Great work man. I used exactly the same method but thought it wasn't working as I expected selecting the JSON link to boot the game. Thanks for educating me :)
Great tutorial! Regarding virus scan: You do not ever need to scan a zip file you've downloaded with chrome on windows today. windows automatically will always scan everything newly written and put it into quarentine even before you will ever be able to execute it. if you download it via chrome these days, chrome also will scan the file before it finishes. this is the reason sometimes to use firefox or an other web browser because chrome can sometimes wrongly lock files.
Great vid! The only sound issues I’m having are the patched multi-bins > single-bin. For example: the translated Castlevania Rondo of Blood file. It’s just a single large bin file (with a cue). The game plays fine but the audio gets out of sync eventually. However all of the standard, non-patched cue/bins are working for me very well otherwise.
Where is the OSD settings for the temp located for the analogue pocket? Was neat seeing that continue to rise throughout the video and didn't even know there was a setting for basic OSD performance monitoring.
I renamed the bios to a shorter file name with no spaces and then edited the data.json file to match and you won’t need to select the bios file after game selection
@@AndyDo I was able to figure it out (wasn't using merged bins or > 27 bins), I reformatted my micro sd card using the full overwrite and copied my files back and the stutter appears to be gone! I think I might have done a quick format for exFAT when I first got my pocket due to being impatient, so I tried this full reformat and the results are good :) Thanks for the reply Andy
Surely there's a way to have the core itself detect & create these .json files for whatever games you add to it once it boots. Surely there's a way to program it to do this? Would love to see that in an update!
I still can't get this to work for me, the error message I get when trying to load the PCE-CD core, is "Framework Wrong Version" not sure what to do, and a Google searching isn't giving me any answers. :(
Is anyone else having issues with Last Alert? Even used the Krikzz CD Fix to make the single bin, and still, Last Alert freezes on the first level after playing through almost all the boss voices when you get to the stage one boss.
Hi Pixel Cherry. The whole evening I am trying to run the pc engine cd on the pocket. I have the game I want, for example castlevania. I drop the map with the bin and cue files in the common folder. Then I run the updater from MattPanella, and that updater should make a JSON file for that game. But that doesnt happen. I dont know what Im doing wrong. I was watching the youtube video from MadLittlePixel and did exactly what he did. Its so frustrating. I hope your video helps. Update: wow I did it 😁. Thanks 🙏🏼
@@PixelCherryNinja one quirck though. I cant seem to skip the intro scene in Castlevania Rondo of blood 🤔. Can you? Also, Beyond Shadowgate, it has more than 27 bin files, 36 in total. This doesnt work on the pocket yet, right? Thanks again 😃
@@SandroSensei good to hear. All my social links are in the description. Don't feel obliged, I'm glad it helped. If you wanna buy someone a coffee, hit up Mazamars or Adam Gastineau. Their details are in the description too.
HI! So I am able to load the core and I can see the games, but when I hit "run" I get the "load error msg" like if it was something wrong with the CD? Any tips?
Now really, since the new update i get the cd player screen on any game, the thing just stopped working 😞 appearantly the JSON files which get generated do not work. I dont know what to do 😞
I have a few games that keep showing the “insert hu card” screen after I hit run. There’s a json file created for them, but won’t get past that screen. Any ideas? The games are: sylphia, star parodius, sapphire, psychic storm. Tia!
First of all, great username. Second Mazamars is working bug fixes and improvements, so hold tight and things should start maturing with this core. twitter.com/UFp64/status/1623850481826283520?t=5bKC9oa7O-i9-9EX7iq6sw&s=19
What is this stuff about json files? Do I need to somehow make json files for each game I put on my MicroSD card? Or can I just play them as is as long as the games are in the right format?
thank you for all the great videos! I'm having issues playing some games, like Strider Hiryuu. It loads to screen that's in Japanese but seems to say something such as 'only use Pro Duo'. Any ideas!??
Thanks for the kind words. I'm actually waiting for an update to this core, as there's known issues with it. I'm not sure when an update will come, as I know the developer is really busy with other things right now. Hopefully soon.
Thanks Alexandre B, worked fine, forgot cdmage existed so long since I used it, core slows down a little but very playable, now to see if the slowdown helps me complete it with perfect gem collecting lol
I seem to be the only one having this issue.. After loading the json file its looking for a bin file and not pce. It installed all the bios files under the pce extention, but if i change the pce to bin i get framework error. HELP!!!! :)
Not really sure buddy, what you see in the video still works for me. I know an update is being worked on, hopefully whenever that drops (release date unknown) it resolves any issues you have.
Honestly, am probably not even going to bother with PC Engine CD stuff til more updates come, specially the bug fix that's causing problems with FAT32 formatted MicroSD cards. I much prefer FAT32, so am waiting for that update. Also really hoping for Sega CD support soon! I care far more about Sega CD than PC Engine CD myself.
@@PixelCherryNinja I'll give it a shot. I just ran pupdate 2 and I got some new stuff (Atari sys 1 for example ), but I still don't have a bios file for PCE CD. I'm doing this on a Mac also, which might be part of the problem. I'll try again tonight. Thanks for the response! 🙂
Hi there ! Love your updates videos ! I am using pocket updater from retrodriven, everything is downloaded correctly, except I don't have a matching json files number from the roms I put on the common folder (30 games vs 23 json files) Also I do manage to launch games but cdrom audio is slow and choppy, am I missing something here ?
@@PixelCherryNinja AAhhh, less json files because of the 27 bin files limitation... Hope they can get a workaround for this, that's a lot of unplayables games for now. As for the chopiness, I am reformatting the card again
@Pixel Cherry Ninja I was able to get it working. Found out you can't have more then 24tracks. Which sucks because there's a few games I wasn't able to find that had less then 24 tracks
Is there a tool to seperate single .BIN files into multiple .BIN files? This would be to get it working on the Pocket. I was testing Y's Book I & II single .BIN file. There are choppy/sync audio/animation issues.
This tutorial should help, but converting multiple bins into a single one brings its own issues. th-cam.com/video/OoGTN01qbqs/w-d-xo.html An update to the core should resolve this in the future.
@@PixelCherryNinja because there is no such button under your video. I see only 1. become member 2. abonnement 3. thums up 4. thumbs down 5. share 6. thanks 7. clip => normally there is another button on the very right where I can click "add to favorites".
most difficult for me is to find games that have just a bin and cue....i have all pce cd games but they are on chd formats....and the ones from archive are ones with many bin files...only one organized collection i find on archive with just bin and cue but i have to download every single file manualy which sucks again
When I run the pocket updater a second time, after dropping the bin/cue folder in the commons folder, it doesn’t generate the .json files for me. Any advice?
Sorry buddy, as you can see it's in the video it worked when I did it. Maybe double check everything, if you followed the steps as shown, then you should get the same results.
Cool - thanks :) - but why didn't your cores get uninstalled when you tapped N to all of the except PC engine CD? Each core I tap N to is uninstalled. With this updater I see no way to regret having tapped N to a core without going through the entire list again and hope you can't make a mistake. Also the updater doesn't create json files for me. Perhaps only BIN files work and neither IMG nor unpacked IMG renamed to BIN.
I have converted lots of them and all work fine but I cant run the following games: Bakushou Yoshimoto Shinkgeki, Cosmic Fantasy II, Flash Hiders, L-Dis (all of them pass the 27 track files, I also tried the single .BIN/.CUE file and doesnt work either) any suggest about this?
@@PixelCherryNinja thank you for replying, I tried all bios verions and it doesnt fix it, NONE of the games that pass over 27 track files run, even if it is a single .BIN with multiple tracks bundled, so, those games do not work at least for me, maybe someone can try to replicate it, greetings
@@diablonet thanks buddy. I have Rainbow Islands that is 32 bin files into a single bin file using CD Mage on windows. It runs but has sync issues with sound.
games i cant get working tried everything flash hiders formation soccer jim power bakushou yoshimoto shinkigeki shape shifter shin nihon pro wrestling Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (Japan) Ys IV - The Dawn of Ys (English Text + Dub) Bakushou Yoshimoto Shinkigeki (Japan) (FABT) forgotten worlds
Added more games but now running the updater is not adding the json files to launch the game (was working before) anyone know a fix? (Thnx for these vids btw, very helpful)
In all honesty, I've not been using the Pocket for the last few days. I know Maza is working on an update, so hopefully that'll resolve a lot of issues people are having. For now you could try an alternative updater, or adjust the JSON yourself (it's not that difficult, even I worked it out, by looking at it through word pad)
Great work man. I used exactly the same method but thought it wasn't working as I expected selecting the JSON link to boot the game. Thanks for educating me :)
Glad it helped. It also confused me during Alpha testing.
Great tutorial!
Regarding virus scan:
You do not ever need to scan a zip file you've downloaded with chrome on windows today. windows automatically will always scan everything newly written and put it into quarentine even before you will ever be able to execute it. if you download it via chrome these days, chrome also will scan the file before it finishes. this is the reason sometimes to use firefox or an other web browser because chrome can sometimes wrongly lock files.
Thanks, I'm just in the habit of scanning everything I download. I'm not sure if I can break that habit, without going through rehab 😂
Great vid! The only sound issues I’m having are the patched multi-bins > single-bin. For example: the translated Castlevania Rondo of Blood file. It’s just a single large bin file (with a cue). The game plays fine but the audio gets out of sync eventually. However all of the standard, non-patched cue/bins are working for me very well otherwise.
So the English translation one works? I'm going to have to play around with it and see if I can get it going.
There's a bug thats being tracked regarding merging bins (Credit Andy)
Excellent Tutorial dude!!!!
Thanks RC
All my Rondo downloads contains only two files in the rar file. one .ceu-file and one .bin-file
same :(
Where is the OSD settings for the temp located for the analogue pocket? Was neat seeing that continue to rise throughout the video and didn't even know there was a setting for basic OSD performance monitoring.
It's in the developer options.
I renamed the bios to a shorter file name with no spaces and then edited the data.json file to match and you won’t need to select the bios file after game selection
Nice, that's smart. I'm pretty sure this will get implemented in the updaters.soon.
FYI, I just updated using retrodriven’s updater and now no longer need to pick the bios after selecting the game (game launches when selected now!)
@@gumbercules6801 thanks. I'm gonna test it out later myself too.
Worked like a dream!
Oh nice, good to hear.
getting cd audio stuttering on an exfat card, following these steps. guess i'll try a better micro sd card and hope that fixes it!
Are you using a single bin? There's a bug with merged bins currently being tracked. So if your game is
Thanks for jumping Andy. You're a legend.
@@AndyDo I was able to figure it out (wasn't using merged bins or > 27 bins), I reformatted my micro sd card using the full overwrite and copied my files back and the stutter appears to be gone! I think I might have done a quick format for exFAT when I first got my pocket due to being impatient, so I tried this full reformat and the results are good :) Thanks for the reply Andy
Thank you for this! 💪
Have a fun-filled weekend
hey, thank you for a follow up video
Welcome, I hope it helps.
i love your info !
Many thanks, you're too kind.
Surely there's a way to have the core itself detect & create these .json files for whatever games you add to it once it boots. Surely there's a way to program it to do this? Would love to see that in an update!
I still can't get this to work for me, the error message I get when trying to load the PCE-CD core, is "Framework Wrong Version" not sure what to do, and a Google searching isn't giving me any answers. :(
hmm, all my old PCE CD games are in IMG or ISO files with cues... gonna have to dig out the old ISO/IMG > BIN generator from the early 2000s...
or just get new ones.
Thanks for the tutorial. This is the whole reason I got this thing was so I could play my entire "Turbo" library!
Thanks. Have fun buddy. PC-Engine is great, I'm only just discovering PCE CD.
@@PixelCherryNinja if you can get Cosmic Fantasy 2 to work, it's a classic.
@@chapel976 thanks for the recommendation 👍
When are they going to hack the Analogue adapters so you can use them on the Super Gameboy.
Is anyone else having issues with Last Alert? Even used the Krikzz CD Fix to make the single bin, and still, Last Alert freezes on the first level after playing through almost all the boss voices when you get to the stage one boss.
Haven't tested it for a while. Honestly, I probably won't until Maza updates it.
Hi Pixel Cherry. The whole evening I am trying to run the pc engine cd on the pocket. I have the game I want, for example castlevania. I drop the map with the bin and cue files in the common folder. Then I run the updater from MattPanella, and that updater should make a JSON file for that game. But that doesnt happen. I dont know what Im doing wrong. I was watching the youtube video from MadLittlePixel and did exactly what he did. Its so frustrating. I hope your video helps.
Update: wow I did it 😁. Thanks 🙏🏼
I hope it does help.
@@PixelCherryNinja it works thanks man. Do you have a patreon I want to buy you a coffee. ☕️
@@PixelCherryNinja one quirck though. I cant seem to skip the intro scene in Castlevania Rondo of blood 🤔. Can you? Also, Beyond Shadowgate, it has more than 27 bin files, 36 in total. This doesnt work on the pocket yet, right? Thanks again 😃
@@SandroSensei good to hear. All my social links are in the description. Don't feel obliged, I'm glad it helped. If you wanna buy someone a coffee, hit up Mazamars or Adam Gastineau. Their details are in the description too.
@@SandroSensei you can't skip Rondo's intro until you have a save file.
HI! So I am able to load the core and I can see the games, but when I hit "run" I get the "load error msg" like if it was something wrong with the CD? Any tips?
Game Express CD cant play. Do you know how to solve it? Tks!
Now really, since the new update i get the cd player screen on any game, the thing just stopped working 😞 appearantly the JSON files which get generated do not work. I dont know what to do 😞
Sorry to hear. I'm actually out, I'll have a look tomorrow when I get back to my Analogue Pocket
@@PixelCherryNinja thanks alot! So many ppl actually have that issue :(
@@PixelCherryNinja i just went back to OS 2.15 and it's all fine again now
Thanks for the updates 👍
same problem
I have a few games that keep showing the “insert hu card” screen after I hit run. There’s a json file created for them, but won’t get past that screen. Any ideas? The games are: sylphia, star parodius, sapphire, psychic storm. Tia!
First of all, great username. Second Mazamars is working bug fixes and improvements, so hold tight and things should start maturing with this core. twitter.com/UFp64/status/1623850481826283520?t=5bKC9oa7O-i9-9EX7iq6sw&s=19
this core should not be public in its current state
the bios file isnt visible to me once ive selected the JSON
What is this stuff about json files? Do I need to somehow make json files for each game I put on my MicroSD card? Or can I just play them as is as long as the games are in the right format?
thank you for all the great videos! I'm having issues playing some games, like Strider Hiryuu. It loads to screen that's in Japanese but seems to say something such as 'only use Pro Duo'. Any ideas!??
Thanks for the kind words. I'm actually waiting for an update to this core, as there's known issues with it. I'm not sure when an update will come, as I know the developer is really busy with other things right now. Hopefully soon.
Thanks for the reply also! That makes sense.. it seems to be games that need the arcade card too
Couldn't get the Jsons to generate so I had to create them manually.
Weird, the Updaters do a great job of creating JSON files
32 bin files on rainbow islands rom ...noooooo trying to find an other less bin file rom :)
I know, gutted. Trust me, when I say, I feel your pain 😞
I used this method to convert multiple bin files : th-cam.com/video/VuKTm34xh6A/w-d-xo.html
@@wagdogrdc thanks, I'll look into this (at some point)
Thanks Alexandre B, worked fine, forgot cdmage existed so long since I used it, core slows down a little but very playable, now to see if the slowdown helps me complete it with perfect gem collecting lol
I seem to be the only one having this issue.. After loading the json file its looking for a bin file and not pce. It installed all the bios files under the pce extention, but if i change the pce to bin i get framework error. HELP!!!! :)
Not really sure buddy, what you see in the video still works for me. I know an update is being worked on, hopefully whenever that drops (release date unknown) it resolves any issues you have.
Honestly, am probably not even going to bother with PC Engine CD stuff til more updates come, specially the bug fix that's causing problems with FAT32 formatted MicroSD cards. I much prefer FAT32, so am waiting for that update. Also really hoping for Sega CD support soon! I care far more about Sega CD than PC Engine CD myself.
An update will come once Analogue drops a new FW.
Hi,
All of my zip files have .cue, .sub and .img files in them. Do I need to download different cores, or can they be used anyhow
I had to make my own common folder, which is fine, but I don't have a BIOS file.
Run an updater, it should resolve your issue.
@@PixelCherryNinja I'll give it a shot. I just ran pupdate 2 and I got some new stuff (Atari sys 1 for example ), but I still don't have a bios file for PCE CD. I'm doing this on a Mac also, which might be part of the problem. I'll try again tonight.
Thanks for the response! 🙂
@@avenuePad darn 😕
Hi there ! Love your updates videos ! I am using pocket updater from retrodriven, everything is downloaded correctly, except I don't have a matching json files number from the roms I put on the common folder (30 games vs 23 json files) Also I do manage to launch games but cdrom audio is slow and choppy, am I missing something here ?
Not sure tbh, I haven't tried it with RetroDriven's updater yet.
@@PixelCherryNinja AAhhh, less json files because of the 27 bin files limitation... Hope they can get a workaround for this, that's a lot of unplayables games for now. As for the chopiness, I am reformatting the card again
I hope you get better results
I cant get dungeon explorer 2 to work. No matter what the updater wont generate the JSON file. Tried multiple downloads. Its bin & cue also
It's not something I've personally tried. There will be an update to the core at some point, so hopefully this will add better compatibility.
@Pixel Cherry Ninja I was able to get it working. Found out you can't have more then 24tracks. Which sucks because there's a few games I wasn't able to find that had less then 24 tracks
Is there a tool to seperate single .BIN files into multiple .BIN files?
This would be to get it working on the Pocket.
I was testing Y's Book I & II single .BIN file. There are choppy/sync audio/animation issues.
There are known issues with Single bin files. I'm not sure about converting singles into multiples. It's not something I've looked into.
@@PixelCherryNinja I'm also currently using FAT32 on my 32GB SD card.
I'm wondering if I formatted it using exFAT would some of the issues go away...
@@KYBlueJedi exfat is a must for PCECD.
I have a lot of games with more than 27 files, what do I do with those games?
This tutorial should help, but converting multiple bins into a single one brings its own issues.
th-cam.com/video/OoGTN01qbqs/w-d-xo.html
An update to the core should resolve this in the future.
It is a pity I cannot add this to my youtube favorites
Whys that?
Also the video might get better outdated, as the core has been updated a few times since.
@@PixelCherryNinja because there is no such button under your video. I see only 1. become member 2. abonnement 3. thums up 4. thumbs down 5. share 6. thanks 7. clip => normally there is another button on the very right where I can click "add to favorites".
@@iliariano3126 that's weird and isn't something I have control over I'm afraid 😣
most difficult for me is to find games that have just a bin and cue....i have all pce cd games but they are on chd formats....and the ones from archive are ones with many bin files...only one organized collection i find on archive with just bin and cue but i have to download every single file manualy which sucks again
I get that, many people are in the same situation
you can convert from chd to bin/cue
chdman extractcd -i -o then use binmerge --split to avoid the single bin bug.
@@AndyDo I used that too as my MiSTer HDD uses CHD files, but I still have the bug with Last Alert.
When I run the pocket updater a second time, after dropping the bin/cue folder in the commons folder, it doesn’t generate the .json files for me. Any advice?
Sorry buddy, as you can see it's in the video it worked when I did it. Maybe double check everything, if you followed the steps as shown, then you should get the same results.
@@PixelCherryNinja I was able to get it to work. Thank you for the reply though!
@@tyler.johnston glad to hear
What was problem? 😮
I have like 300 games (japan and USA) and for some odd reason it only created like 130 json files.
They probably have more than 27 bin files.
Cool - thanks :) - but why didn't your cores get uninstalled when you tapped N to all of the except PC engine CD?
Each core I tap N to is uninstalled.
With this updater I see no way to regret having tapped N to a core without going through the entire list again and hope you can't make a mistake.
Also the updater doesn't create json files for me. Perhaps only BIN files work and neither IMG nor unpacked IMG renamed to BIN.
I didn't have any cores installed. It was a fresh SD card, so no cores to uninstall
Ah of course - that's why.
absolute nightmare, glad i checked this comment - why make a "tutorial" that literally erases everything off your pocket? he didnt even mention this 🤑
I have converted lots of them and all work fine but I cant run the following games: Bakushou Yoshimoto Shinkgeki, Cosmic Fantasy II, Flash Hiders, L-Dis (all of them pass the 27 track files, I also tried the single .BIN/.CUE file and doesnt work either) any suggest about this?
Sorry, buddy. It could be they require a different bios version. If you do try different bios versions, please let us know of the results.
@@PixelCherryNinja thank you for replying, I tried all bios verions and it doesnt fix it, NONE of the games that pass over 27 track files run, even if it is a single .BIN with multiple tracks bundled, so, those games do not work at least for me, maybe someone can try to replicate it, greetings
@@diablonet thanks buddy. I have Rainbow Islands that is 32 bin files into a single bin file using CD Mage on windows. It runs but has sync issues with sound.
@@PixelCherryNinja I will try cd mage and post later, thank you
@@PixelCherryNinja tried CD mage and stills the same, it gets stuck on PLEASE WAIT after you press start on bios, nothing happens after that.
Not enough buttons on pocket
dowloaded the newest update today and now all i get is the pce's cd player screen lol.
did you figure this out, this is the problem im having?
@@jerseya6 i went back to a stable build, never did anything else after that to it.
Buttons dont work after I load the game...
That's weird. I've never experienced that issue
games i cant get working tried everything
flash hiders
formation soccer
jim power
bakushou yoshimoto shinkigeki
shape shifter
shin nihon pro wrestling
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (Japan)
Ys IV - The Dawn of Ys (English Text + Dub)
Bakushou Yoshimoto Shinkigeki (Japan) (FABT)
forgotten worlds
An update is being worked, so hold tight.
@@PixelCherryNinja been seven months, I don't think it's coming lol
@@TwinFamiProductions it'll come. I speak to mazamars, things like work and life do play a factor in delays.
@@PixelCherryNinja I'm more wondering how Analogue's inactivity with the openFPGA has something to do with it. Can't fix with tools you don't got.
@@TwinFamiProductions could be
Added more games but now running the updater is not adding the json files to launch the game (was working before) anyone know a fix?
(Thnx for these vids btw, very helpful)
In all honesty, I've not been using the Pocket for the last few days. I know Maza is working on an update, so hopefully that'll resolve a lot of issues people are having.
For now you could try an alternative updater, or adjust the JSON yourself (it's not that difficult, even I worked it out, by looking at it through word pad)
It’s working again for me. I had to update my updater (retrodriven’s)
Thanks again, PCN!
poor implementation imo
json files do not generate for .img files
should have copied the misterFPGA core and allowed proper mounting
shouldnt be a nightmare to run for the end user - tutorial is 20 minutes long and less than 10% of my games are in the "correct" file format
a LOT of work (file conversion
edownloads) for VERY SCRATCHY audio
can only able to run bonk collection...other games doesnt show...EVERYTHING is in their folder and bin /cue....dunno why