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[Tulius]

I recently bought a 128Gb microSD card and almost fill it up with games... a total of 178 games showed in GDEmu Card manager but when I use OpenMenu in Dreamcast only show about 106 games in it... is there some kind of limit in games on OpenMenu? In GDMemu all games appears but the loading screen is almost unbererable. I used all versions of OpenMenu I could find on Internet... the same happens with all of then.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?

[fraggle200]

I recently bought a 128Gb microSD card and almost fill it up with games... a total of 178 games showed in GDEmu Card manager but when I use OpenMenu in Dreamcast only show about 106 games in it... is there some kind of limit in games on OpenMenu? In GDMemu all games appears but the loading screen is almost unbererable. I used all versions of OpenMenu I could find on Internet... the same happens with all of then.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?

are they all GDI format or are the ones that don't show another format?

I've not been up to date on OpenMenu's format compatibility in a long while, but I know initially it was only tested to work on GDI, even though CDIs worked they weren't fully supported. This was a few years back so maybe things have improved.

[Tulius]

I recently bought a 128Gb microSD card and almost fill it up with games... a total of 178 games showed in GDEmu Card manager but when I use OpenMenu in Dreamcast only show about 106 games in it... is there some kind of limit in games on OpenMenu? In GDMemu all games appears but the loading screen is almost unbererable. I used all versions of OpenMenu I could find on Internet... the same happens with all of then.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?

are they all GDI format or are the ones that don't show another format?

I've not been up to date on OpenMenu's format compatibility in a long while, but I know initially it was only tested to work on GDI, even though CDIs worked they weren't fully supported. This was a few years back so maybe things have improved.

Its a mix of GDI and CDI images each in it actual numeric directory, both images(CDI/GDI) works perfectly, but openmenu dont show all games in menu, only gdmenu is ok(with a very long loading).

[sonik]

I recently bought a 128Gb microSD card and almost fill it up with games... a total of 178 games showed in GDEmu Card manager but when I use OpenMenu in Dreamcast only show about 106 games in it... is there some kind of limit in games on OpenMenu? In GDMemu all games appears but the loading screen is almost unbererable. I used all versions of OpenMenu I could find on Internet... the same happens with all of then.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?

With CardManager closed, edit the config file in a text editor. Change debug to "True". Save the file.
Open the app, change something (ie: add or remove a game) and click to save changes.
When finish the app will save a MENU_DEBUG.TXT to the root of the sd card. Share it here.

[Tulius]

I recently bought a 128Gb microSD card and almost fill it up with games... a total of 178 games showed in GDEmu Card manager but when I use OpenMenu in Dreamcast only show about 106 games in it... is there some kind of limit in games on OpenMenu? In GDMemu all games appears but the loading screen is almost unbererable. I used all versions of OpenMenu I could find on Internet... the same happens with all of then.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?

With CardManager closed, edit the config file in a text editor. Change debug to "True". Save the file.
Open the app, change something (ie: add or remove a game) and click to save changes.
When finish the app will save a MENU_DEBUG.TXT to the root of the sd card. Share it here.

Is the Config file the archive "GDMENUCardManager.dll.config" ? This is the only config I could find in GDMENUCardManager directory.
Changed debug value to true:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
<add key="ShowAllDrives" value="False" />
<add key="UseBinaryString" value="True" />
<add key="CharLimit" value="39" />
<add key="TruncateMenuGDI" value="True" />
<add key="Debug" value="True" />
</appSettings>
</configuration>

But no MENU_DEBUG.TXT appears on the root of sd card.

[sonik]

That is correct.
After using the app to save changes to sd card, it does not save the debug txt file?

[Tulius]

That is correct.
After using the app to save changes to sd card, it does not save the debug txt file?

Yes I added one more extra game, save the app but nothing happened no debug.txt file was created on sd card. Tried again deleting another game but no new txt was created on sd. BTW I'm using openmenu right now not gdmenu.

Edit: I get it now using another version(newer) The limit it show games is San Francisco Rush... nothing more onwards

MENU_DEBUG.TXT

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[sonik]

By looking at the txt file, the entry for this game is missing some info.
I'm not sure if it's required for openmenu to work. But you culd try removing it from the card, saving, and see if it works on the dreamcast.
Your copy of the game might be broken.

Here's how it shows on the log:

111.name=SAN FRANCISCO RUSH 2049
111.disc= /
111.vga=0
111.region=
111.version=
111.date=
111.product=T9707N

[Tulius]

Hey you were right spot on, I removed Rush 2049 and now all games appeared on menu. Thanks.
It was an old .cdi copy I had, now I'll search for a fresh .gdi copy just to be sure that not happens again.

[ateam]

Hey you were right spot on, I removed Rush 2049 and now all games appeared on menu. Thanks.
It was an old .cdi copy I had, now I'll search for a fresh .gdi copy just to be sure that not happens again.

Let me help save you some time...

Please, please, please stop using old CDIs. It actually nullifies one the of the many great features an ODE brings you: the ability to run 1:1 GD-ROM rips that haven't been altered in any way.

You don't need to hunt for GDIs, they're all readily available

Using these links, you can find everything you'll ever need.

https://myrient.erista.me/files/TOSEC-I ... Dreamcast/
https://archive.org/download/tosecdcus20190822
https://archive.org/download/interludev ... rchanneljp
https://archive.org/download/18wheelera ... 1segapalm4
https://archive.org/download/tosecdcapp ... ns20190822
https://archive.org/download/tosecdcsamples20190822
https://archive.org/download/tosecdcmultimedia20190822
https://archive.org/download/tosecdcunverified20190822
https://archive.org/download/DreamcastC ... lti-region
https://archive.org/details/@manydumpedgames
https://archive.org/download/EF_GDI_Jap ... I%20Japan/
https://archive.org/download/EF_SEGA_Dr ... %20Europe/
https://archive.org/download/ef_SEGA_GD ... GDI%20USA/