Pinball Dreams mgl misconfiguration

Shaneus2k2 commented 3 months ago

For some reason the mgl has "ao486-open-source-bios" in it, causing it to not find the game directory or boot. Removing that line fixes the issue.

emubastard commented 3 months ago

Pinball Dreams is actually not working. It works with the open source bios however. It won't let you actually get into the game without the open source bios setup. I need to fix the build to allow this.

bikerspade commented 3 months ago

Where should these alternative bios directories/files be placed?

ao486-open-source-bios/boot0.rom
ao486-open-source-bios/boot1.rom
ao486-trident-bios/boot0.rom
ao486-trident-bios/boot1.rom

italiangrandma commented 3 months ago

Where should these alternative bios directories/files be placed?
ao486-open-source-bios/boot0.rom
ao486-open-source-bios/boot1.rom
ao486-trident-bios/boot0.rom
ao486-trident-bios/boot1.rom

The best way around this is the following:

1) Create some other folder inside of AO486 (media_altBIOS, etc.) 2) Create subfolders inside of your new media_altBIOS folder for each type of BIOS and place the corresponding bios files in each folder

ex: trident, opensource 3) For the game that needs an alt bios (i.e. Pinball Dreams), use the <setname> parameter inside of your MGL file
ex: Add a line like this to your MGL: <setname>AO486-PinballDreams</setname> 4) Create a symlink in your "games" folder that is the same as the setname, so something like AO486-PinballDreams and point the symlink to games\ao486\media_altBIOS\biossubfolder
ex: So for Pinball Dreams, it would point to games\a0486\media_altBIOS\opensource 5) Place the folder that has your game VHD/DISC into that subfolder
ex: games\ao486\media_altBIOS\opensource\pinball dreams\ 6) Make sure your MGL file points to the right path for the VHD/DISC.
ex: \pinball dreams\pinball dreams.vhd

That's at least the best way I can think to do it for now. I'm actually pretty sure that the 0MHz collection could add support for dropping symlinks file directly onto MiSTer, but the issue there is that everyone stores their games in different locations (SD, USB, CIFs, etc.). I think it's possible you could include multiple premade symlinks that could potentially cover the most common situations, but that will surely lead to some confusion and mistakes...

emubastard commented 3 months ago

@italiangrandma to the rescue again. We want to include this in the zips so I'm going to leave this open until it's fixed.

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Pinball Dreams mgl misconfiguration #52