Game Bargain of the Century

[Guntz]

do you still have the original RAR file? try deleting your image and re-expanding it (what are you expanding it with, BTW? that could be your problem. Use the actual WinRAR program) to make sure you didn't save any changed options by mistake. Take that expanded .cdi to her computer, download discjuggler (the latest version) straight from the Padus website, install it, open the .cdi, touch no options, put in a disc, click "start", click "yes" to burning, then click "no" to fix it. If it doesn't work then, I have no idea.

Yes I have the original .RAR file. Yes I use WinRAR. Yes I downloaded Discjuggler from Padus, yes I installed it, no I selected 'write disc image' from Discjuggler's menu because it doesn't have drive priority, yes I wrote it by clicking yes to burn and no to fix it.

You mean zshare or the tutorial itself after installation ?

You have to install it to "C:\".

Why the hell do you have to download it? If it's any sort of text document (or word processor file) it should just appear in the window.

And no the page doesn't load.

[retrospiel]

It's a tool set, and allow me to ask again: Which page doesn't load?

zshare or the tutorial itself after installation ?

[Guntz]

[quote=Google Chrome]This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://www.zshare.net/download/73489134d3697bf5/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error[/b]

That's what the page gives me. Or it gives me a server error of sorts.

[Guntz]

[quote=Google Chrome]This webpage is not available.

The webpage at http://www.zshare.net/download/73489134d3697bf5/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

More information on this error[/b]

That's what the page gives me. Or it gives me a server error of sorts.

[Knuckle Duster]

It loads for me.

Your DNS server must be a bag of shit.

[Guntz]

Or, it gives me this message. Forgot to include it in the other post:

Forbidden

You were denied access because:
Access denied by access control list.

[Guntz]

WAIT A MINUTE! Time for this thread's most epic failure yet! I completely forgot about this and have no idea why... I DID successfully burn ONE working DC game. That being the Half-Life Beta. I burned it with Imgburn just like a Sega CD game and it's on an Imation disc. This is the ONLY DC CD-R I've ever burned that actually worked properly!

I feel like a complete and utter moron right now and I greatly apologize for the stupid questions I've been asking constantly. Seriously, I completely forgot about this damn game. I didn't even realize I had it in my CD tower. I have no clue why I forgot about it. WHY THE HELL DID I FORGET ABOUT HALF-LIFE?!?



Speaking of Half-Life, does this game support the DC Keyboard and Mouse? I have trouble playing this game with the regular controller. It's like trying to write on paper with your non-dominant hand. It feels extremely awkward controlling the view with the left stick while moving with the face buttons.

[17daysolderthannes]

Yes I have the original .RAR file. Yes I use WinRAR. Yes I downloaded Discjuggler from Padus, yes I installed it, no I selected 'write disc image' from Discjuggler's menu because it doesn't have drive priority, yes I wrote it by clicking yes to burn and no to fix it.

there's your problem, fix drive priority so you just have to hit start, or try your sister's computer like we've all been telling you to.

[Guntz]

Yeah, good point. The program with .cdi priority is PowerISO of all things. It can't even read the damn things. Gonna fix that pronto. I just figured what's the difference between choosing "write an image to disc" from the program's menu and double clicking on the image itself with Discjuggler priority.

[Guntz]

Hurray! It works! Finally! Thanks a ton 17days! I used a Staples CD-R and it works just fine. No graphical errors or anything! I played through Mission 1 (1CCing of course. MS2 is my favorite Metal Slug) and nothing went wrong. I didn't have the sound turned on though because it's REALLY late and people are trying to sleep. I'll check that in the morning. Still, thank you very much for all your help 17days!

Have a question about Neo4ALL though. I played MS2 without touching any setting and on my CRT, the text at the bottom of the screen (credits and stuff) is half visible. Is this fixable in Neo4ALL or is it just like that?

[TheRollingStoner]

[17daysolderthannes]

Hurray! It works! Finally! Thanks a ton 17days! I used a Staples CD-R and it works just fine. No graphical errors or anything! I played through Mission 1 (1CCing of course. MS2 is my favorite Metal Slug) and nothing went wrong. I didn't have the sound turned on though because it's REALLY late and people are trying to sleep. I'll check that in the morning. Still, thank you very much for all your help 17days!

Have a question about Neo4ALL though. I played MS2 without touching any setting and on my CRT, the text at the bottom of the screen (credits and stuff) is half visible. Is this fixable in Neo4ALL or is it just like that?

I wanna say you can adjust the screen in the settings before you boot the game, but I can't remember. If not, then probably not. I think all of my stuff is on screen though...?

One thing to note on Metal Slug 2: you can enable overclocking and remove much of the slowdown at the expense of framerate when things get hairy (always leave frameskip on auto). Metal Slug 1 runs awesome though, probably as good as an actual Neo CD. These Neo4All discs are pretty damn nice for someone without a PC video out or an actual Neo Geo or PS2 with a compilation disc.

Good to know drive priority was the problem, I'll add that to the mental checklist when helping people troubleshoot DC game burning.

I just made an awesome CD binder for all of my CD-Rs last night. It has the DC logo and name on the cover and spine and a picture of a DC with the top cover taken off on the back. Inside I've got 8 CDs-per-sheet CD sleeves I bought in a 25 pack from Amazon for ~$17 (Vault brand if you're wondering). It makes it super nice to organize your games rather than trying to shuffle through a spindle one at a time. I highly recommend sorting by genre rather than alphabetical to save yourself trouble every time you burn a new game (fighters, FPS, space shooter, beat em up, racing, etc.).

[Guntz]

I wanna say you can adjust the screen in the settings before you boot the game, but I can't remember. If not, then probably not. I think all of my stuff is on screen though...?

One thing to note on Metal Slug 2: you can enable overclocking and remove much of the slowdown at the expense of framerate when things get hairy (always leave frameskip on auto). Metal Slug 1 runs awesome though, probably as good as an actual Neo CD. These Neo4All discs are pretty damn nice for someone without a PC video out or an actual Neo Geo or PS2 with a compilation disc.

Alright, sounds good. Yeah I find a few things are a bit choppy on Overclock, but it's fine. I also don't really mind the credits not being shown since I die very seldom, but it can be a pain for less experienced players that need to know how many lives or credits they have left.

Good to know drive priority was the problem, I'll add that to the mental checklist when helping people troubleshoot DC game burning.

I used the wrong term, sorry. It's file association priority.

[Knuckle Duster]

Alright, sounds good. Yeah I find a few things are a bit choppy on Overclock, but it's fine. I also don't really mind the credits not being shown since I die very seldom, but it can be a pain for less experienced players that need to know how many lives or credits they have left.



I used the wrong term, sorry. It's file association priority.

File association priority should be absolutely irrelevant, considering the software opens defaults & locks the drive with full access when burning a disc. I say your burner & media is flakey, but you lucked out and the stars aligned for you using the same settings with a random disc.

My DVDRAM burner did the same thing, I had burned 4 copies of Ikaruga identically & had only 2 of them boot. One of them taking about a minute to boot initially before working indefinitely. It again could be a fault of the burner itself considering it failed, but you never know.

You said you're using a DVDRAM burner too, right? They're not the same as typical DVD Recorders & this could be the issue.

If you get some more discs, Try burning more stuff to confirm it.

[Guntz]

File association priority should be absolutely irrelevant, considering the software opens defaults & locks the drive with full access when burning a disc. I say your burner & media is flakey, but you lucked out and the stars aligned for you using the same settings with a random disc.

No, you don't understand. The .CDI format was set to open with PowerISO, that's file association. I was too lazy to switch the association so I just selected "burn disc image" from Discjuggler's menu. I never did that for any disc besides the latest one and this last one worked.

My DVDRAM burner did the same thing, I had burned 4 copies of Ikaruga identically & had only 2 of them boot. One of them taking about a minute to boot initially before working indefinitely. It again could be a fault of the burner itself considering it failed, but you never know.

Well that's rather odd.

You said you're using a DVDRAM burner too, right? They're not the same as typical DVD Recorders & this could be the issue.

Yeah I have a DVDRAM drive. Not too sure what the difference is but you could be onto something. I don't know of anybody with a regular one though.

If you get some more discs, Try burning more stuff to confirm it.

I thought I said I had a whole spindle of Staples CD-Rs. I was told those were crap so I mentioned that I had a few Fujifilm discs and only one Imation CD-R. It seems Staples brand works just fine, so I can burn for quite a while before needing more!