ShastaOrange

Ugh. I've been trying to make the updated disc for a couple hours now, and it just ain't happening! The new xSNES9x emulator just won't work with the CDX multigame menu. It gives me some weird error message when it loads - I can't even get to the list of ROMs. The same files work fine when not launched by CDX. This sucks. This is the first time I've ever run into an emulator that wouldn't launch from CDX. I never had a problem with previous versions of xSNES9x. I'll just start reposting BAED2 tonight while I try to get this figured out.

Thanks for the kind words, Prican25, and big thanks for your special version of FBA-XXX, which will most likely end up on BAED 3. As for the emulator updates, I'm torn on how I want to do it. The changes are too big to just make a patch (I think so, anyway - I tried to make one with ppf3 and it ended up 1.5x bigger than the ISO itself!) and a manual update is no big deal for many users, but many others will find it confusing. The only other option is to remake the ISO and repack as a new archive. But then what about the people who have the original archive incomplete and just need a few files? Hmmm... Well, I guess what I can do is remake the ISO, but also provide a manual update pack with instructions for those who downloaded it previously, and repost any requested fills of the original pack for those who may be missing them. Yeah, I guess that about covers everyone. That'll work.

Newsbin is probably the best, IMHO. Xnews is another good choice. You need to get the full set of RAR files for each disc. Both discs have 94 RARs. You download them all and open part001.RAR and select "Extract" and it'll extract the whole ISO from the 94 files. Make sure to use WinRAR 3.0 or above to extract. To download the 94 files in NewsBin, just click and drag to highlight all of the files and right-click and choose "Add to Download List." Files with a plain white box with a blue outline to the left of the subject header are complete. Files with a yellow box with a black "I" are incomplete. Files with a "R" are just repeats, meaning you downloaded that header (not neccessarily the file itself) before. With incompletes, you can download what's there (right click on the incomplete, choose "Download Special," then choose "Download Incompletes."), then recover the rest of the file with PAR2s. Hope this helps. If that's not enough, here is a good guide to using the newsgroups: http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

Happy to help out. Just a reminder: Posting will begin later tonight or early tomorrow. I notice someone else is posting BAED1 right now, but that a lot of the files are showing up incomplete. I guess I'll post BAED2 first and see if he backfills his incompletes. If not, I'll post the first disc as well.

Hi all. I'm working on the third Big Ass Emulator Disc, and I have a few MAMEoX questions that hopefully someone can help me out with. My objective is to have as many playable arcade games as possible. I read somewhere that older versions of MAMEoX used less RAM, and that v0.72 was the best in that regard, and that there were some games that were playable in.72, but not.79b, and vice versa. If this is the case, does anyone know approximately how many games are effected by this? Is there a database somewhere of which games work best with which emulator? What about a list of non-MAME arcade games that are playable on the Xbox? I have the full MAME 0.80 set (with updates I have not yet applied to bring it up to 0.83), but MAMEoX uses the.79 core. Is it possible to convert my ROM set to a.79 version? Also, the CHDs... Do any of the games that use them work on Xbox? I have all the CHDs, but they are 0.83 versions. Finally, is there any easy way to tell which games use too much memory to work on the Xbox? Is the ROM's file size a good determiner of that? I'd like to remove as much non-working stuff as I can to make room for the stuff that does work. Big thanks to anyone who can help me out!

Hey guys. Glad you like my discs. wemery73, I'm really not sure what your problem could be. First time I've heard of that one. For anyone that missed the discs, I'll be doing full reposts of both at the end of the week. Current plans are for disc 3 to be an arcade disc - I just need to figure out what's playable, what's the best emu for a given game, and other fun stuff like that. Disc 4 will most likely be N64, assuming Surreal 2.0 is released by then (current ETA mid-July).

Check the newsgroup later this week (Friday or Saturday probably). I will begin a full repost of both discs then.