Does anyone here remember how the CD-ROM support in PCEAdvance is meant to work?
The readme information is not clear enough, and there's no additional readme info for the dedicated EZ-Flash III nor Supercard versions with Super CD-ROM support.
I've tried in vain to dig up stuff from PocketHeaven in the Web Archive but, frustratingly, no relevant threads are archived. There's even a thread 'How to attach and play CD-Rom games for Idiots (FAQ)' visible in the PCEAdvance subforum, but not cached (last thread here).
The issue is that the guide says to concatenate the ISO with the emulator and Super CD-ROM BIOS 3.00. But how would that work - these ISOs are hundreds of megabytes. There's even a worked example in CDfiles/MakeCF2.bat that shows each and every audio track being concatenated to the .gba file. An EZ-Flash IV card can only load a 16MB ROM from PSRAM, and a 32MB one from NOR so I can't see that this would ever be workable. It can't stream the ROM data from the SD filesystem if it's in a .gba file.
I have tried ripping only the data track which usually seems to be track 02 (typically about 15-20MB), but these disc images are normally one Cue file and a Bin file for each track. I used bchunk on macOS to convert from Bin/Cue to ISO (editing the cue sheet so it only lists the one track I'm interested in) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I could get the hang of this if I could find just a single worked example...
There's some suggestion that the EZ-Flash version ought to be able to browse the ISOs from the SD card here, but that sounds more like DLDI style media access that wasn't really a thing until the Nintendo DS:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1107125#p1107082
Should the EZ-Flash version be able to browse the SD card like that? Without a dedicated readme it's impossible to tell. When I boot the CD-ROM BIOS 3.00 rom I get a CD Player-like interface with 16 audio tracks reported, seemingly regardless of whatever I try. Should I even see that if the ISO is correctly added?
This is about all I can find: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27197
A guy with the same problem, but no solution.
Someone must remember...
The readme information is not clear enough, and there's no additional readme info for the dedicated EZ-Flash III nor Supercard versions with Super CD-ROM support.
I've tried in vain to dig up stuff from PocketHeaven in the Web Archive but, frustratingly, no relevant threads are archived. There's even a thread 'How to attach and play CD-Rom games for Idiots (FAQ)' visible in the PCEAdvance subforum, but not cached (last thread here).
The issue is that the guide says to concatenate the ISO with the emulator and Super CD-ROM BIOS 3.00. But how would that work - these ISOs are hundreds of megabytes. There's even a worked example in CDfiles/MakeCF2.bat that shows each and every audio track being concatenated to the .gba file. An EZ-Flash IV card can only load a 16MB ROM from PSRAM, and a 32MB one from NOR so I can't see that this would ever be workable. It can't stream the ROM data from the SD filesystem if it's in a .gba file.
I have tried ripping only the data track which usually seems to be track 02 (typically about 15-20MB), but these disc images are normally one Cue file and a Bin file for each track. I used bchunk on macOS to convert from Bin/Cue to ISO (editing the cue sheet so it only lists the one track I'm interested in) but that doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I could get the hang of this if I could find just a single worked example...
There's some suggestion that the EZ-Flash version ought to be able to browse the ISOs from the SD card here, but that sounds more like DLDI style media access that wasn't really a thing until the Nintendo DS:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1107125#p1107082
Should the EZ-Flash version be able to browse the SD card like that? Without a dedicated readme it's impossible to tell. When I boot the CD-ROM BIOS 3.00 rom I get a CD Player-like interface with 16 audio tracks reported, seemingly regardless of whatever I try. Should I even see that if the ISO is correctly added?
This is about all I can find: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27197
A guy with the same problem, but no solution.
Someone must remember...
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