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noob needs help with chankast/running games

wunderflo

New member
Hi
THere is smoke coming out of my ears and tears in my eyes.
I am trying to get games on chankast work for days now. And i really looked at a lot of threads in this forum and although I think that there are hundreds of threads like this i wasn't able to find an answer that solved my problem.
So sorry for this thread but I don't know what to do...lol
I'm a complete noob so please be careful when u are explainig something to me...I probably won't understand it ;) Nah...I hope it's not that bad.
But it would be very nice if u could tell me the name of every program i need..or even give me the link to it if possible.

Ok first:
I have every version of Chankast and tried everything with all versions.
I have the Dreamcast Bios
I have installed the Aspi Drivers (first a newer version then an older..i read that somewhere..lol)
I have installed the Standart IDE Controller (there has been installed a VIA IDE Controller)
I have Daemon Tools 3.29

The Problem:
If I start a game (I only have DOA2LE and SF3...both are actually said to be autobootable) Chankast does one of the following things: (depending on if I have aspi drivers installed, which version of daemon tools i use and so on)
It crashes b4 it shows the dreamcast logo
I only see a black screen after the dreamcast logo
I see a screen with a disc in the middle and it looks like an audio player. When I press some button i get to a screen where I can setup things. When i "click" on "game" it restarts and again it leads me to this screen.
The last problem is the one i have at the moment with installed aspi drivers and d-tools 3.29 and actually everything correctly like i read it in threads here.

Ok first thing I thought was that the game isn't selfbootable (can me explain someone what that means? what is the difference to a non-selfbootable game? )
And I didn't figure out yet how to make it selfbootable. I tried ExoBoot 1.3 once but that didnt create me an image...and I burned it to a CD with selfbootGUI but when i try to run this i get the same setup-screen.

Please help me although I'm sure those noobs are annoying u..but hey...it's difficult.

Thank u very much for every answer.
 

PsyMan

Just Another Wacko ;)
Here's a small step by step guide for you. In order to make sure that it will work you must use files that you haven't used (the files must not be modified). Also make sure that you have DirectX 9c and the latest drivers for your video card installed:

1. Download the latest Chankast version from HERE and extract it to an empty directory.

2. Get the Dreamcast bios files named "dc_bios.bin" and "dc_flash.bin". Make them read-only and place them in the Chankast directory.

3. Go to the plugins configuration of the emulator and do one of the following:
If you're running Windows XP or Windows 2003 select the xxx CD-ROM interface and do not install the ASPI drivers..
If you're running Windows 2000 select the ASPI CD-ROM interface and install the ASPI drivers.

4. Insert an unmodified Dreamcast ISO image to the virtual drive (don't use the ISO images that you created with Exoboot or other programs) and configure the emulator to use the specific drive by selecting the appropriate drive letter.

5. Run the emulator and play. :)

PS: DOA:LE needs modification in order to run on Chankast. Check the compatibility list.
 
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wunderflo

New member
woooooooot! :bouncy:
it works now with street fighter. And I really can't explain why it didn't as i tried so many things. Maybe I tried the easy things only with DOA2LE and as it didn't work i only tried all the complicated things described on this page with the other game. Again sorry for this thread...but without it I wouldn't have got it to work.
I will try to give something back...make advertisment for this community and chankast...maybe with a little step by step tutorial for noobs like u have made one for me.
Thx
 
I have self bootable jet set i downloaded for chankast do I mount it with alcohol in the virtual drives? neeed some anwsers plz
 

Agozer

16-bit Corpse | Moderator
pimpdaddy20007 said:
I have self bootable jet set i downloaded for chankast do I mount it with alcohol in the virtual drives? neeed some anwsers plz
Yes.
 

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