Can't load MVC2!

This is driving me nuts. Most people can get MVC2 to run on Chankast, but I can't get as far as the bios screen! I don't know what I'm doing wrong - I followed every piece of information to get the damn thing to work, but every time I go to Options=>Init, I get a message saying "chankast_alpha_capcom_hack.exe has encountered an unexpected problem and needs to close".

I got my hands on Daemon and mounted my selfboot CDI of MVC2 into a virtual drive F:/ just like I was instructed, and I made sure to highlight that drive in the ConfigureDrive settings. I also have all seven files on the Chankast tutorial checklist stored in my chankast_alpha_capcom_hack folder that I understand are prerequisites to run games:

1 - chankast_alpha_capcom_hack.exe (duh!)
2 - chankast.cfg
3 - cd_rom.dll
4 - dc_bios.bin
5 - dc_flash.bin (I've tested the PAL, ESP, USA and JAP versions to no avail)
6 - Ip.bin
7 - vms.bin

I also have a 2.5Ghz laptop with 256MB of RAM running on Windows XP. Surely with all this, the emulator should run fine, shouldn't it? But no, I still get the same error message when I click Options=>Init. Is there anything ELSE I'm missing?

There is one possibility I found curious: when I mounted the selfboot image of MVC2, the virtual drive name displayed an ordinary "CD Drive (F" instead of the name of the image. I suspected this had something to do with the image being a selfboot instead of the original non-boot, but when I try to open it in Windows Explorer, I get an error message saying "Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could be using a format that is not compatible with Windows". Is this normal? Am I getting this message because the selfboot image was intended to be directly burned as a Dreamcast CD? What is the solution?

Oh, and hi. I'm a new member here. Heh heh. *grins sheepishly and runs away*

dreamer said:

i would try another, commonly working game and check if that fails too. then you can see if you got a dodgy rom or your computer/computers are the problem, my problem was that i had not updated my graphics drivers, however its likely another problem i am not aware of.

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There's nothing wrong with my copy of the game - the CD I burned worked fine on my friend's Dreamcast. Besides, everyone else seems able to run MVC2 perfectly.

Alright, I've used the DirectX diagnostics to find out what type of video card I have, and it lists "Chip type: SiS M650 Rev 00".

I heard Chankast requires a pretty powerful video card to get working, but is that what's causing my emulator to crash every time I click "Init"? Don't video card related problems merely cause framerate issues? Even with the card I have, shouldn't I at least be able to reach the bios screen?

Okay, well if you don't know, then at least answer me this: what happens when you try to run Chankast without any BIN files? If it crashes every time you click "Init", then it might mean there's something wrong with my BINs.