MD & Megadrive Compatibility

[teol]

Genesis mode works in MAMEHub fine but the MD and Megadrive modes don't want to work?

As far as I've seen a Megadrive solo bios does not exist in MESS 0.143 however the Genesis mode is built into one of the CD bios' perhaps it's multimega which is how that mode works in MAMEHub from what I understand.

Is it possible to make MD and Megadrive compatible as well though?

it would be cool if we could get it working and have multiplayer Megadrive (E) exclusives and MD (J) exclusive games working as well for full Megadrive compatibility sake.

I'm guessing Europe and Japan also have their own Cart and CD combination bios files in the set but only the Genesis one in particular has been implemented into MAMEHub currently would I be correct on this?

[Krusty]

Sept 23, 2011 6:34:53 GMT -5 teol said:

Is it possible to make MD and Megadrive compatible as well though?

There is a workaround. I've been planning to post something in the tips section about this.

1. Rename genesis.hsi (located in mamehub\hash) to megadriv.hsi or megadrij.hsi

2. Audit in MAMEHub. The ROMs should now be under a different branch than genesis depending on what you renamed the file to.

3. Rename the file back to genesis.hsi and re-audit before exiting MAMEHub.

For example: to play YuuYuu Hakusho (J) for genesis, rename the genesis.hsi file to megadrij.hsi. There's also some pal roms that will require megadriv system.