Sega Naomi (Demul) in LaunchBox

[Charco]

I normally would, but I think I'll keep the NAOMIs together.

[Charco]

Ok, so I have somehow managed to get NAOMI games working after many hours of messing around. However, some of my roms give me errors that files are missing and must be from the wrong set, but I got all my roms from the same place. I have tried countless sites to no avail. What set does Demul 0.7a use? Of course it's the games I have no interest in that work no problem, and the ones I really want to play don't!

[DOS76]

If you are using the latest version of Demul it is looking for fairly newer ROMs I'm not sure exactly which set but I recently had to get almost all new ROMs as my set had completely stopped working for most games (I noticed in Demul they changed the names of a few of the ROMs

[Charco]

Just downloaded the full 50GB MAME 0.179 set and transferred over cvs2gd (tiny file can't be right) and got this:

http://imgur.com/z3qRWXa

EDIT: I found gdl-0007a.chd for MAME 0.178, added it to the folder and it launched! Ok, I'll jut have to do this for all my troublesome NAOMI roms.

Edited November 11, 2016 by Charco

[DOS76]

everything from the Naomi GD and Namoi 2 GD list requires the .chd

[Charco]

Cheers. Working my way through my rom list in LaunchBox and adding the required chd files as I go. It's all worth it in the end!

[Charco]

I now have all of my NAOMI games working ?

My Hikaru games just launch Demul and show the NAOMI rom list for some reason, even though I have set the parameters as you have in associated platforms.

[DOS76]

Did you get the ROMs from your MAME set.

[Charco]

Yeah, they work when I open Demul, choose Run Hikaru, then click on a game in the list. In LaunchBox, clicking on a Hikaru game just brings up Demul with the NAOMI list.

Edited November 11, 2016 by Charco

[Maddoc1007]

@Charco do like screenshot for each hikaru game and put in right rom name

[DOS76]

I don't have to do that to run mine can you send a screen shot of your associated platform tab and also the tab that you start in when you go into manage emulator. The fact it is showing the Naomi games list makes me think something is wrong and it is passing the naomi parameters

[Charco]

9 hours ago, Maddoc1007 said:

@Charco do like screenshot for each hikaru game and put in right rom name

Thanks @Maddoc1007 that seemed to be the issue. That field was blank. I added the default command line parameters for Hikaru there, I didn't even have to put the rom name, and it booted the game. I'll look into an additional app to press Alt + Enter on startup to make the Hikaru games run full screen, I think I saw someone on the forum talking about that.

[cleverest]

Has the process since the SECOND POST changed? 

Also does it matter that I got a collection of Naomi and Naimo 2 games in a format with TRACKS  (some of them very large), and no CHD's appear to be in there...do I still need the CHDS for Demul in this case?  A bit confused....

Thanks guys.

- Brett

[DOS76]

What file type do you have I only have experience using the MAME files in Demul so if you don't have those I can't really offer much advise. If you have a MAME set that is fairly new you can use this file here to extract the roms only the NaomiCHD and Naomi2CHD games require the CHD files.

Sorry forgot to add the link

Edited December 14, 2016 by DOS76

[cleverest]

DOS76,

I do have the complete MAME .179 (50GB) Split rom set, and a small update to .the 180 rom version...but no CHDs...I hope that works with this...

I will try this method to get the roms sorted and then guess I'll have to find the correct CHD because I surely want those too :-)

Thanks!

-Brett

[DOS76]

Yeah that handles the ROMs but the CHDs you need on your own PM me if you run into any difficulty finding them

[djwar]

I only have like 5 games that need CHDs ..and I have over 1500 mame roms

[DOS76]

Well there are definitely more than 5 CHD's needed for the Naomi CHD and Naomi 2 CHD games

[cleverest]

I currently only have virtual fighter 4 final run, but your right about that...for MAME the only one I have and probably care about is Killer Instinct :-)

[stacymc]

Hi guys I'm having a similar problem with demul,I've set all parameters as is in this post even tried individual launch atomiswave rom paths but all that happens is demul flashes on screen for a second then nothing.

I have naomi booting fine... 

Only thing is I have separated atomiswave roms to a seperate folder but did notice when I look at my naomi scrape that it has atomiswave in there also.would this confuse it? can I have both naomi in same roms folder and just use a separate platform and delete the none atomiswave from the platform?

I've checked and double checked all bios is there & paramiters are as should be etc , they boot in demul as a standalone (using 0.57 btw)