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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:12 pm
by Flarp
I can not get the script to work is there a link to the correct bios roms? I have the syscard and cd rom files for Magic Engine but I renamed them and put them in my mednafen folder and it doesn't load any of the games in my TG CD Gamebase.

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:13 pm
by OX
sut wrote:Thanks for the script .mad will try it out.

Ox I can upload both the PC Engine CD and PC-FX Gamebases minus the game files if you wish ?
Yes please

Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:52 pm
by sut

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:34 am
by sut
Nope still not working, I really don't think it's script related these two Gamebases used another program to decompress the files and whilst my PC-FX Gamebase is still doing it, the PC Engine CD one is not.[/img]

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:35 am
by .mad.
looking at the setup you posted, you have this as a script.

Add_CLP(%gamepathfile%)
Run_Program(%gamepath%\prep.bat||||WAIT)
Run_Emulator()

the prep.bat will probably be doing the same as the script i posted.
using the command line function.

it will have the location of the emulator and bios included.
if you moved, renamed the directory, or updated the emulator to latest version, it will need editing to fix the new location.

the script i posted works ok.
just link the CUE file in the game zip (no need for the batch file).

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:07 pm
by sut
Think it's might be the fact the games that come with the Gamebase the soundfiles are in .ogg format.

Will download another game without the .ogg files and try your script .Mad

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 11:21 pm
by sut
Yes that's done it (as well as taking the bios files out of the bios folder and just placing them in same directory as Mednafen).

The obvious problem with this is i'm going to have to either convert all my games or download them again.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:01 pm
by .mad.
the cue file should have the OGG files listed, so it should work.
have you tried attaching the CUE file to a Virtual CD Drive, and booting that with the emulator.

the 99% set on UG is golden.
so free to download on Golden Torrent weekends.
Christmas, New Year, Easter....
That's how i managed to get most of mine.
It did take a few years though.
Best to download selected files, rather than go for the whole thing.
as 130GB is a ratio breaker. :)

Other sites have images to download, but that set is verified and well tested. :wink:

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:45 pm
by OX
.mad. wrote:
The PC-FX is a totally different machine to the PCE-CD.

The PCE-CD is a addon CD drive for the PC Engine.

The PC-FX was the followup machine.

The Battery Shark account seems to have been deleted from UG, due to inactivity, along with the PCE-CD Gamebase. :cry:

this script will work with mednafen.

Code: Select all

;**********************************
;*                                *
;* PC Engine Super CD-ROMĀ² System *
;*                                *
;*     GameBase By .mad. 2011     *
;*           Mednafen             *
;*                                *
;**********************************

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; This will load the CUE sheet as the emulated CD-ROM.
; commandline mednafen -loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard3J.pce "%gamepathfile%"
;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


If Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(1j)
Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard1J.pce "%gamepathfile%")

ElseIf Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(2j)
Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard2J.pce "%gamepathfile%")

ElseIf Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(3j)
Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard3J.pce "%gamepathfile%")

;--------------------------------------------------------------------
; (BIOS) USA Syscard and Games Express are not compatible yet.
;--------------------------------------------------------------------
;ElseIf Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(GE)
;Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios gamesexpress.pce "%gamepathfile%")

;ElseIf Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(2u)
;Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard2u.pce "%gamepathfile%")

;ElseIf Key_SYSCARD CONTAINS(3u)
;Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard3u.pce "%gamepathfile%")
;--------------------------------------------------------------------


Else
Add_CLP(-loadcd pce -pce.cdbios syscard3J.pce "%gamepathfile%")
End If

Run_Emulator()
just needs the BIOS files in the mednafen emulator dir, with these names.

syscard1J.pce
syscard2J.pce
syscard3J.pce
syscard2U.pce
syscard3U.pce
gamesexpress.pce


The GameBase will work also with MagicEngine with a virtual drive and daemon tools command line.
I had to take out the quotes around %gamepathfile% for it to work as the filepath was getting double-quoted.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 8:29 pm
by sut
Ahh yes that's got it, thanks. Saved me a big download !

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:29 pm
by OX
Now all I need is the games for the 2 gb databases you uploaded sut :wink:

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 9:56 pm
by sut
Your talking 60Gb for them both Ox, are you a member of UG ?

That's where I downloaded the Gamebases from, if not will have to find another way of getting them to you :)

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:20 pm
by OX
They would kill my UG ratio, need an alternative download

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:07 pm
by sut
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-5b4af47e.html

Here I have torrented them, will try and keep it running as long as reasonable, can't promise it will be 24/7 but will try to keep it as often as possible.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:56 pm
by OX
Thanks sut, busy downloading the PCE CDROM2 Gamebase torrent from your links at the moment gonna take some time, would help if there was a few more people downloading, c'mon people :wink: