I'll try this when I get home but if I recall I think mine worked ok.
That is a strange one. Can you post the contents of your all-games.ini file so we can see what's going on?
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That is a strange one. Can you post the contents of your all-games.ini file so we can see what's going on?
Hey dcuk7,
I thought so as well... I appreciate you checking the 6 button issue for me.
I am not sure if you are asking me or the other user for the all-games.ini but I attached my file. I had to change the extension of all-games to .txt so it would be accepted. Thank you!
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@trz34 I didn't mean you when talking about the ini file
I have just tried my unit which runs the custom firmware with GX and my 6 button games work fine. Was there any particular game you had trouble with?
LOL, I figured that after the post was submitted... My apologies. There are three games I have found to have troubles supporting the 6 button controls... They are WWF Raw, WWF Royal Rumble and Mortal Kombat 1. The weird thing is the MK1 game that comes packaged with the flashback allows for 6 button controls. Do those games work for you?
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I have added 3D Box art but they are not the right aspect ratio,so the boxes are too stretched so don't look right,you can see them here...
Look at the Mega CD Boxes are the same size as the Master System,if you want the 3D box art to test it,it's on my wiki site.Would there be a way of sorting this out or do I have to edit every image..???
Look at the Mega CD Boxes are the same size as the Master System,if you want the 3D box art to test it,it's on my wiki site.Would there be a way of sorting this out or do I have to edit every image..???
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They are in the description you have to remove them,use Notepad and search using Find for "!",it did it to me a few time. Look in the allgames.ini
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Weird thing. I chose Mega Drive as the option for the firmware download to SD card to update, but afterwards it is showing as a Genesis. Any ideas? Is there a place to get the Mega Drive equivalent? Such as the page 9 of the custom firmware for sega thread?
(My question being, is the Mega Drive option the latest firmware that I need to see the /roms folder?)
EDIT: I manually downloaded the EU update from the vaguely referenced link above - I've not posted enough to add URLs yet, being more of a lurker for the most part - and it is now working and a Mega Drive again :-)
And, has someone found a way to dump the roms that are native to the FB2018 yet?
(My question being, is the Mega Drive option the latest firmware that I need to see the /roms folder?)
EDIT: I manually downloaded the EU update from the vaguely referenced link above - I've not posted enough to add URLs yet, being more of a lurker for the most part - and it is now working and a Mega Drive again :-)
And, has someone found a way to dump the roms that are native to the FB2018 yet?
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Need to modify the script in the emulator partition to enable dumping /rom.
Read the instructions and good luck testing (I tested just once with the US version):
https://mega.nz/#!AwUx0IpA!k8Bm1blwseUboy8YOwVc0agjuPs84sgirRJZuPZu-2U
If you already have a /rom partition, rename it before adding mount_sd.ini in the root of the SD Card.
Read the instructions and good luck testing (I tested just once with the US version):
https://mega.nz/#!AwUx0IpA!k8Bm1blwseUboy8YOwVc0agjuPs84sgirRJZuPZu-2U
If you already have a /rom partition, rename it before adding mount_sd.ini in the root of the SD Card.
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The sega_update_20190226_EU works fine, Thanks.
But this new sega_update_20191014 doesn't work on the EU version, I got a black screen.
I could finally review the images and fixed both EU versions. I created them with a Windows version of mksquashfs but it didn't work for some reason. I updated the link the new images
@dcuk7 I've been using your game manager to add games to the flashback, the games work fine but my Page 1 looks messed up.
If I switch over to Page 2 the menu crashes and reboots back to Page 1, any idea what might be going wrong? I've attached a screenshot and my ini file, in your app itself the games display fine.
If I switch over to Page 2 the menu crashes and reboots back to Page 1, any idea what might be going wrong? I've attached a screenshot and my ini file, in your app itself the games display fine.
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@broie That is strange. It will be to do with how the ini has been formatted (the menu crashing is usually a sign it is struggling parsing the ini). I will test this properly later on and let you know why it's crashing. It will also help me shore up the game manager with more robust checking for this sort of thing.
@dcuk7 Cool keep us posted.
If it helps by the way, I've noticed if I go into one of the games pressing A and then using dpad to scroll past the games on page 2 the other pages display just fine, if I go back to pages 2-3 the crash happens again.
I noticed there's a few space on some of my games after the Description= field, not sure if that would cause issues or not.
If it helps by the way, I've noticed if I go into one of the games pressing A and then using dpad to scroll past the games on page 2 the other pages display just fine, if I go back to pages 2-3 the crash happens again.
I noticed there's a few space on some of my games after the Description= field, not sure if that would cause issues or not.
That could also be down to the images then. The menu will also crash if it doesn't like the box art used. Try temporarily moving some or all of the box art that you would expect to be on page 2 and see how that goes.
The bits of text (1 1 sic sic) look like the ini is the problem but you may have some bad images too.
The spaces in between could be causing a problem but I know the way the AtGames menu reads the ini it can handle carriage returns fine. I know this because they use the carriage return as a new line which you shouldn't do in an ini file. New lines should be signified with /n
The Game Manager has no problem with reading sections with carriage returns because as long as there is a properly formed ini section it will just skip past any empty lines (as a proper ini parser should).
The bits of text (1 1 sic sic) look like the ini is the problem but you may have some bad images too.
The spaces in between could be causing a problem but I know the way the AtGames menu reads the ini it can handle carriage returns fine. I know this because they use the carriage return as a new line which you shouldn't do in an ini file. New lines should be signified with /n
The Game Manager has no problem with reading sections with carriage returns because as long as there is a properly formed ini section it will just skip past any empty lines (as a proper ini parser should).
Ok, after messing around with your ini file I've found a few things. The crashing on page 3 is caused by the Aquatic Games name being too long. I never tried testing the character limit for the game name but it appears you have hit it! Removing the (USA, Europe) part fixes that issue. Once you do that, your World of Illusion game suffers the same issue. Again removing the bracketed parts in the name fixes the issue.
Your second issue with the 1's and sic's are to do with you having [1] and [sic] in the description for some games. I'm guessing you copied and pasted from a wiki or something? Square brackets in ini files can only be used in the section header. Anywhere else and it will confuse the parser as it thinks you have created a new section (or in this case game name).
To be fair my app should be picking that up better (although AtGames need to write a better ini parser). I'll be working on this over the holiday (along with many other issues reported here) and release a new version very soon.
Thanks for the ini file. It will help me test the next version and make sure it checks much more in the file to warn of problems like these.
Your second issue with the 1's and sic's are to do with you having [1] and [sic] in the description for some games. I'm guessing you copied and pasted from a wiki or something? Square brackets in ini files can only be used in the section header. Anywhere else and it will confuse the parser as it thinks you have created a new section (or in this case game name).
To be fair my app should be picking that up better (although AtGames need to write a better ini parser). I'll be working on this over the holiday (along with many other issues reported here) and release a new version very soon.
Thanks for the ini file. It will help me test the next version and make sure it checks much more in the file to warn of problems like these.
Nice one I'll fix up my ini later and report if I run into anything else, what is the character limit anyway?
Yeah that's exactly what I did for descriptions so I'll remove any instance of that I see.
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