PCFX please help

[windowlicker11]

If anyone can help me get one of these emulators setup I would greatly appreciate it. I have been trying relentlessly using magic engine fx and mednafen to no avail. Mednafen refuses to load at all. I actually got it working once with mefx, but when I went back the next day I couldn't remember what I did to get it working.

First I mount using daemon tools, then when I open mefx if i click play I get a blank screen, if I click boot cd I get "no cd". The one time I got it working the game was listed when I clicked boot cd. I am not sure what is the correct way to launch a game, should I be using command line or just opening pcfx.exe after mounting in daemon tools.

Here is a portion of the logfile, it doesn't seem to scan D: which is the daemon tools drive.

[CD-ROM INIT]

scanning drives...

+ drive G: hp DVDRAM GT30L (port=0, unit=1) [CDROM]

opening ASPI DLL... could not open the DLL!

found 0 CD-ROM drive(s)

I have tried swapping the drive letters and it still does not scan the daemon tools drive.

Here are cd-rom settings in pcfx.ini.

# ----

# cd-rom settings

# ----

#

[cdrom]

;

; CD-ROM driver

; --

; 0 -> auto-detect [default]

; 1 -> SPTI (WinNT)

; 2 -> ASPI

;

driver=0

;

; CD-ROM drive

; --

; 1 -> first CD-ROM drive [default]

; 2 -> second CD-ROM drive

; ...

;

drive=1

;

; CD-ROM drive letter

; --

; (Windows 2000/XP only)

;

; D:

; E:

; ...

;

drive_letter=D:

I keep fiddling with these 3 settings, but nothing seems to work.

If anyone has any suggestions it would be great. I have read every thread on google pertaining to this issue and I am out of ideas.

[windowlicker11]

Got it working by setting up a scsi drive in daemon tools.

[Weaselsneak]

Writing this in case it helps anyone. I was getting the black/blank screen when trying to run PC-FX on Mednafen. It turned out I needed a different bios file. I found one named NEC PC-FX BIOS (1994)(NEC)(JP)[a].7z. I unzipped it, renamed it to pcfxbios.bin, and put it in the firmware folder inside mednafen's main folder. Works now!

[boot_sequence]

I found this file as well:-)

however I have a problem when I run a game .cue file in mednafen (I have no emulator show up) and my stdout file says (*/ "pcfx.rom No such file or directory")

I am trying a couple different .cue files that are in the same folder as the appropriate .bin file

looks like my emu wants to see pcfx.rom. I tried to change the name but the extension?? how do I change that?

OR

do I need a different mednafen?

**found the file "pcfx.rom" aand I am GTG! happy hunting all**