Okay, I finally got my new Gp32. The one that came fresh from gbax through their ebay auction. This one turns on and I get the bouncing ball against the white screen. Thank GOD.
But now I'm confused. Everyone knows I'm scared of doing ANYTHING to mess her up now, so I'm trying to be careful. First I put in the Install CD that came with it, which tells me to install the Gp32 program on my computer. Did it, and now it wants me to connect to the GP32. It demands an SMC, and after all this I can't afford a fresh new SMC yet, so I have to use one of the game cards. They gave me 5 and 2 of them are duplicates, which they said to use for storage, so I did as asked. I put the game SMC in my card reader IN the pc, opened it in windows, and erased everything. It now reads as a blank SMC. Except now it doesn't wanna read. Once connected, the system says "waiting..." while I get an infinite button on the computer telling me to connect the GP32 thru USB port, which I already did.
Now, on the GP newbie site, it says I can skip all this anyway since this is primarily for those with the crummy older firmware, right? If I'm totally incorrect, someone please tell me.
Instead of all this then, I decided to try an emulator (it should be noted that before installing the pc software or whatever, I tried the SMC I erased, Little Wizard, which worked fine).
Well, I went into Windows and created the 6 folders GPNewbie said to (all in caps as shown). In the GPMM folder I placed littlejohn (the single fxe file, unzipped) and I also placed, unzipped, all the game roms I wanted to try (about a dozen or so). It takes up less than half of the card.
When I turn on the GP32 with my card inserted and go to PLAY, it gives me its little logo load screen then goes black with the text telling me no card is inserted, I need to put one in or retry or whatever.
To some of you this will seem really easy or really silly I'm sure, but what exactly did I do wrong? I'm using Windows XP so I can't format the cards, and was told left and right that I don't even need to anyway (including the gpnewbie site itself). So was it a matter of placing the emu files wrong, or something I did wrong to the SMC? Or do I HAVE TO get that pc link to connect somehow for any of this to even work?
Thanks for any answers. I'm right on the verge of finally playing this thing after a month. Please help!
But now I'm confused. Everyone knows I'm scared of doing ANYTHING to mess her up now, so I'm trying to be careful. First I put in the Install CD that came with it, which tells me to install the Gp32 program on my computer. Did it, and now it wants me to connect to the GP32. It demands an SMC, and after all this I can't afford a fresh new SMC yet, so I have to use one of the game cards. They gave me 5 and 2 of them are duplicates, which they said to use for storage, so I did as asked. I put the game SMC in my card reader IN the pc, opened it in windows, and erased everything. It now reads as a blank SMC. Except now it doesn't wanna read. Once connected, the system says "waiting..." while I get an infinite button on the computer telling me to connect the GP32 thru USB port, which I already did.
Now, on the GP newbie site, it says I can skip all this anyway since this is primarily for those with the crummy older firmware, right? If I'm totally incorrect, someone please tell me.
Instead of all this then, I decided to try an emulator (it should be noted that before installing the pc software or whatever, I tried the SMC I erased, Little Wizard, which worked fine).
Well, I went into Windows and created the 6 folders GPNewbie said to (all in caps as shown). In the GPMM folder I placed littlejohn (the single fxe file, unzipped) and I also placed, unzipped, all the game roms I wanted to try (about a dozen or so). It takes up less than half of the card.
When I turn on the GP32 with my card inserted and go to PLAY, it gives me its little logo load screen then goes black with the text telling me no card is inserted, I need to put one in or retry or whatever.
To some of you this will seem really easy or really silly I'm sure, but what exactly did I do wrong? I'm using Windows XP so I can't format the cards, and was told left and right that I don't even need to anyway (including the gpnewbie site itself). So was it a matter of placing the emu files wrong, or something I did wrong to the SMC? Or do I HAVE TO get that pc link to connect somehow for any of this to even work?
Thanks for any answers. I'm right on the verge of finally playing this thing after a month. Please help!