backing up and emulating

[Zach]

VIsta may be writing it in a file format older versions of windows don't recognize.

Why don't you just email the files to yourself ?

[Ryanfaescotland]

The older computer doesn't have an internet connection.

[insanemaniak]

You got an mp3 player? Or a portable storage device?

You put the files onto it and then put it on the other comp?

[Ryanfaescotland]

No can do as the laptop only has USB connectors and the old pc doesn't have any......hmmm it does have a USB mouse with an adaptor to plug it into it's PS/2 port wonder if I could do something with that....

[Ryanfaescotland]

Ok you useless lot here is the answer http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...06cbe1033.mspx and that's it going now!!!

I'll know in about 5 min if it works or no unless I faint from excitment!!

EDIT 1 - ok attempt 2!! come on it'll work !!

EDIT 2 - ok had a couple of stabs at reading roms ( 8 I think ) 2 attempts at Fifa 95 and 6 at Super Hang On (SHO). 2 Fifa's were done in windows and I have a fifa.bin which is 4meg in size. The SHO were done in windows 2 at full speed, 1 at medium, 2 in dos at full, 1 at medium and all have came out 4 meg in size. Comparing the files as suggested in the trouble shooting shows no differences between any of them, even between the fifa.bin and the sho.bin so something must be wrong. Sadly even if the device isn't plugged in if the software is run it creates a .bin file with size 4 meg which makes me think all the files created are the same junk.

I'm in the middle of installing a hex editor on the old comp to compare files and thankfully I have some roms on there so I can compare it against them.

My only thought on it's reason for not working is that I had to substitute 2 of the chips for what I believed to be the same thing under different codes and maybe I got it wrong. All my soldering looks fine and I checked constantly that everything was in the right place.

Well it's taking ages to open the hex editors maybe cause the CD im using is 1000years old so that might not happen. I might try another cd to transfer the editors....

Any thoughts anyone??

EDIT 3 - Got the Hex Editor working and as I thought the files are just full of 00's

[Zach]

I have one... Get a fucking LAN card... You rold PC has what... ISA slots ?? I think they're $5, LOL... ISA

[Ryanfaescotland]

I've got the hex editor going now think it was just a bad CD or something and it shows that my rom dumps are empty which means the dumper isn't working

Can't think what it is I've looked over the board and all solders look good with no short circuts so the only thing I can think is problems with the chips which I can't check without replacing and that means more online shopping which I ain't going to do.

I'm afriad that means game over for now I might revist the project at a later date but no breath holding...

[Zach]

Hey, at least you tried and learned something new

[Ryanfaescotland]

That won't dry my tears though....

Just kidding would have been cool if it worked but ultimatly it would have been pointless since they can easily be obtained through other, faster means.

Still yeah I learnt some useful things.

Sorry by the way for not being able to complete the guide for your article Zach.

[viperassasin]

i have the playstation emulator on my PC but i cannot get it to work even using the cd. When go to start the mission I get stuck in my items shed. It works fine in my playstation but will not work on my PC help.