SMS plus, directories, and you!

ethoscapade · Post by **ethoscapade** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:52 pm

okay now. if it's not too much trouble, i'd like some advice on messing around with the directories of SMS plus.

you see, i'm using selfboot inducer, and so that whole business of having to browse to the gamegear folder (i don't even use master system), that's just ugly.

so i got to thinking - hey, why not just put the roms on the root directory of the CD (as in, the inducer folder itself)?

now, i would have tried that experiment by now, if it weren't for one thing: snapshots. i love this feature. this is a beautiful feature. but i'm not 100% sure on how it would work if i just had the roms in the root directory. since normally the snapshots for /gg go in /snap/gg, i was thinking the snapshots go for the root directory would just go in /snap, but can anybody confirm this?

thanks.

Captain Skyhawk · Post by **Captain Skyhawk** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:21 pm

I looked into this and also have looked into the sources. One thing you need to have is a SNAP/GG and a SNAP/SMS directory where your snapsshots are stored. You can't change that. There is no problem using directory's for your roms but as far as I know they need to be in a GG or SMS directory. I think the emulator uses this to know what to emulate (an Game Gear or an Master System). And as far as I understand from sources it also looks into that directory first.

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if(files[list_idx].flag & FILELIST_SMS)
sprintf(fname,"/cd/%s/sms/%s",SNAP_DIR,get_filename(cur_snap));				}

The best way to find this out is to try, it only can cost 1 cd-r. Be sure to have the same rom names as the snapshots.

ethoscapade · Post by **ethoscapade** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:54 pm

thanks skyhawk, i was hoping it would be you who responded to this.

i'll try it out; wish me luck

ethoscapade · Post by **ethoscapade** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 11:26 pm

wow, this emu is unbelievably well coded.

it turns out any games can be run from any directory at all, including the root directory, and it still loads snapshots from /snap/gg for gamegear and /snap/sms for master system.

i didn't even have to put the two different types of roms in different folders, just put them all in the root dir and they worked, with screenshots. i am very, very impressed.

now if only i could figure out some way to hide all the other directories on the CD from sms plus when browsing (like it hides the /snap directory) this would be perfect.

Kroustibat · Post by **Kroustibat** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 12:01 am

thanks

Unfortunatly, there's no way to hide directories as the "snap" one is. It"s the only reserved directory as in dc_gui.c

if(entry->size==-1)
{
if(stricmp(entry->name,SNAP_DIR)!=0)
{

Captain Skyhawk: About the bookmark option, it's unfinished, there'snt anyway to save it right now, and the file addition is not good to me