Hello, this might be a most generic post, but if I can make work DOSBox and Reicast i will be done for lots of time. Here are my problems.
First one: DOSBox So I downloaded a few games, I am not sure if it’s forbidden to talk about it, but i am gonna make an example. Let’s say, in the most hypothetical hypothesis, i have Doom 2: Hell on Earth’s rom. I uploaded it in the roms folder into a dedicated folder. This one contains a few file with extensions “.1 - .2 - .3 - .4 - .5”, a “.dat” file, an “install.dat” and an executable “deice.exe”. Then i followed the guide on the lakka website. I created a config file, called “doomii.conf” (i made it with notepad). This file is composed as it follows:
[autoexec] @echo off mount d "/storage/roms/dos/DoomII" d: deice.exe
I wasn’t sure if it had to point to deice.exe or to install.dat (so i tried them both). Anyhow, after this, i continued to follow the guide and I created the DOS.lpl (playlist file) like this:
/storage/roms/dos/DoomII/doom2.conf Doom II: Hell on Earth /tmp/cores/dosbox_libretro.so DOS (DOSBOX) DETECT DOS.lpl
So: from the main menu (of course) Doom appears in the playlist, but when i make it run i get the most generic error possible “Failed to open libretro core”. What did i do wrong? I was guessing, at this point, that there’s a problem with my rom. But i also tried to launch the first Doom and even Raptor (an old shump that i really liked as a child). Now time for my second one.
Second one: Reicast As for now i am pretty convinced i can’t launch Dreamcast games for hardware issues, but still the hardware i am using it’s pretty new (it is a small server used just a few years ago, with an Intel Core Duo CPU - i think it was an i3). Anyways, i followed pretty much every guide on the planet. I updated Reicast and I uploaded the /dc/ folder with all the bios in the system folder. When i go into the core information i get these two strings: (!) Present, Required: dc_boot.bin (!) Present, Required: dc_flash.bin So the “(!)” does it mean something ambiguous? I am wondering this 'cause in the videoguides i’ve watched there was no (!). So, that said, i tried two roms, one with the .cdi extension and the other one with the .gdi extension. Without much to add: when i run both i get again the “Failed to open libretro core”.
Any chance you guys can help me? Thank you very much, Alessio