There have been allot of post dealing with emulation recently and it seems that alot of people are having trouble with getting them to work so I thought that I would make up a guide to follow if you want to use these emulators. [bold] Snes station [/bold] Files that you will need snesstation_beta 1 (you can find this file at http://snes-station.gamebase.ca/) [bold] AT LEAST 10 ROMS [/bold] (there are many places to find these just do some searching on goolgle) Burning software (I will describe how to use NERO in these guides) -Start off by downloading SNES Station and all of the roms that you want (minimum 10) -then go into windows explorer and right click on the snes station file snesstation_beta1 (you may have saved it as something different) we will leave this for now but come back to it later -now go to your Roms that you downloaded and right click and extract you will get all new folders with the game names now we are ready to make the cd -open nero select CD-ROM(ISO) (this is not in the wizard) -click on the ISO tab at the top and make sure these settings are selected Joliet ISO level 2 (max of 31 chars) Mode 2/xa ISO 9660 then click new in the file browser window locate the place where you extracted SNES station (in my case c:\download\snesstation_beta1) -open the file and drag these 4 files into the new compilation that we are making SNES_EMU.001 SNES_EMU.002 SNES_EMU.003 SYSTEM -now you want to make a folder called "roms" (no quotations) -now locate the rom folders that we extrated earlier open the folders in the nero file browser drag over the .smc files (for example supermario.smc) Once you have at least 10 roms in the roms folder you are ready to burn make sure that you are not creating a multisession click burn and you are done (i burn at 16x speed and it works great so I dont think that burn speed matters) [bold] PGEN [/bold] files needed pgen_v1-beta sega roms burning software (nero in this case) starting off you need to download pgen and sega genesis roms you can download pgen at http://www.zophar.net/consoles/ps2.html step 1:extracting all files go to windows explorere and find where you downloaded pgen (in my case C:\Download\pgen_v1-beta) right click on the pgen_v1-beta (or whatever you named it ) and choose extract all it will give you a new folder (we are done with this for now but will come back to if later next extract all of the zipped rom folders that you downloaded (you will get all new folders for each individual game) now that all of the files are downloaded and extrated we can go on to burning them open nero select CD-ROM(ISO) (this is not in the wizard) -click on the ISO tab at the top and make sure these settings are selected Joliet ISO level 2 (max of 31 chars) Mode 2/xa ISO 9660 then click new find the pgen folder that you extracted in the file browser (C:\Download\pgen_v1-beta in my case) then drag these 5 files over to our new compilation MODULES MUSIC INSTALL.CNF PGEN1OB.ELF SYSTEM.CNF also create a folder called "roms" (no quotations) now we need to find the roms that we unziped/extracted and drag them over to the roms folder (do not drag the entire folder over just the .smc .bin or .smd file over) the roms will have a file extention of .smc .bin and occationally .smd (for example sonic2.smc) once we have all of the roms we want with a minimum of 10 than we are ready to burn click on the burn icon and choose speed and you are finsished (also at this point you want to make sure that there is no multi session) and you are finished to boot both of these roms is just like booting any copied ps2 game the method will change depending on what mod you have installed
[bold] IT MIGHT BE NES GUIDE [/bold] first off I there is a slight problem with this emulator some people with mod chips will have problems because you need a game shark or action replay to play these otherwise it will hang at the intro screen. I am not sure if cd loader will work but hopefully someone will be able to give it a try (who dosent have a version 7) -first off you will need to download "It Might Be NES" this can be found at http://www.zophar.net/consoles/ps2.html -Once you have the zip folder you need to extract the contents -once you have extracted/unzipped the imbnes v1.3 folder you will have these files nes.exe rombank.exe system.cnf you will also have a saveicon.bmp but this is not important -now we will need to download some roms (there are various sources I find that www.emulationstation.com is a very good site but as long as the file ends in .nes it is fine ) -now that we have our roms in one folder we can go onto the next step -find your file rombank.exe that came in the imbnes v1.3 and open it up -up in the top left there is a button for add roms click this -it will brink you to a browse for folder window where you will need to select the folder where you downloaded your nes roms(.nes files) once you have selected the folder click ok -it will have a list of all of the roms -now you want to click on the build IMBNES iso button on the bottom -this will bring up a window where you will choose your destination for the rom pack and the reigon that you are living in [bold] MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE BOX THAT SAYS "BUILD ROMBANK.BIN ONLY" [/bold] -then click build this should take a few seconds...once it is done you can close rombank.exe -now we are ready to make our cd (I will be describing how to use nero) -open Nero select CD-ROM(ISO) (this is not in the wizard) -click on the ISO tab at the top and make sure these settings are selected Joliet ISO level 2 (max of 31 chars) Mode 2/xa ISO 9660 then click new in the browser window of nero locate the "nes.exe" and the "system.cnf" files and drag them over you also want to add the .bin file that we made with rombank earlier I called mine nes.bin and saved it in the imbnes folder (you may have saved it as something different) drag the .bin folder over into the compalation with nes.exe and system.cnf and then selct burn and you are done If you cant find you .bin file or dont have one it is becasue when we were creating the rompak in rombank you forgot to click the "only build rombank.bin file only" make sure that you arent creating a multisession also make sure that you are finalizing the disc
[bold] SNES STATION [/bold] D-pad = D-Pad/ Left analog Start = Start Select = Select A = Circle B = X X = Triangle Y = Square L = L1 or L2 R = R1 or R2 Quit and return to main menu = L3 + R3 [bold] PGEN [/bold] D-Pad =D-Pad/left analog Start= Start A=Square B=X C=Circle X=L1 Y=R1 Z=Triangle Mode=L2
awesome guide I finally got it to work no other guide has been able to help me the way that this one did and I got p gen which is a really good sega emulator that I didnt know about thanks again
it may be possible to do ti that way but I found this way the easyiest becasue it is so simmilar to snes station
Ok, I am using a gameshark v2 to do a swap trick and I used both your method here, and the one on PGEN's website for no-mod users (making a bin/iso with CDGENPS2). Your method keeps locking up the gameshark after i swap out the cd and hit X. The method I found on PGEN's website just sends me to the red screen of death when I hit X after swapping out the CD. Any ideas?
i tried your way on how to burn the snes station and it doesnt WORK after the writing apperes it just goes black with music. i have 17 roms could some one please help me!!!!
ok if the disclaimer comes up but you cant see a list of your roms it meas that you did all steps right with snes station but your roms are not being recognised did you make sure that you extracted your zipped roms before draging the .smc file over also you drag only the .smc file into your "roms" folder not whole file folder containing containing the game becasue it wont reecognise that
It would be cool if someone could post about PS2 MAME, I got it to work but only with a few roms, I have a post here for what roms work but no one has posted. I got a few to work but I wish I could get roms like (Pak-Mahn) to work. Has anyone had luck with this rom and the PS2 MAME home brew code or emulator? Any help would be great as I have run out of options with my limited programming skills heh!
[bold] Djgeojoe [/bold] where are you getting your mame roms from if you can get mame to work and some games than the ones that dont work are just bad roms try www.emulationstation.com they typically have very good quality roms [bold] jumbo 11 [/bold] yes you can but it is very hard to fill a cd with enough roms let alone a dvd but it is possible _X_X_X_X_X_[small]PS2 v7, DVR-AO5U, Magic 3.1, Nero, Ritek SNES AND PGEN GUIDE http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/40482 [/small]
The roms work on the PC but not on the PS2. I have tried many different roms already but I will see if there are any I have not tried yet. Thanks for the reply.
thanks alot now it works i'v heard of a rumor that there is going to be a emultor for the ps2 it will be a gameboy advance emulator and a n64
thanks alot now it works i'v heard of a rumor that there is going to be a emultor for the ps2 it will be a gameboy advance emulator and a n64 is this true?
yeah it will just be a matter of time till they get one do you have a link where you head this I would doubt that they would have one with dual emualtion capabilities ..but that is just me
Ok, I have been trying this all day for snes-station...I went out and bought a Action Replay and I burned my roms and the snes-station just like this tut and others said and I can't get it to work!?! I have well over 11 roms on my disk but the full size is about 400mb, I am using the knife swap method but when I put in my CD to load up at the "Please Insert Game Disk" screen and press X to load nothing happens...it just stays on that screen with any method I have used!!! Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong and how to get past this screen?
Have you tried changing the LBA of the system.cnf to 12231? That seems to be necessary if you don't have a modchip.
