Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?

AlphaBetaPie

@stoo said in Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?:

@alphabetapie @G30FF @mitu

If I'm reading this correctly, multidisc and m3u support has finally been merged into lr-genesis-plus-gx!

Hi @stoo, and thanks for posting this! I just recently followed up with this post, as I had given up on disc control for Sega CD. But glad I saw they have included it now! However, I'm having issues.

Have you confirmed yourself that this works and tested it? I just did using the same m3u setup I use with PlayStation, but it's not loading. Here is what I have below, so you can confirm things should be all good in my setup. But when I load the m3u file, I just get a black screen.

Here are two multi disc games for Sega CD:

Dracula Unleashed (U).m3u

Dracula Unleashed (U) (Disc 1).CD1
Dracula Unleashed (U) (Disc 2).CD2

Ground Zero Texas (U).m3u

Ground Zero Texas (U) (Disc 1).CD1
Ground Zero Texas (U) (Disc 2).CD2

G30FF

@alphabetapie Have you tried with the .cue or .chd extension? Maybe it doesn't recognize the .CDX extension. It works for me with my .chd files in the m3u.

mitu

.cdX extension is specific to lr-pcsx-rearmed, it's not universally supported. As @G30FF said, use .chd or .cue files.

AlphaBetaPie

Looks like I needed to redo my entire Sega CD multi disc portion of my collection with CHDMAN. Once I did that and changed a few things around in the text (and added the hidden directory), everything is working now. Going to have to go back and do this for all my other systems as well (like PlayStation and maybe Saturn).

I am still curious about one thing. Why does the Sega CD section require a hidden directory? When I do the m3u setup in PlayStation, I can just dump the .bin and .CD files into the same rom directory as the m3u file, and they don't appear. It's always just one entry. Why does it hide the other files automatically?

mitu

@alphabetapie said in Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?:

I am still curious about one thing. Why does the Sega CD section require a hidden directory?

Why would it require a hidden directory ? You have the .chd files for each CD image, the m3u file can reference them directly, without the need of a hidden folder. You might want to use one if you want to hide the individual .chd files for multi-disc games in the game list in EmulationStation.

AlphaBetaPie

@mitu said in Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?:

@alphabetapie said in Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?:

I am still curious about one thing. Why does the Sega CD section require a hidden directory?

Why would it require a hidden directory ? You have the .chd files for each CD image, the m3u file can reference them directly, without the need of a hidden folder. You might want to use one if you want to hide the individual .chd files for multi-disc games in the game list in EmulationStation.

Right, I think we're talking about the same thing. What I meant was, I only want to have one entry per game in my game select list. So the hidden directory has to be used to accomplish that for Sega CD. But if I do the same setup in the PlayStation screen using a m3u (but just dump all the files in the root system folder without a hidden directory), it still hides the .bin and .CD1 and .CD2 files automatically.

My question is, why does EmulationStation behave differently from screen to screen?

mitu

@alphabetapie said in Sega CD Discs/M3U Failure?:

My question is, why does EmulationStation behave differently from screen to screen?

Because each system/platform has its own list of file extensions.