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    Exclamation Sonic CD (Europe) ISO Won't "Unpak" Properly

    I downloaded the European version of Sonic CD and PakkIso from the Emuparadise main site. I extracted the zipped file to my downloads folder (I selected "extract here") I checked the Sonic CD folder's contents. Then, I went back and right-clicked the extracted folder, selected "UnpakkISO", waited for it to finish and then... It converted all the audio / ecm files into separate .bin files, and then slapped one lone .cue file into it, expecting me to run this mess with my copy of *Genesis Plus GX on my Wii!

    * I do all my Sega emulating on my Wii now. It's very accurate, and looks great on an old tube TV when running in the games' native resolution... Aww, yeah... that's the stuff...

    Anyway, lemme just rub that drool off my face so I can continue... ahem...

    Is that the way it's supposed to work? Is there anything I'm doing wrong - and why in the world do we have to do this crap for all the PAL ISOs for the Sega CD?! Wouldn't it be more efficient to rip them off the CD just like you do a NTSC disc?! It would save us all the time and patience of having to figure this stuff out!

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    The reason for the multiple .bin files is the way these particular games have their audio tracks organized, where most of those .bin files are individual tracks, and the .cue file keeps track of which track is which. The NTSC version of this game works the same way IIRC. From what I've read you should be able to just stick the folder with all the .bin's and .cue in your roms folder under /genplus, then stick the proper sega CD bios file under /genplus/bios (named bios_CD_E.bin in this case), and then load the .cue file from the Mega CD option in the emulator. Testing now to confirm.

    EDIT: Tested, seems to work fine. As a side note if your Genplus GX doesn't have the MegaCD option, make sure it's an up to date version (this confused me just a minute ago ). When you start the game it'll have these bright blue borders for some reason, I was able to make them black instead under Options > Video > clicking Borders (set to NONE). There's an Aspect Ratio option in there as well that you can set to "Scaled" to make it full-screen.
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