2-disc game

[djwar]

Hi all

I need a recommendation, what to do with 2-disc games?

do you add both to lunchbox or just 1 disc ?

[Lordmonkus]

Depends on which emulator, Playstation and Saturn through Mednafen and the Retroarch cores you can use an ms3 playlist.

Make a text file and for each disk put the name of each disk image on its own line in the file and rename the file extension to .m3u

Here is how my FF VIII is:

Final Fantasy VIII (USA) (Disc 1).cue
Final Fantasy VIII (USA) (Disc 2).cue
Final Fantasy VIII (USA) (Disc 3).cue
Final Fantasy VIII (USA) (Disc 4).cue

Then you just import the m3u file into Launchbox.

[djwar]

yeah mostly for playstation, Im using ePSXe

[Lordmonkus]

Im not sure how ePSXe handles disk swaps it but I know it doesn't like m3u files.

But if you import both disks Launchbox should detect that it's 2 disks of the same game and it will import as a single entry and then when you right click the game you will have to option of which disk to load. I think you will also get that option in BigBox mode but I have not tried it out.

[djwar]

I didnt know in right click menu, we had the option to choose from different t discs

[Lordmonkus]

It should, Jason added in the feature that when you import multiple disks of the same game it automatically adds the other disks as an additional app. This used to have to be done manually.

[djwar]

I ll try it, I remember having this issue with 3do and others..

what I was doing is changing the Rom file when I needed disc 2

Edited November 30, 2016 by djwar

[Lordmonkus]

Yeah certain emulators make it more difficult than others, Retroarch though gives the ability to swap disks using the Quick Menu.

[djwar]

Yeah Im getting both discs in the menu, cool

thanks again sir

[Lordmonkus]

No problem.

[SentaiBrad]

In most emulators you can also save state, load up the second disc, save state load and it goes on from there as well.

Also, multi-disc games do get combined now, depending on the language. Game (Disc 1), Game (Disc 2), Game (Disk 1), Game (Disk 2), Game (Disc 1 of 2), Game (Disc 2 of 2), etc. The only thing not caught right now is Side 1 or A, or Disc A etc. There's only a few cases where it wont merge, but it import it all, and as long as the proper words are in the brackets you're good to go.

[djwar]

thanks Brad.

whats the difference of Disc and Disk ?

or was it a typo ?

[Lordmonkus]

One is a c and the other is a k

Just kidding, i'm sure it was just a typo.

[djwar]

lets see, according to wikipedia...

 

The differences in spelling correspond both with regional differences and with different senses of the word. For example, in the case of flat, rotational data storage media the convention is that disk refers to magnetic storage while disc refers to optical storage.

[djwar]

any of you have the game parasite eve 2 for psx?

I was checking the game out, using ePSXe, but the game runs at 2x speed, though fmv are ok, I been digging online and changing settings, but still nothing

[SentaiBrad]

Nope, not a typo at all. Disk refers to floppy disks and disc is an optical disc. Parasite Eve 2, if I recall, has issues being emulated on non-official hardware.

[djwar]

I been playing the game for a while, no issues whatsoever, the only problem, is that she walks a little accelerated.

I noticed that the Fps are over 100 almost 200, could it be the issue?

Edited December 1, 2016 by djwar

[SentaiBrad]

Then maybe your frame limiter is not on.

[djwar]

no matter what I do, its not locking the frames to 60.

what emulator are you using for psx, Brad and Lordmonkus

[Lordmonkus]

I use Retroarch on my main gaming PC and ePSXe on my HTPC.