Official Rhea Discussion

Discussion in 'Sega Saturn Programming and Development' started by citrus3000psi, Jul 16, 2015.

  1. kumikochan

    kumikochan Member

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    Well everything works super now but Rmenu can't seem to get past folder 82. I know the games work because if i select them by button pressing they work but nothings shows up in Rmenu beyond folder 82 and they're numbered correctly. Anyone know why ?
     
  2. MeteK

    MeteK Rapidly Rising Member

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    Did you relaunch the exe file to remake another iso in rmenu folder ?
     
  3. kumikochan

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    Yeah i did. Don't know why the folder didn't went past 82 since i have about 105 folders on my sd. I'll try to find out what the problem is. EDIT : Stupid mistake, i forgot to make folder 83 and it went straight to 84 from 82 :D
     
  4. ssaylanc

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    Hi,
    I have a strange problem with Guardian Heroes (latest RHEA firmware).
    At bottom of the screen there are image patterns(repetitive) from previous screens (the layer characters walks).

    https://flic.kr/p/FZ3R1P
     
  5. fille

    fille Rapidly Rising Member

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    ssaylanc,i have it to.
    im on a jap console.gona check what region the cdi is.
    rhea is on latest firmware.
    image is pal,gona try ntsc version.
    like i said,tryed ntsc version,problem solved here.
    maybe bad source or pal problem.
     
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  6. ssaylanc

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    Thanks @fille I tried US version of the game, there is problem with the visual now.
     
  7. fille

    fille Rapidly Rising Member

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    is your problem solved?
    seems there is sometimes audio problem also,but must try the darkwater rip.
     
  8. Atolm

    Atolm Spirited Member

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    That looks more like a hardware issue on the saturn's graphic processing end.

    NTSC Guardian Hero works just fine with the Rhea. Why are you using PAL images on a NTSC console? Is you saturn set up with the proper 50/60hz switch?
     
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    Druidic teacher Officer at Arms

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  10. fille

    fille Rapidly Rising Member

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    i forgot it,it runs fine ntsc version.
     
  11. cleeg

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    New orders window opening soon...

    Anyway, I'll be opening Rhea and GDEMU orders next weekend. I hate to combine those but that's the best solution - I'll try to make the batches smaller, like with Phoebe, I was actually able to wrap it in a month starting from zero.

    ... In case interested. I got this from the GDEmu builder in my emails over the weekend
     
  12. splatterhouse

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    Hi, I am a new user of the Phoebe ODE with a Model 2 Saturn (Type 2), did the 60hz autoswitch in Phoebe and everything seems to work perfectly minus one thing. I use a 128gb SD card with rMenu and lots of games on it, around 105gb and about 215 folders. Some of the games after a random time hangs and go back to the Saturn dash, when you execute the disc it returns to rMenu (folder 01) and not the game I was playing. I had problems with following games, but probably there are more affected:
    - Panzer Dragoon Saga (maybe it hangs after 40 minutes, maybe after 5 minutes, it is random)
    - Magic Carpet (very quickly, not even beeing abble to reproduce to the end the intro of the game)
    - Gradius Deluxe Pack (if I leave it loading it hangs during the intro or in the game menu)
    - Virtua Fighter 2 (very quickly too, leaving it idling and looping the demo it hangs after some minutes, this is the one I use for stability testing)

    I used the following settings in Phoebe.ini that seemed to help a bit so the games where less prone to crash:
    open_time = 4000
    detect_time = 3000

    I used Discjuggler and CloneCD formats in the isos.

    The problem happens only when I use big SD cards, I know the maximum supported size is 32gb, but I tried the following cards that gave trouble:
    - Sandisk 64gb SD card
    - Samsung 128gb MicroSD
    - Kingston 128gb SD (this one beeing reported as working in this thread)

    If I use a spare SD card of 2gb I got here all these games work perfectly, I left Virtua Fighter 2 that is the quickest to crash several hours without any problem.

    Have you experienced some of those problems using bigger SD cards?

    Thanks for your help
     
  13. fille

    fille Rapidly Rising Member

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    what sources are you using for your games,i use darkwater or trurip and have no problems with those games.
    als using kingston 128gb
    also for convert them from bin cue to cdi,i used DAEMON Tools Lite 4.49.1.0356
     
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  14. splatterhouse

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    My sources are TruRip and Darkwater too. Most of my images are ccd and were direct from TruRip or converted using latest Daemon Tools Lite and CloneCD. The images work OK when used in a smaller SD card, so I don't think that is the problem. In fact I tried more games and all have that problem more or less when played from the 128gb SD cards.

    Now I am reformating the 128gb card with 64 bytes cluster to see if that solves something.

    EDIT: Seems that after formatting the SD card it works without problems, will check more this weekend. I think the problem was that at first I quick formatted the card from exFat to FAT32, this time I did a slow format (2 hours and a half), so far so good it seems to work as it should.

    EDIT 2: Unfortunately some games still exit to Saturn menu. Don't have a clue, what can it be.
     
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  15. cleeg

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    It must be the size of your card. Failing that, what program are you using to format? I used Ease US Partition Manager for my 64GB SanDisk to format as FAT32. Don't forget, Deunan only sanctions 32GB cards, anything else is officially hit or miss.
     
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  16. splatterhouse

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    I use FAT32 format currently with 64kb cluster size (previously 32kb). The problem is random, for example this morning Kingdom Grand Prix exited to Saturn menu in the first minute of playing (Saturn was cold), then I started it again, played for 30 minutes and everything OK.

    Definitely the settings of open time and detect time have some effect on this (the more time the better stability).
     
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    Does your Saturn have a trap board on the ribbon cable, and did you remove it? Make sure all your connections are solid and nothing got crimped.

    I'm using a cheap generic 64gb card now I formatted with the fat32 gui utility from RidgeCrop consultants. I formatted to 32kb clusters, and everything is still working fine. I haven't changed any settings for access times, the only thing I put in the .ini is for auto region.
     
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  18. splatterhouse

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    My Saturn is from gdemu website:
    Type-2: VA2-VA5 (21-pin cable, 64-pin MCU) Mine is VA5
    ODE: Phoebe
    CD-ROM drives:
    • JVC ENR-011A
    Didn't have to remove a trap board.

    Now the "crashes" are very rare, so definitely it doesn't suppose a problem for me, but maybe I try to format to 32kb cluster and see if it improves.
     
  19. krisk77

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    I use the same rips (DW&trurip) 128gb Kingston Sd, 64k cluster Fat32 formatted on my Pheobe using default ini. And every game is flawless.

    Only difference is my console for the Pheobe is a type 3, yet cannot see that making any difference. I did have a similar issue on my other Rhea VA0 console and it was the ribbon cable which was the fault, so check the connection even if the games load so far.

    Use daemon v4.xx and DJ 6.0 using the correct settings and you cannot go wrong. Also test without Rmenu too via the default Ode button.
     
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  20. splatterhouse

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    Thanks for the tricks, I have tried without rMenu, with and without Action Replay, etc. It doesn't make any difference. Even I tried to put only two games in the SD card to check if that solved somethingm but unfortunately not. Don't want to mess with the ribbon cable as this should give me problems with smaller cards too and it doesn't. It should be something related to bigger cards, or even the SD adapter I am using to format the card in my computer.

    The fact is that this Saturn had a problem with the CD-ROM drive, it only played games when it was cold and 5 minutes latter it exited to the Saturn menu. One of the reasons to buy the Phoebe was to replace the faulty drive, when I saw that it also quited to the menu with the Phoebe I thought that maybe the problem was with the PSU (even if it could play games for much more than 5 minutes depending on the game). But this I have it nearly discarded as with the 2gb SD card I played during 3 hours Panzer Dragoon Saga without any glitch.

    If no one had this kind of problem, that should be something with my Saturn/SD card for sure. Now I am finishng formatting the card with 32kb cluster size, let's see if that makes an improvement. Anyway, doing the full format and relaxing the open and detect times seemed to help a lot, so definitely I can test games no problem, and then if I decide to play only one I can save it to the smaller SD card to avoid loosing progress.
     
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