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VIRTUALDRIVE

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eXo Ultimate GameEx Guru!

eXo

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hello all. In the release thread for 9.67 I saw some discussion revolving around the use of this feature, although it unfortunately did not answer my problems.

Currently I am trying to get this feature to work using SSF, the saturn emulator.

After marking my VirtualDrive with a sheep icon, I have found that it is the G drive.

I consulted the default emuconfig which stated the proper command line is simply

SSF.EXE[-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

using this the saturn boots, and goes to the "emtpy drive" screen.

I manually went to my virtual drive, right clicked it, went to mount, and chose my rom (an iso file). I then launched SSF manually and it loaded right up.

I tried again through gameex, and this time while the empty drive screen was up I switched over to my computer and confirmed that no image was loaded to the virtualdrive. For whatever reason the image is not mounting.

I have tried the following commandlines:

SSF.EXE[-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

SSF.EXE [-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

SSF.EXE [-G-]

SSF.EXE [G]:\

All of these give me the same result (the image never loads to the drive).

A few friends from another board have been having this same problem, so we must all be missing something here.

Thanks in advance for the help.

fRequEnCy GameEx God (Top Rank)

fRequEnCy

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  eXo said:
hello all. In the release thread for 9.67 I saw some discussion revolving around the use of this feature, although it unfortunately did not answer my problems.

Currently I am trying to get this feature to work using SSF, the saturn emulator.

After marking my VirtualDrive with a sheep icon, I have found that it is the G drive.

I consulted the default emuconfig which stated the proper command line is simply

SSF.EXE[-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

using this the saturn boots, and goes to the "emtpy drive" screen.

I manually went to my virtual drive, right clicked it, went to mount, and chose my rom (an iso file). I then launched SSF manually and it loaded right up.

I tried again through gameex, and this time while the empty drive screen was up I switched over to my computer and confirmed that no image was loaded to the virtualdrive. For whatever reason the image is not mounting.

I have tried the following commandlines:

SSF.EXE[-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

SSF.EXE [-VIRTUALDRIVE-]

SSF.EXE [-G-]

SSF.EXE [G]:\

All of these give me the same result (the image never loads to the drive).

A few friends from another board have been having this same problem, so we must all be missing something here.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Are you telling the emulator to use that drive as well?

In SSF:

Option >> Option >> Peripheral Tab >> CD Drive

eXo Ultimate GameEx Guru!

eXo

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  fRequEnCy said:
Are you telling the emulator to use that drive as well?

In SSF:

Option >> Option >> Peripheral Tab >> CD Drive

Well, I would assume so. As I mentioned in my original post, it works fine if I load the iso manually and then launch the emulator. I also mentioned that if I load the iso manually I actually see it loaded in my computer drive listings. I also previously stated that if I check my drive listings after trying to launch from gameex (but before returning from the emulator), there is no iso loaded to the drive.

So ultimately gameex is not loading the iso to the virtualdrive. Through my trouble shooting I have proven that the emulator works, the emulator can see the drive, the virtual drive works (when manually loaded), and gameex worked fine when i used closemul to wrap the launch.

So the key part that is not working is the hand off between gameex and the virtualdrive. I posted my exact command lines i have tried above, so either I haven't tried the correct command line, or something else is going on.

  • 2 months later...
ThumB Advanced Member

ThumB

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I've had this same issue.....just trying to bump eXo's post for a solution/resolution.

we1dont7die Super Member!

we1dont7die

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the virtualclonedrive is frankly, a POS. If you can somehow get your hands on alcohol 120% that will allow you to easily mount the images. I'm sure there could be a way to get Daemon Tools to do it but I know alcohol works because thats what i use. You run alcohol enable the virtual drive then add a luanch before and a launch after statement to game ex. you leave the command line as ssf.exe. let me know if you want the launch statements.

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

Brian Hoffman

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  we1dont7die said:
the virtualclonedrive is frankly, a POS. If you can somehow get your hands on alcohol 120% that will allow you to easily mount the images. I'm sure there could be a way to get Daemon Tools to do it but I know alcohol works because thats what i use. You run alcohol enable the virtual drive then add a luanch before and a launch after statement to game ex. you leave the command line as ssf.exe. let me know if you want the launch statements.

I prefer Deamon Tool and you don't even have to unmount the last dic proir to launching a new one. As far a cirtual clone drive isconcerned it does have some perks.

To each thier own.

we1dont7die Super Member!

we1dont7die

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  Brian Hoffman said:
I prefer Deamon Tool and you don't even have to unmount the last dic proir to launching a new one. As far a cirtual clone drive isconcerned it does have some perks.

To each thier own.

yeah, come to think of it you probably dont have to unmount with alcohol either...good point. Whats are some of the perks of clonedrive?

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Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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  On 12/8/2009 at 7:29 PM, Tempest said:

I thought I would try the virtualdrive today. I wish I had read this first.

If it didnt work, how about trying to get it fixed? Can you post the log, and whats in runitgame.bat?

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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  On 12/10/2009 at 4:41 PM, Tempest said:

The Image is there, but it says 0 bytes.

OK, its not a gameex bug then, just a limitation of the mounting software.

Case closed I guess. Thanks for your help.

Tom Speirs GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tom Speirs

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  On 12/10/2009 at 4:57 PM, Tempest said:

Your Welcome! smile.gif

Hey Tempest,

Ive just updated GameEx setup with the latest version of the mounting software, can you download and install, and try. Worth a go at least?

Tempest GameEx God (Top Rank)

Tempest

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I did some extensive testing on this. To start with, I am unsure now if the image was really 0 bytes the other day, it is possible that I was looking at bytes free. The bottom line is that today, it does work, but I feel that any previous issues (including mine) were probably user error. I had SSF set to use drive G:, and the Virtual drive was mounting on drive F: As soon as I made the change in SSF, it worked.

Thanks Tom!

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