CyberOcelot Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 Thanks to you guys, I've been able to get pretty comfortable with importing all my cart based games. ❤️ Moving up in the timeline, I'm now working on Sega CD, and BIOS required games have always intimidated me. The changing file structure was also a curveball, and now I have a few questions, if some of you awesome peeps don't mind taking the time to help me with... Sega CD Questions... 1. I have both .cue and .bin files packaged inside of .zip files. Using older tutorial videos, I learned to extract these files and only import the .cue files. However, what was not made clear is whether or not the location of the .bin files matters? Since the .cue files are only 1KB, I'm assuming they're reliant on the .bin file they reference? So technically, shouldn't both of them be in the Launchbox Games folder for portability's sake? 2. If it's allowed, can you please direct me to a source you like for BIOS files? If not, how current should they be? I found an extremely old BIOS file for Sega CD, but wasn't sure it was safe due to its age. 3. Where should I download a BIOS file to? Is there a specific destination folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 1. You want your cue + bin files together and import the cue files. 2. We can't link them but if they work then you are fine. 3. Depends on the emulator, each has their own location of where they want them to be. Check the documentation of the emulator for details. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted October 3, 2020 Share Posted October 3, 2020 8 minutes ago, CyberOcelot said: Thanks to you guys, I've been able to get pretty comfortable with importing all my cart based games. ❤️ Moving up in the timeline, I'm now working on Sega CD, and BIOS required games have always intimidated me. The changing file structure was also a curveball, and now I have a few questions, if some of you awesome peeps don't mind taking the time to help me with... Sega CD Questions... 1. I have both .cue and .bin files packaged inside of .zip files. Using older tutorial videos, I learned to extract these files and only import the .cue files. However, what was not made clear is whether or not the location of the .bin files matters? Since the .cue files are only 1KB, I'm assuming they're reliant on the .bin file they reference? So technically, shouldn't both of them be in the Launchbox Games folder for portability's sake? 2. If it's allowed, can you please direct me to a source you like for BIOS files? If not, how current should they be? I found an extremely old BIOS file for Sega CD, but wasn't sure it was safe due to its age. 3. Where should I download a BIOS file to? Is there a specific destination folder? 1. the cue and bin files should be in the same folder, preferably named after the game, the cue is just a index file for the bin. 2. We cant post links to bios or roms for obvious copyright reasons, but the bios will likely be old, i mean its a early 90's system. Retroarch will actually tell you the md5 sum it wants for the bios files, so you can use a program to see what the md5 of the file you have is and if they match. 3. If using Retroarch (which is recomended) bios for most systems go directly into the Retroarch/Systems folder. For example. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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