kigerwolff

I also got the Zelda games working. I run them through MESS64. For Zelda and Link, you need to hold down the attack button when doing cutscenes (like the cartoon characters) for a few seconds then release. Then the cutscene plays. BTW! I got Zombie Dinos to work! I used MESS64.

Alrighty! So it looks like we got as far as we can! The emulator "works" XD That's a start.

Okay - Launchbox doesn't work but going through MAME actually did something! I went to "START EMPTY", and got to the PHILIPS CDI screen. I hit TAB, Select Files, and chose my CHD for ZELDA It loaded, the opening animation played, opening map showed, but when I get to the play screen - it starts stuttering and stays like this: Zombie Dinos crashes after the opening cutscene like yours did, and Link also stutters when starting the first map. But at least we're getting somewhere!! This is one of the warnings that popped up though: I have not seen the warning about not being correctly dumped. Is this a GAME.CHD issue, or BIOS issue?

Where can I get a copy of of that CDiBios? Mine is missing that slave file. You mentioned getting it from a ROM/Bios set?

You see, I kept thinking this but every tutorial just shows those first 3 files inside cdimono1. I will add the missing files from Cdimono2 into this zip file and hopefully that will fix this specific problem. Thank you for the clarification.

Launchbox crashes upon Initializing. So here is exactly what I did. I got Zombie Dinos from edgeemu. it's just the CHD. file. I put it in its zombie folder with the zombie.zip. Just to mimic what you did, I even downloaded MAME 229. In the Roms Folder, I got these: Got each bios off WowRoms (I do not know where in the world to find a ROMS SET for Mame. I keep searching and turn up nothing so i hope these bios are also good) I downloaded the Plugin for Launcher, threw that sucker into the plugin folder. Renamed the Zombie.chd to the proper name listed in the Hash list under Software Followed Launch Box steps (had to add my own Philips CD-I. Was not on the dropdown menu) (now for some reason, despite having that Zelda game in the folders, only the zombie one shows up?) I click play. I get a blacks screen that says "INITITALIZING" before it crashes. That's as far as I get ***************EDIT************** I told the Launcher to search for more roms and it found me Faces of Evil rom. Imported that and this time, it actually launches MAME and I get this. No idea why Faces of Evil actually launched it but Zombies just crashes. I also don't know if this helps...but any time I try to launch through MAME itself, and select CDIMono1, any game i select no matter what region gets this error:

Out of curiosity - where are you supposed to put the files for MAME? I put my .chd file in the ROMS section, but it still shows empty. Does it have to have a very specific name to be recognized? **EDIT** So I am working on Retroarch again. I turned off all the core settings for MAME, changed the media type to CDRM, and used the dummy files in the same folder as the chd while naming them the same. I now get this screen:

But it won't even load the emulator with cdimono1. If I select it from the emulator list, it says it's missing the slave files associated with cdimon2.

If and when you do, please let me know. While I do have my CD-I, the battery is dead and its hard to play long games now So this would really help out a ton. Do you have any idea what may have caused this? Is it just the current version of Mame that doesn't have the updated cdi bios?

So I tried this tutorial to the letter but I am starting to wonder if it is out of date now. I got RetroArch, downloaded the MAME core that says "MAME - (CURRENT)". And followed all the steps. Retroarch will launch with a white screen for a few seconds before crashing. So next I downloaded MAME itself and put the CDImono1, and CDImono2 in the ROMS folder. MAME 0231 absolutely hated cdimono1 and only worked with cdimono2. (not 100% sure how old these zip files were). But whenever I loaded a CHD file, it would just goto a black screen and stay there (As opposed to the blue screen) Does anyone know what's been updated or needs to be done to get this sucker working?

I am trying to get Laser Lords.cdi to be playable on Mess but it won't load properly. I am trying to get this converted into a CHD or the cue.bin file. Does anyone know the process for this>?