MakeMHZ project stellar

[Dtomcat18]

Yes upto 16TB I believe.  256mb has no updates as far I know.  I believe it’s going to be custom made chips from what I’ve read… but no updates yet 

[Bowlsnapper]

2 hours ago, Dtomcat18 said:

Yes upto 16TB I believe.  256mb has no updates as far I know.  I believe it’s going to be custom made chips from what I’ve read… but no updates yet 

Okay. Are you able to point to where it said custom chips may be used? I'm just curious about this is all. If you just read it in passing then I'll take your word for it for now.

[Incursion64]

29 minutes ago, Bowlsnapper said:

Okay. Are you able to point to where it said custom chips may be used? I'm just curious about this is all. If you just read it in passing then I'll take your word for it for now.

I've been on the discord a while. There was one or 2 small references about something being developed for it, but otherwise it has been very tight lipped.  Other comments inferred that it was not going to be inexpensive either.  We'll all have to wait and see. Right now the project's focus has been getting things working.  What i'd like to see is the legacy bios support (via sd card) in concert with at least XISO's being enabled (even if CISO is further down the line).  Then at least the chip would provide a means of testing the main stellar patched bios compared to other legacy bios' if there happens to be any games with issues (M8, Ind, cerb which are all xiso ready if you will). As of now testing cross projects is a matter of chip swapping, and that isn't idea. Be great to just leave the stellar on there and do it all from there.    Legacy format support was the first real major hurdle (for me) that is now working properly.  

[nikeymikey]

20 minutes ago, Incursion64 said:

I've been on the discord a while. There was one or 2 small references about something being developed for it, but otherwise it has been very tight lipped.  Other comments inferred that it was not going to be inexpensive either.  We'll all have to wait and see. Right now the project's focus has been getting things working.  What i'd like to see is the legacy bios support (via sd card) in concert with at least XISO's being enabled (even if CISO is further down the line).  Then at least the chip would provide a means of testing the main stellar patched bios compared to other legacy bios' if there happens to be any games with issues (M8, Ind, cerb which are all xiso ready if you will). As of now testing cross projects is a matter of chip swapping, and that isn't idea. Be great to just leave the stellar on there and do it all from there.    Legacy format support was the first real major hurdle (for me) that is now working properly.  

All good info, thanks. The legacy format support doesn't include Cerbios formatted drives tho.... Unless you have found differently??

[COO-589]

From what I've read, I can't help but believe that supporting other BIOSes on a microSD card is nothing more than a gimmick at the moment. There hasn't been much effort in supporting anything else previously with MakeMHz... And if it does go ahead, I can't imagine it'll be a priority at all or that any competitive/preferable modern BIOSes or patches will even be supported anyway.

I've been interested in the native ATA TRIM support for SSDs as well, but it's not something that I've really seen discussed since its announcement... Sure, it's not actually all that big of a deal, but I'm keen to see it play out if it's actually a thing.

All of the kernel-level patching on-the-fly is the most attractive thing about it all to me at the moment, and also the integrated modern controller support that I haven't seen or heard anything about yet either...

 

There's a lot of promises and undelivered features, but also a lot of drama and refusals to support desired features that are provided elsewhere. I think I'll be on the fence about Project Stellar for a while, patiently seeing how it all plays out and what it has to offer in the long-run...

I think that a bit of competition for an internal HDMI output mod (not analogue-digital external converters) could be a good thing for the project overall - I recently saw some mention of PixelFX developing one?

In the meantime, an OpenXenium with freedom for my own choice of BIOSes/patches will be good enough for me, at least until something "Stellar" finally happens with this...

Edited May 23 by COO-589

[Donnie-Burger]

So finished some tests - Cerbios doesn't work.  Can't see your games etc.  Titan with a 4TB worked and in game reset works now on Titan.  Gonna test some more things out.