stupied question

[red_dragoon33]

how do i load a game on the chankast emulator?plz help

[Roman]

You must set your virtual drive, and click just init, but be sure, that you have flash and bios .bin in chankast directory.
Ps.
Don`t even think about asking where you can get this two files!!

[red_dragoon33]

so i have to put the flash file and bios file in the chankast directory? when i click init i get some window error

[ShadowDancer]

What operating system do you have? It only works under XP.

[red_dragoon33]

i have windows xp pro. i don't know why i keep having this problem when i click the init i get this window messege saying"this window needs to close down". i have both the flash and the bios files in same directory where chankast is. is there some other way to load up a game? i do have daemon tools to create the virtual drive. and 1 more thing what is the "init" for under options?

[_Austin_]

Originally Posted by ShadowDancer

What operating system do you have? It only works under XP.

Wrong..
I have Win2k and it runs! I don´t have tested any games yet, but the Bios runs very well at 43fps and with the newgfx Version at 50fps! Thats all on my 2000+ AMD System with a old GeForce 2 MX card!

_Austin_

[ShadowDancer]

Originally Posted by _Austin_

Wrong..
I have Win2k and it runs! I don´t have tested any games yet, but the Bios runs very well at 43fps and with the newgfx Version at 50fps! Thats all on my 2000+ AMD System with a old GeForce 2 MX card!

_Austin_

Of course it runs under Win 2k, there's not that much difference between Win2k and XP. If you have 98 or 95, then it won't run. Why do you think lots of programs and drivers have that Win2k/XP label.

i have windows xp pro. i don't know why i keep having this problem when i click the init i get this window messege saying"this window needs to close down". i have both the flash and the bios files in same directory where chankast is. is there some other way to load up a game? i do have daemon tools to create the virtual drive. and 1 more thing what is the "init" for under options?

The init is for the program to run the game.

[red_dragoon33]

crap it still doesn't work! anyone have the same issue? what's the deal with this? kinda getting frustrated over this stupied problem. can anyone give me details on how they got their game to load up? maybe something is wrong with my bios or something?

[tookers]

On the Chanka.org site it states it will only run properly on Windows xp or above
I dont know the technical details of why this is. I have Windows 2000 and can run the BIOS however the games I have ran dont seem to work, I think this may be due to the cdrom.dll requiring a dll only avaliable with windows xp

Heres a tutorial fror chankast i found...

http://www.emulatronia.com/parcial/chankast.zip

Its a pdf file and contains all the info needed.

[red_dragoon33]

thnx for that info i will look at it carefully so hopefully it can help me solve my problem! but i don't know why it isn't in english why spanish?

[tookers]

Im going to install Windows XP.. if it works then I guess the operating system is the problem. I think the dev team for chankast are spanish... they are featured on alot of spanish emu sites.

[red_dragoon33]

hmmm i guessing its not the operating system. i think its my configuration. i was reading the pdf and its says to use dreamcast games on cd or iso formats and to mount them on virtual drive.

[tookers]

Which version of Chankast are you using?
Try the new_gfx version, have you configured the controls and which cd drive to use?
My problem is different as I have windows 2000 and can only boot to the bios but not into any games.
Are you using daemon tools? You can only use cdi, iso or any other type of dreamcast image file, i think it has to be self-boot also. Chankast doesnt actually have a GD rom driver and so booting from physical cd isn't possible

[red_dragoon33]

im using chankast 0.1. not configured controls yet.and yes im using daemon tools. the image that i have is cdi and other is mdf. does it matter which format the image is? or does it have to be iso? and what if the image is not self-boot? how do i make it self-boot?

[tookers]

Shouldnt matter... just mount the cdi file. Have you checked your system log files? this may show whats causing the problem, as it may be a certain file.
Right Click 'My Computer' > Select 'Manage' > Double Click 'Event Viewers' > System

Run Chankast again and then do as i said above and it should show what error caused chanka to crash.

[red_dragoon33]

i did what u said it shows same fault address with some code. how do i make the image self-boot?

[tookers]

Originally Posted by red_dragoon33

i did what u said it shows same fault address with some code. how do i make the image self-boot?

Could you copy the information and i'll see if i can figure it out!?
To boot a non selfboot dc game on chanka I think you can use a boot disc (same method used with non-self-boot discs on the dc). I have the Utopia cdi image, which should work with chanka.

[_Austin_]

Hi!

@Shadow _dancer...
[i]Of course it runs under Win 2k,[/]

Sure.. but then don´t wrote wrong information s like "it only runs on WinXP"!
I know that are not many differenc between Win2k and WinXP but i only tried to write down what you have done wromg! I have u understand... my english is not sooo good.. I´m from Germany..


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Austin316

[tookers]

Games will only run on xp and above... bios runs great in windows 2000.
I went through many problems today and managed to only run games in win xp

[Grv]

Originally Posted by tookers

Games will only run on xp and above... bios runs great in windows 2000.
I went through many problems today and managed to only run games in win xp

Games run fine on Chankast with a self-dumped bios & flash on Win2k on an Athlon XP 2800+, 768MB Ram, and a GF4Ti4600. Of those that work, I get 40-60 fps. Bios gives me 90 fps at all time.