Touchy Roms?

[adrifter]

can anyone enlighten me as to why certain roms might not always work when I try to load them? This has happened on a couple of emus so i dont think it is an emu specific issue.

it usually sorts itself out after a try or two. it has happened a couple of times when testing new roms for drMD(gargoyles, duke nukem, MK2), and i thought they just werent compatible-- then luckily for some reason i tried them again later and they work beautifully <i hadnt found the delete rom option yet>. it happened later with squidge when i was testing what the emu could do with wolfenstein and doom and i know one more but i cant remember which(i know the snes version of both sucks, but i figure if the emu can do it, its a nice test)

Its not a big deal, just kinda curious...

thanks

d

 

[BradN]

SNES Doom and possibly wolfenstein is a superfx game... not all of the emulators actually support that, and the ones that do don't really run it at a good speed.

 

[Aninhumer]

Anyhow the source ports of Doom (and I think there's probably one for Wolfenstein, but I can't check because the archive is down) are obviously going to be better...

Is it bad that half my post is in brackets?

 

[Draken]

Wolfenstein for gp2x is available from pdroms.com if not mistaken. You can't find it on the archive because it's illigal in germany and the archive's server is german.

 

[DemonStar55]

I like how NONE of the replies answer his/her question... so I will attempt.


well there can be bad dumps, over dumps, etc that might not work well and there are also alternative versions of roms

I would try to use roms that are named with goodtools, mainly the [!] which is a good dump and will most likely work and you should always try to get those and they should work. there are also alternative dumps, [a], that you could try too and also fixed dumps [f] that should also work.

for more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image#ROM_naming_schemes

that should probably be a better take at answering your question.

 

[adrifter]

I like how NONE of the replies answer his/her question... so I will attempt.


well there can be bad dumps, over dumps, etc that might not work well and there are also alternative versions of roms

I would try to use roms that are named with goodtools, mainly the [!] which is a good dump and will most likely work and you should always try to get those and they should work. there are also alternative dumps, [a], that you could try too and also fixed dumps [f] that should also work.

for more information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROM_image#ROM_naming_schemes

that should probably be a better take at answering your question.

thank you for actually answering my initial question-- your link was very helpful. As i mentioned i didnt think it was an emu issue, and i was using the hard games to check if the emu could handle it-- thats all. I guess i was a little unclear? it was 3 am when i wrote it.

as for the others-- thanks for the info about the games, i know you were trying to help, and its appreciated.

thanks

d

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Is it possible that it might be the media. Problematic memory sticks/cards can sometimes have bits that stick intermitently, causing the ROM you load off it to be corrupted.

Just a thought, but try using another one.