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    In need of help with Dreamcast / NES/SNES, desperate!

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      najkks @backstander
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      @backstander

      well.. ive choosen to start all over, using a brand new 32gb card and reinstall everything, something to do at night :)

      okey.. u might be on to something now, because the nes-zipped files have about 3-4 files each inside..

      do you know if im able to run a "game package" that contains all games in one .cdi -file on the Dreamcast?

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        backstander
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        I think starting over is probably a good move as long as you've got all the ROMs and BIOS files backed up :-)

        I don't think there's a all games in one .cdi file but there's probably a complete collection full rom set for the Dreamcast. It's probably alot of gigabytes! Like more than 32gb?! And you'll have to unzip whatever it is compressed in to get all the .cdi files.

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          najkks @backstander
          last edited by najkks

          @backstander

          yes.. well backup i have.. but im gonna read exactly which emulator runs which files :)

          it seems that every zipped NES-file has different versions of the same game in it, for example US/E/J -version

          My cdi-file is some kind of "collection" -file for Dreamcast.. can that cause the problem?

          the file was about 500mb only, so i dont think it contains a lot of games actually..

          u think i need to unzip it anyway? (right now its a image-file)

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            najkks
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            nope it wont handle the current zipfiles..

            ill guess i will unzip all in different folders, browse thru them manually, and after that store them on to the Rpi again!

            well well..

            btw. is there any other emulator worth taking up space having?

            i already got the nes, snes, n64, game gear, atari, amiga, C64, Master System, Sega X32

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              anasazi29
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              you have to have the bios files named exactly a certain way.

              dc_boot.bin, dc_flash.bin

              they CANNOT be compressed anyway. they have to be raw .bin files and it looks like you have the files in there correctly but they don't seem to have the .bin extension or they are in a zip file.

              a couple of files in your screenshot says "biosnds7.rom, which leads me to believe file extensions are showing, but your DreamCast bios' are not labeled correctly.

              you can also try putting the bios' in the emulator folder "/opt/retropie/emulators/reicast/bin"

              and the games themselves cannot be compressed either. create a folder for each game in the roms/dreamcast/crazytaxi and decompress the files into that folder.

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                backstander
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                @najkks you'll want to unzip/extract all the .cdi files inside that 500mb Dreamcast file (if there is any). 500mb only sound like one Dreamcast game and not much of a "collection" unless it's a collection of something else like BIOS files or instruction manual scans/pictures, video files or whatever.

                You should unzip all the NES games into a single NES folder. Then select all the NES games and when you zip them, there should be a way to "Put each file to separate archive".

                0_1476233281882_compress-multiple-winrar-002.jpg

                This will make a separate zip file for each file. It will take awhile because you said you have like 1100 NES games but it will get the job done and a very easy way!

                Then you can do this same with all the SNES ROMs.

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                  najkks @backstander
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                  @backstander

                  is there a point of zipping them.. lets say they take up 600mb of space.. will i save more than 100-200mb?

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                    3lric
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                    If you don't want all the different versions, you should download a no-intro set, or other set that only includes one version of the rom. You can also use clrmamepro 1G1R (1 game 1 rom) which I believe will get you down to 1 version per region. Though you'd need to find a .dat file that works for your pack first.

                    As for the dreamcast game above, do you have another you can test? That screen you posted looks like it IS the game, and that the game itself is a sega emulator for the dreamcast. And as mentioned above, you have the wrong dreamcast BIOs. Look at the dreamcast page on the Wiki, it explains exactly which BIOs to get and where to put them.

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                      anasazi29 @najkks
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                      @najkks Sure. I have 850 SNES roms in a folder, all of which are compressed to zip files. On average each file is at least 50% compressed, and many are compressed more ... so you can save, on average 50% space compressing them to zip files.
                      My 850 SNES roms takes up 945MB, so if I were to decompress them all, they would take up nearly 2GB.

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                        najkks
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                        wow, you save that much space?

                        i thought it was like a fifth of the total size.. and with my 1300 roms it will be some space, thanks for the tip! :)

                        btw.. do i use 7zip (or what the name is) and create a zip-file for each and every game then?

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                          najkks @backstander
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                          @backstander

                          it seems like your using Rar, correct?

                          does it have to be 7-zip or winzip.. or will Rar do as well?

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                            suprjami @najkks
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                            @najkks

                            Only zip, and only for the systems which support it. Check the system wiki page for the supported extensions, eg: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System

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                              najkks @suprjami
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                              @suprjami

                              well right now im having problem with winzip, using the new 20-version

                              i cant seem to zip all files in to many files!

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                                najkks
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                                maybe someone know of a better and easier program to creaty multiple zip-files of all games?

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                                  najkks
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                                  uhm.. nevermind, i just found that i can output ZIP even in Winrar :D

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                                    bobcat987
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                                    If you want to automatically pull North American files from a large zip bundle, first unzip the bundle into a directory. The result will be a directory filled with 7z files. If running on the pi, as opposed to a linux workstation, you will need to install 7z utilities for the next step with:
                                    sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
                                    Now, change to the directory with the 7z files and run the following command:
                                    while read line; do i=$(7z l "$line" | egrep '\((W|U|UE|JU|JUE)\)( \([^\)]*\))?( \[!\])?\.[^\.]*$' | tail -1 | sed -e 's/^.* \(.*\)$/\1/g'); if [ -n "$i" ] ; then echo "Extracting $i from $line"; 7z e "$line" "$i"; fi; done < <(ls -1 *.7z)
                                    This takes a while to run on a PC (10-20 min) and will take longer on a pi, but the end result is the extraction of all North American from the 7z files with very little manual work. After this just move the extracted files to the rom directory and you should be set. Using the totally made up file extension, .nes, the command would look something like this:
                                    mv *.nes <rom folder>

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                                      najkks
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                                      well i finally got about 20 Dremcast-games..
                                      but at the same time i got some Saturn-games..

                                      and every game in the same folder, how can i tell which game is for which console?

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                                      • anasazi29A
                                        anasazi29 @najkks
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                                        @najkks WinRAR Tutorial with GUI, http://windows7themes.net/en-us/how-to-zip-multiple-files-into-individual-archives/

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                                          backstander
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                                          @najkks I use PeaZip but WinZip or WinRAR will both work, just make sure you are compressing the files using the Zip compression format. I used that picture before of WinRAR settings because I could tell you have WinRAR from the picture you posted :-)

                                          Dreamcast games have the extension of .cdi
                                          Sature games will have an extension of either .bin .iso or .mdf

                                          You just need to turn on show file extension in Windows 7 so you can see these extension:
                                          http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-file-extensions-in-windows

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                                            najkks @backstander
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                                            @backstander

                                            Yep got it, i have used the Winrar but with Zip-extension - works perfect! :)

                                            is there any other games that i can Zip and still use?
                                            seems like most for N64, NeoGeo, Master system etc.. wont be playable when zipped!

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