Homebrew Question about Nintendont and 2 disc games

[JessiLynnChan]

I'm a newbie to Nintendont and finally got some games to work, but I'm curious to what happens when its a two disc game? Am I just SOL on those kinds of games? Does it read the disk 2 data from the usb stick I have it on?
Thanks in advance for the answers!

 

[godreborn]

name it as disc2.iso

 

[JessiLynnChan]

What do you mean? I have Metal Gear Solid the Twin Snakes (Disc 1).iso and I also have a seperate iso named Metal Gear Solid the Twin Snakes (Disc 2).iso
How would I do the disc switch mid game like that?

 

[godreborn]

just name it disc2.iso.

 

[JessiLynnChan]

That isn't answering my question at all. I have seperate Iso's for each disk. If I'm playing Disc 1 and it tells me to switch discs how would I "swtich" the disks?

 

[MrSW]

He did answer your question, albeit maybe not very thoroughly. For two disc games you should put them on a separate folder inside your "games" directory and name the 1st disc "game.iso" and the 2nd disc file as "disc2.iso". And yes, literally "game.iso" and "disc2.iso", not the name of your game, but the word "game" and "disc2". Then Nintendont will switch discs automatically when the game asks you to.

 

[JessiLynnChan]

Okay thanks, that makes more sense. I wonder wgy it works like that but thank you for the thorough response as to what to actually do.

 

[JessiLynnChan]

Hokay, its been a hot minute, but I tried it your way and it recognized the games, however they wont open.It reboots to the homebrew channel. I tried putting a .game before .iso as i have withthe other games i have (they all work) but they simply dissapeared from nintendont when I did that. So I'm confused, cause I put the game in a seperate folder and named them Game.iso and Disc2.iso. Both games that were in this format didn't work.
Will update in the morning with exactly what nintendont says the problem is, if you guys already have an answer though that would be chill.
Thanks.

Attatched is the files and how i names them maybe that is the problem?

 

[godreborn]

both discs should be in the same folder.

 

[JFizDaWiz]

[redacted]

 

[godreborn]

it may not like capital letters either:

 

[AkikoKumagara]

Missing the Game ID in brackets in the directory name, which most loaders require for Nintendont games, I think.

 

[godreborn]

Missing the game TID in brackets in the directory name, which most loaders require for Nintendont games, I think.

I didn't notice that, but that's a good point. it's actually the serial number, not title id. it comes from the four alphanumerics of the product code + the last two of the company code. I'm not sure how you find it on the cube, but on the wii u, you can find it in the meta.xml.

 

[AkikoKumagara]

I didn't notice that, but that's a good point. it's actually the serial number, not title id. it comes from the four alphanumerics of the product code + the last two of the company code. I'm not sure how you find it on the cube, but on the wii u, you can find it in the meta.xml.

Sorry, you're right. They're referred to as GameID/Game ID, not title ID.
https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=GameIDs

 

[godreborn]

yeah, you can get it from here on the wii u:

--------------------- MERGED ---------------------------

title id is in there too. that's what the system uses, but system config tool uses the product code for saves at least.

 

[JessiLynnChan]

So the Game ID [GGSEA4] (according to GameTDB) would go on the folder name?

 

[godreborn]

So the Game ID [GGSEA4] (according to GameTDB) would go on the folder name?

yes

 

[JessiLynnChan]

Okay thanks guys, I got it! I'll test it in daylight (its basically 4 am here) You guys are great, thanks for all your help. :3
but just to tripple check imma put a screenshot of the folder names before I yank my drive out

 

[godreborn]

that's correct.

 

[JessiLynnChan]

Okay thanks so much you guys! :3