I can't for the life of me get sega de covers to show. I have my bin files on a hdd drive (usb). I have the covers on BOTH my usb and sd card for testing. I have edited the genplus ini file and tried both locations. All covers are renamed properly and 100% match the images (.bin.png).
Please help!
Getting the genplus covers is easily the biggest problem for people, both on here and in other forums - doesn't help that there's fukkin 12 plugin ini's for it!
6 are for the standalone genplus emu - 1 'all-in-one' and 5 split between the 5 machines the emu plays
The other 6 have the word retro snuggled inside and are for the Retroarch core of the emu, also split in the same way.
Make sure you're using the right plugin you want..... Personally I use Retroarch, and also the 5 split into different consoles... here's my actual Megadrive (Genesis) ini:
[PLUGIN]
magic=5247456E
coverColor=ffffff
coverFolder=megadrive
fileTypes=.md|.smd|.bin|.gen|.zip|
romDir=genplus/roms/MD
dolFile=retroarch-wii/genesis_plus_gx_libretro_wii.dol
bannerSound=Sega_Genesis.ogg
displayname=Sega Genesis
consoleCoverID=sega
arguments={device}:/{path}/|{name}
Now I'm not gonna check with the one in Abz pack, and I set this up a few years ago so can't be sure, but if you notice I edited the coverFolder to 'megadrive' (I'm a Euro, that's what us and the Japanese called it), so have my covers in wiiflow/boxcovers/megadrive... and also changed my romDir. You can change both to whatever you like too.
Next I'm gonna show the Megadrive/Genesis
portion of my source menu (wiiflow/source_menu/source_menu.ini), this is the part, in my opinion, where you're having a problem. Open it up and you'll see [BUTTON_0], which is Wii games, then BUTTON_1, 2 and so on:
[BUTTON_3]
image=Sega_Genesis.png
image_s=Sega_Genesisb.png
source=plugin
magic=5247456E,5247455E
emuflow=1
title=Sega Megadrive & Mega CD
Now ignore the fact it's BUTTON_3, it's most likely different on your ini, but note the fact the [first] magic number is the same as the one found in my plugin ini (I also added the Sega/Mega CD into there as my collection of those isn't that big so got them both in the same flow, don't bother with that bit, but if you're feeling adventurous, and this goes out to anyone else reading, this is the method you use if for example you want your FBA, MAME, Neo Geo etc under an 'Arcade' for example)
Again, I changed the title to something that suits me.
So
what you want to do is find the [BUTTON_xx] with the same magic number as the one found in the plugin ini you want to use, then in my opinion delete the other buttons:
magic=5247454E ----genplus_gx_retro.ini
magic=5247456E ----genplus_gx_retro_md.ini
magic=53454741 ----genplus-gx.ini
magic=53454761 ----genplus-gx_md.ini
--whichever one you're using, delete the other 3 buttons and edit the rest of the buttons accordingly: my last source_menu.ini button is 31, yours is most likely a lot higher - if I wanted to get rid of button 3 I'd select and cut button 31, then paste it over button 3, then rename it to button 3....
(that sounds complicated! Pretty easy to do though, and if you spend a few minutes you can really tidy up your source menu/flow using this method!). Best to delete them one at a time, making sure your button numbers are still OK (best if you don't miss a number out!)
Then once done, fire up wiiflow, then select the right (ONLY!) Genesis button (or flow, depending on what you use), do a reload cache and you should be OK (fingers crossed lol)