Give up on getting 4DO to work and switch to RetroArch?

[esoteric]

Hi guys. I've been having a real tough time getting 3DO emulation going. I can't use FreeDO because I get the ASPI error (and can't resolve it since I'm running Win 7 64bit.) I can get 4DO to run games well but when I tried to add it to Hyperlaunch and get the games to launch in Hyperspin I'm running into an issue. After selecting a game, the 4DO window pops up but it isn't fullscreen and nothing happens. All of my games are either bin/cue or iso/cue. I have done the following:

- Renamed the bios to fz10.rom

-"After Startup, Open Last game" option enabled

Am I missing something? Would it be easier for me to just use RetroArch (I haven't tried that yet.)

[guyverjay]

you should post a troubleshooting log

[FrankyRizzo]

I actually switched almost every emulator over to RetroArch just because of the ease of controlling most systems from 1 emulator. It also has a great filtering system.

I never tried the 4DO emulator so I cant offer any support. But I do have 3DO working with the RetroArch 4DO core.

[esoteric]

Thanks, I am going to give RetroArch a go. I have been looking for filters for SSF and can't get them to work so maybe I can use RetroArch as a Saturn emulator too and have the benefit of filters.

[JoeC3109]

The problem with Retroarch and saturn is that it uses yabause for the core. The compatibility is very limited compared to SSF

[esoteric]

Yabause? Man that's a bummer. I tried getting SweetFX to work for SSF but I don't understand it at all. Supposedly I'm supposed to just drop the files from the injector into the SSF folder and it is supposed to work? Have you given this a try Joe?

[Styphelus]

I have SweetFX working with SSF. I can drop my files in the emulator tonight.

I'm using Retroarch for 3DO as well but as far as I know, there's no way to switch disks so games that require multiple disks may not be playable at this point. Can anyone confirm this?

[esoteric]

Probably a very noob question but by "drop the files in the emulator tonight" are you saying you'll put the files somewhere only Platinum Members can access?

[Styphelus]

Shoot. Didn't notice you weren't a full member. Yes, we have a FTP.

[esoteric]

I plan on eventually upgrading but not at the moment. Was SweetFX pretty easy to setup for you?

[FrankyRizzo]

I had no idea Sweet FX would work with SSF... Thats great news.

[FrankyRizzo]

SO if you upload the files tot he FTP I would greatly appreciate it.

[Styphelus]

It's in my FTP folder

[esoteric]

I gave up on RetroArch after it kept telling me my 4do core was not valid. I decided to try 4do again on its own. Turns out my problem was I was trying to run bin files and that doesn't work. All my iso games launched fine.

I tried converting the bin file (Dragons Lair) to iso and modifying the cue accordingly but it still won't run. Anyone have luck converting 3do bin files?

[Styphelus]

Nope. You can't convert them. I had the same problem. I went through my rom set and kept the ISO roms only. Had to download all the other roms from the TOSEC rom set (ISO/CUE). Also, deleting the cue files from the ISO set helps.

The Hyperspin ready set on PD is really crappy. It's a mix of img/ccd, bin/cue, iso and iso/cue and they are not even named properly.

The good thing is that I went through all the 3DO games and removed all the crappy interactive stuff (atlas, animals, rubiks cube...) and all the kiddy games from the "official" xml.

[vampirolatino2]

I use MagicIso to convert to iso, bin, etc