/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9986236
Sometimes people get lucky on what brand or size works. Doesn't appear to support larger cards officially.

Supported memory cards:

SD: 512MB, 1GB, 2GB
SDHC: 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB

Other cards might work (SD smaller than 512MB and SDHC bigger than 32GB) but were not tested and are generally not recommended.
IMPORTANT: 4GB SD cards are NOT supported. Neither are SDXC cards of any kind.

https://gdemu.wordpress.com/details/

>>9986290
The 3DS says the same thing, yet large SD cards work fine once they're formatted to FAT32.

>>9986236
here is the EXACT sd im using
128gb samsung evo select
pic related

hope this helps

>>9986320
My 128GB SD card seems to work.
Also, anyone know a good place to get GDI files? Archive.org is too slow and most of the GDI files on Vimm aren't GDI files.

>>9986441
Dreamcast-Talk has what you need and it's all curated to display cover art in GDmenu

>>9986459
oh and truncated GDI files so smaller size too

>>9986459
Can I drag and drop games on to the SD for the GDEMU, or do I need to use a specific program to load them on?

>>9986471
It's an easier process to get familiar with the software but if you're determined you can rename folders and files to what they need to be, it can be a tedious process. Some of the software can be glitchy so spend some time familiarizing yourself with its quirks. Never interrupt a building card because it will fuck up the order of everything and you can actually lose games. You could be tempted to at times because it can seem like the software freezes but it will catch up and process if you just let it do its thing.

>>9986459
Gimmie the link, I'm literally retarded

>>9986485
Well I have Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Crazy Taxi and Skies of Arcadia on my GDEMU's SD right now. Say I want to add on Resident Evil 2, do I need to add all the previous installed games into the "build" software or can I just add in the new game, build and it will add it in with the already populated games?

>>9986441
cdromance

>>9986236
my sandisk 256gb ultra microsdxc works great on my clone gdemu's. just format it to fat32 properly with an external program (not basic windows formatting)

>>9986584
I did, but it didn't want to work with it. I'm guessing it's a lottery.

>>9986590
did you trial and error by adjusting the cluster size when formatting?

>>9986602
yeah

>>9986605
you try using a different microsd adapter? ive had ones that stopped working properly.

>>9986608
yeah

>>9986236
how much are aliexpress gdemu clones?

>>9986612
ah alright. could be a quirk of the v5.20 assuming that's the one you got. not sure if the firmware update they use could affect its ability to read larger cards. I've only bought v5.15's and they all read my 256gb fine.

Any of you here cut that transistor thingy on your Dreamcast's PSU?

>>9986619
v5.15's are like 81 bucks and come with a pretty good quality mount. v5.20's are in the 90s with a mount. without a mount i think they're like 70 bucks now.
>>9986624
I wouldn't bother. Dreamcast PSU just runs warm in general. If you want to play around with the modem functionality or broadband adapter removing that part of the PSU will make it so it wont have enough power to use either.

>>9986629
Thanks for the PSU and modem info!

>>9986624
Don’t cut it period. If you’re gonna remove it desolder it. Jesus.

>>9986737
I meant "desolder" it. That said, if it isn't going to damage the system then I leave it.

I fucking hate this shit

>>9986913
What is that program again?

>>9986942
gd menu card manager

>>9986913
>>9986950
yeah idk what the fuck to do, this happens every time i try to use it. i've formatted the sd card every time.

>>9986950
Thanks! I moved PCs and apparently didn't move the RAR for this on to the new one.

>>9986290
Entirely wrong. Even worse is you were misled by that wrong post and then linked it without testing it yourself.

>>9986236
The size isn't as important as the manufacturer. Also Micro > SD adapter can cause issues, but not for any of my sandisk or samsung microsd cards from 128gb to 1tb.

>no one knows how to fix my error
wow epic

nvm i fixed it

>>9987115
you are an evil, evil man

I have a 64GB samsung on mine with no issues. Just get some software to force formatting to fat32.
If it doesn't work just get a new SD, Sandisk usually work with everything.

>>9986236
I have a 256gb that works with no problem

>>9986913
I think your SD Card is formatted poorly
also only use GDI files

>>9988240
It seems to be a problem with the hydro thunder gdi I tried to use.

>>9988307
Look for the redump
I also had problems like that with my SD card reader dongle until I bought a new one

>>9988307
>Internet Archive
>CDRomance
>Vimm Lair
Just get the game from somewhere else.

>>9986629
>good quality mount
Are you sure? I got one and it was a piece of shit that wouldn't fit the top of my Dreamcast. Ended up not using it, it's not like I can't just change the SD card on the actual thing if I want to.

>bought a GDEMU because discs wouldn’t spin
>constant crashed as the GDEMU blinks red
>turns out the problem is the internal battery inside of the Dreamcast
>have to get a “for parts” Dreamcast and Frankenstein the two together to make it work
It works perfectly now but holy fuck that was a saga

>>9988417
Vimm doesn’t have the right files for the GDEMU. Use internet archive instead

Do you VGA patch .gdi files the same way as you patch .cdi files? I wanna play NBA Showtime.

Is this still not viable on VA0 without soldering?

GDMenu's menu won't come up when I press X...

>>9989797
I would check your controller

>>9989829
I have two controllers and the X button works on both of them.

>>9989832
maybe you disabled it in the menumanager somehow

>buying cheap bootleg shit
OP, I have a life tip for you. If it's bootleg, avoid it like the plague. It's ghetto as fuck.

>>9989853
I doubt that's even possible

It's shocking how many times I've seen people on here fuck up installing tard proof shit like Wii homebrew or GDmenu

>>9989865
it's not OP's fault if the chinks made his gdemu incorrectly

>>9989868
I don't know I kind of doubt that's even the case here

>>9989873
>OP makes the SD card correctly
>it doesnt work
>OP does the exact same thing with a smaller SD card
>it works

>>9989856
well, easy way to find out is to delete the menu and remake it

>>9989882
I guess I might as well. My SD card reader is total garbage and it'll take like an hour and a half, so I'll do it tomorrow.

>>9989885
>My SD card reader is total garbage
get a new one, I used to have a lot of problems with an old one I had for an R4 card years ago
got a new one and no problems whatsoever, I think it was causing data to corrupt on use

>>9989893
Mine is a brand name one, but it's a fairly low-end USB 2 one.

>>9989874
Sounds like he bought shit SD cards

>>9989921
idk man i've never had an issue with sandisk

>>9989853
Maybe a cosmic ray hit his SD card while the files were transferring and messed it up

>>9988438
I've put together like 5 dreamcasts with them, they're good quality. you just didn't put it together properly assuming we're talking about the different colored ones on aliexpress from sellers like retro scaler.

>>9986236
Probably because you're doing it wrong. Either rtf or provide enough information for anything more than random comments from the peanut gallery. I use 512GB SDs in most of my GDEMU setups. Pic related works and as (was?) cheap af.

>>9986464
Anything truncated is smaller kiddo. The correct zoomernology is "shrink"

>>9986471
No. You'll want to use software that either lets you drag and drop to it, or batch processes everything in a folder. You'll also want to make sure it supports your SD. You might be surprised how many popular tools have a problem with this. You'll also want something that can deal with whatever autistic file formats you get. The autism is strong with redump. And you'll want something that can shrink all that. It makes a massive difference, especially with autismo dumps. Most tools are garbage. Anything decent will be on github.

>>9991445
>Probably because you're doing it wrong
I did the exact same thing with three smaller SD cards and they work with it just fine. The problem is with either the SD card or the GDEMU.

>>9986236
how much did you spend?
I need to know what the regular rate is now.

>>9991462
$84
>>9989797
It was a problem with the menu the SD maker program supplied. I replaced the 01 folder and the gdemu.ini with the one from the GDEMU wordpress site and it works now, although it takes longer to load.

>>9986236
Something to add
If you have one of the newer fw versions
You might need to solder a wire from the top left pad of the button to the large port directly below to restore disc swap capabilities

>>9991476
Make sure the ini has this

open_time = 500
detect_time = 250
reset_goto = 1
image_tests = 0
read_limit = 0
With read limit set to -1 if you have problems with timings

Also, I really do think your reader is corrupting something on transferring

>>9991476
Okay, I've got yet another problem. The exit and menu buttons work fine, but now a bunch of the games say "unsupported disc / empty folder". Dunno if this is a problem with the program, menu, reader, card, gdemu, or what.
I'll be getting a new reader soon(tm)
>>9991490
I'll let you know how things go once I've made those changes.

>>9991490
>>9991493
That didn't change anything, probably because the "unsupported disc" thing is causing the problem.
I won't bother with completely redoing the process until I have a better SD card reader, but most games seem to work, despire the menu's long loading time.

>>9991493
That seems to have fixed the "unsupported disc" issue, but the menu still takes a while to load

>>9991490
>>9991493
That seems to have fixed some of the "unsupported disc" errors, but the menu still takes a while to load. I'm pretty sure the "unsupported disc" erorrs are causing it to take so long to load.
I'll re-do the whole process once I get a better reader.

>>9991546
>but the menu still takes a while to load
dawg that's just how the gdemu is

>>9991564
It took like five seconds before I manually replaced the menu files, now it takes well over a minute.

>>9991569
yeah changing the open_time and detect_time from the normal 150 makes it take longer. i have my read_time set to 1

>>9991581
Okay, well the loading time doesn't really bother me that much, my only reall issue at this point is with the "unsupported disc" errors. Maybe that's corruption, because the errors don't seem to correlate with anything.

>>9991590
Did you by any chance rename any of your game files before saving them to your SD? The mad sheep gdemu sd card program (assuming you’re using that) has problems goofing up stuff like that. I’d try removing everything but the gdemu 01 file and re adding your GDI game files and not modifying anything past just adding them

>>9991608
And also make sure every game in the folder after you saved them to your SD has the name disc.gdi

>>9991608
I used "GDMENUCardManager"

>>9991616
yeah that could very well be the problem. not sure how consistent that program is. try the gdemu card manager by madsheep instead. the download is in the link in the description of this video: https://youtu.be/o9XQUs9hSpg

>>9991564
No it’s not
Mine is instant

>>9991631
I dunno what that shit is but gdmenucardmanager works flawlessly for me

>>9992391
mine was instant until i added cdi's and homebrews

>>9992435
>I dunno what that shit
fake GDEMU fan

>>9991564
It should be instant if you didn't fuck up

>>9992532
>GDEMU fan
I have a clone device, odds are you do too

>>9992538
>takes 12 seconds to load my 100gb list of games. it's over.

>>9992564
>he waits
>for free

>>9992564
It takes like 90 seconds lmao

>>9992564
it shouldn't take any seconds
it should be instant after the SEGA logo if it's working correctly

>>9991456
>I did the exact same thing with three smaller SD cards
>I can't say what that is despite being told that information in critical to disgnosing the problem
>The problem is with either the SD card or the GDEMU
Definitely a (You) problem
Let's apply your zoomlogic to something you might better understand, to demonstrate how retarded it is. Imagine saying "I did the same thing with a chicken nugget but it doesn't work with a whole chicken." And the "same thing" is you stuffed the whole thing in your mouth and swallowed without chewing.

>>9992564
>takes 12 seconds to load my 100gb list of games
Really? Did some new version of the GDEMU improve the menu load time for tards who can't do it right? I wouldn't be entirely shocked if the tard devoted his precious dev time to such a useless feature. But I think it's more likely you either fucked something up or are bullshitting. Time it. Then compare how many games are on the menu to how many are in that 100G. If most of the games aren't being added to the menu because you fucked something up that'd explain how it's building a menu of "100gb" in 12 seconds.

>>9993124
time to cool off brother

>>9993241
>mocked for being retarded on the internet
>t-t-time to cool off brother
Time to go back kiddo

>>9993124
I love how retarded you are.

>>9993124
the amount of sucking themselves off anons do over memorizing this shit slightly better than the next retard always makes me laugh. get a real skill like farming or something kiddo

>>9993752
I personally want to see you write more angry paragraphs over Dreamcast hardware

>>9994013
>>9994027
>>9994063

>>9993124
Please explain, in great detail, the excruciatingly minute differences between 32GB - 128GB SD cards and 256GB SD cards

>>9993124
>Time it. Then compare how many games are on the menu to how many are in that 100G. If most of the games aren't being added to the menu because you fucked something up that'd explain how it's building a menu of "100gb" in 12 seconds.

You only need to read a few KBytes per game to build the menu, not all 100GB.


>>9994508
>Please explain, in great detail, the excruciatingly minute differences between 32GB - 128GB SD cards and 256GB SD cards

Not that guy but some SD cards have fast burst transfer for copying but very high latency for access. The latter brings worse random access speeds, which is something that SD cards can skimp on since they are primarily used to save photos/videos, not used to load an OS or apps.

ODEs need cards with latency high enough so they don't end up replying slower than what the real drive would, which can crash some games.

This is the reason why GDEMO has a limit on recommended sd card sizes, larger cards tend to go cheap on the controller so they can fit more space in. But the problem is not exclusive to larger SD cards, so in all honesty whether a card will work or not is completely random.

>>9994508
>please spoon feed my tantrum
lol. no.

>>9994571
>You only need to read a few KBytes per game to build the menu, not all 100GB.
No one said otherwise.