Hu6280 Black Screen

[nugsolot]

I'm looking for suggestions to see how i could possibly find out why when I start up Hu6280 i get nothing but a constant black screen. I have the files from the archive in /hu6280 on my sd card and have read the read me. According to other threads i've read the placement of the files on the SD Cards should not make a difference. I have edited the ini file and pointed the Roms directory to where more ROMS are. I was trying to direct the output in to a text file to see what was occuring when starting up this app but the text file never created.

code used in script >>

#!/bin/sh

/mnt/sd/cpu_speed.gpe 1 2 233
cd /mnt/sd/hu6280
./hu6280.gpe > /mnt/sd/errlog.txt
sync

cd /usr/gp2x/
exec /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu

>>

Any Suggestions would be apreciated as it doesnt seem that anyone else is having any problems running this emu.


Thanks,
Nugsolot

 

[Hooka]

you don't need to set the clockspeed when starting hu6280, there is a clockspeed selector builtin

 

[Nickmon]

Make sure the rom path is good IE

/mnt/sd/roms/pcengine

or what ever it is !

 

[nugsolot]

Thanks for the suggestions, I have verified that the ini file is pointing to the actual location of the roms, and removed the cpuspeed from the script. If i run the emu from either the actual gpe file ie /hu6280/hu6280.gpe by selecting this with the gp2x menu, or run the script i just get a black screen and have to powercycle the unit.
Am i correct in my thinking of how to get output the results of running this with '> filename.txt' after the executable?



Ok so i believe that this emu has a ROM limit, im not sure what it is but I had about 1500 rom files in the roms folder. When i cut this down to 1 the program started right up. Thought I'd post this just in case any body else ran into it. Dont think the README said anything about this either might be a good thing to add.

Thanks,
Nugsolot

 

[gaterooze]

1500!!! Whoah!

Cut down on all those PD bits & pieces and region dupes... I think there's less than 500 "real" games for the system?

 

[nugsolot]

Yeah i was just lazy throwing the whole romset i got on there most of them are dupes, i dont think i even have 500 games in this set hehe.


would prolly be a good to try these sorting scripts out

http://www.gp32x.de/board/index.php?showtopic=29345

 

[zektor]

I would imagine many of those are bad dumps as well. Goodset eh? Get the nointro set.

 

[aidie]

Greetings to all

I'm new to the joys of the GP2X and have been trying in vain to get HU6280 to load a rom file.

I've got the .gpe file and .ini in the same directory on my SD card.
The .ini is set at the default ROMS=/mnt/sd/roms/pcengine

On the SD cards root directory i've got the roms folder, inside this i've created a pcengine folder.
I've put a number of .pce files inside this folder, now HU6280 runs just fine, I can get the built in Arkanoid clone to run but for the life of me cannot get it to locate any other roms

Can any of you kind Sirs point a GP2X virgin in the right direction, I'm hanging out for some mobile Bomberman :rolleyes:

Thanks

Retrotard

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Great username and avatar...

Make sure you aren't using zipped roms...

 

[aidie]

Great username and avatar...

Cheers Squire


Make sure you aren't using zipped roms...

Good point, but i'd already checked. Still no joy

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[gaterooze]

It sounds like you have everything correct. All I can think of is to check that your pathnames are all in lowercase, as the system is case sensitive.

 

[aidie]

Thanks, I've got it going......................

Must stop drinking to much homebrew for some reason I put the rom directory within the SD cards main folder. Moved it to the root and BANGGG!!!! bring on the Bomberman.........