I just got chankast and stayed up untill 4am setting it up and stuff. it works fine and it works without the game. when i mount the disc on f: and play it with aspi cd rom interface,
it shows this error message then closes itself:

can't read TOC from f: drive

when i use xxx cd interface, it thinks its a music cd.

the gami i am trying to play is called "shenmue" i am running cd 1 of 3 cds. its a cdi file.

I am running windows xp sp3 home edition on a laptop.

by the way i am using chankast alpha 2.5

heres a list of the files + folders i have in the folder along with chankast:

-chankast_input
chankast_input.cpp
chankast_input.vcproj
diutil.h
pads.cpp
pads.h
stdafx.cpp
stdafx.h
chankast.cfg
chankast.input
chankast_alpha_25.exe
chankast_cdrom.dll
chankast_cdrom_aspi.dll
chankast_input.dll
chankast_input_semi.dll
chankast_manual.chm
dc_bios.bin
dc_flash
maple.cfg
vms.bin
vmsbrowser.exe


i hope that all goes well in the end because i tried naomi dc emulator and it sucks monkey $HIT. i cant set up my philips pc controller with it. what a f*king piece of $hit!

The default CD-ROM plugin works via ASPI, and Windows 2000/XP do not support ASPI out of the box. Only Windows 95/98 had proper ASPI support.
Use the xxx plugin which is tailored for Windows 2000/XP.

or you can take your chances and install an ASPI driver for Windows 2000/XP.

Finally, if I may say so, you shouldn't be using Chankast in the first place. All the other emulators have long since gone past it. Use nullDC or Demul, for example.