Strange nullDC Problems...

[Wonder]

Everytime I start up nullDC I'm now asked to set the time and date of my dreamcast machine. Anyone know how to fix this?

Also.. I have my own 1GB Skies of Arcadia NTSC images that I've ripped myself, and they worked fine initially... at one point while playing after exiting the menu back to the game I got a black screen while music still played. Now, when I try to boot the game all I get is a black screen period and nothing happens.. anyone have any ideas?

[JaymeUK]

setting the time and date is quite common i got it on chankast everytime i loaded it up, it think its due to the dreamcast clock is not emualted as well or sumthin, but i dno if its different for NullDC

[Wonder]

Fixed... re-copied my bios over and now all is working... and for some reason the bios problem was stopping my skies of arcadia from booting but all other games worked fine even with the clock problem. Maybe it has to do with the size of the image.

[JKKDARK]

yes the bios was corrupted

[Alphagod]

This issue is addressed in the readme.

- If you are asked to enter the date and time every time you try to run a game then the flash file might got corrupted.
Try going to the "data" folder and deleting the "dc_flash_wb.bin" file. This will probably fix the problem.

[Wonder]

Yes, that issue is but that's not the main reason I started this thread. All of my other games would work besides my 1GB SoA image, I wonder if this happens with other peoples full game rips?

[JKKDARK]

This BIOS problem happens on Chankast and Demul also

[Alphagod]

Well if you tried editing the cfg or changed the plugins you might try to reset nullDC to it's default settings. Just delete nullDC.cfg and start the emu. It will create the default config file. Other than this I'm out of ideas what could have messed up your emulator or image.

EDIT:

Sorry, missed the part you said it works. I've never had problems with any of my games, aside from the ones that are known not to boot. I never really had that many DC games to begin with however all of the ones I had and have a 'personal' rip for boot up just fine and none of them had the issue you reported of working once - crashing - not working after that. I think it was because of your corrupted BIOS. Maybe Skyes of Arcadia uses the BIOS differently and the fact it was corrupted stopped the game from starting.

[JaymeUK]

yer perhaps i read somewhere that you can delete foreign voice and subtitle files to make the image size smaller , but i dont kno if yuou wanna do that becuase then technically its a hack and not a good image (name given by goodtools)

[Wonder]

Originally Posted by JaymeUK

yer perhaps i read somewhere that you can delete foreign voice and subtitle files to make the image size smaller , but i dont kno if yuou wanna do that becuase then technically its a hack and not a good image (name given by goodtools)

I'm not sure that there is foreign subtitles and such on my NTSC version, otherwise Echelon would have released a proper version instead of writing their own compression tool for the game to fit.