Hello, I’d like to ask for some help.
I’ve been using Reicast through Retroarch for Windows to play through the game D2 and have run into some trouble.
I had seen that in an update to the Reicast core from last December, disc swapping was implemented. I have confirmed that this does work as advertised, as I have used it to play Pop’n Music 3 (which must be appended to Pop’n 2).
In D2, the game’s opening cutscene is actually held on the fourth disc (I assume for space-saving reasons), and I am able to swap from any other Disc (1-3) to Disc 4 to view this scene. I am also able to load Discs 2-4, select New Game, and change to Disc 1.
My problem, specifically, comes at the end of Disc 1. The game plays through a series of cutscenes, after which it gives the standard ‘Please insert Disc 2’ message. For some reason, no matter what I try, the game will not acknowledge that I have ‘inserted’ the second disc. I have tried ‘ejecting’ the disc tray and letting the game run to have it ‘acknowledge’ the swap before appending the proper disc, to no avail. I have also confirmed that it is not an issue with the disc image, as it starts fine on its own. Is there any other course of action I could try or am I just screwed?
What little documentation I could find about this issue seemed to allude to D2 using an unorthodox method of disc swapping that is difficult to implement into an emulator, so I suspect that this issue may be out of my hands, but if anyone has any suggestions for options I may have overlooked I’d be very grateful.
Thank you for reading all of this and for any help you can offer!
