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How do you get Gens to recognize a CD drive?
Jedi Master Thrash - Nov 3, 2007
  Jedi Master Thrash Nov 3, 2007
Gens refuses to recognize my CD drives. I installed APSI 4.71.2 for XP and rebooted, but it still won't recognize any drives.

Any ideas?

Do any of the other emulators play better with CD drives?

 Ranking Ace Nov 4, 2007
Try Kega Fusion. That's also an overall more accurate Mega Drive/Genesis emulator than Gens.

Also, when playing Sega CD games, it's usually best to make an ISO from your game disc, then load it with the emulator that way, it's much more stable that way.

 hyper knux Nov 4, 2007
Definitely try Fusion I find it to be a superior program all round.

What model cdrom drives do you have?

I never had to install ASPI drivers under XP...

I played Dune on Fusion from my original game disc and it ran perfectly,

however like Ace said use an ISO mounted virtually to get around the problem entirely.

 Jedi Master Thrash Nov 4, 2007
I figured it out. You have to use ASPI 4.60, not 4.71. 4.60 has better compatibility. The "forceaspi" program uses 4.60, and did the trick. Now it recognizes my mad dog ls-dvdrd tsh652m

It actually played the segacd game perfectly. Which I wasn't hoping for, actually, I'll start a new thread for that.

 Jedi Master Thrash Nov 4, 2007
What do you use to rip a CD into ISO? I looked into that, but couldn't find any free programs.

 dibz Nov 5, 2007
If you want just ISO format, you can use ImgBurn -- it's free and works great.

 Jedi Master Thrash Nov 5, 2007
Does that have the audio to? Or do you need a different program to rip ISO+wav or ISO+mp3?

 Ranking Ace Nov 5, 2007
What you have to do is rip the audio tracks to MP3. Then once done, place the ISO in the same folder as all the ripped music tracks. Each music track must have the correct track number that's on the actual CD, so the emulator knows when to play them in combination with the ISO.

Here's an example: http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8799/segacdaz7....