[RESOLVED] GameEx does not load anymore, its just a black screen

[MoggFanatic]

I found out why GameEx stopped working!

It was a faulty DT-Lite.

GameEx somehow looks for it at startup!

after 2 recoverys i managed to get DT lite of my system and voila it worked! gameex was able to start again. i dont now what caused dt lite to be faulty but after i fixed it gameex did start again!

somehow it did mess up and gameex is somehow dependent on a working dtlite!??

it was a solution to my problem that gameex didnt start anymore after it crashed while loading a image with its build in mounter.

I now could even narrow it down more further:

dtlite is corrupted when i started it with a .bin of a sega saturn title whith a launch before command. after that gameex wont start and only by disinstalling dtlite it will start again!

ok its defintely that i was mounting .bin what caused everything!

it messed everything up and i lost hmm 5 hours of my life!

[Tom Speirs]

Thanks for reporting back. That will be helpful.

[Adultery]

Hmm, you should still be fine mounting bin and cue, I use DTLite and it works fine. :-)

I'm aware of built in support for dtools, but I use my plugin for mounting images as opposed to the built in support.

[MoggFanatic]

Sadly i do encounter a new corruption, when i use ""C:\Program Files (x86)\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" -mount 0,"[ROMPATH]\[ROMFILE]""

the cue or bin issnt mounted and ssf doesnt start and gameex is gone. after that dtlite is not useable anymore and i have to uninstall it and reinstall it.

thing is when i mount manually and than start ssf.exe it loads

what are my options if i want to make .bin-.cue or .mdf-.mds files to work in ssf? it does look like my dtlite is broken even after deinstallation and reinstallation and i dont have recovery file to fix that.

[Adultery]

There's aVirtual Drive Plugin also. If you enable it and add [DTMOUNT] to your emulator command line, you can bypass the integrated support. So it would be something like this:

CommandLine=ssf.exe [DTMOUNT]

[Adultery]

I'm sorry that command is [DTLOADER] my bad. :-)

[MoggFanatic]

OLD PROBLEM skip it maybe:

I have some questions about the Virtual Drive Plugin.

I tried ssf.exe [DTLOADER] and tried a game that is in a zip and tried a game without zip, there is a waiting screen then ssf pops up after 4-5 seconds but sadly the drive is empty and when i look in the options of ssf there is no new drive to choose.

1. is this because "Using [DTLOADER] in the emulator's CL will mount using the default drive" means in a phisical cddrive or the default drive of lets say dtlite? i changed between my two phisical cddrives in ssf and opened and closed the cd drive in ssf without getting the game loaded.

2. I dont have any mounting software installed, does it still work?

3. I have put the DT Loader.dll in plugins folder but it was already there, do i have to activate it somehow? i didnt find any options to do that because you said:" If you enable it and add..."

4. I deleted all my launch before and launch after lines they are not needed?

5. I do have my romfilter set to: "*.cue;*.mds" is that right?

Thanks for the great support!

NEW Problem:

UPDATE: ok i didn't knew about the pluginmanager i have to use to enabel it :-( . in the configuration screen i have to choose a LOADER exe so i have to use a mounting software?

2 UPDATE: i installed VCD and in the pluginmanager i choose the vcd exe and added [CLONEDRIVE] in the cl and launched a game, after that i get a error from VCDMount:" Can't mount F:\... - path of the rom .cue! " SSF says " DriveStatus_Play() error .Fatal Error. " in the loading screen of ssf it says "disc unsuitible" What am i missing?

3 UPDATE: .cue and .mds seems to be not supported by VCD, when i choose .cue in explorer it say VCDMount:" Can't mount F:\... - path of the rom .cue! " and if i mount .mds then ssf says: DriveStatus_Play() error .Fatal Error. " in the loading screen of ssf it says "disc unsuitible"

if i mount .mdf or mount .bin VCD is mounting the images and ssf is playing the games fine! But then i dont have any cd audio am i right? is it possible that then i will have sometimes a error in SSF if the game is looking for the audio track?

what about using Using [DTLOADER] in the emulator's CL, how do i do that? there was no option in the pluginmanager. can it mount .cue and .mds?

so far gameex works with Saturn games in zip files that are launched with your plugin and using VCD. some games have audio some not and other games that should be " Fully Playable " due to the compatibilty list of SSF but are not playable at all. I switched also the EZ setting in the options to Full compatibility but for instance alien triology is shutting down or contra the disc is not readable. Are the .cue or .mds files mandatory to proper play saturn games on SSF?

[Adultery]

Holy crap that's quite the post!

Let me respond to your questions once I get out my laptop, that's gonna be a pain to do in tapatalk. :-)

[MoggFanatic]

sorry about that

maybe i can nail it to:

1. Can DTLOADER load .cue and .mdf?

2. How do i get DTLOADER to work? (there was no option in the pluginmanager options besides DTlite, VCD and Alcohol)

3. Are .cue and .mdf mandatory for a proper emulation in SSF?

Thanks again for the support!

[Adultery]

1. Yes.

2. Leave all the settings blank, make sure they're all blank. Go install DTools Lite into the folder it suggests for you. In the emulator's command line, type this: ssf.exe [DTLoader] and run the game. If this doesn't work, it might be an issue with the bin cue file itself, not the loader.

3. I use bin and cue and dtools, and it works marvelously. I'm not sure about mdf, I only use those for mixes after i track out the CD. You may want to convert them to bin/cue, idk. Unless dtools supports that image type, in which case you're good to go.

[MoggFanatic]

skip it to Update 2 !

Thanks Adultery

i didnt know that i have to install DTools lite, i can,t, it is somehow corrupted no matter what i do after usage of dtlite gameex is broken. that was the cause for this thread.

buhuuuu why isnt VCD supporting cue... and alcohol is not a shareware just a demo with 30 days trial :-(

is there any other solution left?

UPDATE: i think i leave it that way, its to much a hassel for to little gain. i can play some games and i will be satisfied with that.

Thanks for all and happy gaming! Continue your nice support of addons for gameex!

UPDATE 2: it works! i use alcohol 120% now with the Virtual Drive Plugin. I can finally mount cue and mds and Gameex is still working! As i suspected, loading of a image through cue or mds is far better for SSF. Now games that crashed are working properly and cd music is working where there was silence before. Happy Happy joy joy!

Can someone please mark it as resolved?