Just got one of these and I'm trying to figure out how to play games off of disks on it. I've used SNES copiers before but this one is really driving me apeshit. After some messing around with it, I figured out you have to hold R when powering it to bring up the menu and that's about as far as I got. On my other copier (Super Wild Card), all I had to do was format a disk with the copier, drop the .smc rom into the disk on my Mac and it was ready to play. Can't do it on the Game Doctor though. When I do this and load the disk on the SFIII, it says something like "no game data on disk!" Even copying a cart doesn't seem to work either. When I do it and try loading the disk, I always get a black screen. Seems to store the ripped cart roms to memory fine though but I still get the black screen when I try loading them. Can anyone give me some tips here? I replaced the disk drive on the Game Doctor with the working one on my other copier, so I don't think it is that.
Strange... I don't know about the GD SF3, but I had a GD SF7 (I think) back home. First of all, I think your SNES files need to be named SFxxxx.yyy, dunno about the numbering conventions. The SF7 only recognized files beginning with SF. (Stupid Bung, they did the same thing with the Dr. PC Jr.) Plus, I think files larger than 4mbits need to be split. I dunno about progs for the Mac that can do that, but there ought to be a Mac version of uCon. That's all I can suggest. P.S. I never liked the GD either. I've not tried the SWC series, but I had a Super UFO 8 at home, and it worked fantastic. (Except for the largest of files.)
yeah, the gd/sf uses a special interleaved rom format, you need to convert em first. as ccovell said, use ucon64 to convert your files. its not very intuitve to use, but works fine once youve gotten the hang of it.
