.CUE files set to open in Notepad. Not working in emulation anymore

Hey guys.

In the course of trying to get Mednafen to work, I accidentally set my cue files to open in Notepad. How do I get it changd back so the emulators will read it again?

I tried setting the default apps back with no luck. Any ideas?

The file association shouldnā€™t affect whether emus can open it. The more likely issue is that notepad probably screwed up some formatting.

Can you post a log of it failing to load?

Hey hunterk,

Where would I find the log?

go to settings > user interface and make sure ā€˜show advanced optionsā€™ is ON, then go to settings > logging and set ā€œlogging verbosityā€ to DEBUG and ā€œlog to fileā€ to ON. It will create a log file in your RetroArch directory.

Gotcha. Hereā€™s the log:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.7 (Git 52dd39f98a) [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (USA) (Track 1).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (USA) (Track 1).stateā€. [INFO] === Build ======================================= [INFO] CPU Model Name: IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ i7-8809G CPU @ 3.10GHz [INFO] Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES [INFO] Built: May 10 2019 [INFO] Version: 1.7.7 [INFO] Git: 52dd39f98a [INFO] ================================================= [INFO] Loading dynamic libretro core from: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\cores\kronos_libretro.dllā€ [INFO] [Overrides] no core-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Kronos.cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no content-dir-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (USA).cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no game-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (USA) (Track 1).cfg. [INFO] [Shaders]: preset directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\presets [INFO] Environ SET_VARIABLES. [INFO] Environ SET_CONTROLLER_INFO. [INFO] [Remaps]: remap directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps [INFO] [Remaps]: no game-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (USA) (Track 1).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no content-dir-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (USA).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no core-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Kronos.rmp. [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (USA) (Track 1).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (USA) (Track 1).stateā€. [INFO] Environ GET_LOG_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ GET_PERF_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\systemā€. [INFO] Environ PERFORMANCE_LEVEL: 16. [INFO] Content loading skipped. Implementation will load it on its own. [INFO] CRC32: 0xec3bfc10 . [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\sega_101.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\mpr-17933.bin NOT FOUND [libretro ERROR] This is a Saturn game but we are missing the bios, ABORTING [ERROR] Failed to load content. [INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds. [INFO] Unloading gameā€¦ [INFO] Unloading coreā€¦ [INFO] Unloading core symbolsā€¦ [INFO] Saved core options file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch-core-options.cfgā€ [INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

[libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\sega_101.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\mpr-17933.bin NOT FOUND [libretro ERROR] This is a Saturn game but we are missing the bios, ABORTING

Youā€™re missing the BIOS images.

Interesting. I had all those BIOS .bins in the firmware folder for Mednafen and it didnā€™t work still. Could you please tell me where to put them for the Kronos core?

It tells you where itā€™s looking for them in the errors. Itā€™s looking both in ā€˜systemā€™ and system\kronos.

Oh gotcha. Sorry Iā€™m new at this. Iā€™ve dopwnloaded the bios and then some and put themn in the folder location. I had to create the kronos folder because it didnā€™t exist. I am still getting a few bios errors.

[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.7 (Git 52dd39f98a) [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (USA).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (USA).stateā€. [INFO] === Build ======================================= [INFO] CPU Model Name: IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ i7-8809G CPU @ 3.10GHz [INFO] Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES [INFO] Built: May 10 2019 [INFO] Version: 1.7.7 [INFO] Git: 52dd39f98a [INFO] ================================================= [INFO] Loading dynamic libretro core from: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\cores\kronos_libretro.dllā€ [INFO] [Overrides] no core-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Kronos.cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no content-dir-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (USA).cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no game-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (USA).cfg. [INFO] [Shaders]: preset directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\presets [INFO] Environ SET_VARIABLES. [INFO] Environ SET_CONTROLLER_INFO. [INFO] [Remaps]: remap directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps [INFO] [Remaps]: no game-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (USA).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no content-dir-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (USA).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no core-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Kronos.rmp. [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (USA).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (USA).stateā€. [INFO] Environ GET_LOG_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ GET_PERF_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\systemā€. [INFO] Environ PERFORMANCE_LEVEL: 16. [INFO] Content loading skipped. Implementation will load it on its own. [INFO] CRC32: 0x3ea7bee7 . [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: XRGB8888. [INFO] Environ SET_HW_RENDER. [INFO] Requesting core OpenGL context (3.3). [ERROR] Failed to load content. [INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds. [INFO] Unloading gameā€¦ [INFO] Unloading coreā€¦ [INFO] Unloading core symbolsā€¦ [INFO] Saved core options file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch-core-options.cfgā€ [INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

ok, itā€™s still not finding some BIOS images, but itā€™s finding at least some of them, since itā€™s not complaining anymore. However, itā€™s still failing to load content.

Can you post the contents of your cue sheet?

Sure thing. Each track has a separate .bin file and the .cue file is set to open in Notepad (still canā€™t figure out how to change that back to normal). Below is what I see when I open the .cue file.

FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 1).binā€ BINARY TRACK 01 MODE1/2352 INDEX 01 00:00:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 2).binā€ BINARY TRACK 02 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 3).binā€ BINARY TRACK 03 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 4).binā€ BINARY TRACK 04 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 5).binā€ BINARY TRACK 05 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 6).binā€ BINARY TRACK 06 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 7).binā€ BINARY TRACK 07 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00 FILE ā€œAmok (USA) (Track 8).binā€ BINARY TRACK 08 AUDIO INDEX 00 00:00:00 INDEX 01 00:02:00

Try generating a new one from Redump.org: http://redump.org/disc/39083/cue/

Youā€™ll need to rename your files to match it. And go download notepad++ instead of using regular notepad.

I tried using the redump you provided< Here is the log:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.7 (Git 52dd39f98a) [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).stateā€. [INFO] === Build ======================================= [INFO] CPU Model Name: IntelĀ® Coreā„¢ i7-8809G CPU @ 3.10GHz [INFO] Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES [INFO] Built: May 10 2019 [INFO] Version: 1.7.7 [INFO] Git: 52dd39f98a [INFO] ================================================= [INFO] Loading dynamic libretro core from: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\cores\kronos_libretro.dllā€ [INFO] [Overrides] no core-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Kronos.cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no content-dir-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (USA).cfg. [INFO] [Overrides] no game-specific overrides found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\Kronos\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).cfg. [INFO] [Shaders]: preset directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\shaders\presets [INFO] Environ SET_VARIABLES. [INFO] Environ SET_CONTROLLER_INFO. [INFO] [Remaps]: remap directory: E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps [INFO] [Remaps]: no game-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no content-dir-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Amok (USA).rmp. [INFO] [Remaps]: no core-specific remap found at E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\config\remaps\Kronos\Kronos.rmp. [INFO] Redirecting save file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\saves\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).srmā€. [INFO] Redirecting savestate to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\states\Amok (Europe) (En,Fr,De,Es,It,Nl) (1).stateā€. [INFO] Environ GET_LOG_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ GET_PERF_INTERFACE. [INFO] Environ SYSTEM_DIRECTORY: ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\systemā€. [INFO] Environ PERFORMANCE_LEVEL: 16. [INFO] Content loading skipped. Implementation will load it on its own. [INFO] CRC32: 0xe8ca6eb . [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\stvbios.zip NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\kronos\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [libretro WARN] E:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\system\saturn_bios.bin NOT FOUND [INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: XRGB8888. [INFO] Environ SET_HW_RENDER. [INFO] Requesting core OpenGL context (3.3). [ERROR] Failed to load content. [INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds. [INFO] Unloading gameā€¦ [INFO] Unloading coreā€¦ [INFO] Unloading core symbolsā€¦ [INFO] Saved core options file to ā€œE:\LaunchBox\Emulators\RetroArch\retroarch-core-options.cfgā€ [INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

Hmm, dunno what to tell you. You say it worked before you tried to modify it? if so, I would recommend re-dumping your game.

Are other games working?

If you load the core but no games, then go to main menu > information > core information, is it finding all of the BIOS images that it needs?

No the files never worked with any emulator I tried.

How do I load the Kronos core without the games?

omg

The issue is almost certainly either bad BIOS or bad ROMs. Get ones that arenā€™t bad and youā€™ll probably be all set.

Haha ok then. Iā€™ve tried a couple different rom files with no luck. Iā€™ll give it go with a few more and see what happens.

Thanks!

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