see also here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/681837 I'm having no luck with surreal 64 emulator, I downloaded it, unzipped it, copied all the files over to my drive (made emulator folder). Had no ROMS folder so I made one, cannot seem to copy roms to folder, and when I open the surreal folder to run it, all it does is cycle through all the folders, the emulator does not start...? what am I doing wrong.
You launch the emulator with the default.xbe file, which should be in the root of the surreal64 folder. You may have to edit the config file (probably called something like surreal.xml or ini) to point to the location of your roms folder. Roms must have names having no illegal characters !?.{}[]() etc and be no more than 24 characters in length including the .n64 bit. When you have some in there see the green button/swirly arrow thing on the lower right of the emulator dash? cursor over then and hit A and it should load a new romlist.
Varnull sorry to correct you, but if you change the names of your roms surreal will not see the correct game. It took me maybe 6-8 months to realize this. If you split up your roms into folders of 1gig or less then zip them (and yes i mean zip, not rar) and ftp them to your roms folder in the surreal 64 directory you can get around the illegal character bs windows doesn't allow. Just unzip the large folder (4 folders for 300 roms) in the surreal64/roms directory and you should be set. You can leave the games zipped themselves. Load surreal and hit y and you'll see your roms. This doesn't seem like the problem you're having though, so i'll make it simple for you. Download this http://rs181.rapidshare.com/files/97121869/emulators.rar It is a folder that i put 5 emulators in and zipped. there is an emulator for: Sega Genisis Super Nintendo Nintendo 64 Playstaion gameboy advance (Must have mistook it for nes oops) Anyway just unrar that file and throw those folders in your emulators directory. You should be able to see your new emulators when you restart your xbox, if you can't or can't find them it's best to change your dash to one that has a better layout like avalauch. There's a "roms" folder currently in that surreal folder just throw your roms in there, if you were to change the directory in the surreal.ini file this is the part you would need to change. [Settings] Rom Path=D:\Roms\ <------ when changing the directory make sure to use the \ instead of / I'll leave it up to you, let me know if you have any questions.
Some versions of surreal don't accept zipped files.(made me swear until I realised lots of the games play poorly anyways). Mine are pretty old versions ported by me from the source code way back when I was learning to use the XDK. AFAIK so long as the game name is correct in the rom name followed by the .z64 extension the {!} etc can be removed safely without affecting the displayed name or functionality. (I once posted what all that stuff means.. a long time back) That applies to all the emulators. Taking the .ini file apart and looking at the relative paths will usually reveal where things are going wrong if roms don't appear where they should. It's the xbox OS which doesn't allow the illegal characters and long filenames, not the windows/linux pc OS
