"Let's make GD ROM emulation happen" Facebook group.

Used an SD card adapter waaay back when i still had a gdrom drive installed.

 

Thanks madsheep! I got this going after playing around with it.

Download the file above and the normal one - http://xxx.biskoto.gr/GDEMU_SD.rar
Replace GDMENU_Builder/data/files/1ST_READ.BIN with the newer one from the GDEMU_SD archive

 

Hello,
I have a question in general about the "IDE MOD".
Is it not possibel to hook up a PC DVD reader/burner instead the ATA HDD drive?
DVD´s a big enuff to take a GD-Rom in is original size.
Or is not possibel to boot from DVD drive?
I mean the Dreamcast cd rom drive stay inside(no replacement) and the DVD drive as external device like the "G1 ATA Mod"?
I think it is also a other opportunity how to play GD Rom files on a retail dreamcast.When it were possibel!

I wonder everybody have there focus on HD/dreamshell,USBEMU and GDEMU!


Have a nice day!

 

hello guys

i just want to share the new fw as of 04/16/2016 with you , i got an email from mnemo with the link to the beta fw to test out , here the text in my mail i got from him , have fun

" Before release new firmware I need couple betatesters with final ver "external USB"(April-May 2015) like as yours USB-GD.
https://yadi.sk/d/_DssKZW5r3jYf
Test it and give me feedback. "

( i dont have time atm to test it my self but feedback about D 2 disc swapping would be nice , i hope he fixed it )

 

The file is no longer available. Would you mind uploading it again, please?

 

Don't use it, it has some issues.

I got a new one today from mnemo, it's the full firmware this time 3mb.
(Cannot share & after the last beta I installed I don't want to, as I don't want features broken & me getting the blame)

What I can say is it seems GDI loading is back to normal & he's added a new txt string under Region Free: on "Select Image for swap - <x> button"

Codebreaker cheat discs doesn't boot now , game shark cheat disc still works.

 

can gdemu be used somehow to transfer saves to/from vmu?

 

To, yes. Using a cdi with vmu explorer or dreamshell and the savefile you want to transfer.

From, no. There's no way to write to gdemu sd-card, so far.

If you have a serial sd-card as well as gdemu you can do it though (which is my case).

 

maybe swat can modify dreamshell to access gdemu sd card

 

It's been kinda quiet lately. Is DreamShell working with the GDEmu yet? lol
I mean that was the last post here, I'd hope it were true by now.

 

only if Deunan added write function

 

Anyone had issue with Sega Rally 2 on GDEMU going back to Dreamcast menu after first demo loop? I'm pretty sure I have the TOSEC rip that I used RebuildGDI on. Thanks

 

My USB GD-ROM arrived and I'm able to play CDI and GDI's just fine from *USB STICK*.

However, when I plug in my USB drive (FAT32, 64K clusters), I keep getting a "no FAT32 partition found" error. I have tried the Fat32formatter on this thread and even used the newer version (guiformat). I have tried the following hard drive combinations but still keep getting the "no FAT32 partition found".
1. 2TB Western Digital My Passport drive (FAT32/64K clusters).
2. WD 1 TB Drive in a generic enclosure (FAT32/64K clusters).
3. Inateck enclosure (recommended by someone in this thread and got his to work) with 500 GB Samsung drive (FAT32/64K clusters). Here is the link to the enclosure... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JQTO8TU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I DON'T think my board is defective, since I'm able to use with USB stick.
NOTE: I *DID* have problems at first with the default 2016-12-04 firmware. I would format USB sticks on my PC but then *after* inserting into the USB-GDROM, the USB stick would NO LONGER BE READABLE on the PC. I tried with 5 different sticks, same problem. Insert into USB GD-ROM, USB GD-ROM would read and load games, but when I stuck back into the PC to copy more games, every PC (I tried 4 different PCs) could no longer read USB stick. *** I SOLVED THE UNREADABLE USB STICK ISSUE BY UPGRADING TO 2016-12-08 FIRMWARE**, but have the remaining problem of every hard drive combination that I've tried shows "no FAT32 partition found".

Do you think that my board is defective and can only read USB sticks (this doesn't make sense, so I'm not sure)? Or, does someone know of an even newer firmware out there? I'm *SORT* of happy with the unit because I can GDI's from USB Stick, but I would rather not buy a larger stick/SDCard when I have 2TB, 1TB, and 500GB drives that I can use.

*ANY* help will be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Make sure the partition is set to primary or it won't work.
( you will get the error you have )

If the are already set to primary, then look at the download file under the images on his site, he has one where you place a file on the root of your HDD if using a HDD.

 

"New" Firmware for GDEMU available here.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/firmware/updating-gdemu/

5.15.0

• Internal changes
• Newer compiler used

5.14.0 (not released)

• Internal changes
• Limited support for long names (ASCII only) in filenames