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Need Some Help With Mamewah & Fusion / Opening a Sega CD image?
unclet:
If the games are all listed in their own individual directories and MameWah is set up with a rom_extension of ISO (or BIN ... or both), then how does MameWah know to "go into the game directory" to find the ISO or BIN file to get the correct gamelist information?
Are you saying that MameWah will not work with all games in their own directory? MinWah stated in this post that he believed the games belong in their own directory.
How would you recommend to convert an ISO to BIN/CUE format?
Also, I tried mounting a CD using Daemon tools for setting up NeoGeoCD games, but it did not work for me ..... I really did not spend anymore time trying to figure out what went wrong. I mean I tried to execute the mount command at the command prompt and then tried executing the NeoGeoCD nebula command next but it did not work properly. I was kind of looking forward in getting the SegaCD stuff working without having to use Daemon tools.
Why do most people not simply use the "ISO file/separate directory" approach?
Also, if I wanted to stick with the "ISO file/separate directory" setup, then what would my MameWah INI file (see previous posting) need to look like? I noticed your INI file (from your site) uses BIN/CUE format but does not use the Daemon tools..... so are you sure that SegaCD required Daemon tools ...... they seem like they can be played directory from BIN/CUE or ISO format.
jcrouse:
For the special occurance of each game having it own directory you somehow (I forget exactly how) use an option of Folder somewhere.
Converting ISO/MP3 to bin/cue takes some work. I know since I have probably done 2000 game, including all of the Sega CD stuff. You first need to use an audio conversion program to conver the MP3's to WAV's. The you need to remove the MP3's and put the Wav's in the same folder as the ISO(s). Then use a program (do a search, it's on the Fusion site somewhere) calle segacuemaker.exe. This will create a cue file. Then you use a program like Alcohol 120% to mount the cue file and rip the ISO/Wav's into bin.cue format.
John
Be aware that you use some audio quality doing this but many would argue that it is undetectable.
unclet:
No offense but that seems like way too much work at the moment :P
I will post something in the MameWah forum asking about the folder option thing .... thanks
unclet:
The mameworld.info site has been down all night (actually goes down quite regularly for some reason) so I decided to post one more time here .....
I decided to try this ......
I placed all my ISO, MP3 and BIN/CUE files in the same directory and then pointed my MameWah INI file to have a"rom_extension" of "iso;bin" and all the games were now listed in MameWah.
I started about three games and they all asked me to press START, however, after exiting Star Wars (which did not display nicely BTW) it crashed my display driver and I had to reboot. Now when I start the games, it asks me to press RESET now. Whats going on?
Also, if I hit the mapped key for "Z" (maybe was it some other mapped key) then I get a CD player thing ..... is this normal? Should this CD thing be displayed?
jcrouse:
--- Quote from: unclet on March 10, 2006, 11:49:16 pm ---The mameworld.info site has been down all night (actually goes down quite regularly for some reason) so I decided to post one more time here .....
I decided to try this ......
I placed all my ISO, MP3 and BIN/CUE files in the same directory and then pointed my MameWah INI file to have a"rom_extension" of "iso;bin" and all the games were now listed in MameWah.
I started about three games and they all asked me to press START, however, after exiting Star Wars (which did not display nicely BTW) it crashed my display driver and I had to reboot. Now when I start the games, it asks me to press RESET now. Whats going on?
Also, if I hit the mapped key for "Z" (maybe was it some other mapped key) then I get a CD player thing ..... is this normal? Should this CD thing be displayed?
--- End quote ---
What's going on is that I told you previously the two methods that will work but you chose to ignore my advice and try some hair-brained approach.
List generation is VERY simple. It looks for an extension you specify (or multiple in your example, iso and bin) in a folder you specify. THat is all it does and then it displays the results. This has NOTHING to do with actually launching a game which is controlled by the parameters on the "emulator_commandline" entry.
Good Luck,
John
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