Sega Model 2 Emulator not working

[DarthWHAT]

I was hoping that someone here has had success with getting games like house of the dead and Daytona working on the sega model 2 emu. I changed the roms dir in the ini file and still not working. I keep seeing something about a model2.zip file, that needs to be placed in the roms folder but I can not for the life of me find anything on it or where to even get it. Help

[Retro808]

37 minutes ago, DarthWHAT said:

I was hoping that someone here has had success with getting games like house of the dead and Daytona working on the sega model 2 emu. I changed the roms dir in the ini file and still not working. I keep seeing something about a model2.zip file, that needs to be placed in the roms folder but I can not for the life of me find anything on it or where to even get it. Help

Do the games run directly in the Model 2 emulator without using Launchbox?

[DarthWHAT]

No they don’t.

[Retro808]

1 hour ago, DarthWHAT said:

No they don’t.

Something is not set right then in Model 2. You really only need to set the path. My roms folder does not have a model2.zip and it works fine. That zip file is not really a bios file. It just contains a bunch of common files used by several games. So if those games already have those files in their zip it makes the model2.zip unnecessary. I am not sure where you got your roms from so your files may need to model2.zip.

Can you share a pic of inside your .ini file showing the rom path?

[DarthWHAT]

Hey thanks for the reply! my roms i think are good (from the merged 0.212 set) And they load using the MAME emu but don't fully work right. I will have to look inside the rom zip and see if that model2.zip is in there. If not do you know where I can find it?  Here is a screen shot of my rom dir.

 

 

[Headrush69]

Are you sure you are running the latest version of the emulator? (1.1a)

The only time I have seen issues with a missing model2.zip message is when running through RocketLauncher. The module is out of date and does a check for that file.

Running directly with m2emulator 1.1a doesn't require model2.zip

[DarthWHAT]

16 minutes ago, Headrush69 said:

Are you sure you are running the latest version of the emulator? (1.1a)

The only time I have seen issues with a missing model2.zip message is when running through RocketLauncher. The module is out of date and does a check for that file.

Running directly with m2emulator 1.1a doesn't require model2.zip

I am running the latest version 1.1a,  I'm sorry if I worded my issues incorrectly but I'm not getting model2.zip errors when loading a rom, My issues, for example with the house of the dead, I go to load the rom and it crashes m2emulator instantly. And I've been scouring the internet to see if anyone else has had this issue and some posts mention needing this model2.zip inside the rom folder. So that lead me to searching more on the model2.zip that could possibly be my issue but I'm not turning up much. But now from what it sounds like this model2.zip wont fix my problem since I don't technically need it.

[Headrush69]

If you delete NVDATA/hotd.DAT, will is start now?

When exactly does it crash? Before displaying anything or after?

If that doesn't work, if you edit EMULATOR.INI and set

Quote

ForceManaged=1

does that help?

Edited August 12, 2019 by Headrush69

[DarthWHAT]

It crashes as soon as I double click the house of the dead from the menu within the m2emulator. I will give this all a try when I get home tonight and report back to you. Thanks!

[DarthWHAT]

okay I do not have a hotd.dat in navdat. Maybe cuase I haven't opened it successfully in SM2 yet for it to write one? Also changed the forced managed to 1 in the ini and still same thing. Also I looked in the HOTD.zip and there only a bunch of numbered files types, is that all that supposed to be in this rom? Is there another emulator (launchbox friendly) that will do both Sega model 2 and 3?

Edited August 12, 2019 by DarthWHAT

[Headrush69]

If you are missing rom files it should display a windows showing you the files missing.

For reference, my hotd.zip has 29 files within, and the zip file has a CRC32 checksum of 018FACCC.

What video card do you have?

You could try loading the games with MAME, but you won't be able to play them. It can be handy for checking you have the right files and checking controls though.

[DarthWHAT]

Hotd loads in mame just not correctly so the rom works just not in  It’s a hp prodesk mini so it’s not a separate card and not sure what it is but it runs everything pretty good. Have steam on there and play pc games on it as well.

Edited August 13, 2019 by DarthWHAT

[Headrush69]

Is this the only game that has this issue?

This emulator doesn't seem to have a way to see more verbose information, so not sure where look next.

 

[DarthWHAT]

9 hours ago, Headrush69 said:

Is this the only game that has this issue?

This emulator doesn't seem to have a way to see more verbose information, so not sure where look next.

 

I have tried daytona but I get a files missing window which seems fixable if I get all the files. I really just want the HOTD working as I'm putting a lightgun on my arcade 1up. Are there any other emulators out there that will work with sega model 2 and 3? I've seen mention of one called supermodel, but I think it only works in a command prompt window.

[Headrush69]

Supermodel runs Sega Model 3 games only. 

There is also Teknoparrot which will run hotd4, but I’m not sure how well your integrated GPU will handle that.

Edited September 11, 2021 by Headrush69
Fixed typo

[DarthWHAT]

Thanks for all the help Headrush, much appreciated. I think I'm going to try to get at least 1 game working in model2 to rule out that the emulator itself isn't the issue,

[DOS76]

could it be that you have it set to a resolution that won't load in the ini file? I'm using the model 2 emulator pointed at my MAME folder for the directory so its using the latest ROM set and working no issues just ran a few different versions of Daytona and ran HOTD to set it up to run for US region so I get the winners don't use drugs logo (no wonder I'm such a loser) in the beginning.

[DarthWHAT]

3 hours ago, DOS76 said:

could it be that you have it set to a resolution that won't load in the ini file? I'm using the model 2 emulator pointed at my MAME folder for the directory so its using the latest ROM set and working no issues just ran a few different versions of Daytona and ran HOTD to set it up to run for US region so I get the winners don't use drugs logo (no wonder I'm such a loser) in the beginning.

I do not have any resolution set (that I know of) I don't even see a option to do that in SM2 emu except switch to full screen. Also I never got it to load so there wasnt a ini created.

[DOS76]

can you get the UI to open without a game?

[DarthWHAT]

The UI loads fine but my options aren't much other then selecting load rom or to check or uncheck load in full screen. I assume the other options in the UI will work once it actually loads a rom.