Topic: Going To Work On The Next Version Of The Great Big Answer Thread. (Read 137 times)

VampX · « **on:** June 14, 2006, 05:33:00 AM »

as the topic & description says, what do you want to see answered in the new thread
(yeah new thread, xbox-scene doesnt trust your dear VampX enough to give him editing powers)

feel free to reply with just questions if you dont know the answer, but also feel free to answer with question and answer.

also urls to faqs or howto's i forgot are welcome.

foxxfella · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2006, 06:09:00 AM »

Hey Vampx...
how about a faq on how to make an emu boot disc, been seeing a lot of these (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

> How to Make A Bootable Emulators Disc <

Heres a quick guide...

1.Create an "XISO"
2. Aquire Qwix here..
3. Open QWIX select create iso
4. Where it says sorce, click on local folder then press the button with the 3 dots.
5. Select your Emulator folder wherever its located on your PC, then press OK.
6. Click on create ISO.
7. Now burn it so its compatible on your XBOX. "Flips" guide on how to burn xisos using Nero

please feel free to make any revisions necesary vampx. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

edit: also I've seen some people have problems where there roms dont show up when they use Surreal, Fbaxx, or Mame.
One of the problems is that they forget to erase the previous version of the emulator and just overwrite them as well as forgetting to erase the tdata folders. Tdata locations...

surreal: E:\tdata\a64fea57
Mame:E:\tdata\ 4d414d45
Fbaxxx: E:\tdata\ffff0504\

also they need to make sure all there ini point to

CODE

d:\roms

This post has been edited by foxxfella: Jun 14 2006, 01:27 PM

foxxfella · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:45:00 AM »

Sorry I'd like to add something, if your making a bootable disc configure your ini and set the rom path and your media path to the "R" drive.

CODE

R:\roms R:\media

Diontae18 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:53:00 AM »

How 'bout adding a link to The Official Emulation Forums Spam Thread ?

VampX · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:30:00 AM »

QUOTE(Diontae18 @ Jun 14 2006, 05:53 PM)

How 'bout adding a link to The Official Emulation Forums Spam Thread ?

There's allready a link to that.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

dohopoki · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:06:00 PM »

It's already covered in one of your renaming faqs, rather general in xbox terms but I think for people who don't realize they need to rename things there needs to be a reminder of the lmitations of FATX on the front page of the new pinned thread. Questions that would be avoided with this knowledge seem to come in the same way you would expect hives to.

Scoobysnaxx · « **Reply #6 on:** June 14, 2006, 09:17:00 PM »

Could put a link for the FAQS for the psx emu in xports forum. [or just link a bin/cue tut - and mention you can not run directly of cd]. I think you have answered this several times yourself.

Seems trivial but it seems to be asked alot.

I also think a tut on using programs to check your mame roms would be handy [eg clrmame - or a permant clear explanation as to why this is necessary]. This also seems to get asked often. Old but useful LINK

even if either of the above is still asked often after the thread changes, we will have a quick place to refer them to.

This post has been edited by Scoobysnaxx: Jun 15 2006, 04:18 AM

Scoobysnaxx · « **Reply #7 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:33:00 AM »

doh! I didn't read far enough into your great big answer thread, I see you already have a tut for clrmame pro

My apologies.

*** that thread is already pretty sweet by the way. So many people have contributed over the years, its amazing.

BulkySam · « **Reply #8 on:** June 16, 2006, 08:41:00 AM »

The Great Big Answer to the Great Big Question:

Why are we here?

tabsaid · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2006, 12:18:00 PM »

Is there a list anywhere of what games work better in surrealxxx 4.95 or 4.9 opposed to v1. That would be nice cause its kinda a pain to try all of them and the surreal list is from 2004

This post has been edited by tabsaid: Jun 16 2006, 07:18 PM

micbic · « **Reply #10 on:** June 16, 2006, 11:17:00 PM »

QUOTE

Is there a list anywhere of what games work better in surrealxxx 4.95 or 4.9 opposed to v1. That would be nice cause its kinda a pain to try all of them and the surreal list is from 2004

well surreal 64 v1.0 has better compatability anyways, 4.9 and 4.95 work better on only a select few titles

Thraxen · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2006, 09:31:00 AM »

QUOTE(micbic @ Jun 17 2006, 12:17 AM)

well surreal 64 v1.0 has better compatability anyways, 4.9 and 4.95 work better on only a select few titles

In my experience I've found that the later versions of Surreal XXX are best for 128 MB Xboxs. You get the graphical fixes of the later Rice plug-ins without all the stuttering found on 64 MB XBoxs.

micbic · « **Reply #12 on:** June 18, 2006, 08:01:00 AM »

QUOTE

In my experience I've found that the later versions of Surreal XXX are best for 128 MB Xboxs. You get the graphical fixes of the later Rice plug-ins without all the stuttering found on 64 MB XBoxs.

Well 128mb upgrades are hard to find these days anyways.

micbic · « **Reply #13 on:** June 19, 2006, 06:17:00 PM »

Be sure to add something about 3d games not working with MAME. Someone asks this all the time.

hargle · « **Reply #14 on:** June 20, 2006, 08:32:00 AM »

It'd be nice to have a linky to the xbox emulation repository in your new answers thread.

It's a great place to get screenshots, box cover scans, config files, skins, and even cheats for all of our favorite emulators.

http://xbox.nugnugnug.com

thanks!

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