Games on CDs

[starbuck]

I have recently ripped all my personal Dreamcast Discs (over 600) to use on my computer thru GameEX. My question is due to the large volume of cdi, I have over 40 DVDs zipped. I read you can have your rom directory as a dvd drive. How do I get all the cdi's from all discs ,to show up in Game EX regardless of what disc I have in the drive.

Also someone wanted snaps of Dreamcast games. I should have all these soon.

[Nologic]

Whoever suggested that I want to pelt with stones.

Yeah its certainly possible to do...but its a custom setup never having been done before...further zipped disc images would be hella slow because of decompression to make the discs usable.

This would require a lot of setup effort on your side & on mine or some other coder...and I have to much on my plate right now...maybe later.

Heh hopefully your doing not only Snaps but Titles as well.

[starbuck]

Whoever suggested that I want to pelt with stones.

Yeah its certainly possible to do...but its a custom setup never having been done before...further zipped disc images would be hella slow because of decompression to make the discs usable.

This would require a lot of setup effort on your side & on mine or some other coder...and I have to much on my plate right now...maybe later.

Heh hopefully your doing not only Snaps but Titles as well.

Thanks for the reply Nologic

Acually ripped as CDI. Only Have then on DVD zipped for backups. My thought was to either burn to cd or dvd as straight CDI or as seperate or one big 7zip. Then use these in GameEX.

Currently almost have snaps done and will start on titles next.

[Nologic]

Well if its a game per physical disc...I already have something setup for it...sorta...was done for somebody dealing with Sega CD and TurboGrafix CD.

Ideally I'd suggest picking up a new hard drive and plopping them on that...other wise you looking at a lot of work....possibly.

Now something worth mention...is you should be able to convert the CDI's with Daemon Tools Pro to a compressed MDF file...it typically won't get as small as if the original CDI was RARed or 7Zipped...but it does get it as small as typically zip compression will...I've been changing over my disc images to this new compressed MDF format...tho only downside is that its only really supported by newer builds of Daemon Tools...so everything has to be mounted through it...as no Emu's can read it directly currently.

So if your going to store on DVD maybe check this format out.

Still tho multiple games per disc is something new...but possible...but also a lot of work...not kidding here.

[starbuck]

Thought about buying another external drive. (Already running 4 - 500 gigs) Doing the same for my sega cd, saturn, tg16 cd, cdi and 3DO. Based on my calculations I would need a heck of alot of disc space, By putting them on disc, I can save a lot of disc space. I know I could leave on disc and just put on hard drive the ones I play alot. But, its cool when the friends come over to see your big list of what you have to play. Since everyones taste is different, it would be easy just to plop in a cd or dvd to play their favorite games.

My thought was, I can run mp3s thru GameEx off of a cd. Treats it like a hard drive. Envisioned a map file that would display all games in the map file in GameEx. When it compared them to the disc, it would color change the ones it matches on the disc in GameEx. That way you would know which ones are available for play. You would also know from the list which games you have from the list. (you would rim out the ones in the map file you don't have so they wouldn't be displayed in the list.)

Long term it would be cool to not rim that out but maybe adding the word needed next to the name in the map file so you would know a game exists but you don't have it yet.