info about iso loader compatibility and gd ripper

[Dream88]

hello everyone, I installed the IDE connector on my dc and it is a wonderful thing, thank you to the people and SWAT for this revolutionary mod.

I need some information for me because unfortunately a lot of things do not work out as hoped, for example:
the gd ripper, as you have to use it properly? I tried to dump many gdrom but none has succeeded well, once you start down the application, or froze, or read only one track and stopped each time it created a folder to 'internal corrupted files, I tried to dump:
sega rally 2 jap
soul calibur jap
sonic adventure pal
and Others...
What else is wrong? What I'm wrong?

another problem is with the ISO loader, many games do not start or go with other graphic problems, there is a general guide to use? how do I figure out what are the correct settings for each game? I did these tests using the images gdrom optimized with the file "optimize_gdi.bat" included in the package iso_make_pack_v2.2, with stock USA bios and LINK83 patched bios:

Cannon Spike ntsc-u = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

Ikaruga jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

zero gunner 2 jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

radirgy jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

sega rally 2 jap = NOT WORK (tried all offsets, compare corrupted glitched upside-down image of classic intro "SEGA enterprise" with red background instead White"

other games working prefect or with small problems like gigawing, sonic adventures 2, crazy taxi 1 & 2.

today there is a solution to run those titles?

Thank you all in advance for your support

[Dark Hayabusa]

(02.08.2014 12:53)Dream88 писал(а):  hello everyone, I installed the IDE connector on my dc and it is a wonderful thing, thank you to the people and SWAT for this revolutionary mod.

I need some information for me because unfortunately a lot of things do not work out as hoped, for example:
the gd ripper, as you have to use it properly? I tried to dump many gdrom but none has succeeded well, once you start down the application, or froze, or read only one track and stopped each time it created a folder to 'internal corrupted files, I tried to dump:
sega rally 2 jap
soul calibur jap
sonic adventure pal
and Others...
What else is wrong? What I'm wrong?

another problem is with the ISO loader, many games do not start or go with other graphic problems, there is a general guide to use? how do I figure out what are the correct settings for each game? I did these tests using the images gdrom optimized with the file "optimize_gdi.bat" included in the package iso_make_pack_v2.2, with stock USA bios and LINK83 patched bios:

Cannon Spike ntsc-u = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

Ikaruga jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

zero gunner 2 jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

radirgy jap = NOT WORK (black screen with tried all offsets)

sega rally 2 jap = NOT WORK (tried all offsets, compare corrupted glitched upside-down image of classic intro "SEGA enterprise" with red background instead White"

other games working prefect or with small problems like gigawing, sonic adventures 2, crazy taxi 1 & 2.

today there is a solution to run those titles?

Thank you all in advance for your support

Let me see ...
  These games do not work:
.- sega rally 2 jap (not work)
.- soul calibur jap (Works the European Pal version)
.- Cannon Spike ntsc-u (not work)
.- Ikaruga jap (not work)
.- zero gunner 2 (not work)
.- radirgy jap (not work)
.- sega rally 2 jap (not work)
Moment are out of the compatibility list.

Here more details:
http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/thread-2145....light=list

[SWAT]

About GD Ripper can not say anything, it's a application from third-party developer.

About games...
Most of you games used MMU. ISO Loader can't run games there used MMU. It's all WinCE games (sega rally 2) and most of japan games released in 2001+ (Ikaruga, radirgy...) or some last US/EU games like a 2k2 sports.
For now I do not know how to make the game work that using MMU, as soon as I get it work, compatibility will be 99%.

[Dream88]

thanks for your answers.

I tried a game that is not present in the list, and maybe the result could be of interest to someone:

GDI:
Typing of the Dead, The v1.004 (2000)(Sega)(NTSC)(US)[!][req. keyboard] = WORKING, no problems

[Dream88]

I now have a bigger problem, and I think it's a bug.

in practice, when using ISO loader, I select a game, go on settings and select "save as default", as soon as I click on the icon of the floppy disk, all the files in the hard drive becomes corrupted, begin to appear written "can't open file" and once restarted the console the files in the hDD can not be read.
after that, when I connect the HDD to the computer, many files have disappeared, and others have written in strange symbols. and every time I have to format the hdd and put all the files to restore everything.

my setup is:
bios = NTSC-U stock
maxtor hdd = 20GB FAT32
dreamshell = DS folder on the root of HDD

I tried it with another IBM hdd formatted to fat32 but I got the same results.

[SWAT]

Yes, sorry, RC 2 have a bug in writing to FAT.
Don't use this feature till released RC 3.

About your tests of games, please write to special topic.

[Dream88]

ok, many thanks :-)

[Dream88]

i have another question, Dreamshell can handle an HDD bigger than >32GB with multiple FAT32 partitions?

[SWAT]

Any size of HDD and up to 4 partitions on it.

[Dream88]

(03.08.2014 19:49)SWAT писал(а):  Any size of HDD and up to 4 partitions on it.

great! I suppose that the partitions are accessed one at a time right?

I wonder also, to set the settings of the current iso loader for dreamshell RC2, and then to avoid the bug of writing, from the PC it is possible to compile a "setup file" for each game installed? such as a text file to be added in the game folder or something like that?

[SWAT]

(06.08.2014 15:29)Dream88 писал(а):  

(03.08.2014 19:49)SWAT писал(а):  Any size of HDD and up to 4 partitions on it.

great! I suppose that the partitions are accessed one at a time right?

All partitions are mounted at startup and can be accessed simultaneously.

(06.08.2014 15:29)Dream88 писал(а):  I wonder also, to set the settings of the current iso loader for dreamshell RC2, and then to avoid the bug of writing, from the PC it is possible to compile a "setup file" for each game installed? such as a text file to be added in the game folder or something like that?

Yes. The "Presets" it's just text files with key=value format. You can see here https://github.com/DC-SWAT/DreamShell/bl...ule.c#L574
The name of the preset as path to the ISO image, just replace "/" to "_".
But you try not to do a lot of them, because in the new version of ISO Loader, I change naming of presets (more universal for sharing), sorry.