Can't Get Rondo of Blood to work

RetroArch
#1

Okay so I have been trying to get Rondo of Blood working on my Retropie for awhile now but I can’t. I have manged to get Lords of Thunder working fine but Rondo of Blood is just proving to be a pain. I know about the whole .bin and .cue thing but even when I fix it it doesn’t seem to wanna work. I have heard from some people that iso files may or may not work but at this point I’m out of options, any help would be nice

#2

Well you’ll need to give us more info than “It doesn’t work”. Does it crash as soon as you load it? Are you able to get to the CD bios screen?

I assume you are using the japanese system card 3 bios as well.

Regarding .iso vs. .bin/.cue, I couldn’t give you a 100% answer on it being ‘better’, but I can tell you I don’t have problems with any Super CD-ROM^2 game that is in .bin/.cue. (Arcade CD-ROM^2 is a whole other story…)

As a general rule I convert any/all CD based games to .bin/.cue and leave the .iso format for DVDs.

#3

I just played through Akumajou Dracula X - Chi no Rinne, if that’s the one you’re trying to get working. I used a cue+iso, with the ISO having an MD5 sum of: 8d643fec496a86653722feea7c6048ba Here’s my cue sheet:

FILE "Akumajou_Dracula_X_-_Chi_no_Rinne_(NTSC-J)_[KMCD3005].iso" BINARY
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
  TRACK 02 MODE1/2352
    PREGAP 00:03:00
    INDEX 01 00:48:65
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    PREGAP 00:02:00
    INDEX 01 03:04:14
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 04:48:48
    INDEX 01 04:50:48
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 05:51:67
    INDEX 01 05:53:67
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 07:28:09
    INDEX 01 07:30:09
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 08:51:61
    INDEX 01 08:53:61
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 09:56:35
    INDEX 01 09:58:35
  TRACK 09 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 12:54:60
    INDEX 01 12:56:60
  TRACK 10 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 14:38:28
    INDEX 01 14:40:28
  TRACK 11 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 17:19:05
    INDEX 01 17:21:05
  TRACK 12 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 19:00:58
    INDEX 01 19:02:58
  TRACK 13 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 21:31:18
    INDEX 01 21:33:18
  TRACK 14 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 23:58:69
    INDEX 01 24:00:69
  TRACK 15 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 27:38:51
    INDEX 01 27:40:51
  TRACK 16 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 30:04:10
    INDEX 01 30:06:10
  TRACK 17 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 33:19:56
    INDEX 01 33:21:56
 TRACK 18 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 34:49:29
    INDEX 01 34:51:29
  TRACK 19 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 36:31:49
    INDEX 01 36:33:49
  TRACK 20 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 38:31:50
    INDEX 01 38:33:50
  TRACK 21 AUDIO
    INDEX 00 42:33:12
    INDEX 01 42:35:12
  TRACK 22 MODE1/2352
    PREGAP 00:03:00
    INDEX 01 46:48:62
#4

fixed it? how? why would you fix it? does it work in other emulator but not retroarch? if it does, how did you try to fix it then? iso? cant run it with iso alone.

#5

Didn’t work I’m afraid. I tried getting this particular rom to work for ages now. Bout ready to give up unless you have an alternative rom.

#6

As always with CD games:

  • Get a Redump image whenever possible
  • Always load the cue file
  • Make sure you have firmware file(s) in your RetroArch system folder. In this case you need syscard3.pce

I won’t link to it but I have “Akumajou Dracula X - Chi no Rondo (Japan) (FABT, FACT)” and it works fine (only tried on amd64 though). It has one cue and many bin files. I would also suggest using a separate folder for each CD game for easy organization.

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#7

Well Thankfully I manged to get it working. Turns out the file names weren’t matching.