what format are your sega cd games in? I use CHD and have no sound issues. Are you using GenesisPlusGX or PicoDrive?I'm having a problem with running Sega CD games. Everything is fine EXCEPT the audio. All I get for sound is a VERY loud static noise. Any help with what I may be doing wrong or how to fix this? Thanks!
what format are your sega cd games in? I use CHD and have no sound issues. Are you using GenesisPlusGX or PicoDrive?
PicoDrive has worse performance than GenesisPlusGX - especially for Sega CD. If you can live without 32x support I recommend you switch CFW to the GenesisPlusGX version. You may get good enough sound from that change alone. If that doesn't cut it enough for you try CHD format. You MUST switch to GenesisPlusGX for that. PicoDrive does not support CHDs. To convert them yourself, you want to use chdman.exe (version 5) which can be pulled from MAME .205 or you can just download it directly from the retropie site here under "CHD Archive Usage": https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sega-CD/I'm using PicoDrive. I'm also using zipped files of .cue for the Sega CD games because I have searched all over trying to find CHD roms for Sega CD with no luck whatsoever. Do they even exist or is it something I have to convert myself????
File=/rom/Genesis/ZeroTheKamikazeSquirrel.bin
Platform=Genesis
Genre=Sega
Description=It's Zero Hour! The evil Jacques Le Sheets has a twisted plot to create counterfeit money. And to make the paper, he's ravaging the wooded homeland of Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel! Can you save the forest and turn Jacques into pulp? \
• Master Zero's full arsenal of Ninja techniques and weapons, you'll need them in later levels! \
• Hop a jet ski, speed boat and jet pack as you fly into battle at hyper speeds! \
• Swoop, spin and dive through fifteen levels! \
• 16 Megs make Zero's flying-squirrel attack more fierce than ever! \
Get set to Zero-in on destruction, because this squirrel takes no prisoners! \
Level Skip: Pause and press A, C, Right, A, B.
Dpad=Directional movement
Start=Start, pause
A=Attack
Up_A=Attack diagonally up
B=Jump
C=Look, Press while running to do flips
I must be a complete dummy because I can't figure out this CHD thing or how to play Sega CD games on the Flashback. Can anyone provide some detailed assistance?
So i assume you have the correct CFW and using Genesis Plus GX
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Genesis Plus GX will run CHD files only on your console add them using game manager
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Download the bios files by using the google search to find the file or files if you plan on using games from the other regions. Extremely easy to find and download, if you can't find it, then probably best not touch the console any further. Once you have the file/s rename them to bios_CD_E.bin bios_CD_J.bin or bios_CD_U.bin. Then place it or them in the "ROM" folder. When you use the console the file will load when you start the game if you are not sure what region the game is download all 3 bios files and put them in the folder.
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More details about the CFW in the forum which i cant add being a newbie here
If this don't help it is beyond me, as i did this.
Best of luck
Hello all. I hear you with regards to the batch tool. I have cleaned it up and it is available here:
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Pick your ROM folder, pick your images folder and set your location to save the files and the tool will create the ini, resize and rename your images and copy and rename your roms. Note that the tool only matches filenames so it will only pick up images with the same name as the rom. Beware using the checkbox for clean game names. This will remove brackets and such from the game names but if you have multiple versions of a game you may end up with duplicate game names in the .ini (which is not allowed). For example, say you have Rocket Knight Adventures (Europe), Rocket Knight Adventures (USA) and Rocket Knight Adventures (Japan). Using this box will mean you end up with 3 games in the .ini called Rocket Knight Adventures. This will cause issues with the Flashback so I advise not using that if you are running this against no-intro or large romsets.
If this is something people want, I will look at fleshing it out so it can match based on 'fuzzy' searching and roll this into the main app. For now, hopefully this will do.
Sorry about that, included the wrong DLL version in the zip. I have uploaded the correct version now so re-download and it should work.
It should work with PNG or JPEG (it looks for both). I tried it on my no intro romset with the libretro thumbnail pack and it matched quite a lot of images:
Had a look at it again and I can see the problem I had, My rom sets don't work with the app due to naming of the roms eg,3 Ninjas Kick Back.bin or 3 Ninjas Kick Back (U) [!].bin are not good names (even with cleaning the names) 6-Pak (USA).md works to allow box art. No intro rom sets are perfect in naming to use box art. The flashback has a file size limit in which will not play games so i found out. I added the full no intro set with box art and it did not show the box art or load the games.
I assume you built the app from scratch? Maybe add the uses for these files so it allows the use of box art. Not something that you should be phased about at this point, just a thought for the future. I'm going to play around on adding games from other system efficiently.
Your problem are the spaces in the file names. The Flashback HD 2018 doesn't support spaces in the file name. If you replace space with underscore it will work.
I don't think the idea is to add the whole nointro set to the collection, and it will likely create an all-games.ini so large that the console won't be able to read (don't forget this console has only 256MB of RAM). Anyways, you can find scripts to replace spaces with underscore in the Internet.