No way to run PCE CD-ROMs

Gitweazle commented 11 years ago

I think this issue may have been mentioned on the forum before, but it is currently not possible to run PC Engine CD-ROM games.

To run such a game you need 2 command line arguments, one for the systemcard; a PCE cartridge (-cart) and one for the CD game (-cdrom). Not all CD-ROMs use the same system card, making it even more complicated. It works fine using CSUME though.

I have tried to run the systemcard first through the lobby and then add the CD with the in-game File Manager (TAB menu), but it won't load. I asked MESS Dev and they told me that the functionality is not yet supported (except for PSX).

Gitweazle commented 11 years ago

Great news! I actually found a work around for a lot of recent issues. You simply make an INI file with the name of the system and place it in the INI folder.

71: As a temporary solution we could put all PCE Super-CDROM games in the SGX (SuperGrafx, only had like 5 games but is backward compatible) hash file and simply add the line cart syscard.pce to sgx.ini. There are various system cards, but I think V3 is most used.
82: Adding mouse 1 to for example rampart.ini will activate the mouse for that game.
90: For the Atari2600 I added the line joyport2 joy to a2600.ini. For paddle games you'd have to change it again, so it isn't ideal, just a quick fix. Unless I can somehow use an INI for each game in stead of the whole system.
101: It could even be used to run hacked games, but then you'd have to edit the INI every time you switch from hack to original and vice versa. Example: I added rp ..\hacksfolder to bublbobl.ini to successfully run the Lost Cave hack.

I will probably add this to the Wiki at some point. I have not yet tested this online. My guess is that both players would need the same INI file for it to work.

MisterTea commented 10 years ago

If you have custom inis, please add them to the github repo so others can use them.

Gitweazle commented 10 years ago

Solved. PCE CDROMs now run properly with the added INIs.

MisterTea / MAMEHub

No way to run PCE CD-ROMs #71

71: As a temporary solution we could put all PCE Super-CDROM games in the SGX (SuperGrafx, only had like 5 games but is backward compatible) hash file and simply add the line cart syscard.pce to sgx.ini. There are various system cards, but I think V3 is most used.

82: Adding mouse 1 to for example rampart.ini will activate the mouse for that game.

90: For the Atari2600 I added the line joyport2 joy to a2600.ini. For paddle games you'd have to change it again, so it isn't ideal, just a quick fix. Unless I can somehow use an INI for each game in stead of the whole system.

101: It could even be used to run hacked games, but then you'd have to edit the INI every time you switch from hack to original and vice versa. Example: I added rp ..\hacksfolder to bublbobl.ini to successfully run the Lost Cave hack.