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Author Topic: For those who couldnt get the Working Saturn Emu...well Working  (Read 1137 times)

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if you havnt already then First read my prior post at

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=8707

If you have then read the following. its a step by step to get it running multiple games at once, and i know some ppl had trouble with some of it cause its japanese or something in the one menu.

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Re:For those who couldnt get the Working Saturn Emu...well Working
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2003, 07:54:26 am »
read the readme file and the howto file they explain how to use it.
to give you a quick run down on what each thing is...
*SSE - The Actual Emu
*GLaunch - A FE for this emu thats in english, allows you to config controls, and change video options.
*BASE.INI - IMPORTANT FILE this is the file that GLaunch.exe uses to find the Games .BIN file and the TOC.bin file, open it up and point to it.
*TOC.bin - the table of contents file for the one game it was made from, must make a new TOC per game. for more read below.
*readme.txt - explains mainly how to make a TOC.bin for your game.
*Gentoc.exe used for making TOC.bin
*Saturn Xp Batch.sdb - says its a XP patch for it but i didnt have to use since its on 98 for me.
*E_BACKUP.RAM & I_BACKUP.RAM - The saturns "Memory Cards" i believe.

ok basicly to run more then one game you will have to have the WHOLE Emulator in a folder. what i'v done is this.
1.put all the Emu Files as is in a folder called SATURN
2.with in that folder make a folder with the name of the game your runing. example -Shining Wisdom
3.copy all Emulator files to that folder also, and place the BIN file for the game in there to.
4.Use the steps in README.TXT to create a TOC for that specific game, and Place it within the Shining Wisdom Folder also.
5.Edit BASE.INI so it points to [in this case for shining wisdom] the following...it should look like this in this case...
*********************************************
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Re:For those who couldnt get the Working Saturn Emu...well Working
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2003, 03:01:16 pm »
found out the Readme in that file isnt the one i used.

heres a translated version.

Instructions
------------

1. Rip your favorite game using cdrwin(as a raw 2352 byte sector image), put
   both image and cue in the same directory as girigiri saturn.

   OR

1. Run glaunch.exe with a full pathname(e.g. If you have all the files in
   c:\girigiri, then run the program as c:\girigiri\glaunch). Setup everything
   how you want it, click the big image, then when Girigiri starts, close the
   program(you only have to launch glaunch once). You may also want to adjust
   the AREA option in base.ini to the region of the cd that's in your
   cdrom(see step 3).
                 
   Now just run gsaturn with the "-DISK" switch(e.g. gsaturn -DISK). Make sure
   your saturn game is in your first cdrom(if you have cdrwin handy, just
   check to see which one is first in the list).

   This mode does work(I got it working in Win98 using VirtualPC and on my
   Win2k setup), but it may not(I wasn't able to get it running properly in
   my WinXP setup). Just make sure your aspi drivers are up to date, etc. Skip
   instructions 2-7

2. run gentoc on the cue file(e.g. gentoc bloop.cue), this should generate
   a file called toc.bin.

3. Now edit base.ini, and change DISK1TOC so it points to the toc.bin file
   you just created(you shouldn't need to change this as by default, it's
   toc.bin). And change DISK1IMG so it points to game's image(e.g. bloop.bin).
   Lastly adjust AREA to the region of the game:

   1 = Japan
   2 = Taiwan/Philipines
   4 = US/C
   5 = Brazil
   12 = Europe
   etc.

4. Now run glaunch.exe with the full pathname. (e.g. If you have all the files
   in c:\girigiri, then run the program as c:\girigiri\glaunch)

5. In the Launcher, adjust the settings how you want them(it should all be
   pretty straight-forward), then click on the huge image
   ("Click here when you are finished").

6. Girigiri Saturn should basically start up, and go through all that bios
   spiel like it does on a real saturn.

7. You only have to run glaunch once. So next time(unless you want to change
   some settings), just run gsaturn with the "-i" switch(e.g. gsaturn -i)

8. If the game doesn't load, it could be an emulator issue, or perhaps a
   bug in gentoc. You could always try adding your game in games.dat and
   tweaking the settings.

9. Emulator settings, save ram and backup ram files are all located in settings.


btw it says GIRIGIRI but ignore that.
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