streetfighterken
Grand Master
I operate multiple GD-ROM cabs. Netboot/CF setups is cost prohibitive. But GD-ROM failure is a regular thing that is becoming tiresome. Anyone tried GDEMU or similar with the Naomi drive?
im in the group also. yeah mikes been solo dolo at the moment. but it should be just like the dreamcast, same as the v0 ,v1 consoles on dreamcast. but writing to the dimms and stuff is whats the hard part. i gotta collect more info from the posts but he is hard at work .Someone on one of the Naomi Facebook groups has been working on this. I haven't been keeping up on it though.
Because I don't think they fail very often at all... I've certainly never heard of it.i asked here once if anybody had a faulty network board to sell so i could try to reverse it, but nobody answered.
Taking a wild guess here....I find it interesting the the GDROM "drive" can be swapped between the DC and NAOMI GD Unit but the GDEMU cannot. what's different about it that prevents that from working, assuming you have a valid GDI image on the GDEMU?
Hey, only one way to find out. @streetfighterken, try reaching out to Deunan to see what he thinks?That makes sense. Deunan is pretty well versed in both DC and NAOMI, I wonder if he'd be interested in releasing a special version of the GDEMU for use with NAOMI, or modifying his existing firmware in a way that works for both (like the original drives do).
Like I said, I'm running 3 gd-roms. I already have all that hardware. Netbooting or multi-carting 3 of them (btw they are dedicated to one game and don't need multi-anything) isn't cost effective. I've had dimms and net-dimms both fail. Regular dimms are cheaper to replace.Seems like a waste of time to me, as it will still require you to have the GD-DIMM, SCSI cable, GD-ROM drive and GDEmu (original statement mentions cost prohibitive).
Just go NetDIMM+Pi Force like everyone else, and prey someday DS makes a true multi cart.
I'd bet on imperfect GD-drive security emulation.what's different about it that prevents that from working, assuming you have a valid GDI image on the GDEMU?
u8 check_result; // 0x1f - valid GD-ROM, 0x10 - valid Mil-CD