3DO Configs and why they dont work

[Mayhem]

after a few hours of messing around i found out why he 3DO configs do not properly work for some and its quite simple.

Take a game -

This is a test.iso

Now when the wrappers look for the game they use dos names not command prompt names so

"This is a test.iso" looks like "test.iso"

All you need to do is change "This is a test.iso" to "This_is_a_test.iso"

And now it will work with both 3DO wrappers

All so another note

You best changing *.cue / *.bin files to iso and you easly do this by downloading a program called Bin to Iso and this does all the hard work for you and works.

That way you don't need to mess on with loaders such as damion Tools as 99% emulators can handle *.iso files better thn they can handle *.cue and *.bin files.

Hope this helps guys. Might add this is allso relative to alot of wrapper problems. People seem to forget wrappers are for DOS not Command Prompt which is what windows 2000 / NT / Xp / Vista is based on DOS is for Win 95 / Win 98 / ME....

All so GameEx uses commands via the command Prompt to run the emus so there for the names need to be in simpler forms. Have you ever noticed Roms for mame has a simple naming convention and why it works so well yet emulator roms have stupid long name such as "title (Version) (Place of Origion) (who the hell ripped it) ect ect.

Mame got it right and TOPSEC have it wrong.

[bkenobi]

In most cases, if the game's name has spaces, you can just add quotes around the romname stuff:

[rompath][rom]

becomes

"[rompath][rom]"

This might not work for all loaders, but I would give it a try.

[Mayhem]

"[rompath][rom]" is still oky for smaller names but once you hit a directory such as

d:\emulators\roms\3do\name of iso.iso

on alot of windows 98 / dos based emulators there still going to have problems

hence reduce / change name of rom it will work.

[bkenobi]

Yup, if the emulator doesn't like long names or names with spaces, you only have 2 options.

1) Rename it as you suggested

2) Change the name in the command line to the shortened windows name like:

This is a test.iso

to

thisis~1.iso

I don't like the second option much, but it does work. Of course, if you have another file called

"This is also a test.iso"

the second one would become

"thisis~2.iso"

[Mayhem]

its back down to the 8.3 dos standards hehe..

i dont half love this stuff