hey there,
i'm trying to get pop'n music 3 and 4 working on my dreamcast. i bought a modded one with a gdemu (no clue if it's a clone or not) about 2 years ago and it's been working fine but when it comes to swapping discs i'm totally clueless. i keep seeing mention of a button which i've tried using in the disc swap menu of pop'n 2, but nothing happens. i've changed open_time and detect_time to 2000 and tried holding the button for longer and it still doesn't work. am i doing something wrong?
pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
Inside your GDEMU.INI file, try using the default settings for the open_time and detect_time parameters.
Here's the GDEMU operation page for reference.
EDIT: It may also be possible you have one of the clones with a faulty (or non-functional) disc-swap button.
Here's the GDEMU operation page for reference.
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open_time = 500
detect_time = 250
EDIT: It may also be possible you have one of the clones with a faulty (or non-functional) disc-swap button.
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
As an alternative, you could also search for the hacked append discs that skip the disc swap. That way you can directly play 3 and 4
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
OP got it working?
Came o ask the same as I've got a pop controller and want to play using gdemu.
Came o ask the same as I've got a pop controller and want to play using gdemu.
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
Wombat wrote:As an alternative, you could also search for the hacked append discs that skip the disc swap. That way you can directly play 3 and 4
I had a quick google to see if they were easily locatable but doesn't seem like they're popping up. I do have a dump of all DC scene releases somewhere so they'll be in there. Not that I need it, as I can disc swap on my MODE.
think it was Echelon or Kalisto that done the no append discs..... if memory serves correctly.
pop n music 4 no append is in https://archive.org/details/DreamcastSelfBoot it seems.
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
These would be great to hunt down. I'm not nearly a big enough fan of these games to do the legwork in building such a hack myself. However, downloading ready-made disc images would be cool!Wombat wrote:As an alternative, you could also search for the hacked append discs that skip the disc swap. That way you can directly play 3 and 4
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
I can't believe I didn't think to check the SelfBoot CDI repo on the archive, I just assumed it wouldn't be there! Here's a GDI version I just built for anyone wanting it.fraggle200 wrote:pop n music 4 no append is in https://archive.org/details/DreamcastSelfBoot it seems.
Pop'n Music 4 - Append Disc (Standalone Version) [GDI].zip
https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1uSK ... t=download
I may spend some time analyzing how this "4" hack was achieved so that I can do the same for "3".
EDIT: By the way, looks like the release group was "RZP". If they ever did similar hack for "3", I can't find it.
EDIT 2: Well that was easy! Here's the GDI and CDI for "3"
Pop'n Music 3 - Append Disc (Standalone Version) [GDI].zip
https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=11H0 ... t=download
Pop'n Music 3 - Append Disc (Standalone Version).cdi
https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1wSZ ... t=download
EDIT 3: For anyone that just wants the patches themselves...
https://github.com/DerekPascarella/Popn ... hDreamcast
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
sorry for not replying sooner. i managed to get it to work - right after i select yes in the disc change menu in pop'n 2, i have to press the disc swap button on my gdemu once or twice (once for 3, twice for 4) as fast as i possibly can for it to consistently work. any later and it straight up doesn't work, no clue why. thank you for the help everyone!
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Re: pop'n music 3/4 on gdemu
You can also just use the patched GDIs I shared above so that you don't have to ever worry about disc-swapping againsuntftl wrote:sorry for not replying sooner. i managed to get it to work - right after i select yes in the disc change menu in pop'n 2, i have to press the disc swap button on my gdemu once or twice (once for 3, twice for 4) as fast as i possibly can for it to consistently work. any later and it straight up doesn't work, no clue why. thank you for the help everyone!
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