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hi there,

Ive been struggling with this for a few days now and i cant figure it out. Is there any way to get HxC to work with game doctor sf7 device for snes?

any help at all would be appreciated.

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Sure there is.

Now the questions :

- What is displayed on the drive without any USB stick inserted ?

- What is displayed on the drive with the prepared USB stick inserted ?

- How behave the drive green LED ? Always lit ? Never lit ? lit when you try read the disk with the machine ?

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I have a oled screen installed on this device. I believe hxc is installed and working correctly. When I have hfe files on a USB it detects and selects them.

The issue I'm having is how do I convert the rom files so hxc firmware can read them. The batch converter software doesn't support the ROMs because they are all .078 file extension, Eg. SF16281B.078.

I have each rom in its own folder with the game's name on it due to gd sf7's wierd naming convention. Isn't there some way to get hxc to serve up each folder as a floppy? How else can I do this?

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brunog wrote:
Wed Oct 30, 2019 4:41 pm
Isn't there some way to get hxc to serve up each folder as a floppy? How else can I do this?
Yes floppy emulation from usb stick folder is supported. see the documentation for more details

You can also use the dos disk browser in the hxc tool to create an empty dos disk and copy your sf7 files to the floppy disk.

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Yes i can see that navigation in and out of folders is possible but it doesn't serve each folder as a floppy but i guess we wont worry about that because thats not how it works.

I was able to get a few roms working with dos disk browser but i wish there was a way to that with a batch operation. doing that with 100s of roms would very tedius.

I even tried to use Firmware Customization tool under "User defined raw file image/disk format" and "File extension" use "078" Im not sure if i set that up right because it didnt pick up the .078 files.

Im not even sure if the flash took hold because of the damned oled screen not displaying status during bootloader.
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brunog wrote:
Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:24 am
Yes i can see that navigation in and out of folders is possible but it doesn't serve each folder as a floppy but i guess we wont worry about that because thats not how it works.
It can serve each folder as a floppy... Please read the documentation :

https://hxc2001.com/docs/gotek-floppy-e ... older.html

<<USB Stick folder to FAT/DOS virtual floppy>>

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USB stick folder mount to a FAT/DOS compatible virtual floppy feature :

(Fimware v3.2.1.1a or above required)

This feature allows you to directly put your files in a stick's folder and mount this folder as a FAT/DOS floppy disk !

You can use it with any machine compatible with the FAT file system (PC, Atari ST, lots of keyboards/samplers and CNC machines...).

To use this feature, copy an empty/preformatted DOS IMG image to the stick path "/mount/emptyfat.img"
This image can be a 720KB or 1.44MB blank DOS image or any other FAT compatible blank image.
You can use the HxC Floppy Emulator software Disk Browser to create it or take the ones present in the firmware archive.

Once you select a "mount source" folder on the emulator, the emptyfat.img file is duplicated to a "MOUNTED.IMG" file.
Then all files/subfolders present into the selected folder are added into this duplicated image.
(Note : the emptyfat.img remains untouched).

Your "mount sources" / root folders should have the extension ".mnt" to be mounted by the emulator :
example : "myvirtualdisk.mnt"

This new feature can be used with the "normal"/direct browsing (OLED/LCD screen usage) and indexed modes.
For the indexed mode just put the DSKAXXXX prefix in the mount point folder name.
example : "DSKA0000_MyMidiFiles.mnt"

Please note that the image duplication and files copy operations can take some seconds. 
I even tried to use Firmware Customization tool under "User defined raw file image/disk format" and "File extension" use "078" Im not sure if i set that up right because it didnt pick up the .078 files.
If you want take this route, this is the hxc software that need to be updated. Please share one .078 file, i will add the support into the software.

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Here is a link to the rom file. I will delete the link once you have downloaded the file so we're not sharing copy written material on this forum.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WgryD ... xRQ61GmePK

I have each rom in a folder named with the game name because of the rom naming convention.

SFxxyyyz.078

SF=always is SF
xx=size in mbits of the rom (8,12,16,24,32,...)
yyy=first three character of the name
z=A or B or C, etc... based on number of disks used for this game
078=file extension for roms that are split. unslpit roms do not have an extension. Ive split all roms even the ones that dont need it so they all have a common file extension.

this is a game rom and not disk image.

Thank you for your help and patience.

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Thanks. The game doctor files batch convertion support is now included into this version :

https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_dri ... t_beta.zip

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That works perfectly! Thank you!

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