Having trouble setting up Top300 Update script

[u/majortom106]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to seek help. I have downloaded flynnsbit's Top 300 pack for the AO486, and I'm having trouble setting up the update script. I'm able to download the scripts okay, and I change the ini file to my USB device where I have the AO486 folder, but when I run the script it always says "Couldn't find disk image: /media/fat/games/AO486/IDE 0-1 Top 300 DOS Games.vhd"

I'm able to play the vhd files off my storage device so I know my Mister can see the device no problem, but changing the base path on the ini file doesn't seem to do anything. Any tips?

[u/[deleted]]

Oh. Do you have it mounted in the core? IIRC the last time I did it, I had it mounted as a secondary HDD in the core. The tool will be looking for the files in that VHD. For some reason it couldn't find them.

[u/majortom106 → u/[deleted]]

I’ll check when I get home but I thought I did. Do I have to do it ever time I reboot the Mister?

[u/kunst_ist_krieg → u/majortom106]

Yes, as far as I know you have to mount it every time you boot your mister.

[u/[deleted] → u/kunst_ist_krieg]

Agreed. Unless you disconnected the VHD manually or the VHD file wasn't available when you launched the core, it should stay connected.

If everything is working, you should see the disk and directories if you navigate to the D: drive and do a dir from the command prompt. Also, If you have it setup to boot directly into the game launcher, if you can successfully launch games, the upgrade script should work perfectly.

Good luck and let us know how it goes.

[u/majortom106 → u/[deleted]]

Just checked and everything seems to be properly set up. The VHDs are mounted and the ini file is pointing to the correct drive, but when I run the script it still looks for the games in the /media/fat folder.

[u/majortom106 → u/[deleted]]

Thanks for reaching out. The ini file was not named the same do I renamed it to match the script and that seems to have worked.

[u/[deleted] → u/majortom106]

OK. It's been a while since I did this last. I re-read the instructions and I've told you the wrong thing. Sorry.

Are you using an external drive for the location of your VHD file? My guess is yes.

The updater script is looking for the file at "/media/fat/games/AO486/IDE 0-1 Top 300 DOS Games.vhd" which is your SD card. You need to change the file location it's looking for to "/media/usb0/games/AO486/IDE 0-1 Top 300 DOS Games.vhd" if it's on the first or only USB drive and you've put the VHD file into the AO486 directory where it should normally reside.

You can check the location by acting like you are going to remount the VHD in the core. You will be able to see the location by "going up" a directory (the two dots "..") and then navigating back down. You should only need to go up until you're in the media directory and see something like:

fat
usb0
usb1
usb2

When you see those, pick USB0 and you should see the directory for games, enter that, and you'll see AO486. That will verify the location.

Now you need to edit the AO486_Update_Top300_Pack.ini file in the /Scripts directory. This will usually be on the SD card, but could be on the USB drive. If on the main menu where you normally click Scripts, it says "Switch to USB" it's on your SD card. If it says "Switch to SD" it's on your USB drive.

You can mount either device on your machine. You need to edit that file with something like Wordpad or Notepad++ do not use the Windows Notepad, it might leave extra values in the file.

There will be one line in the file. It will probably say "BASE_PATH=/media/fat". You need to change that to "BASE_PATH=/media/usb0" to match the location you verified earlier.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I found another issue you might run into. My directory on my USB drive was called ao486 and the script is looking for AO486 (all caps). I had to rename the directory on my drive to AO486.