If you attempt to boot an ISO and uoYabause instead shows a CD player screen , that means the file you selected is not a game file. Maybe your ISO is corrupt or you selected a file that is not a Saturn ISO. Double-check to make sure you are selecting a Saturn ISO. If all else fails, you probably have a bad Saturn ISO and you'd need to download your game from another ROM website.
Example error 2: Neither the cartridge RAM nor the Saturn's internam RAM have been initialized. Please use the SEGA Saturn control panel to initialize (erase) the RAM so that it may be used.
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'User error' needs to be ruled out first. Make sure you're following the directions on how to load an ISO. The ISOs you're booting need to be extracted from their archives and they need to be valid. ISOs in 'CHD' format are the best and least error-prone. Also, it helps to install DirectX to make sure you have the latest DirectX files (don't forget to restart your computer after installation).
When buying a new hard drive, not every user imagines that after installing it in the system unit, it will be impossible to work with it right away. Some believe that it is enough to insert it and screw it in, and the system itself will recognize the device. But the hard drive should be initialized manually immediately since Windows will not do this automatically.
Also, disks that were in use and with a bunch of data sometimes need to be initialized. This is due to a number of system errors. In this case, the question arises, what about the accumulated data? You will find out about all this here!
Also, as an owner of a SCPH-102 console, these are a pain in the ass when it comes to chipping - in addition to the generic SCEx wobble check performed by the CD controller that is easily patchable, the boot menu on these also checks for the region string, which involve installing even more wires and a full sized Arduino Pro Mini or AtMega328 chip to patch the CPU BIOS to play out of region games. Not cool.
PCSX2 is an emulator that can run PlayStation 2 (PS2) games and self-made programs under Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems. It can currently run most PS2 games. In general, you can download PS2 game ISO files and then boot the game using PCSX2. Of course, if you have a game disc and your PC can drive it, PCSX2 allows you to boot the game from the game disc.
To do that, you should download a new plugin, unzip it and plop it into the plugins folder, where all the other plugins are. Then, boot up PCSX2 and go to Config > Plugins/BIOS Selecter, and click on the SPU box. The new plugin should be there.
To enable the verbose mode in Batocera v36 and higher, repeatedly press the down arrow key on the keyboard while booting, and then select the verbose boot mode. You may need to hold the Enter button down for half a second to register it, as the boot menu polls for input slowly.
Then, when next booting Batocera, rapidly press the down arrow key to interrupt the boot and open the syslinux menu. Select the verbose option (or press the hotkey [V] on the keyboard) to boot in verbose mode.
Be careful when editing this, as the boot command needs a very specific syntax. Any additional new lines or spaces that your editor might add after pasting could interfere with booting successfully. Make sure to back up the file first just in case!
This is for if you're struggling to even boot on an SBC, which is a rare occurrence (SBCs tend not to be nearly as modular as standard desktop PCs) and usually only caused by hardware faults/external factors. Here are some general troubleshooting steps to try:
Since the graphics drivers aren't loaded at boot the splash video is rendered entirely on the CPU. If you have either 1. an absurdly high resolution display like a 4k TV, 2. a really weak CPU to begin with then this could cause the boot video to lag. You can solve this by forcing the splash video to render at a lower resolution (say 19201080 or 1280720) by editing the configuration file.
Some users have reported Bluetooth to stop working indefinitely if the userdata partition ever becomes completely full (such as by scraping), even after freeing up some space afterwards. The only reported solution to this is to reflash Batocera.
Batocera is a custom Linux operating system that is focused on game emulation. It is completely self-contained and bootable from a variety of formats. This means you can load Batocera on a microSD card, flash drive, or external hard drive and boot it from there. As an example, you could use your Steam Deck primarily for PC games, and when you are ready to do some emulation, you can just add the Batocera SD card, boot into the card, and start playing games. This is an excellent setup if you want to separate your SteamOS PC gaming experience and your retro game emulation.
EmulationStation is a frontend that will provide you with a self-contained user interface to browse and launch your favorite retro games. The version found on the Steam Deck is known as EmulationStation-DE (Desktop Edition, shortened to ES-DE). It can be installed independently by downloading the latest AppImage and installing it on your Steam Deck, or it comes bundled within the EmuDeck or RetroDeck environments. ES-DE will auto-update itself, so if you remove or add ROMs to your folders, it will automatically catch those changes and it will reflect in the app the next time you boot ES-DE.
The EmuDeck platform will periodically have updates to add new features or options. To update, open up EmuDeck and it will find the update, install it, and reboot EmuDeck for you. On their GitHub you can read a changelog of release updates.
Wii system menu: Open Dolphin in Desktop Mode, then go to Tools > Perform Online System Update > United States (or your preferred region). Next, go to Tools > Load Wii System Menu (4.3U) and perform the initial setup (not that by selecting 16:9 aspect ratio it will make it hard to reach the sides of the screen with your pointer). If you have .wad file types for your Wii Virtual Console or WiiWare games and would like to have them added to your Wii menu, you can go into Tool > Install WAD and choose them from there. Note that this is mostly just a parlor trick since there is no way to enter the Wii Menu from the Steam Deck Game Mode. For more in-depth coverage check out this helpful video from Archades Games.
To manage multiple discs, you can either create an .m3u file or you can convert multi-disc PSX games to .pbp file format. Instructions for both are available via the EmuDeck wiki. If you only have .bin files for your PSX games, you can generate .cue files for them using this handy tool.
One advantage of Batocera over the others is that it is completely self-contained and bootable from a variety of formats. This means you can load Batocera on a microSD card, flash drive, or external hard drive and boot it from there. As an example, you could use your Steam Deck primarily for PC games, and when you are ready to do some emulation, you can just add the Batocera SD card, boot into the card (see the video above for a demonstration), and start playing games. This is an excellent setup if you want to separate your SteamOS PC gaming experience and your retro game emulation.
Another advantage of Batocera is that it has comprehensive guides thanks to its long development history, and an active discord server for any more challenging issues. For a complete list of systems that you can run on Batocera, check out their systems table list. Note that as of making this guide, Yuzu (Switch) must be manually installed.
By default, redream will use its own replacement BIOS that provides most of this same functionality, sans some features such as the opening boot animation and the audio CD player. If you're nostalgic for the original exeprience, it's easy to use an original BIOS as well.
CDI images take the original 1 GB GD-ROM and modify it to fit on a 700 MB CD-ROM in order to be burned and used on a real Dreamcast. When the games are modified to fit on a CD-ROM, the audio and video are often compressed, the code is modified (sometimes resulting in crashes even on real hardware) and the metadata stored on each disc which is used to provide cover art and cheats inside Redream is altered.
To set up your own guest OS image, you first need to create a blank disc image. QEMU has the qemu-img command for creating and manipulating disc images, and supports a variety of formats. If you don't tell it what format to use, it will use raw files. The "native" format for QEMU is qcow2, and this format offers some flexibility. Here we'll create a 3 GB qcow2 image to install Windows XP on:
The easiest way to install a guest OS is to create an ISO image of a boot CD/DVD and tell QEMU to boot off it. Many free operating systems can be downloaded from the Internet as bootable ISO images, and you can use them directly without having to burn them to disc.
Here we'll boot off an ISO image of a properly licensed Windows XP boot disc. We'll also give it 256 MB of RAM, but we won't use the kqemu kernel module just yet because it causes problems during Windows XP installation.
QEMU will boot from the ISO image or CD/DVD and run the install program. If you have two screens, move the QEMU screen off to the spare one where you can keep an eye on the installer, but get on with something else - it will take a while!
To start a new disposable environment based on a known good image, invoke the qemu-img command with the backing_file option and tell it what image to base its copy on. When you run QEMU using the disposable environment, all writes to the virtual disc will go to this disposable image, not the base copy.
It may be desired to copy a diskimage to a physical device. An example may be if building a cluster, it might be easier to get everything ready in qemu, then write the final diskimage to all of the hard drives. Of course your image will need to contain all of required configuration and drivers for the new system to boot properly. 2ff7e9595c
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