Dreamcast Naming

[rp05]

Does anybody know how i should name my games so they can be found by RLauncher Game Audit. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Please find pic attached

 

[badboo]

Like the screenshot below.

Try to leave the naming like that though and it will be easier for you to manage it with the media....

believe me, I ended up changing all the naming of the roms this way, it will make your life easier.

[rp05]

Mine don’t have .gdi file is that what you mean ?? Know I should be renaming but don’t know which file I should be renaming

Thanks for reply btw

[Honosuseri]

53 minutes ago, rp05 said:

Mine don’t have .gdi file is that what you mean ?? Know I should be renaming but don’t know which file I should be renaming

Thanks for reply btw

Yes it's odd you don't have gdi or cdi files. It's these that are named to match the entries in the Dreamcast.xml file (HyperSpin Database).

[32assassin]

what set do you have?

Turip, redump, no-intro, goodsets?

delete them and get the MAME CHD format set.

as the name states C=compressed

you get the benefit of having your files compressed like the set badboo has (GDI compressed in 7z format)

unlike badboos set your emulator will load CHD files directly,  their is no need to uncompress them before you load them.

this means that LOAD TIMES WILL BE MUCH FASTER WITH CHD  FILES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

and CHD files consist of only a single file you need to rename to match the name in your XML.

[badboo]

@rp05 This is the naming that you should follow. Well, if you want to, of course.

Regarding the type of files, it is up to you. CHD it is very convenient as @32assassin  explains, it will be easier to have one file per game (or rom). 

In my case, every time I load a game, it uncompress the rom (inside the zip) to play, but I am ok waiting a few seconds. So I haven't changed my romset.

[rp05]

Thanks for the Help will try get CHD Set