slikone27 Posted June 21, 2018 Posted June 21, 2018 I have tried almost every nightly from 7/24/14 to the newest and not matter what I do hyperspin will only launch the bios with no game inserted... Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? All paths and settings are correct according to instructions. I can load the games directly from reicast but no dice with hyperspin opening them. Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!
Bumblebrow Posted June 21, 2018 Posted June 21, 2018 Here's a portion of my Settings file for "Sega Dreamcast.ini": [exe info] path= rompath=Emulators/Sega Dreamcast/roms userompath=true exe=com.reicast.emulator/com.reicast.emulator.MainActivity romextension=chd,gdi,cdi parameters= searchsubfolders=false pcgame=false winstate=HIDDEN hyperlaunch=true At the root of my "internal storage," I also have the reicast\data folder where I placed the bios files named appropriately. I also had to convert all of my disc images to CHD for it to work properly. Maybe this is the piece that you are missing?
thatman84 Posted June 21, 2018 Posted June 21, 2018 I also converted my games to chd but be sure tp use an older version of mame chdman to do it. Chdv4 is what reicast can read but recent mame is on chdv5 I believe .147 is v4 I have a text file in the Android Base Pack download Official Hyperspin Tutorials Playlist HS Android Overview & Install HS Android Base Pack Download My Tutorials
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 Thanks guys! That is probably my issue. I have cdi files. I was trying everything too lol. I will give the conversion a shot and report back.
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 I am trying to run chdman with: chdman createcd -i "Aqua GT (Europe).cdi" -o "Aqua GT (Europe).cdh" and getting this: chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager 0.147 (Sep 17 2012) Output CHD: Aqua GT (Europe).cdh Input file: Aqua GT (Europe).cdi Input tracks: 0 Input length: 00:00:00 Compression: cdlz (CD LZMA), cdzl (CD Deflate), cdfl (CD FLAC) Logical size: 0 Error creating CHD file (Aqua GT (Europe).cdh): file not writeable Am I doing something wrong with the command? Thanks
Bumblebrow Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 I think my command was along the lines of: chdman.exe -createcd "name of cdi.cdi" "name of chd.chd" I don't think the -i and -o was required; but you also specified cdh instead of chd.
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 yup no dice still... wont run without the -i and -o and I even tried it on a gdi file as well. Also tried the dreamcast cdh utility program that runs it for you and still didn't work.
Bumblebrow Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 Ah, I looked at all of my zips and they are all GDI which I used the above command to convert them to CHD. Sorry about the confusion. I also noticed you're using a newer version of chdman. I can't remember which one doesn't work but this is the version I used below. chdman - MAME Compressed Hunks of Data (CHD) manager 0.140 (Oct 21 2010) When you run chdman without arguments, mine only lists toc/cue/gdi as possible conversions to CHD with the -createcd option.
Bumblebrow Posted June 22, 2018 Posted June 22, 2018 Here's the exact commandline from my script that I use. Keep in mind that the !values! are variables as it parsed the folder structure to convert all of mine to CHD.. "!scriptdir!chdman.exe" -createcd "!scriptdir!!folder!\!gdi_file!.gdi" "!scriptdir!!gdi_file!.chd" When using CHDMAN 0.140, here is the syntax which doesn't require the -i or -o; but note that they need to be in toc/cue/gdi format. Not CDI. It has been a long time since I converted them. For the ones I had that were CDI, i think I had to convert them using another program first; maybe something with Nero's nrg format.. I'll have to see if I can find some of my other scripts that I used to see what I was doing to refresh my memory! chdman -createcd input.(toc/cue/gdi) output.chd
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 Thanks! So CDI def wont work right? They need to be CDH for it to autoplay? I did try with a GDI as well and that didnt work with the same error.
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 On 6/21/2018 at 2:25 AM, thatman84 said: I also converted my games to chd but be sure tp use an older version of mame chdman to do it. Chdv4 is what reicast can read but recent mame is on chdv5 I believe .147 is v4 I have a text file in the Android Base Pack download In the setup notes it says: -BIOS files required -CDi format games are preferred for Android Does CDI not work and CDH is needed for autoplay from Hyperspin? Thanks!
slikone27 Posted June 22, 2018 Author Posted June 22, 2018 1 minute ago, slikone27 said: In the setup notes it says: -BIOS files required -CDi format games are preferred for Android Does CDI not work and CDH is needed for autoplay from Hyperspin? Thanks! Also I did: 9. Set the DATE correct & the TIME to 5MINS before current time And it keeps setting it to the right time. Would this keep it from launching as well?
Bumblebrow Posted June 23, 2018 Posted June 23, 2018 3 hours ago, slikone27 said: Thanks! So CDI def wont work right? They need to be CDH for it to autoplay? I did try with a GDI as well and that didnt work with the same error. I'm not sure why you are having issues converting GDI to CHD. Please make sure you are converting to CHD extension! You keep saying CDH, but it is CHD. I just tested a conversion with the command I provided earlier and it worked fine for me. I have included a screenshot below. Also make sure you are in a folder that you have write access to. I created a folder C:\Temp\test and put the GDI and associated track files along with chdman 0.140. If you can't find chdman 0.140, let me know and I'll send you a link. There is a Killer Instinct Project site that has it readily available. Also make sure your settings file for "Sega Dreamcast.ini" has the chd rom extension added to the list. [exe info] path= rompath=Emulators/Sega Dreamcast/roms userompath=true exe=com.reicast.emulator/com.reicast.emulator.MainActivity romextension=chd,gdi,cdi parameters= searchsubfolders=false pcgame=false winstate=HIDDEN hyperlaunch=true
Honosuseri Posted August 4, 2018 Posted August 4, 2018 On 6/23/2018 at 12:18 AM, slikone27 said: Thanks! So CDI def wont work right? They need to be CDH for it to autoplay? I did try with a GDI as well and that didnt work with the same error. I'm signed up as a beta tester for Reicast, so they push out the latest dev builds to my Android devices. Both .cdi and .gdi work fine for me, I haven't got around to converting them to CHD. I'll provide a snippet from my ini file below [exe info] path= rompath=/storage/emulated/0/Hyperspin/Roms/Sega Dreamcast userompath=true exe=com.reicast.emulator/com.reicast.emulator.MainActivity romextension=cdi,gdi parameters= searchsubfolders=true pcgame=false winstate=NORMAL hyperlaunch=true [filters] parents_only=false themes_only=false wheels_only=false roms_only=true "There is so much more and beckons me. To look through to these, infinite possibilities..."
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