Unofficial Deunan's GDEMU Thread

Figured it out, you basically can't have any whitespace before/after the track number/etc in the .gdi - that is killing it... might want to fix that

 

emu_kidid you are a star mate. I've been tearing out (what's left) of my hair trying to get this to run. Thank you.

 

On this note, does anyone have a link for the linux version of GDEMU_SD please? (thanks in advance)

 

With the GDMenu, is there some imposed limitation that requires certain files to be .raw vs .bin? I've put some games on and they're "unreadable" in the menu. All the tracks are .bin for that game (and listed properly in the .gdi).

 

What is your gdi source? It seems the GDI files themselves weren't properly made, so I'm afraid the release is of the botched form deunan is warning against. You might wanna make sure of that to ensure it's working well.

 

They are labelled "redump.org standard", so I figured those would be the most precise in terms of matching the original source data.

 

The best ones are TOSEC. Idk about ReDump.

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@skel28, https://www.mediafire.com/?p87ubgwlidwo6c8
It has a .exe extension but it's really a linux executable.

 

I have tested around 100 JP/US redump images and all worked, except House of the Dead Jp, if I remember correctly.

That would not show in the list when i tried to add it, so i eventually went for the CDI from the Revive DC releases, since nothing was downsampled.

What game(s) are you having issues with? I can test my side to compare.

 

Any, even Crazy Taxi. They wouldn't work in the GDMenu_SD tool until I'd renamed all files to have no spaces, removed quotes and double white space from the .gdi. Once I got it to a state the GDMenu_SD tool liked them they finally transferred over to the SD Card, but then on the Dreamcast GDMenu itself they're unrecognised (they're on the list, just unknown and fail to mount/boot).

 

Redump's DC is total shit, period.

Only Trurip and TOSEC's (which are basically the same) are good.

 

OK, that makes sense. GameCube where I've come from is the opposite.

 

I'm having trouble installing a game on my SD card using GDEMU SD. Ther game I have has a .cdi file and another folder with several .mp3 files, I believe the .mp3 files are for the game audio. When I use GDEMU SD it just installs the .cdi and not the .mps files needed for the game audio.

How can I get the .mp3 files included? Can i make an image of the disc and re rip it somehow in a compatible way, or can I just put the .mp3 folder with the disc image and it will read the audio fine?

 

IIRC CDI format doesn't has mp3 files.

Did you tried only the CDI image with your GDEMU?

 

Thank you

 

http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/req-dreamcast-archive.53514/


here peeps,working archive of dc games,enjoy

 

The redump ones are fine data wise, GDMenu/GDEmu (probably GDMenu) expects the tracks which are data to be named .bin and the tracks to be audio/other to be named .raw. I renamed mine and updated the .GDI and they're working perfectly. It'd be nice if GDMenu SD creator could warn and do this for you automatically, would've saved me hours.

 

Yup, it's a pain.

It's the same for the UGC, I was hoping to combine multi discs into one directory on UGC & use custom track names but they don't work

 

No.

 

Yeah - I had seen this post before too. I looked for overlap in my .gdi files, couldn't find any... guess there are even more redump.org variants. Either way, some warning about this stuff would be cool, either in GDMenu on the DC itself or via the windows/linux application.

 

Some of the bad rips can be "fixed" by extracting the files with JC's GD-ROM explorer, then re-building a fresh .GDI with GDIBuilder. The result is obviously not authentic, but it'll at least be a proper working GDI then. Just mentioning it for cases where someone needs a working dump of something, can't do it themselves, and doesn't care if it's proper as long as it works.