Saturn games in rar format

[camboico]

Hi guys, I need some help.

I've been several days trying to save some space on my hdd. I have converted my isos from psx, ps2, gamecube, wii, dremcast, etc ... to rar format. Thanks to the launchbox option, extract ROM before starting, I have not had problems except with sega saturn. I have tried from the retroarch cores as with yabause and YabaSanshiro (-a, -i) ... and none launch the saturn games.

Is there any way to do it or can they only be released in iso format?

Thanks.

[DOS76]

for PSX DC and Saturn you might want to consider converting your games to chd instead of rar chd is a pretty good space saver and it is playable in Retroarch for most cd based cores. MAME comes with a tool named CHDman.exe that will convert them you will probably have to unrar them 1st though.

[camboico]

51 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

for PSX DC and Saturn you might want to consider converting your games to chd instead of rar chd is a pretty good space saver and it is playable in Retroarch for most cd based cores. MAME comes with a tool named CHDman.exe that will convert them you will probably have to unrar them 1st though.

Hello, thanks for answering.

I tried to do what you advise me with the saturn games and I get the same result.
Neither in chd format, directly with bin and cue files, nor with the chd inside a container rar achieved that retroarch or yabause read the game.

[DOS76]

oh well that is sort of my fault as I don't think the Yabause core supports chd files in RA (but not sure on that as I don't like or use Yabause) I know that the mednafen Satrun core in RA definitely does support them though so if you try them with that core and they don't work then I have no clue what the issue would be.

[camboico]

6 minutes ago, DOS76 said:

oh well that is sort of my fault as I don't think the Yabause core supports chd files in RA (but not sure on that as I don't like or use Yabause) I know that the mednafen Satrun core in RA definitely does support them though so if you try them with that core and they don't work then I have no clue what the issue would be.

Hi, 

I have been testing with yabause, YabaSanshiro and with the 2 cores of retroarch, yabuse and mednafen, and there is no way ...

For some strange reason the saturn isos must be in iso / cue / bin format to be able to be released...

Thanks for the help.

[neil9000]

They need to be .cue/.bin or CHD for mednafen Saturn in Retroarch. ISO's wont work for mednafen saturn.