Marvel vs Capcom 2 noob help

[adhoc007]

Hey there! I'm new to the forums and actually feeling a little overwhelmed. I was always under the impression that after you install an emulator, you just load a game designed to be played on it and then it just does the rest. So I'm probably more of a noob than any other person here... which is why I'm currently at a loss as to how to get Marvel vs Capcom 2 working on Chankast. I've managed to get it to this screen (except my track time says 82:03) but now I don't know what to do. Plus my configured controls don't work (the interface is set to ElSemi and I'm using the keyboard).

I've searched around the forums and I think the problem is that my MVC2 rom is not selfbootable. Is that right? But I've done some even more searching on how to make it selfbootable and I haven't come across a solution I understand. Would it have anything to do w/ what I'm using to mount the CD? I'm using Virtual CloneDrive, would that be just as good as Daemon Tools v3.29? Or would I have to download some more programs to help me? And would that solve the problem of my controls not working?

I'd appreciate any help any of you can give me. Thanks in advance! Oh, one more question! I heard of a new DC emulator (NullDC, I think it's called) that's supposedly coming out soon. Would I be able to run MVC2 on it (hopefully through less trouble than it currently is to get it working on Chankast)?

 

[Agozer]

Since Chankast detects the disc, it's safe to assume that you've configured the CD-ROM plugin properly (as in directed it to read from the virtual drive) and that the image was mounted onto the virtual drive without errors.

Yes, it would seem that your CD image of MvC2 is non-selfboot. Now, you can hack it to make it selfboot (rather difficult unless you know what you are doing) or use a bootdisc to run the game (easier, but can fail since Chankast doesn't always properly emulate the Utopia bootdisc).

as far as NullDC is concerned, there little to no info on what games it runs and how well. Dead or Alive 2 and Berserk: Guts Rage are known to work on it, at least.

 

[adhoc007]

Thanks for the help, Agozer! Hmmm... I've read a lot of posts that make mention of the Utopia bootdisc. I don't know much about bootdiscs... Is Utopia the only one that will work for Chankast?

Or is there a solution that can be found by burning the game on CD?

Thanks again!

 

[Agozer]

I don't know if there are any other working bootdiscs other than Utopia. You load up Utopia just as you would any other game, and when it tells you to swap in the game disc, you unmount bootdisc and mount the game disc. Then you press a button.

Note that this is how it should ideally work, but doesn't always work with some games. Burning the game on a CD-R won't help, since the game would still be non-selfboot even it it's on CD-R.

 

[adhoc007]

Is there a particular version of Utopia I should be using? I got a pack that contains v1.1, v1.3, and v1.5. v1.1 contains a .ccd, .img, and .sub file; v1.3 only contains a .cdi file; and v1.5 contains a .nrg file. I mounted the .cdi file, but it still shows me the same screen (except now, the time for track 1 says 00:29) and my controls still don't work. The play/pause button is highlighted but I still can't move my selection let alone select anything. Or is this what you meant by Utopia not working w/ certain games?

Thanks again for your help!

 

[Rehbock]

Maybe you should try ExoBoot to make it selfboot or did you try to change regioncode of chankast...
ExoBoot is easy because of the click to click menus

GET IT HERE BECAUSE I'M A LINK

 

[adhoc007]

Thanks for the advice, Rehbock!

Before I try that, I'm just wondering if my controls are supposed to work by now. Because, like I said before, the play/pause button is highlighted but I can't select it let alone move to another selection. Again, my configuration's set to ElSemi and I'm using the keyboard, but none of my configured controls will go. I'm wondering if my Utopia .cdi actually DOES work and the only problem is that I can't select it to play in the audio CD screen.

 

[adhoc007]

OK, never mind. I've got the controls to work now. But the Utopia .cdi file I put in still registers as an audio file and when I play it, nothing happens. Before I use Exoboot, I'd still like to understand why the Utopia's not working... unless that's just the way it is and this is one of those examples where it just won't work.

Much appreciated!

 

[adhoc007]

Okay, I tried Exoboot and either I did something wrong or it's not working w/ my image. Here's what I did:

-I've a folder called MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 (U) [ZEROSITY][CDI], which contains zer-mvc2.rar. I extracted that into a folder and got zer-mvc2.cdi and zer-mvc2.nfo
-I opened up CDmage from Exoboot, and loaded zer-mvc2.cdi onto it. It had 2 sessions. Session 1 was a silent audio track and Session 2 had a whole bunch of files. So I extracted session 2 into another folder
-Back in Exoboot, I chose "Data to CD or Image" and set "Remove (dummy) files" to "Automatic". I set the folder which contains the data files to the folder that contains the extracted Session 2 files
-I chose "Create image from the data files"
-After extraction, I had a new .cdi file

I mounted the .cdi file in my Virtual CloneDrive, but Chankast still reads it as an audio CD.

Between Exoboot and my nonworking version of Utopia 1.3, it doesn't look like there's much hope of getting it to work, which kind of disappoints me since a lot of other people seem to be getting their MVC2 game working. Any thoughts?

 

[Rehbock]

Region code changing ?

 

[adhoc007]

Sorry, not sure what you mean by changing the region code. As far as I know, I never changed it (mostly because I don't know what it is or where it is let alone how to change it, heh).

 

[Rehbock]

#1Chanka itself
Options -> Cable Type -> #1 NTSC
......................................#2 VGA

#2Chankast tools
Download
Install
Utilities -> ConfigureRegion -> #1 Japan (NTSC, Orange swirl)
.............................................#2 USA (NTSC, Orange swirl)
.............................................#3 Euro (PAL, Blue swirl)
.............................................#4 China region (NTSC, Orange swirl)

If that doesnt work buy some Cookies

 

[adhoc007]

The first option didn't work. Or do you mean that I have to set the cable type, get Chankast Utlities, and set the region before it'll work?

This is really getting me paranoid! I'm not even sure anymore if I unRAR-ed the files correctly. I just uncompressed the file called zer-mvc2.rar in my MARVEL vs. CAPCOM 2 (U) [ZEROSITY][CDI]. Did I oversimplify the procedure? There are several other files in the folder, but I only touched the .rar file. Is it my Virtual CloneDrive? Does it not recognize .cdi files? Agozer said it was safe to assume that it did...

I also downloaded the Marvel vs Capcom 2 Accurate Mix to test to see if it works (I think it's supposed to be selfboot already, isn't it?) and it still read as an audio CD! ARGH!

 

[Agozer]

you extracted a split archive. If you extract the RAR, the following parts follow suit automatically. So you didn't do anything wrong in the extraction process. Also, I don't think the region affects anything. You don't even need any Chankast Tools if you ask me.

 

[adhoc007]

Hmmm... well, what other options do I have left? The .cdi for the Zerosity MVC2 reads as an audio CD, the Accurate Mix also reads as an audio CD (but I'm pretty sure that it's supposed to be selfbootable if they changed the soundtrack of the game), and the Utopia v1.3 .cdi reads as an audio CD. I once got a .ccd (which, I think, is what my Virtual CloneDrive is supposed to read) of v1.1, but all that had was some .txt file in German. And THAT also read as an audio CD. I mean, I feel like I'm so close and that there has to be something simple that I'm missing...

 

[Agozer]

The .CCD files isn't the CD image. It's an information file created by CloneCD that contains information about the CD image. The files are similar to .CUE files but they have more information in them.

If you try to mount a .CCD file, the virtual drive automatically mounts the corresponding CD image.

 

[adhoc007]

OK, so I'm assuming that the .cdi is the actual CD image and that it's still compatible w/ my Virtual CloneDrive. So mounting that onto it sounds like it's no different than mounting a .ccd file on my CloneDrive. But they all still read as audio CD's, even the Accurate Mix image. So now... what options do I have left to get this game working?

 

[reverie]

um im a noob too, i mounted the images but everytime i run chankast i get that audio cd thing. the utopia discs get the same effect as well as other selfboots or boot discs. I cant change the cd-plugin to aspi cuz when i run chankast it shuts down. Im using the virtual drive that alchohol installed, is that the problem?

 

[Agozer]

Delete Chankast.cfg and try running the emulator again.

 

[reverie]

didnt work either. i get the swirlly thing and im not prompted for entering a date and time so assume my bios and flash are ok, but it just is read like an audio cd. the virtual drive in my computer reads it as a cd rom and as DC_CD_LOADER_1_1 but chankast still thinks it an audio cd. I read every thread that was asking for help in here but nothing has worked so far. I must be out of luck this time.