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Can Someone School me on Taito G-Net with CF cards?

After reading this thread, I have one question about operations. I purchased a flashed bios IC with a CF card and reader... (in hindsight, I should have done it myself). Everything flashed fine, and the card came preloaded with a game. It all loads fine, but once the game starts, the audio overlaps, and the graphics glitch. Eventually, the system hangs and reboots. Am I correct in assuming the CF card is bad? Or should I be looking at other potential issues?
 
skate323k137 said:
Here guys, no more windows BS.

https://github.com/Alex-Kw/gnet-imager/blob/master/gnetflash

contribute if you want!

In all seriousness it's just a wrapper for the linux tool 'dd'. if you have a 1 hard drive laptop, you can install ubuntu on, this script would let you copy the raw game images quite easily. It's exactly how I do it in my own test setups, using lubuntu and a USB > CF adapter.

Also, located here, are exact copy's of all the mame CHD's, but extracted to raw already:

http://neohyphengeo.com/GNET/

Mods if you don't want that link here just remove it and/or let me know. I hope with this script and these extracted CHDs available, anyone can make these themselves. I recommend Cisco CF cards or other small capacity industrial type card. (Edit... Mixed luck with Cisco cards recently, GNET didn't like a lot of the 64MB ones, but 128s I've had better luck).

a 64 or 128MB card is enough to hold any one game at a time.

I hope, someone can find a way, to "bank switch" or similar a larger CF device, to create a lazy man's multigame. I have not been able to find a good/easy way to do that yet.
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Is anyone getting Trojan blockers when trying to download the gnetflasher? I'm not able to download it due to virus protection saying it is a severe risk "Trojan Win32/Vigor
 
I was having random crashing after load when I tried a 4GB card. When I got a gnet for myself listed on YAJ as non-working (it worked fine), my friend loaned me a card with RayCrisis on it which he said worked great on his board, but definitely crashed. Loading it on to a 256MB card worked. So what I'm saying is make sure the card isn't too big!

Don't bother with gnetflasher. Use the raw files and then image with HDD Raw Copy Tool on Windows (https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/), or dd on Mac/Linux.
 
trashedcabs said:
I was having random crashing after load when I tried a 4GB card. When I got a gnet for myself listed on YAJ as non-working (it worked fine), my friend loaned me a card with RayCrisis on it which he said worked great on his board, but definitely crashed. Loading it on to a 256MB card worked. So what I'm saying is make sure the card isn't too big!

Don't bother with gnetflasher. Use the raw files and then image with HDD Raw Copy Tool on Windows (https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/), or dd on Mac/Linux.
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The card I am using is a 256 MB Transcend Industrial. I found a 256 MB Sandisk. I'll try to reload the Transcend and also test the SanDisk. I hope it's just a bad copy. Thanks!
 
Pretty sure mine are all 64 or max 128MB Sandisk, but those are as expensive as the GB flavours now…
 
Sorry if this has been addressed somewhere, but just out of curiosity, do any of the conversions from other hardware have input lag or glitching issues like AW games on Naomi? Aside from those that need additional components that aren't on the G-Net.
 
claypot said:
Sorry if this has been addressed somewhere, but just out of curiosity, do any of the conversions from other hardware have input lag or glitching issues like AW games on Naomi? Aside from those that need additional components that aren't on the G-Net.
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Nope, no lag or differences on the GNET conversions from the original platform, except for Brave Blade which is missing the sound on GNET. Some of the games like RC De Go require special controls.
 
Wait, Atomiswave games have lag and glitches on Naomi?
 
ShootTheCore said:
Nope, no lag or differences on the GNET conversions from the original platform, except for Brave Blade which is missing the sound on GNET. Some of the games like RC De Go require special controls.
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Awesome. Good to know, thank you.
 
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