Chankast is just one of those programs that claims to be an emulator, but just displays the system's startup screen and doesn't actually do anything else, right?
It must be because I've tried every piece of advice on the net from making the BIOS images read only to using the Utopia Boot Disc, to using specific versions of virtual drive software and so far it has loaded exactly *0* games. It even ignores the boot disc and just goes to the CD player screen. That's all it ever does.
Yes, I know people recommend NullDC, and that works fine for me, but I've always been curious about Chankast. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it doesn't work at all. In fact, it's the only emulator that I've never been able to make do anything.
I understand that it's outdated, but what's the trick to making it work?
I have the emulator, I have a copy of the ROMs, I have game images in CDI format, I have a virtual drive through Alcohol 120%, but no matter what I do, all it ever does is show the Dreamcast logo and then go to the CD player screen.
The virtual drive is selected, the image is mounted (it can be accessed in other programs), but Chankast will not access the disc.
I read that some games aren't self-booting, so it was recommended to use the Utopia Boot Disc, but even that doesn't boot! I don't mean it won't boot the game, I mean the boot disc itself doesn't boot!
What else do you have to do to make it actually load something? You mount an image in the virtual drive, you point the emulator to that virtual drive, you start the emulator and... NOTHING!
Is there some particular type of animal you have to sacrifice? Do the planets have to line up in a specific pattern?
I don't care if it's not a very good emulator anymore, it bugs me that it just doesn't work, period. It's a mystery that I want to solve.
Nothing happens. Absolutely nothing I have ever tried has ever booted. I've also tried using the CD player interface, and selecting the game option, but that just asks me to insert a game disc.
From memory I remember Zero Gunner 2 ran good. There were more games that worked, I *think* Ikaruga and Border Down amongst them but it's just too long ago for me to remember all of it.
OK, but how would I know if I have images that are compatible with it? Just saying that X game works doesn't guarantee that my particular image of it will work in Chankast.
It works fine here, using daemon tools lite 10.4 as the virtual drive. On Chankast, use the xxx cd rom plugin and choose the daemon tools drive (options>configure drive).
I'm not using Daemon Tools because it says it comes with advertising, v10.4 says it only works on Win7 or above, and the "installer" is only slightly over half a meg, which says to me "web installer", something that I absolutely refuse to use out of principle.
I've used Alcohol 120% degrees, and I also tried another virtual drive program (I forget what it was now), and that didn't work either.
To be clear, I've done everything that I'm supposed to. I tell it to use the letter of the virtual drive. I make sure that the xxx plugin is selected. I have the BIOS images in the directory. I mount the disc image in the virtual drive. I can open it in any other program as if it was a real disc, but Chankast absolutely, positively refuses to acknowledge that there's a disc in the virtual drive. No matter what I do, it thinks the virtual drive is empty.
It works fine here, using daemon tools lite 10.4 as the virtual drive. On Chankast, use the xxx cd rom plugin and choose the daemon tools drive (options>configure drive).
Just use daemon tools. Alcohol will not work. Alternatively, use discjuggler to burn the image(s) to actual disc(s) or use images of different kind, like .nrg or .ccd
well, I don't know about deamon tools now, but it used to be fine...
Aside from cdi, I used to work a lot with alcohol's format at the time, mdf/mds... did you try that?
Well, if you can point me to a crapware-free version of Daemon Tools, I'll be happy to try it, but I'm not willing to install potential malware on my system. Blame the authors who have screwed up the reputations of their own programs by bundling them them with crap.
Besides, what exactly is Chankast doing that would cause it to only work with one specific virtual drive while thinking every other virtual drive is empty? Isn't the whole point of a virtual drive that it fools programs into thinking it's a real drive? Why is Chankast the only program that isn't fooled?
Update the SPTD driver from the link I posted earlier. There is a high chance that the included driver (with both alcohol and daemon tools) is outdated.
Wow how did i miss this thread, i really don't visit the older emulation sections anymore.... Damn the memories, used it to play soul calibur and DOA, 2 years worth is spent with those games in this emulator :3.
Ah i remember speed pig, basically it overclocked the internal clock engine and many including myself thought that it might in turn affect and damage hardware as it may reflect the overclocked nature on actual hardware, at first i was afraid to use it rofl.
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