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Callus and Calice


Robert

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Two more emulators!

 

callus, 0.42, 1998, no instructions, unable to run any games.

looks like it requires files and folders rather than zipfiles.

Any ideas?

 

calice, 0.4.6, 2001, no instructions, unable to run any games.

There is a folder full of .drv files, which look something like loader .dat files. I'm not sure if its just something to read, or it controls the games. It lists crc codes in there, so perhaps it uses zip files. If the .drv files control the emu, it becomes quite flexible - as long as you know what to do.

 

What comments or help can you give?

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No, Callus works with Zips, AKAIK. have you specified a rom folder? I recommend Callus over Calice anyday.

It called callus95 to be exact. I did specify my mame roms folder as the roms folder. I tried every game and none worked. There is no crc list anywhere so I don't know what rom set names, or rom names to use.

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No, Callus works with Zips, AKAIK. have you specified a rom folder? I recommend Callus over Calice anyday.

It called callus95 to be exact. I did specify my mame roms folder as the roms folder. I tried every game and none worked. There is no crc list anywhere so I don't know what rom set names, or rom names to use.

Here's the list of the games I have and their setnames:

 

1941     --> 1941 - Counter Attack (9002??) (vertical)
3wonders --> Three Wonders (910520)
captcomm --> Captain Commando (911014)
cawing   --> Carrier Air Wing (901012)
dino     --> Cadillacs & Dinosaurs (930201)
dwj      --> Dynasty Wars (89????)
ffigth   --> Final Fight (90????)
forgottn --> Forgotten Worlds (88????)
ghouls   --> Ghouls'n Ghosts (88????)
knights  --> Knights of the Round (911127)
kod      --> The King of Dragons (910711)
megaman  --> Mega Man - The Power Battle (951006)
mercs  --> Mercs (900302) (vertical)
msword   --> Magic Sword: Heroic Fantasy (900725)
mtwins   --> Mega Twins (900619)
nemo     --> Nemo (901130)
pnickj   --> Pnickies (940608)
punisher --> The Punisher (930422)
slammast --> Saturday Night Slam Masters (930713)
strider  --> Strider (89????)
unsquad  --> U.N. Squad (89????)
varth    --> Varth - Operation Thunderstorm (920612) (vertical)
willow   --> Willow (8906??)
wof      --> Warriors of Fate (921002)

 

You can look at the individual set names and rom names by choosing "Write Gamelist" in the Callus menu. Then open gamelist.txt

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Thank you for that. In my mame roms, the indivual roms are renamed to their crc instead. This is acceptable for all mame variants, kawaks, nebula, and final burn. It means that the one zip can support all those emus and different versions of each, at the same time.

 

Will Callus and calice work this way? At the moment it seems not. NRX doesn't.

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Thank you for that. In my mame roms, the indivual roms are renamed to their crc instead. This is acceptable for all mame variants, kawaks, nebula, and final burn. It means that the one zip can support all those emus and different versions of each, at the same time.

 

Will Callus and calice work this way? At the moment it seems not. NRX doesn't.

What do you mean by "renamed to their CRC instead"?

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I thought it was clear enough..?

 

The roms are renamed to their crcs

 

For example, for the game 'invaders', usually you need

invaders.e, invaders.f, invaders.g invaders.h

 

If you opened my invaders.zip, you would see

0ccead96, 14e538b0, 6bfaca4a, 734f5ad8

 

This works because mame, kawaks, nebula, and final burn

look at the crc first, not the filename. Only if a correct crc is

not found, will mame look for matching filenames and issue

a warning. Kawaks completely ignores filenames. Nebula and

Final Burn haven't been tested, but I would expect them to

work the same way as kawaks.

 

Why do it? I have one zip file, the fully-merged set, containing

the roms for the parent and all children within the one zip.

This one zip is used by all 4 emus, and as we know the roms

aren't always exactly the same between them. Further, I have

multiple versions of some emus. It saves having lots of similar

sets laying about. My kof2001 set has 45 roms in it - and it

doesn't cover everything - still more roms to be found.

 

I don't expect that you would like it or understand it, but it

suits my purposes just fine.

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