No limit to PS2MAME roms!

[h8sh8]

Just use unzipped roms in separate folders - all in the 'roms' folder (same way as normal). The limit doesn't seem to apply to folders.
I currently have 90 roms working - post if you try higher numbers, so we can find out any limit to folders. cheers.

[h8sh8]

I've been trying to find any limits to this.
here's some of my findings so far...

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USING CDGENPS2
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cdgenps2 has a folder limit of 1024 and file limit of 4096 for the whole disc. So it's got to be under these - example, 1022 rom folders + the one 'roms' folder = 1023 folders. I tried that but the 4096 file limit then kicked in for me. So I tried 480 roms which were under both limits, but cdgenps2 crashes for me when building the image. Anyone else have this problem of cdgenps2 crashing? By the way, the 90 roms disc I made was done with cdgenps2.

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USING NERO
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Nero doesn't have the same limits as cdgenps2, but whether a disc would be compatable with the PS2 wihtout the limits I have no idea - I'm a no mod user

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USING CDVDGEN
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It doesn't have the limits like cdgenps2, but the disc I created with 2000 roms crashed at the AR2 screen - nothing to do with the emu itself, so I obviously did something wrong with the cd creation part of it in cddvdgen. If anyone does a working disc with cdvdgen, could they please post instructions - cheers.

[jayb222]

it says the mame emu won't work with over 30 roms.
You got it to work with more?

[h8sh8]

yeah - 90 so far, and other people even more

[spoyser]

Any chance of more details on how to get this to work.

I have 90 roms all working with PS2Mame burnt onto 3 separate discs each with 30 on. These are all zip files.

However, when I put them all on 1 disc unzipped in the correct directories and include them all in the gamelist file, some games wont load, seems to be random which ones, but always the same ones - as if they are not on the disc, even though they definately are. Mame goes to the "Load game" screen and then almost immediately returns to its front end.

I am using Messiah to boot.

Used CDRWin to create and burn image (about 25 meg).

I have also tried using addzer0 (which I used successfully to burn the 30 game discs) but this does not help.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[h8sh8]

I can't offer anymore help dude, you've got working what I did, which was no 30 game limit - ie, the mame menu doesn't crash when loading 90 games. I'm still testing out all this myself at the moment, so will post any more info I figure out.

So with the 90 games you burnt on one disc, were the same games that worked on your three 30 game cds not working on the 90 disc? I've not looked into that at all - been trying different games each disc, or any repeated games I've used have worked for me so far.

By the way, I dont have a mod chip, but I don't think that'd make a difference.

Also I've got 126 games on one disc now too.

[spoyser]

The 90 games all work when burnt onto a 30 game disc, so I know there is nothing wrong with the roms themselves. I have also downloaded the appropriate version of pc mame so I could verify that the rom sets I have can be loaded by mame before buring to PS2Mame. Of the games I do have the only ones that don't work in PS2Mame are the vector games, which doesn't surprise me.

The only thing I can think is that I did leave some games as zip files in the roms directory, although only 6 or so. Didn't think this would mater but I will try unzipping all the games. Although it wasn't all these games that didn't load, like I said there seemed to nothing in common with the games that didn't load.

[h8sh8]

cheers man - cool idea using romcenter - will check it out.

[h8sh8]

dude, is this dat for mame v37b16 roms? - Just before I start renaming roms. Cheers.