Prophet
God I'm old.
Yesterday my DrMD folder kept becoming corrupt and I had to reformat my SMC. Not complaining, just want to figure out if it's a DrMD bug or if it's my SMC going bad. It's a very new SMC though, only had it maybe a month.
At first I had lots of other stuff on the SMC, including GPengine, LJGP, several homebrew games etc. I put DrMD and a bunch of Genesis games on there. For the first day or so it seemed all was fine.
But at one point I noticed the ROM list in DrMD was corrupt at the bottom, for example instead of listing "Ys 3" it said something like "GPSYS(O)" and some lines in the list were either invisible or corrupt.
So I had DrMD remake the ROM list. Then I found it wasn't saving it, when I restarted it was the same corrupt list.
Another symptom I found, was that when you go to save state, you get a message like "Not a zip file" and DrMD just freezes. So you have to reset the GP32.
After checking things out in my SMC reader, I found that the card was all messed up, as if the FAT itself had become screwed.
I lost many files on the SMC at that point, but no big deal.
I'm not sure yet, but I think MAYBE there's a DrMD bug related to remaking the ROM list and/or remaking the DrMD menu options file. For example, changing controls, CPU speed etc. and resaving options.
Right now I took everything off the SMC, and only have DrMD and some games it it. I want to see if it happens again, and try to see what action occurs just before. If it doesn't happen again, then maybe it was some other app I was using that corrupted the SMC. I think I used GPFM to delete some ROMs for example.
Sorry for the long post, just trying to sort it out.
Anyone else have a similar experience with the DrMD folder becoming corrupted? I'm suspecting DrMD because this SMC had no problems lik ethis before, and DrMD is mostly what I'm using because it's so amazing.
At first I had lots of other stuff on the SMC, including GPengine, LJGP, several homebrew games etc. I put DrMD and a bunch of Genesis games on there. For the first day or so it seemed all was fine.
But at one point I noticed the ROM list in DrMD was corrupt at the bottom, for example instead of listing "Ys 3" it said something like "GPSYS(O)" and some lines in the list were either invisible or corrupt.
So I had DrMD remake the ROM list. Then I found it wasn't saving it, when I restarted it was the same corrupt list.
Another symptom I found, was that when you go to save state, you get a message like "Not a zip file" and DrMD just freezes. So you have to reset the GP32.
After checking things out in my SMC reader, I found that the card was all messed up, as if the FAT itself had become screwed.
I lost many files on the SMC at that point, but no big deal.
I'm not sure yet, but I think MAYBE there's a DrMD bug related to remaking the ROM list and/or remaking the DrMD menu options file. For example, changing controls, CPU speed etc. and resaving options.
Right now I took everything off the SMC, and only have DrMD and some games it it. I want to see if it happens again, and try to see what action occurs just before. If it doesn't happen again, then maybe it was some other app I was using that corrupted the SMC. I think I used GPFM to delete some ROMs for example.
Sorry for the long post, just trying to sort it out.
Anyone else have a similar experience with the DrMD folder becoming corrupted? I'm suspecting DrMD because this SMC had no problems lik ethis before, and DrMD is mostly what I'm using because it's so amazing.