Firmware v0.89

[marqs]

Firmware v0.89 is now available here and wiki has been updated.

* Added profile export feature
* Minor bug fixes

[MrClump]

Great to see the OSSC still be actively suported. 🙂

I’ve installdd 0.89 and have exported my settings, the resulting SD card is not readable in my Windows laptop; I assume it’s in the same format as when you import settings from the profile editor? Is there currently any way to manipulate the profiles from the export? It would be great to be able to import them into the profile editor to then name them.

[Harrumph]

Paulb_nl (author of the profile editor webapp) wrote this on Shmups forum:

If you want to export your profiles from an older firmware version than version 0.89 then that is possible.

Select “Export sett.” after updating to firmware 0.89 and it will write your profiles to the sdcard. In the profile manager, select the firmware version of the profiles you want to import and you can then drag and drop the file into the profiles manager. It will show a list of the profile versions contained in the file and if they were skipped or not. After that you need to use the Import json button to import the settings.

[MrClump]

I’m talking about the settings exported from the OSSC itself, not from the profile editor.

Edit to above: I see what you mean now; i’m not able to read the exported SD card. Hmmm, perhaps I’ll give it another go.

[MrClump]

Export profiles is definately not working on my particular OSSC. I’ve tried multiple Micro SD cards, down to a 1GB one to ensure it’s under the 2GB maximum for FAT16. It goes through the process and completes with “Success” but the resulting SD card is not readable. I’ve tried cards both pre-formatted as FAT16 and also cards with no partitions using the Windows DISKPART CLEAN process.

[a7mag3ddon]

Same for me as well, i tried a FAT16 formatted SD as well and i just get a non readable SD afterwards.

[marqs]

Partition table / partition generated by export does not seem to be recognized by Windows, we’ll try to figure out why. Formatting the card before export is futile since export itself does it.

[RowanSFC]

Before I go any further, I want to say thanks to marqs for this great new feature! 🙂

As a workaround I noticed that various partition manager software for Windows can see the card and file (OSSCPROF.BIN), even when Windows explorer cannot.

So this feature exports a BIN file (OSSCPROF.BIN) rather than a JSON file? Is there any way to convert the BIN file to JSON? That would be useful so that we can view and manipulate it on the PC side.

[Harrumph]

@RowansSFC
Yes that is exactly what my post above quoting paulb_nl is about, how to get the file into the editor so a .json can be created…
http://pbnl.byethost7.com/ossc/profiles/?i=1

Good catch on the partition manager workaround!

[MrClump]

What partition software are you using out of interest?

[RowanSFC]

Minitool Partition Wizard Technician – click “Data Recovery” option on the 16MB partition to extract the file.

EDIT: UFS Explorer Pro is probably a better fit for this task.

[RowanSFC]

[quote]Paulb_nl (author of the profile editor webapp) wrote this on Shmups forum:

If you want to export your profiles from an older firmware version than version 0.89 then that is possible.

Select “Export sett.” after updating to firmware 0.89 and it will write your profiles to the sdcard. In the profile manager, select the firmware version of the profiles you want to import and you can then drag and drop the file into the profiles manager. It will show a list of the profile versions contained in the file and if they were skipped or not. After that you need to use the Import json button to import the settings.[/quote]

What I didn’t understand from reading this is that you can drag the .bin file into the “json paste” field. That seems to work great, except all of the profile names seem to be lost. @marqs are the profile names being exported from the OSSC into the bin file?

[bramblepie]

Hi there, I have never updated my firmware before (I believe I’m on the version just previous to this). I heard talk that updating deletes all your profiles from your unit?? Is this true? I’d hate to lose all the work I did. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated!

[Harrumph]

@bramblepie: Read my posts further up

[Hypetreme]

The problem is that the full version fro both of those data recovery softwares cost over $100. If the settings file gets over 750kb you can’t even use the free version to export the file.

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