ROM List

StarmanDX · Post by **StarmanDX** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 1:06 pm

My rom list doesn't load properly. it only shows half the games, if at all. Does this have something to do with my ROM disc being multi-session? Is there anything I can do?

Maxamilious · Post by **Maxamilious** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:04 pm

I'm still a newbie, so I'm not positive on this one. I just got my DC today anyway.

Very cool!

Anyway, I believe it has to do with not having an mp3 file in the mp3 folder. Put one in there, or just a text file, renamed to an mp3, and you should be all set.

That leaves a question though. Can you put ANY mp3 in there?

StarmanDX · Post by **StarmanDX** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:09 pm

mp3 folder? does this have to be a seperate folder with a specific name, or do i just stick it in the root directory?

Maxamilious · Post by **Maxamilious** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:17 pm

No, clue.

I use DCFactory. Works great. Try it.

StarmanDX · Post by **StarmanDX** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 2:23 pm

right, i'm gonna add What Would Brian Boitano Do? as an mp3 and see if that works.

EDIT: It has to be in a folder called "SOUNDS"! Thanks FAQ people!

EDIT2: Ok... it works better now, but it still doesn't work properly.

GOD DAMMIT!

Mark064 · Post by **Mark064** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 6:32 am

Make sure you put at least one mp3 in that directory

HyperG · Post by **HyperG** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 8:37 am

I think the leading cause of this may be what somebody said on the forum before. Make sure your roms aren't named to long, if they are they probably will only show only one of the roms.

For example if you have all three donkey kong country games, and they are named like this

DonkeyKongCountry1.rom
DonkeyKongCountry2.rom
DonkeyKongCountry3.rom
(rom is just a generic exetension I made up for this)

DreamSNES most likely only seems to read either 8 by 3 character or 10 by 3 character file names. Example being.

DKCount1.rom
DKCount2.rom
DKCount3.rom

That is 8 by 3 filename format, where the first part of the filename is 8 letters or numbers or whatever, and the last three is the exetension name of the file such as smc or whatever.

An example of 10 by 3 would be this.

DKonCount1.rom
DKonCount2.rom
DKonCount3.rom

10 letters/numbers/whatever following the .smc or whatever the extension is.

So my theory is, that if DreamSNES gets a filename before another one, only one of those roms will show up. Like say DreamSNES saw DonkeyKongCountry1.smc before DonkeyKongCountry2.smc , this not letting it show DonkeyKongCountry2.smc because DreamSNES only reads the first 8 letters of the file name.

Reason why I say theory is that I haven't tried the newest DreamSNES out yet.

I hope this helps some what, please try it, I'm sure it'll work.

StarmanDX · Post by **StarmanDX** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 11:08 am

Right. I'll try it out. I hope you can rename stuff on a multisession CD-R...

ok, it STILL doesn't work. although Megaman X works now (i had megaman X and megaman X 2)

EDIT: OH!!!!!!! It has to be the SOUND folder, not the SOUNDS folder like the FAQ says! d'oh!

well, it works now

Thanks to you people who tried to help.

HyperG · Post by **HyperG** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 11:58 am

The tip I pointed out also goes for saving your game, if you don't have them in that format, and you try to save your game on Megaman X but want to also do saves on megaman x2 but can't load it or whatever, thats the problem.

StarmanDX · Post by **StarmanDX** » Fri Mar 29, 2002 12:01 pm

Megaman X and Megaman X 2 both use a password system. (like almost all capcom games) But i might have had a problem with Secret of Evermore and Secret of Mana though.