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mattbakse

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Ok so i decided to format my SMC and because i formated my computer many times since the last format of my SMC i don't have the USB Drivers and so when i tried to go into GP Manager, to set the SMC up properly, after "installing" the drivers it still says to plug into PC-Link mode. I instlled the drivers to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers" and i'm running Windows XP. it's just this time it doens't feel like working and i don't get ow to get it to work.
 
You shouldn't need to move the drivers to windows/drivers folder, they install themselves(maybe a right click).

You might need the newer drivers than are on the cd, at www.gp32x.de or www.gp32eu.com

Also, there is a new pc manager available.

I always start the pcmanager, then connect the gp32 and turn it on, then hit pc link, then hit ok on the "pc-link" check message, and it works for me.

Good luck
 
mth411 posted on Apr 20 2005 at 07:01 PM said:
You might need the newer drivers than are on the cd, at www.gp32x.de or www.gp32eu.com

I never got a cd i got the ASR FLU pack a few years ago and i just use the ones to download and also with right clicking and installing it doesn't seem to work either. unless windows is gonna be anal and make me restart.
 
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Try Firefly's replacement USB drivers, they seem to work a lot better than the official ones.
 
When I used Windows (uck!), I tried Firefly's drivers. The connection was broken all the time, so I switched back to the original ones...
Once you get it to work; use Phodrive...
 
trooper posted on Apr 21 2005 at 09:32 AM said:
mattbakse posted on Apr 21 2005 at 05:09 PM said:
nope still didn't work :(

Why are people still not using a card reader ?. :blink:

Trooper


I have a card reader but don't you need to have the SMC have special stuff on it for the gp32 to recognize it. I don't remember it's been a long time since i did that.
 
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mattbakse posted on Apr 21 2005 at 08:08 PM said:
trooper posted on Apr 21 2005 at 09:32 AM said:
mattbakse posted on Apr 21 2005 at 05:09 PM said:
nope still didn't work :(

Why are people still not using a card reader ?. :blink:

Trooper


I have a card reader but don't you need to have the SMC have special stuff on it for the gp32 to recognize it. I don't remember it's been a long time since i did that.

Only the folder structure (gpmm, mp3, game etc) and a few pieces of software that need to be installed rather that just copied, Such as downloaded games bought from entaware or gamepark.

Other than that, A card reader is all you really need.

Btw: Don`t format your smc`s via the card reader unless you are using windows 98/95, The GP will not be able to use them, Format via slubman`s commander if you really need to.

Trooper
 
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Phodrive/GpDrive don't require any usb drivers from gamepark, they use the mass storage drivers built into windows.

Talyz posted on Apr 21 2005 at 06:33 PM said:
When I used Windows (uck!), I tried Firefly's drivers. The connection was broken all the time, so I switched back to the original ones...
Once you get it to work; use Phodrive...
 
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... ok so i am getting pissed... i just got my usb drivers to work but now whenever i go into gp32 manager it gives me the error "an error in GP32 during process" (helpfull ain't it?), i know i accedently formatted with my card reader, so i'm confused and upset, all i want is my old gp32 back :(
 
Since you have a card reader, the easiest way to fix the problem is to format the card using the card reader and SMCrecover (get it from Ratx's site here)...

Without a card reader, you would be screwed. You'd have to get another smc, then you could use that with Slubman commander to format the other, or you'd have to get a card reader. It happened to me.
 
A nice way of saying RTFM:
The Readme File said:
Here is a 128M SMC image inc gpdrive, a dd binary and a batch file.

The batch file is useless until you edit it ( right click and select edit )
and unhash the actual dd line, the reason for this is that my cardreader is
drive F: yours may well not be and I don't want people dding a SMC image onto
hardrives etc.

So if you're happy F: is right for you remove the "#" at the start of the line
and run "go.bat" otherwise change the f: in the of= section to be the right
drive letter.

Note: the dd takes a while, much much longer than formatting normally, you can
probally make it faster by incrementing the 2048 value but YMMV.

ratx_AT_l33t_spod_org
 
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I have updated the package with a batch file that prompts you to select a drive, should be a little easier to use. I'm still worried that people might end up DD drives into non workingness but *shrug* there are enough warnings I guess ;)

http://l33t.spod.org/ratx/gp32/smcrecover/

If people with 64/32/16M SMCS want to be supported by this please PM me and I'll explain how to take a dump of your SMC to be included...
 
that's good and all, but my SMC drive is 'I' and that only goes up to 'G'

Edit:
Nevermind i forgot you could change the drive letter and changed it :p
 
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