all other ROM dumpers in libticalcs, the current TI-eZ80 dumper doesn't speak the libticalcs custom dumping protocol, as this requires a level of hardware + software knowledge nobody in the community had when it was implemented.
Nowadays, things could be different, as jacobly and MateoC have gained more insight into the USB hardware and the USB routines in the boot code and the OS. IIRC, jacobly implemented another ROM dumper.

[Jaden Peterson]

I feel extremely dumb, sorry to waste your time.

[Lionel Debroux]

No problem :)

A version of new ROM dumper is in fact public:
https://github.com/jacobly0/tilibs/commit/25107aac07635b5005083b70732ebebd96688bd4
but it got stuck in testing, and jacobly wants to improve it further. Also, I haven't worked much on libti / gfm / tilp this year.