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Let me know if you want to collaborate to see if we can get this thing to work. I already talked to Manuel and he shared all the source code, so I can setup a repo on GitHub for us if you want. I have been fixing a few bugs but the main issue I have is that I cannot get it to compile correctly with the latest boriel zx-basic compiler. It has changed so much in the last 10 years and although I get it to compile and can launch it in an emulator, it seems to create memory issues where tiles, especially the timer countdown, start glitching, so there is definitely something off. I think before we reach out to boriel or open an issue directly to the zx-basic repo, we need to get it compiled correctly with the latest version of zx-basic.

Let me know what you think. :)

Yup, the same happened to someone else using similar tools. It seems like the Z80 compilers have a couple things wrong when it comes to the PV-1000. We were helping out the z88dk folks too, their compiler is supposed to be similar to Boriels, but the games did not work in the real hardware. Tinned trace tested the games and with someone else helped get the z88 code fixed and now games work. I think the Boriel compiler is missing a couple key things in order to work. Not saying it is the same issue, but here is the work done for z88dk: https://github.com/z88dk/z88dk/issues/2726#issuecomment-2889162604

We would love to see Kings & Demons, as well as your other games and samples work on real hardware! Let us know what we can do to help! TinnedTrace is available to test on real hardware too :)

Hi @nitrofurano, I have been working with TinnedTrace to test your PV1000 games in his new PV1000 multicart on a real Casio PV-1000 but he was not successful. I also provided him with binaries for Simon and Knights & Demons. I was able to load Knights & Demons on emulator and loved it. Let us know if you would like some help getting these modified and tested in real hardware, we would love to get all 3 games working! :)

I came here to post exactly what TinnedTrace posted! :)

I did extensive research on all the PV-1000 homebrew games developed and other than the Inufuto's games, which he tests using real hardware, UNK is the only other game that works on real hardware.

Thanks to TinnedTrace for testing this out for me! Would be nice to get more details about what you used to compile your source. :)