GameEx and SSF woes

[midiman]

Read around the forums, but I'm still trying to get this to work. I have the latest GameEx, SSF 009 beta 2, Daemon Tools 4.10 and have verified the game works OK in SSF.

1) The CD images are zipped. If I unzip an image, mount it manually in DTools, then load SSF, all works fine.

2) Tried loading the same game from GameEx. I get no red-light in the bottom-right corner. Double-checked and DTools has mounted the zip file.

3) Back out of GameEx, if I mount the zip file manually in DTools, load SSF, the game won't load. No red light ever in the bottom-right corner. Odd...

4) Unzipped the cd image and removed the zip entirely from the roms folder GameEx is looking at.

5) Tested again with SSF and manually mounting the image - worked.

6) Lastly, tried loading the game from GameEx, I get the same problem. No red-light in the bottom corner. Double-checked and DTools has loaded the IMAGE correctly.

WTF? Any thoughts?

[midiman]

OK - did finally get it working with GameEx, but it requires the "unzipped" version. Worse yet, in my case I have mds and mdf files, and it required using the mds file. Worse yet than that, both of these files show up in GameEx as the title of the game, with no distinction between them (the first being mdf and the second mds) - so if I follow through with this methodology, every game will be listed twice.

Any thoughts? I'm seeing ZIP_Decoder.dll in my SSF folder. Figured SSF would support zipped images, no?

[Tempest]

OK - did finally get it working with GameEx, but it requires the "unzipped" version. Worse yet, in my case I have mds and mdf files, and it required using the mds file. Worse yet than that, both of these files show up in GameEx as the title of the game, with no distinction between them (the first being mdf and the second mds) - so if I follow through with this methodology, every game will be listed twice.

Any thoughts? I'm seeing ZIP_Decoder.dll in my SSF folder. Figured SSF would support zipped images, no?

use *.mds for your romfilter in your config.

[midiman]

use *.mds for your romfilter in your config.

Added *.cue as well. Very cool! Still a bit bummed about having all of the files in one folder, but ah well.

[starbuck]

Not a lover of all the files in one directroy either. Make your self a map file and ypu can have all your files in seperate directories as i have. Do a search for map files and you will learn all.