tutorial for a newbie?

[EnfanTerrible]

Hi to everyone,
I'm a totally noob and I just bought a DC SD Adapter because my Optical drive has many difficulties to read (don't know why but I put my DC 20 years ago in his original box that was perfect and now that I've tried to play some games it has a lot of difficulties to read).
I've downloaded some games from Vimm's Lair and put into the microsd with dreamshell 4.0 but many of them don't work. I'm reading here on forum and I've understand that I have to optimize the games and sometimes change some parameters before loading them so I've downloaded iso_make and had some tries but I can't understand how to do it and scripts gave me errors.
Is there a guide/how to for a total noob like me? Tried to googling around with no luck.
For example trying to extract Sega Rally seems to get errors due to spaces in file name:



Thank you for your support.

[SWAT]

For image optimization you need use optimize_gdi.bat
But it can't help you because Sega Rally 2 is a WinCE game that can't run from SD card, only from IDE mod.

[EnfanTerrible]

(26.12.2024 19:38)SWAT писал(а):  For image optimization you need use optimize_gdi.bat
But it can't help you because Sega Rally 2 is a WinCE game that can't run from SD card, only from IDE mod.

Ok but also with other games I get errors like F355:



tried to execute manually the command from the script gave me this error:



What's wrong?

[fafadou]

Welcome !

[SWAT]

(26.12.2024 19:46)EnfanTerrible писал(а):  

(26.12.2024 19:38)SWAT писал(а):  For image optimization you need use optimize_gdi.bat
But it can't help you because Sega Rally 2 is a WinCE game that can't run from SD card, only from IDE mod.

Ok but also with other games I get errors like F355:



tried to execute manually the command from the script gave me this error:



What's wrong?

Try to simplify GDI file name. Do not use special symbols and spaces.
Or just download optimized images from pinned threads (Game Collection): http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/forum-11.html

[EnfanTerrible]

(27.12.2024 07:04)SWAT писал(а):  Try to simplify GDI file name. Do not use special symbols and spaces.
Or just download optimized images from pinned threads (Game Collection): http://www.dc-swat.ru/forum/forum-11.html

I've tried with no special symbols and spaces and also add an echo on the script to see the command that is executed, the first time I get a message "Complete!" but there is no more files in the dir and the second time I get an Error but I have two new files one with a strange dot before the name:

[megavolt85]

use TOSEC images only, REDUMP don't supported

[EnfanTerrible]

(29.12.2024 02:48)megavolt85 писал(а):  use TOSEC images only, REDUMP don't supported

Thank you!
Tried TOSEC images and works great!