GDMENU Card Manager

[ongo]

This tool is very much appreciated. Thank you.

[mightbedumb]

Sonik - First thank you for building this tool. Really, sincerely, appreciate it.

I've had two issues that might be stupid user tricks:
1) I cannot, for the life of me, get drag and drop folders to work. I have a pack structured like: H:\Torrents\DREAMCAST COLLECTION\0x\*.gdi
If I drag the Dreamcast Collection folder, I get an Xd folder and nothing happens.
If I drag the numbered folder I get an X and nothing happens.

I have another pack:
H:\Torrents\--- TOP 100 SEGA DREAMCAST GAMES\04. Gunbird 2 (USA)\*.gdi
If I try to drag the "--- Top 100" folder, I get the same X and nothing happens.
If I try to drag the game name folder, same as the others above.

I'm sure I'm doing something silly or dumb but I can't figure it out. I have the 2.00 x64 version and I am running it as an administrator. (I am on Windows 11 btw).

2) When this didn't work, I manually added 200 games from the + button in the utility. This was brutal, but I just went ahead and did it. These were all from a few different locations on my harddrive, but it seemed fine. I saved them to the SD card, plugged it into GDEMU using GDMenu and booted up my DC. Worked great. Then I tried to launch games and noticed each game in the dreamcast was skewed by 1 game. So as an example if Folder 04 had Crazy Taxi 2, and Folder 03 had Crazy Taxi, clicking on Crazy Taxi 2 would launch Crazy Taxi. I also had 2 folders in GDMenu both named GDMenu (folders 01 and 02 on the card for some reason.) I didn't see, in GDMenu Card Manager, where it looked like I had 2 folders that contained GDMenu so it seemed likely, again, that this was a PEBKAC error on my part, but I just couldn't figure it out.

I was going to try and reproduce it, but without drag and drop working I really didn't want to go through the process of again hitting + and adding games 1 by 1 some 200+ times. I just couldn't motivate myself to go through that pain again. One thing that would be nice, potentially, would be if you added a hotkey to hit the + button in the Card Manager. Would just save a click (or 200) for someone (like me) who's trying to do it manually or can't figure out the Drag and Drop function (again like me).

So those are the two issues I have, and was wondering if you could educate me in what I'm doing wrong, and I really just want to re-emphasize that I appreciate your utility, and all the time you spend supporting people in this thread.

[sonik]

If I drag the numbered folder I get an X and nothing happens.

Hi!
What do you mean by "get an X"? Does it shows on the app?
Don't drag-drop a folder with folders inside it.... Instead drag one (or more) folders to the app. Each folder must contain a single game.
Let me know if this works.

[mightbedumb]

If I drag the numbered folder I get an X and nothing happens.

Hi!
What do you mean by "get an X"? Does it shows on the app?
Don't drag-drop a folder with folders inside it.... Instead drag one (or more) folders to the app. Each folder must contain a single game.
Let me know if this works.

Hi Sonik,
I sent you a PM with a video of me attempting to drag and drop. Hopefully it helps illustrate the behavior.

Thank you for digging into this!

[mightbedumb]

Sonik - First thank you for building this tool. Really, sincerely, appreciate it.

I've had two issues that might be stupid user tricks:
1) I cannot, for the life of me, get drag and drop folders to work. I have a pack structured like: H:\Torrents\DREAMCAST COLLECTION\0x\*.gdi
If I drag the Dreamcast Collection folder, I get an Xd folder and nothing happens.
If I drag the numbered folder I get an X and nothing happens.

I have another pack:
H:\Torrents\--- TOP 100 SEGA DREAMCAST GAMES\04. Gunbird 2 (USA)\*.gdi
If I try to drag the "--- Top 100" folder, I get the same X and nothing happens.
If I try to drag the game name folder, same as the others above.

I'm sure I'm doing something silly or dumb but I can't figure it out. I have the 2.00 x64 version and I am running it as an administrator. (I am on Windows 11 btw).

2) When this didn't work, I manually added 200 games from the + button in the utility. This was brutal, but I just went ahead and did it. These were all from a few different locations on my harddrive, but it seemed fine. I saved them to the SD card, plugged it into GDEMU using GDMenu and booted up my DC. Worked great. Then I tried to launch games and noticed each game in the dreamcast was skewed by 1 game. So as an example if Folder 04 had Crazy Taxi 2, and Folder 03 had Crazy Taxi, clicking on Crazy Taxi 2 would launch Crazy Taxi. I also had 2 folders in GDMenu both named GDMenu (folders 01 and 02 on the card for some reason.) I didn't see, in GDMenu Card Manager, where it looked like I had 2 folders that contained GDMenu so it seemed likely, again, that this was a PEBKAC error on my part, but I just couldn't figure it out.

I was going to try and reproduce it, but without drag and drop working I really didn't want to go through the process of again hitting + and adding games 1 by 1 some 200+ times. I just couldn't motivate myself to go through that pain again. One thing that would be nice, potentially, would be if you added a hotkey to hit the + button in the Card Manager. Would just save a click (or 200) for someone (like me) who's trying to do it manually or can't figure out the Drag and Drop function (again like me).

So those are the two issues I have, and was wondering if you could educate me in what I'm doing wrong, and I really just want to re-emphasize that I appreciate your utility, and all the time you spend supporting people in this thread.

Sonik totally solved this. I feel silly now. For anyone who could possibly run into this the resolution was to NOT run the
GDMENU Card Manager as admin. IE don't rightclick and choose "Run As Administrator". Doing this broke the drag and drop function.

But at least my silly mistake could help someone else one day.

[sonik]

Glad that you got it working!

It's a windows "feature" that's not clear to the user. I figured it out some time ago when trying to drag-drop a text file to a notepad that was running as admin.

[sonik]

Guys, I need your help.
There's a known problem on OSX with it's hidden files "files starting with a DOT".
I need to test a fix but I don't have access to a OSX computer.
Can you help testing it?
Go to the releases page and grab the file "GDMENUCardManager.v2.0.0-TESTING1-osx-x64-AppBundle.tar.gz"

[sonik]

There's a new version on github.
It's mostly for MAC OSX users as it fix the problem with hidden files on that OS.

[Cool_amigaN]

Hey there, I am in the process of building my SD card with GD Menu Card Manager (ver. 2.0.1 on Windows) of the PAL TOSEC collection (downloaded from archive.com). I can add/remove/shrink/sort my games but the serial field is always left blank, apart from the first field which is populated by openMenu (NEODC_1). I checked indivudual folders of games inside the sd card and the serial.txt file is always blank.

What am I missing? Is there any incompatibility between GD Menu Card Manager and/or openMenu and/or PAL collection? I tried to use OpenMenuDatTool but I need to search the TitleID by Serial No., so I can't add manually the Serials missing. I also searched for a serial list in order to insert them manually but without any luck.

Any suggestoins? Thanks

edit: Answering to myself in case anyone stumbles upon the same issue in the future, apparently you need to extract each zipped game to its seperate folder and then individually select it. That was the trick. I got confused by the "+ Add Gamne(s)" requester which states also *.zip files. If I select a .zip game, it shrinks/copies it but without the TitleID.

[sonik]

Hey there, I am in the process of building my SD card with GD Menu Card Manager (ver. 2.0.1 on Windows) of the PAL TOSEC collection (downloaded from archive.com). I can add/remove/shrink/sort my games but the serial field is always left blank, apart from the first field which is populated by openMenu (NEODC_1). I checked indivudual folders of games inside the sd card and the serial.txt file is always blank.

What am I missing? Is there any incompatibility between GD Menu Card Manager and/or openMenu and/or PAL collection? I tried to use OpenMenuDatTool but I need to search the TitleID by Serial No., so I can't add manually the Serials missing. I also searched for a serial list in order to insert them manually but without any luck.

Any suggestoins? Thanks

edit: Answering to myself in case anyone stumbles upon the same issue in the future, apparently you need to extract each zipped game to its seperate folder and then individually select it. That was the trick. I got confused by the "+ Add Gamne(s)" requester which states also *.zip files. If I select a .zip game, it shrinks/copies it but without the TitleID.

It's a known bug.
https://github.com/sonik-br/GDMENUCardManager/issues/53