How Long For Drmd To Scan Roms?


gamefan999

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I'e loaded an ISO image, about 450MB, and DrMD is scanning "ROM 3 of 3", but it's locked up and not progressing/responding. It successfully scanned some smaller 32bit roms, but does the big ISO take a really long time to scan? Any advice is appreciated.
 
No support for Sega CD files/ISOs, sorry
Ok. I have always been very confused about all the different platforms of Sega games - Master System, Sega 32, Sega 16, Megadrive, Genesis... is there some kind of list or site that correlates all this?

I was under the impression that the Megadrive roms would be ISO's ("drive" => CD drive?) but I guess not.

I still get a black screen for several Sega32 roms I have in there, Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing, two games I have been dying to play.
 
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No support for Sega CD files/ISOs, sorry
Ok. I have always been very confused about all the different platforms of Sega games - Master System, Sega 32, Sega 16, Megadrive, Genesis... is there some kind of list or site that correlates all this?

I was under the impression that the Megadrive roms would be ISO's ("drive" => CD drive?) but I guess not.

I still get a black screen for several Sega32 roms I have in there, Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing, two games I have been dying to play.
The megadrive played cartridge games and they can be copied to Roms..

ISO are for CD games, the megadrive did get a cd player not not many emulators play the games.
Sega32x was another add on to the megadrive, the roms will not work.

Stick with basic megadrive roms !

BTW megadrive = Genesis !!

Dont forget the net has a lot of info on it if you are unsure of the system have a read up on it try google.com !!

Bought my son a megadrive for xmas 2 years back hes 8 after he had been enjoying the gp32 megadrive emulator - he loves it !! some good games out there
 
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^^ That page had a distinct lack of GP2X love. Fixed it. Maybe someone else would like to add the GP32 wherever that would go.
 
Ok, the wiki helped clear things up a little. It's still pretty confusing, because there were so many names for the same system! Also the Genesis played CD's, but the emu won't, etc.

So that makes Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing *Genesis* games, correct? NOT Master System games? And should be put in the "megadrive" folder, yes?

Also, there is a link for Game Gear on the emu, but the readme says nothing about Game Gear games. I saw (somewhere in these boards) someone mention this, and name a folder as "gg"? Is that correct?

I am not new to the emu scene by any stretch, but even after "RTFM", I'm still a little bit confused!
 
It sounds like you don't know the systems you are trying to emulate . . . you probably should look up some stuff about the genesis/megadrive (same thing, different name depending on where you live) and find some good games for it (probably start off with sonic games, and for an rpg try phantasy star iv or the shining series). Then "acquire" roms of these games, and then follow the instructions for the placement of roms. Also, you should zip your roms for DrMD.
 
Ok, the wiki helped clear things up a little. It's still pretty confusing, because there were so many names for the same system! Also the Genesis played CD's, but the emu won't, etc.

So that makes Virtua Fighter and Virtua Racing *Genesis* games, correct? NOT Master System games? And should be put in the "megadrive" folder, yes?

Also, there is a link for Game Gear on the emu, but the readme says nothing about Game Gear games. I saw (somewhere in these boards) someone mention this, and name a folder as "gg"? Is that correct?

I am not new to the emu scene by any stretch, but even after "RTFM", I'm still a little bit confused!


It makes them Sega CD games, I believe. Which was an attachment for the console.
 
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It sounds like you don't know the systems you are trying to emulate . . . you probably should look up some stuff about the genesis/megadrive (same thing, different name depending on where you live) and find some good games for it (probably start off with sonic games, and for an rpg try phantasy star iv or the shining series). Then "acquire" roms of these games, and then follow the instructions for the placement of roms. Also, you should zip your roms for DrMD.
Well, you happen to be right, as far as Sega systems are concerned. I was pretty much out of the console loop by the time Sega was big. But still, with all the different names, physical consoles, plus add-ons, second- and thirg-generation systems, the whole Sega legacy is rather convoluted, you must admit. It makes the NES/SuperFamicom naming standard look quaint by comparison.

Also, I thought DrMD roms should be *unzipped*? Says so in the docs, it will only find the first zipped rom, or something like that.

Actually things are going more smoothly with the Sega systems for me now. There's just the issue of non-working NeoGeo because of rom-size isues.

BTW, does anyone know what the folder should be names in DrMD to put GameGear roms into? Yet another undocumented feature!
 
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It sounds like you don't know the systems you are trying to emulate . . . you probably should look up some stuff about the genesis/megadrive (same thing, different name depending on where you live) and find some good games for it (probably start off with sonic games, and for an rpg try phantasy star iv or the shining series). Then "acquire" roms of these games, and then follow the instructions for the placement of roms. Also, you should zip your roms for DrMD.
Well, you happen to be right, as far as Sega systems are concerned. I was pretty much out of the console loop by the time Sega was big. But still, with all the different names, physical consoles, plus add-ons, second- and thirg-generation systems, the whole Sega legacy is rather convoluted, you must admit. It makes the NES/SuperFamicom naming standard look quaint by comparison.

Also, I thought DrMD roms should be *unzipped*? Says so in the docs, it will only find the first zipped rom, or something like that.

Actually things are going more smoothly with the Sega systems for me now. There's just the issue of non-working NeoGeo because of rom-size isues.

BTW, does anyone know what the folder should be names in DrMD to put GameGear roms into? Yet another undocumented feature!

As long as there's only one rom per .zip file, it'll work just fine. So you can have:

Sonic 3.zip
Sonic & Knuckles.zip
Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles.zip


But not

Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, & Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic 3.zip

As it would only read Sonic 3.
 
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