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Game Doctor SF6 not playing HiROM games.

 
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Tedys



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:24 am    Post subject: Game Doctor SF6 not playing HiROM games. Reply with quote

Hi guys, I got a little bit nastalgic and decided to play with my old SNES.


It was working fine until i decided to run some HiROM games in my Same doctor SF6, none of they worked, when I started the game I have got only a black screen.
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MottZilla



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How did you get the HiROM games? LoROM games sometimes work on the Game Doctor SF series even if you didn't convert them to Game Doctor format, but HiROM games will not.

You should convert the games using UCON64 with the -gd3 option. You should not use roms labeled .SFC .SMC .SWC or .FIG.

Game doctor roms typically look like SF##XYZ. the ## would be the size in megabits and XYZ can be pretty much anything and then if the rom is split across multiple files after the XYZ would be letters starting with A in sequence going A,B,C,D,E,F, etc.

For example with Mega Man X you might have SF12MMXA and SF12MMXB as your two ROM files. I am going from memory but I'm fairly sure that is correct. Hopefully that will help you get things working.
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Tedys



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MottZilla wrote:
How did you get the HiROM games? LoROM games sometimes work on the Game Doctor SF series even if you didn't convert them to Game Doctor format, but HiROM games will not.

You should convert the games using UCON64 with the -gd3 option. You should not use roms labeled .SFC .SMC .SWC or .FIG.

Game doctor roms typically look like SF##XYZ. the ## would be the size in megabits and XYZ can be pretty much anything and then if the rom is split across multiple files after the XYZ would be letters starting with A in sequence going A,B,C,D,E,F, etc.

For example with Mega Man X you might have SF12MMXA and SF12MMXB as your two ROM files. I am going from memory but I'm fairly sure that is correct. Hopefully that will help you get things working.


Hi man, thanks for the answer.

I am using UCON64 and converting the files as you said. ucon64 "GameName.sfc" -gd3 .

For 16mb games, I am using ucon64 "GameName.sfc" -s .

I am dowloading the games from https://edgeemu.net/browse-snes.htm.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 4:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You have to do -gd3 before you do -s or do both at the same time. Splitting a .SFC will not work on the Game Doctor in many cases. You should convert to -GD3 and then split it.

I'm pretty sure your problem is in conversion.

Lets say you have a game called BOB.SFC that is 16mbit.

You would have to do UCON64 -gd3 first.

Now you have SF16BOB. Then you'd do UCON64 -s on SF16BOB and then copy those files onto disks.

I hope that makes sense.
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Tedys



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MottZilla wrote:
You have to do -gd3 before you do -s or do both at the same time. Splitting a .SFC will not work on the Game Doctor in many cases. You should convert to -GD3 and then split it.

I'm pretty sure your problem is in conversion.

Lets say you have a game called BOB.SFC that is 16mbit.

You would have to do UCON64 -gd3 first.

Now you have SF16BOB. Then you'd do UCON64 -s on SF16BOB and then copy those files onto disks.

I hope that makes sense.


Hi man.. that was it.. Now is everything working.. thanks a lot.
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