Alright.
I've been trouble shooting an XVI compact for a little bit.
I replaced a few ribbon cables, and now my system is booting from disks :)
I ran final fight, cotton , and daimakaimura without any issues.
I ran mtest for 2 hours and all tests. I have no errors with the stock 2mb, and my 8mn additional expansion memory.
I have a BlueSCSI configured.
My compact didn't have an SRAM battery installed.... I'm waiting for the correct battery now.
But I figured I could boot with my Human disk, and then switch.x change the boot settings everytime and load from the SCSI.
But I have to manually start float2.x then launch switch.x... My settings don't save?
I can access the SCSI by changing my drive to C:
I run autoexec.bat and it'll boot into LHES.
When I try and run games, I'm running into memory errors.
What am I missing?
Thanks for the help
Have you perhaps forgotten to set the memory size in switch.x?
Without SRAM your machine defaults to 2M ram which is enough to run many games from floppy, but not enough for running off of HDD.
Quote from: kamiboy on February 05, 2026, 12:08:46 AMHave you perhaps forgotten to set the memory size in switch.x?
Without SRAM your machine defaults to 2M ram which is enough to run many games from floppy, but not enough for running off of HDD.
Yeah I changed the memory size in switch, and when I exit/save changes.
I'll relaunch switch.x and the settings don't save.
I can't figure out why the settings won't save.
I figured they'd at least save until I powered off the machine
Yeah, they should save. Perhaps you need to clear the SRAM first. You can also set memory size via command line by passing switch.x the correct size.
The command is mentioned in one of the latest posts in the sxsi hdd thread.