Anyone know how to play GDI's through nulldc and gameex?

[clair]

Hi. I can play CDI's through gameex, but can't seem to get GDI working. There seem to be 3 or 4 files to a game, and they have the same name as other games - track01, track 02.

What do I do? Do I leave them zipped? Help please

[Brian Hoffman]

  clair said:

Hi. I can play CDI's through gameex, but can't seem to get GDI working. There seem to be 3 or 4 files to a game, and they have the same name as other games - track01, track 02.

What do I do? Do I leave them zipped? Help please

Sorry there is no really elegent solution to your problem.

Gameex does not support roms in folders and you cannot have 2 files that share the same name in a single directory.

Im not really for having gameex unzip a 2 gig file before the game loads as it creates alot of overhead and will be slow to launch.

There are interesting commands you can use like "[rompath]\[rom]\[romfile]"

This will expect the game to be in a folder sharing the same name as the rom.

ex. "c:\dreamcast\marvel vs capcom 2\marvel vs capcom 2.gdi"

Then you can use a Mapfile to display names correctly from the FE.

Hardlinks is another app you can use that will take folders and subfolders and make windows think they all reside in a single location.

Neither are elegant wither but will work. Depending on the amount of GDI's you have you may or may not go with any of these methods.

[clair]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Sorry there is no really elegent solution to your problem.

Gameex does not support roms in folders and you cannot have 2 files that share the same name in a single directory.

Im not really for having gameex unzip a 2 gig file before the game loads as it creates alot of overhead and will be slow to launch.

There are interesting commands you can use like "[rompath]\[rom]\[romfile]"

This will expect the game to be in a folder sharing the same name as the rom.

ex. "c:\dreamcast\marvel vs capcom 2\marvel vs capcom 2.gdi"

Then you can use a Mapfile to display names correctly from the FE.

Hardlinks is another app you can use that will take folders and subfolders and make windows think they all reside in a single location.

Neither are elegant wither but will work. Depending on the amount of GDI's you have you may or may not go with any of these methods.

Is it worth the hassle? Are they so much better than CDI? I can get cdi's to work no problems. But i thought i read GDI is the best for emu's.

[Brian Hoffman]

  clair said:

Is it worth the hassle? Are they so much better than CDI? I can get cdi's to work no problems. But i thought i read GDI is the best for emu's.

Well GDI is the original format. The CDI are RIPS and contain only game data all the extra padding is removed.

This is mainly done to allow games to fit on CD so they can be played on the original console without modding.

Since this isn't in the scope of gameex I wont go into any more detail.

However you will find 99% of games work flawlessly in this format and games are not missing needed data.

[clair]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Well GDI is the original format. The CDI are RIPS and contain only game data all the extra padding is removed.

This is mainly done to allow games to fit on CD so they can be played on the original console without modding.

Since this isn't in the scope of gameex I wont go into any more detail.

However you will find 99% of games work flawlessly in this format and games are not missing needed data.

Hi Brian.

I did what you said about the [rompath]\[rom]\[romfile]" thing. It opens nulldc briefly and then crashes. However, outside of Gameex, it works just fine (loads up the gdi).

I think I am close to cracking this. What do you think I need to change?

[clair]

Hi Brian, me again haha

OK, I cracked it. I got the / the wrong way round. I got a GDI to load from within GameEX, problem now is:

it won't open any other GDI's. Whenever I map the names e.g. VirtuaTennis.gdi "Virtua Tennis", the name of the folder it's sat in (usually the game title) appears, along with the mapped name "Virtua Tennis", but none open - nulldc crashes.

What do I need to do here? I'm so close I can feel it

[clair]

Ignore the bit about the folder also appearing - that was me adding two lines in the map files- thats why the game appeared twice.

But.... I can only get one GDI to work for some reason.

[Brian Hoffman]

  clair said:

Ignore the bit about the folder also appearing - that was me adding two lines in the map files- thats why the game appeared twice.

But.... I can only get one GDI to work for some reason.

Clair,

Sorry it took so long.

It appears by your previous post you have a naming issue VirtuaTennis.gdi "Virtua Tennis"

The folder should match the rom name exactly... Notice the missing space?

[clair]

  Brian Hoffman said:

Clair,

Sorry it took so long.

It appears by your previous post you have a naming issue VirtuaTennis.gdi "Virtua Tennis"

The folder should match the rom name exactly... Notice the missing space?

I do I do! Thank you so much it worked a treat! So basically, the folder name must be the same as the rom file name yes?

Ta Brian you're a star!

[Tempest]

  clair said:

I do I do! Thank you so much it worked a treat! So basically, the folder name must be the same as the rom file name yes?

Ta Brian you're a star!

  clair said:

By the way you're a little star

I guess I'm not so special....

[fRequEnCy]

  clair said:

I do I do! Thank you so much it worked a treat! So basically, the folder name must be the same as the rom file name yes?

Ta Brian you're a star!

That's correct. The folder name must be the exact same name of the rom without the file extension of course.

[clair]

  Tempest said:

I guess I'm not so special....

Ah poor baby. You're a little star too x

By the way guys how do you change disks automatically? If using gameex you cannot manually do it for obvious reasons. Also, do I set the two disks up as two seperate folders and two seperate names? etc