Help: MKS SBASE 1.3 Smoothieware Delta setup

Hello everyone, I just received my MKS SBASE v1.3 board and it looks promising so far. I am trying to setup my Delta with the board, I have a Micromake D1 printer, it has XYZ endstops on top and the z_probe with the effector. I have couple of questions regarding Smoothieware.

1. I have read that I have to put firmware.bin and config.txt in root of the SD and after power off/on, the firmware.bin should turn to firmware.cur. That never happens, however, whatever change I make in config.txt, it reflects on the functioning of the printer. Meaning, for example, if I change the feedrate, I can see the difference in speed when I home or manually jog. Is that normal?

2. I have set the gamma_max to 320.5 (that is the height from nozzle to bed while homed). However when I manually move the z axis all the way down to the bed, I get -320.5 instead of 0. What I have noticed is that when I manually jog Z axis down/up 100mm, it moves half of that. Any solution?

Thanks!

p.s I have also attached my config.txt

alpha_min_endstop nc #
alpha_max_endstop 1.25^ # add ! to invert pullup if switch is NO to ground
alpha_homing_direction home_to_max # Home up
alpha_max 0 #
beta_min_endstop nc #
beta_max_endstop 1.27^ #
beta_homing_direction home_to_max #
beta_max 0 #
gamma_min_endstop nc #
gamma_max_endstop 1.29^ #
gamma_homing_direction home_to_max #
gamma_max 243.3000

that's my endstop settings

gamma min should be set NC not assigned to a pin like yours is

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Hi thanks for your reply. The reason I assigned gamma_min_endstop to a pin is to get auto bed leveling. I have a limit switch on the effector and it gets triggered when the nozzle touches the bed. Or am I doing it wrong?

you define the pin in the z probe section in the config

# optional Z probe
zprobe.enable false # set to true to enable a zprobe
zprobe.probe_pin 1.28!^ # pin probe is attached to if NC remove the !
zprobe.slow_feedrate 5 # mm/sec probe feed rate
#zprobe.debounce_count 100 # set if noisy
zprobe.fast_feedrate 100 # move feedrate mm/sec
zprobe.probe_height 5 # how much above bed to start probe
#gamma_min_endstop nc # normally 1.28. Change to nc to prevent conflict,

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