Duh, Openbor?

[DavidBeoulve]

Volume in drive D has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 0000-0000

Directory of D:\openbor

06/19/2006 11:50 PM <DIR> .
06/19/2006 11:50 PM <DIR> ..
02/20/2006 01:30 AM 22,949 beats_of_rage_7iR_thumb.jpg
02/20/2006 12:51 AM 911,680 bor.gpe
02/20/2006 02:22 AM 721,323 DSC_1840.JPG
02/20/2006 01:48 AM 958 entryinfo.txt
02/20/2006 12:51 AM 1,035,328 openbor.gpe
02/20/2006 01:34 AM 3,046 README
06/19/2006 11:50 PM <DIR> gui
01/27/2004 10:52 AM 62,663,611 bor.pak
06/20/2006 12:22 AM 37 paklist.txt
9 File(s) 65,358,932 bytes
3 Dir(s) 13,090,816 bytes free

Yep, tiny SD card at the moment.

All paklist.txt has in it is:

speed=1750
bor.pak=Beats of Rage

With 2 or 3 blank lines at the end. I've been reading about, but haven't found anything that has solved my woes. I do, however, know to name bor.pak bor.pak because if I don't - well - iigy's going to tell me all about it

I read about the paklist.txt in the GP32 area but hey - I wondered if it needed that.

Assistance is always appreciated.

Edit: Could I be that freaking stupid? BOR.PAK != bor.pak. It's past midnight here, I really need to go to bed.
Doh! No difference

 

[Quiest]

Be sure to have an empty line in the paklist.txt:

speed=1750
bor.pak=Beats of Rage
_ <---------------empty line here

 

[DavidBeoulve]

Be sure to have an empty line in the paklist.txt

Thank you Quiest, but as I said I have "...2 or 3 blank lines at the end."

Edit: don't need to quote everything

 

[jbrodack]

if you are just trying to get openbor to work for gp2x all you have to do is take any .pak file and put it in the same directory as the .gpe file. you can than select which pak you want from the gui.

 

[DavidBeoulve]

if you are just trying to get openbor to work for gp2x all you have to do is take any .pak file and put it in the same directory as the .gpe file. you can than select which pak you want from the gui.

Yep! I put them in the same directory, but the bor.gpe and the openbor.gpe both give me a permanent black screen when I run them... *scratches head*

 

[Godmil]

I've been getting that, and I've heard of a few people with the same problem. Has anyone managed to get it running on FW 2.0?

 

[fomit]

Be sure to have an empty line in the paklist.txt

Thank you Quiest, but as I said I have "...2 or 3 blank lines at the end."

Edit: don't need to quote everything

So then is there some requirement where you only need to have one blank line at the end of the file? Maybe also make sure that you are using Unix line endings.

 

[LordFu]

"Has anyone managed to get it running on FW 2.0?"

OpenBOR works fine for me. The only problem I had was due to user error. I didn't copy the "gui" directory over to my sd, and all I got was a black screen. After I fixed that, it was fine, and I've played a couple of different mods. I'd try copying the files to your sd again if you get a black screen.

Come to think of it, re-copying files has fixed several roms that wouldn't load. There seems to be very poor error checking when transfering files to my sd card.

 

[DavidBeoulve]

Come to think of it, re-copying files has fixed several roms that wouldn't load. There seems to be very poor error checking when transfering files to my sd card.

Thank you LordFu, Fomit and Jbrodack.

The pakfile, though I had started by opening a UNIX text document and changing it and saving it as a new name, wasn't a UNIX text document anymore, so I fixed that. Grrrr UltraEdit should be smarter.

UPDATE: Got it!
Bor works on the bor.pak - go figure
WTFM?