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Utility to transfer Sega Dreamcast VMU saves to computer
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Cannot get this to work #1

Open DieKatzchen opened 7 years ago

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

It always throws an "ImportError: No module named Upload"

In addition, attempting to run it on python 2.5 as recommended complains that "with" will become a reserved word in 2.6 leading me to wonder if you really mean 2.5 or a later version. I've tried it with multiple versions of python and none seem to have the upload module.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

It's probably been over 7 years since I've used this. I'll look into it this week. From just a very brief look, it might be a missing file from the repo....so easy fix.

Just curious, how is your DC connected to the PC.... modem?

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

It will be connected by modem, specifically using DreamPi, as soon as my modem actually arrives. I picked the first modem on amazon that said it worked in Linux, but turns out I bought it from China and it won't arrive until at least the 4th.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

Since I don't have a setup for testing this anymore, do you mind testing the current HTTP server as well as an updated one? I'll let you know more after your modem arrives (and if you agree to help out).

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

I'm down. I went so far as to make a virtualbox instance of Debian Lenny when I was trying to make it work

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

Wow, that's dedication. I've actually got an emulator going to test the PlanetWeb browser and maybe test it all out without a hardware setup. If its all good emulated, I won't need you to test it. :smile:

What python is on the DreamPi, 2.7? Maybe this could be added to DreamPi and autorun on startup?

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

The only problem with running it on the DreamPi itself is getting the files off the DreamPi. I'm not sure what python is on it, but putting a different one on is relatively easy.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I hear you about getting files off the pi. I use ssh/scp all the time, but I know not everybody is like that. Opening a FTP server on the DreamPi would make file transfer easier.

I'm open to any suggestions. I've got my DC sitting next to me actually, but my modem is PCI and I don't have a computer with a PCI slot anymore. :( I feel like breaking this out this winter. :D

I'll just target python 2.7 and 3.4, since they are common.

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

You mean you don't keep an old windows XP box with pci slots, parallel and serial ports, and a floppy drive? How do you connect all your old 90s hardware? :-)

Yeah, 2.7 and 3.4 seem like a reasonable target.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

You laugh, but I found that my secondary computer actually has a single PCI slot! Now I need to dig that modem out of storage. Its an old school hardware one. My fallback is an external 56k modem that I've lost the cables for.

My emulator experiment failed though. So I will need to do hardware tests. Fun times....

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

Oh I wasn't laughing. I was actually describing a computer on my workbench. It also dual boots into Windows 98 for when XP is too newfangled.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

Just an update. I'm going to look into this project this weekend... I got my modem and dreamcast all together again.

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

Hey, if you're still working on this, finally got my dreamcast connected to wifi. Any progress?

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

Wifi? How did you do that? Sounds like fun. Several months ago I think that I fixed all the bitrot. I guess I haven't uploaded anything though. I will look at it this weekend.

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

With a pi 3. The tricky part is that the particular version of Raspbian that runs all the scripts doesn't have an easy way to hook it up to Wi-Fi. You have to add a keyboard and monitor. The version in the dev branch runs, but times out when uploading. Don't know if droppy2.py will help, on the dreamcast the file choose button fails to appear, so I can't try.

bitcraft commented 7 years ago

I had to heavily modify the droopy 1 script for the DC browser to work with it. I have started doing the same with droopy 2.

DieKatzchen commented 7 years ago

Awesome. Looking forward to it.

allycatty commented 9 months ago

Anybody who's been crazy enough to want to do this in 2023 can use my fork that works out of the box on a dreampi. Also made a script to get stuff back onto the VMU. https://github.com/allycatty/dcdrop