Connecting The Gp32 In W98


exael

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Hello! Can anyone link me to the drivers which will have my W98 supporting GPDRIVE? They're probably on microsoft's download center but I don't have a clue which ones.
I've tried the Mass storage ones, but he didn't recognize them as the ones I needed, so I'm kinda stuck.
Any help is appreciated
All the best
 
There is no supporting drivers for GPDrive in w98 or winME sorry... you'd have to make the driver yourself.
 
It does work, and very well for me, with the unofficial windows 98se SERVICE PACK.
Just looked at their site, they removed the usb mass storage from the newest 2.0 release, so make sure to get a 1.6 release, and don't update it then.
Found at
http://www.hf.com.ru/content/view/2093/


Also, I have heard some people mention having success with fireflys win98 usb mass driver at the http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gp32/ with gpdrive.

Search through the forum for the newer version of gpdrive called phodrive, there is only 1 version of it to date, but it is a revamped gpdrive with a nicer interface.

Good luck.
mth411
 
mth411 posted on May 18 2005 at 04:29 PM said:
It does work, and very well for me, with the unofficial windows 98se SERVICE PACK.
Just looked at their site, they removed the usb mass storage from the newest 2.0 release, so make sure to get a 1.6 release, and don't update it then.
Found at
http://www.hf.com.ru/content/view/2093/


Also, I have heard some people mention having success with fireflys win98 usb mass driver at the http://users.skynet.be/firefly/gp32/ with gpdrive.

Search through the forum for the newer version of gpdrive called phodrive, there is only 1 version of it to date, but it is a revamped gpdrive with a nicer interface.

Good luck.
mth411
on his site he says its readonly :(.
anyways, have you tried the drivers from the link i posted?
 
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ok, well I had the same problem and I didn't really feel like installing that update mth411 recommended, I just wanted the USB Mass Storage drivers. So I looked around at the site he provided (not the firefly one, the first one) and I found this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605

and... it worked! :D ..... well.... mostly anyway...

The driver allowed my computer to see my gp32_console as a USB disk drive, and I was able to browse the contents of my SMC. I was celebrating at this point, because I thought I had it working, but I decided to test it to make sure. I found an MP3 that was sitting around on my HDD and started to copy it to my gp32_console. That is when I started running into problems. The file started copying, but then an unexpected and startling thing happened... I got a blue screen error! I don't remember exactly what the error said, but at the bottom it said something like "press any key to continue"

So I did. Then the error appeared again... I pushed any key, again... Then it showed up again... You get the picture. After a while of this happening (I don't know exactly how long, but it was long enough to piss me off >.<) the error finally stopped appearing, and I kind of just assumed that the file didn't transfer, so I decided to do a test. I made a text file called "Test.txt" and wrote a little note about it being a test file in it. I then copied it to my gp32_console with no problems or errors at all. :) I also tested it by trying to copy the Minigame Project to my gp32_console and that damned error came back. damn. After pressing any key on the keyboard for a while (it helped lessen the boredom to change what key I pressed :p ) the error stopped appearing, so I checked to see if any files had transferred. The mp.fxe or whatever the file name is didn't copy, but the MP folder did, unfortunatly there were only two files inside of said folder.
I, for some reason I don't remember, decided to check that MP3 I mentioned earlier. When I checked I was surprised to find the file where I copied it to. I opened it in Winamp to check it, and that's when the strangest thing happened... The song started playing normally, but a few seconds in it played part of a different song!! As the file continued it played parts of many different songs, all from the directory that the file I copied came from. I found this quite funny, but also quite confusing.

I don't have any idea why any of these strange things happened, but if anyone can help, or if someone just wants to give their input on this, it would be appreciated. By me. I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. :p

Woah, it's about 5:45 AM! I better get some sleep...

P.S.: Thanks to anyone who read this whole thing :p
 
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