PC-Engine cd

retronerd

Im having trouble running PCEngine cd rom games. i have the "syscard.fce" in BIOS and the bin/Iso of Dracula x in roms, the cuesheet match and i have triple chedcked that.
i have tried with 3 different isos but no one seems to work. ive also checked that the md5 is correct on the bios.

Please help!

edmaul69

@retronerd you need syscard3.pce

retronerd

@edmaul69
I have syscard3.pce in My bios folder

edmaul69

@retronerd also make sure the syscard3.pce is in all lowercase. Wont work if any part of that name is in caps. What emulator are you running the games on?

retronerd

@edmaul69
The bios is in lowercase i have tried Both emus and many different ISOs ? What im doing wrong?

Other bioses like sega cd and famicom disk works great!

saccublenda

@retronerd Check in the retroarch configuration if the bios directory is set correctly to look in your bios folder.

mrbwa1

Is the bios file in both the BIOS folder and the game folder? I had to end up storing PCE CD Games loosed in the PCEngine folder or else they needed a bios file in each and every game folder. Not sure what it has to be in both places (BIOS and ROMS folders), but that seems to be the way to get it to work.

retronerd

@mrbwa1
Thanks Will try that When i comeback home;)

anasazi29

A couple of things to keep in mind.

it only works with Bin & Cue files. It does NOT load or work with any version of ISO files or CCD's, even though the emulators tries to read the CUE file for them.
I put the syscard3.pce file in the bios directory and it didn't seem to work. I put it in the main pcengine roms folder and now they work.
I actually have Dracula X loading and working, so it will work. Here is a quick screenshot of the folder directory.

I think from your description, you have the wrong file format.

Savad

saccublenda

@mrbwa1 said in PC-Engine cd:

Is the bios file in both the BIOS folder and the game folder? I had to end up storing PCE CD Games loosed in the PCEngine folder or else they needed a bios file in each and every game folder. Not sure what it has to be in both places (BIOS and ROMS folders), but that seems to be the way to get it to work.

This is likely because you did not set the bios directory in retroarch, which is by default set to the same directory of the running rom.

retronerd

i have tried with the cue,bin format but doesnt boot:( i have bios file both in BIOS directory and in ROM directory.

anasazi29

@retronerd
2 quick things will probably fix things for you.

rename you bios, syscard3.fce to syscard3.pce

and secondly, rename you CUE file and take out the space draculax.cue, maybe even edit the BIN file to not have a space and edit the CUE file so that is is pointing to FILE "Draculax.bin" Binary

Savad

anasazi29

@retronerd

retronerd

Thanks! How could i miss that, renamed to .pce and its working:)

edmaul69

@retronerd if only you had looked how i corrected the filename... ;) glad you got it working.

kisu2012

Hello,

Cue/iso images works perfect. Filenames must be without spaces: Ex. Gradius2.cue/Gradius2.iso.
Cue file must contain Gradius2.iso pointing to binary file as you said before.

Happy New Year.

edmaul69

@kisu2012 the cue should work just fine with spaces. Doesnt have to be named the same as the .iso

kisu2012

@edmaul69 Do you mean inside Cue file ?
Can you explain it further ?
Thanks.

edmaul69

@kisu2012 no. On the outside. The name of the cue file. So when the cue file name is displayed in emulationstation it will show spaces in it.

kisu2012

@edmaul69 Ok. Thanks for your reply. I appreciate your comments.
Yes I know. I usually change the name and description of the game inside emulationstation. Now I have added some PC Engine CD roms, putting a most clearly names and descrptions. I've tried scraping but I can't find any about Pc Engine CD I'll take some screenshots.