Rayman 2 - Opens Music player instead of the game

[Fighter4575]

Whenever i try to play Rayman 2 on nullDC, it sends me to the music player and when i select Play, it says Please insert game disc.

Am i supposed to be playing the PAL version or am i supposed to be converting it to bin?

[Zorlon]

bin format will never work

sounds like the game is just not in a selfboot format aka Mil-CD (A wild guess is that it was just converted to a cdi image but that does not make it a selfbootable Mil-CD), not a lot you can do with that via emulation but on a console all you would need to do is boot up utopia then insert the game

If you are curious Mil-CD's work via a multi session CD if the disc image only has one session then it is not a Mil-CD if it has 2 or more sessions then it is a Mil-CD (Do not get tracks and sessions mixed up, they are not the same thing) there is a bit more to it than that but this can be used to identify if a disc image is a Mil-CD or not

This is something that does need fixing on the main site

[Fighter4575]

So there is no solution to this? Oh and does the PAL version do the same thing, opening the music player? Oh and i tried using Utopia v2 and it crashes when the Dreamcast startup logo appears. Oh and did someone upload a download link in the forums which works?

[Zorlon]

Yeah like I said only for real consoles

The PAL version should just work but I never tested what EP has up as the NTSC version should work anyway

As far as I know there only ever was a selfboot Mil-CD version done of the PAL version of Rayman 2 done though so yeah should work, it may even be the GDI dump that is up that will also work in NullDC

a GDI dump is a raw copy of the original GD-Rom disc and not just a Mil-CD rip so should be a better copy proving that the game would not fit onto a CD though most of the Dreamcast games could of fit onto a standard CD-Rom instead of a GD-Rom

P.S. if it is the GDI version though you do need to have the correct regional settings though otherwise it will not boot because the original GD-Roms are regional locked

[MaslowK]

I had the same problem with this game a while back, never did figure out exactly how to get around it. However I did find out there's a very good PS2 version of the game. If you've got the specs for PS2 emulation I'd definitely recommend it as an alternative if you can't get the DC one going.

[Zorlon]

I had the same problem with this game a while back, never did figure out exactly how to get around it. However I did find out there's a very good PS2 version of the game. If you've got the specs for PS2 emulation I'd definitely recommend it as an alternative if you can't get the DC one going.

Disc image issue if it is not a selfboot aka Mil-CD it will go to the CD player every time, there are no special settings to make it boot so nothing to figure out there

[Fighter4575]

I tried the PAL version and while it does work, there are tons of graphical and audio issues in it. Almost all of the sounds and voices become high pitched (especially when the Globox kids are crying), some voices are gone like Rayman shouting STOP! during the King Teensee cutscene. There aren't too many graphical issues though only audio.

[Zorlon]

Dreamcast Emulation is far from perfect, a real console is still the best option but the game is not exclusive to Dreamcast so you could always go for the PSX version as the PSX has much better emulation of the machine vs Dreamcast

You can try other Dreamcast emulators though like demul that is the best one or latetest builds of nullDC (the official site only has the older build, that you may have unless you got the latest build from our forum, I don't know as you never stated the version)

I obviously use a real console