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Hareluya
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 Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 6:17 pm Post subject: Does ME supports DVDrom drives? |
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I tried testing some CD,superCD and ArcadeCD games on my pc which is using 1 DVDdrive & 1 DVDRW drive but no response from both.
any help appreciated~ |
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Tomasz
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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It should work with DVD-ROM drives, in the same way as it works with CD-ROM drives.
Maybe something is misconfigured in pce.ini. Are you using a genuine system card image?
Please post the [CD-ROM INIT] and [BOOT CD] sections of log.txt, found in your Magic Engine directory. |
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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here u go~
[CD-ROM INIT]
scanning NT scsi drivers...
- E: (SONY/DVD-ROM DDU1621/S2e7) [ID:1/0/0]... OK
- F: (TDK/DVDRW0404N/1.0 [ID:1/1/0]... OK
- G: (AXV/CD/DVD-ROM/2.2a) [ID:0/0/0]... OK
selected drive... default
number of adapters: 2
checking CD-ROM drives...
- drive 0: adapter=0, unit=0, lun=0 [type=5]
- drive 1: adapter=1, unit=0, lun=0 [type=5]
- drive 2: adapter=1, unit=1, lun=0 [type=5]
select drive 0
CD-ROM timeout set to 0
create dummy rom... OK
searching game backup RAM in database [10000001|00000000]... not found
clear and initialize a new backup RAM
[CD]
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
I tested on another com of mine & it does recognise the DVD drive coz its drive D: on tat com but when it comes to mine its E:
I did edit the ini file to read E but no response~
Tks for da help~ |
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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I tried again & get this...
[HUCARD]
opening ROM file : "syscard3.pce"... OK
loading ROM... OK
searching game backup RAM in database [6D9A73EF|00000000]... not found
clear and initialize a new backup RAM
[CD]
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
and yes I'm using original pce cdrom, super cdrom and arcade cdrom~
and this is the ini file which I have edited~
[cdrom]
;
; CD-ROM drive
; --
; 1 -> first CD-ROM drive [default]
; 2 -> second CD-ROM drive
; ...
;
drive=
;
; CD-ROM drive letter
; --
; (Windows 2000/XP only)
;
; E:
; G:
; ...
;
drive_letter=
;
; SCSI driver timeout
; --
; change the delay that the emulator waits when accessing
; the CD-ROM SCSI driver, 0 is infinite delay
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Tomasz
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:39 pm Post subject: |
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From your log file it looks like ME is recognizing your drive, but is unable to read the game disc -- it reports a blank table of contents.
| Quote: | [BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
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I have had this happen to me was when I was using Nero Drivespeed in conjuction with a Liteon 163D DVD drive. Are you using Drivespeed, or any other similar program to control the speed of your drive -- if so, I would try to run ME with these programs disabled.
The only other times I have seen this happen were when no cd or a blank cd was loaded in the drive. From the log file, I assume you are running Windows XP or another NT based OS, right? Do you get the same result when you set drive_letter=E: or F: ? How about your Alcohol virtual drive... does that work if you use a cd iso image?
I can't think of anything else for now... |
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not so sure if it does read the CDs or not.
In fact the DVDRom wasn't spinning or having any activities even I press boot CD so it can't b.
Besides my nero isn't activated so the drivespeed prog is not loaded.
I did try popping 2 discs into both drives at the same time.
Both r not responding at all.... |
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Kaminari
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| Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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You need to specify a drive letter. Have you tried Tomasz suggestion?
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I solved it.
Its due to the Drivespeed.
Its been set to only 8X tats y.
After I switched it to maximum speed then the drive starts to move.
But 1 thing tat puzzled me is that the CDs doesn't has bgm or sounds.
I used the method to boot the CDs using syscard3 rom file but still no sounds~ |
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Tomasz
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| Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Do you mean that CD Audio tracks do not play (or do in-game sound effects not work)?
To get redbook CD Audio to play there must be a physical cable connection between the audio-out jack on your drive and the cd audio-in jack on your soundcard or motherboard.
If this connection is present, then make sure that CD Audio is not muted in your sound mixer. |
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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the in-game play does not have any BGMs.
sound effect yes.
certain games no sound effect but got bgm. |
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Tomasz
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| Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Missing sound effects can be caused by a problem in emulation. Magic Engine is pretty good right now at playing sounds, but it should become even more improved when version 1.0 comes out.
Missing background music (redbook cd audio) is usually caused by not having a cable connection between the cd drive and sound card (see my previous post for more details). If this is the case, then you would have to install one of these inexpensive cables to get music.
Note: some cd games use PSG, not redbook, for background music, so in these games you would hear background music without such a cable (e.g. music inside the villages of Ys 1&2) |
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Hareluya
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| Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Oh ic, seriously nowadays no one plug in tat cable since normal IDE can channel sounds from the DVDRom to ur speakers~
Got time I will try that out~ many tks  |
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Kaminari
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| Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2004 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Well, no one except millions of people who don't use WinXP. |
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