HALP...continued (some progress made!)

[TrashyMG]

THEN...I figured part of my problem was that I named my folder "Pandora" with a capital "P" - it HAS to be with a small "p" they don't tell you that!!

It's a common Unix/Linux thing everything is case sensitive in the filesystem.

They don't tell you about the re-boot thing, either. Now, as a windows user...I'm used to installing somethng...and it comes right up on the desktop, no re-boot needed.

Typically rebooting isn't needed.. Generally just downloading it to the right folder should make it show, if not ejecting/putting back in the SD card can make it show. The OS is still consistently in development, bugs can happen.. In Linux rebooting should happen less than windows if you know what your doing.

Is SNES9X the only SNES emu or are there others?

I think so, but it works real well.. Picodrive is an awesome Genesis emulator.

Is there a wiki page or something which lists all the emulators available so that I know what I'm looking for when I go in through the PNDManager?

Yup look for the Pandora wiki on the links on top of this page under resources then look for emulator list.


I don't use Mame at all but many here have no issues with it.

 

[Kumaki]

Thanks!


Looking forward to trying out PicoDrive!!


I love SEGA Genesis.


Can you tell I'm an old-schooler?

 

[mcobit]

As I stated in the other thread, you could just have formatted the sdcard on windows wi the Andora in Masstoragemode and put you pnds there from the pc.


Might have saved you some trouble. Also there are some bad sdcards out there, that might not work as good as others.

 

[thatgui]

Maybe the Yoshis Pandor Fact sheet will help the op to adjust to subtle differences between the emulators ?

 

[PokeParadox]

Of course, without a card-reader, I am at an impasse for tonight, still have to get me an external card reader tomorrow, but it looks like I might be on my way.

With a USB cable you can connect the Pandora to a PC and activate Mass Storage mode for one of your SD cards. No need for a separate SD reader.

 

[Kumaki]

Of course, without a card-reader, I am at an impasse for tonight, still have to get me an external card reader tomorrow, but it looks like I might be on my way.

With a USB cable you can connect the Pandora to a PC and activate Mass Storage mode for one of your SD cards. No need for a separate SD reader.

Nice try, but the compy upstairs won't recognize the Pandora.


I have all my ROMS on the upstairs compy, which is Windows XP.


When I activate USB Mass Storage...it recognizes the USB Mass Storage device...and says it did not "install" properly and may not work properly.


I need the card reader anyway, so I'm just going to go ahead and get one, and grab my ROMs off my dingoo, and put them on my laptop. Then I'll put them on the Pandora...and then also onto a Flash Stick. Once they are on a Flash Stick I will no longer be confined to just one compy.

 

[mcobit]

Did you try to set it into mass storage first before you plugged it in?


If it couldn't install it, it was probably detected as the gadget, that windows doesn't detect anyways, but with linux you can use it as a networkbridge.

 

[klapse]

I too, have needed to reboot the device to get new PNDs to appear and to get removed PNDs to disappear. This is a bug and Should Not Happen . It is not a feature and it does no good to say things to the effect of: "this is a Pandora, not a PSP you nOOb".

 

[thatgui]

I too, have needed to reboot the device to get new PNDs to appear and to get removed PNDs to disappear. This is a bug and Should Not Happen ™. It is not a feature and it does no good to say things to the effect of: "this is a Pandora, not a PSP you nOOb".

just to be certain:


Did you try to eject and then insert the card before making a reboot ? Do you use XFCE or Minimenu ? I'm using my Pandora for more than one and a half years now, and never had to reboot to get new PNDs to appear.

 

[klapse]

XFCE. I can try reinserting but it hardly matters: the PND is visible on the filesystem and the menu fails to find it. I thought the menu rescanned the dir on every activation, which was the reason for the pause before appearing...

 

[TrashyMG]

Mine seems to work all the time, so who knows what is going on some units.

 

[WizardStan]

On more than one occasion I've had menu items not appear immediately. I can almost consistently get it to fail like this by trying to open the menu as soon as I've inserted the card, presumably before it has had a chance to add the .desktop items to the menu. If I wait a few seconds before trying to open the menu it always works.


I've never had something not appear on the desktop that I can recall, however.

 

[diligentcircle]

It's only happened to me a couple of times, with the Community Codec Pack and SMPlayer. Both of those times, other things I had installed at the same time did show up, so yeah, it's pretty bizarre.