Interested in a few other openMenu tutorials? Folder view for openMenu (open source Dreamcast GDEMU menu software) ruclips.net/video/71BLpSyzfwQ/видео.html Restore original BIOS www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=189992#p189992 x.com/DerekPascarella/status/1851949929314357530
Perfect timing. I had been wanting to clean up my GDEmu setup with a fresh 256gb card and OpenMenu. This helps a ton as everything else I had seen was very outdated. Thanks for all that you do in the DC community!
Thank you, switching from gdmenu to openmenu has a little learning curve, even getting it set up. Going through the process from start to finish and even troubleshooting like this will help tons. I'll be sure to share it around if anyone needs help.
I turned on my Dreamcast and GDemu wasn't loading. Then I searched for the problem and found your video. First of all, thank you for your great tutorial. Openmenu is perfect and runs well. We've been waiting for this. Later I noticed that the SD card was locked using the small button every time I plugged it into the Dreamcast. xD Whatever, Openmenu is perfect :))))
I've added properly sized images to OpenMenu Dat, saved to card manager and input same title id values but the two covers ive tried still don't show up on dreamcast, any ideas? all other covers work. Two I'm having trouble with are Ikaruga and Half Life.
How do you enable/disable the modem icon in Open Menu?. From what I understand the DAT Tool doesn't ask for modem support in the metadata section, but regardless Open Menu has the modem icon present for every game using the line description style. Also do the accessories in the metadata serve any purpose if they aren't even reflected as icons in Open Menu? Maracas, Keyboard, Mouse, Arcade stick etc.
@@derekpascarella Feel free to refuse but would you be willing to post a tutorial or help walk me through the process of applying a theme for Open Menu? The video tutorial I followed seems to focus specifically on GDMenu even during the Open Menu portion of the video, unless I'm completely missing something. All I'm really trying to do is apply simple NTSC Dreamcast bios theme/background.
This is great and what I've been after for a long time, but surely there can be some kind community database? Seems ridiculous that potentially hundreds of us are all doing the same thing
Well, openMenu ships with something of a community database. In terms of the retail library, you'll find 90% or so of artwork is already taken care of. I purposefully chose four games (two retail, two indie) for which only one already had artwork. If you browse the Dreamcast-Talk.com forums, you can probably find people sharing their artwork database files. Personally, I'd rather do it myself. That 10% was easy to add myself, and now I have complete control over indie/homebrew/Atomiswave artwork without the need for overwriting what somebody else thought looked good.
@@chillvillmancuecas6513 please watch the entire video where I cover the settings menu and "Grid" view. Regarding your games not showing up, I'd suggest using the Dreamcast-Talk.com support thread in the video description. Unfortunately I'm not able to assist in troubleshooting at this time. I will say you need valid GDIs (TOSEC-style, not Redump) or valid CDIs.
After switching to openMenu, I have had a hell of a time getting my games to actually launch. For awhile I could bypass the issue by taking out the VMU, but now even that method isn't working. Are there troubleshooting steps to make sure games will launch?
@@j__r0d try the support thread linked in the video description. This part of the forum may be locked for new accounts. If so, make five posts/replies to unlock it. I personally haven't heard of this issue. Sorry I can't be of more help.
I have found openMenu to be a very nice improvement over GDMenu but I'm surprised it doesn't come with many themes. Could you make a tutorial on how to make/import themes for it?
I'm tempted to try out migrating a 128GB gdmenu SD card over to OpenMenu. But I know what I'm like and will probably methodically, compulsively fill out every single metadata box and replace all boxart images with title screenshots before booting a game. I imagine that 200-odd installed Dreamcast titles viewed on the full mode might affect menu performance? If the software is Win7 compatible I might experiment. Thanks for this pleasure of a video.
Tried this whole spuel before, but it doesn't play nicely on a clone GDEMU 5.3 or whatever. Not all my games show up on openMenu, and when I revert back to GDEMU, the game list loads slowly no matter what I try to do 😢
It has nothing to do with your clone GDEMU. You're either doing something wrong (like not using all the latest versions per this video), or have subpar disc images. If you put even an ounce of faith in my years of Dreamcast work, believe me when I say that openMenu can work for you 🙂
@@aaronbr311 Finally, I fixed the problem on my end. It turns out that it was a VGA-patched version of a game that was the culprit. I deleted it and then the rest of the games appeared
Great work!! in which firmware version of the gdemu do we need to be? mine was never updated since i bought it in 2016. I went to the creator of the project but he refused to give me older firmware version to update it accordingly (i cannot simply install the latest one). thanks in advance
GDEMU firmware typically doesn't matter for openMenu, but it's hard for me to speak to a version as old as 2016. Try contacting Deunan again for firmware updates.
I have over 250 games on my sd card but when I insert the card in my Dreamcast it only shows 8 games…..why is this? Every single game shows up in the card manager program but on the Dreamcast it just shows 8 games on screen
Sorry man, never seen that before. Perhaps try the openMenu support thread from the video description. You're also sure you don't have any filters or anything applied (from openMenu option screen)? Also, is it just the first eight games on your list that you see? Is it as if the list is prematurely cut off? I ask because this may be indicative of some corrupt disc image you've got on your card that isn't playing nicely with the newer SD card manager utility.
Great tutorial, thanks. However I'm unable to return to BIOS with OpenMenu, it just keeps resetting back to the menu. Any ideas how to fix? I reverted to standard GDMENU and now it is working fine again.
@@emagid3599 you're selecting "Exit to BIOS" from openMenu and it's not working? Never heard that before. Very weird. Maybe try turning off auto-start in your BIOS settings.
@@derekpascarella unfortunately this isn’t working. Seems auto off was already selected in BIOS. Only way I can fix this is by reverting back to GDMENU.
@@emagid3599 By the way, are you sure you followed my guide and not only grabbed latest version of the card manager utility, but ALSO the latest version of openMenu and overwrote the necessary files?
@@derekpascarella Sorry, I was busy these past two months with a move to another state. I just tried this again from the beginning, watching your tutorial carefully. When I select return to bios, the system restarts and then goes back into Open BIOS. No way to get back into BIOS unless I remove the SD card, and then revert back to GDMENU. Any ideas on a fix? I really prefer the look of Open Menu, but not being able to access BIOS is a problem for me.
@@Akina-vh5by someone else reported this. What controller and memory card are you using? I suggest creating a post on the openMenu support thread linked in the video description.
@@derekpascarella its a sandisk extreme pro, the controller is the sn30 wireless (but i use it wired for now) and the game i cant add is hdr-0003 blue stinger
@@Akina-vh5by there have been issues reported with non-OEM controllers. Please report to the linked thread. No idea about Blue Stinger. Works fine for me.
@@Akina-vh5by it's not dead, but only so many people willing/able to help for these specific issues. Were you sure to take out hyphens from game IDs like I instructed in video? It's also likely that your controller just isn't compatible.
@@11Eighty6 Thanos, the 8BitMods developer, says he'll submit code to openMenu so it'll support game IDs. That being said, he's also developed a method for ID'ing a good portion of the retail library automatically even when using original discs.
@@TheGeokaiser there are probably hundreds of image editing tools out there capable of this. The GIMP is a free open source alternative to Photoshop that'll do the trick.
@@Gladson given the nature of indie/homebrew, there really isn't such a thing. Some people have tried to put together sets, but you may not like some of their artwork choices. In my view, it's best just to add the missing artwork yourself. Not as bad as it sounds!
I cannot for the life of me get this application to detect an SD card and I've been struggling the past 4 hours for what should have been really straightforward...
Interested in a few other openMenu tutorials?
Folder view for openMenu (open source Dreamcast GDEMU menu software)
ruclips.net/video/71BLpSyzfwQ/видео.html
Restore original BIOS
www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=189992#p189992
x.com/DerekPascarella/status/1851949929314357530
That was real simple, brilliant guide man! Now for the slow and tedious part: replacing about 100 box arts that are missing lol!
Yes, I went through it too! All worth it, in my view.
Glad you found the video helpful.
Perfect timing. I had been wanting to clean up my GDEmu setup with a fresh 256gb card and OpenMenu. This helps a ton as everything else I had seen was very outdated. Thanks for all that you do in the DC community!
My pleasure. Love seeing people make use of all this great stuff!
Thanks so much Derek - really easy to follow and so much better to be on this setup!!
Thank you, switching from gdmenu to openmenu has a little learning curve, even getting it set up. Going through the process from start to finish and even troubleshooting like this will help tons. I'll be sure to share it around if anyone needs help.
Cool, hope it helps people!
Great 😃👍 Dreamcast for sure anybody still rocking Dreamcast System
Brilliantly helpful. Thank you.
@@JimWood28 🫡 you're welcome
Thank you for tutorial. Nice time spent adding missing box art today! 👍
You're welcome. Happy to hear it!
Oh man, thank you so much, looks great and very easy tut to follow.
Hoping it helps people!
Bless you for making this Derek.
Hope it helps!
I turned on my Dreamcast and GDemu wasn't loading. Then I searched for the problem and found your video. First of all, thank you for your great tutorial. Openmenu is perfect and runs well. We've been waiting for this. Later I noticed that the SD card was locked using the small button every time I plugged it into the Dreamcast. xD
Whatever, Openmenu is perfect :))))
@@HLYE1991 happy to hear it 🙂
@@HLYE1991 happy to hear it 🙂
Super cool man! Amazing work.
Thanks 🙂
Thank you for this guide, it was more helpful than many of the other ones!
Very happy to hear it!
Great video. Love the presentation style and directness. Keep up the incredible work you do!
@@MrXiandra appreciate the kind words! I do what I can 🙂
Loved this tutorial. I hope you heart condition gets better
@@Júpiter-Crush thanks, happy you found it helpful 🙂
Thank you
I'll be following this video later to setup my SD card.
@@robwagner8616 hope you find it helpful 🙂
Linux works great in my experience, grateful it's supported ❤
Awesome, happy to hear that! Seems stability has greatly improved in recent times then. Thanks for chiming in.
Great tutorial, very detailed. @@derekpascarella
The homebrew scene is going in the speed of light nowadays !!!
This whole time it was the hyphen! I can finally add new art!
Haha, nice. Glad this helped!
love this video, it will help me so much!
thank you. great info
Any reason why if I press Y it brings me to the bios directly instead of opening the menu for code breakers?
I've added properly sized images to OpenMenu Dat, saved to card manager and input same title id values but the two covers ive tried still don't show up on dreamcast, any ideas? all other covers work. Two I'm having trouble with are Ikaruga and Half Life.
Return of the Goat
I don't know if its my tv or what but I have noticed aspect ratio 16:9 actually makes the text super blurry.
How do you enable/disable the modem icon in Open Menu?. From what I understand the DAT Tool doesn't ask for modem support in the metadata section, but regardless Open Menu has the modem icon present for every game using the line description style.
Also do the accessories in the metadata serve any purpose if they aren't even reflected as icons in Open Menu? Maracas, Keyboard, Mouse, Arcade stick etc.
@@ians_parks no idea, I don’t use those features at all. I prefer grid view with lettered folders.
@@derekpascarella Feel free to refuse but would you be willing to post a tutorial or help walk me through the process of applying a theme for Open Menu? The video tutorial I followed seems to focus specifically on GDMenu even during the Open Menu portion of the video, unless I'm completely missing something. All I'm really trying to do is apply simple NTSC Dreamcast bios theme/background.
Thank you 😊
This is great and what I've been after for a long time, but surely there can be some kind community database? Seems ridiculous that potentially hundreds of us are all doing the same thing
Well, openMenu ships with something of a community database. In terms of the retail library, you'll find 90% or so of artwork is already taken care of. I purposefully chose four games (two retail, two indie) for which only one already had artwork.
If you browse the Dreamcast-Talk.com forums, you can probably find people sharing their artwork database files. Personally, I'd rather do it myself. That 10% was easy to add myself, and now I have complete control over indie/homebrew/Atomiswave artwork without the need for overwriting what somebody else thought looked good.
not authorized to vew topic (for OPENMENU ARTWORK DAT MANAGER link) even after registering
@@John_M_B you have to register and make at least five posts. Did you also see in the video description that I provided a Google Drive link?
Open menu is up but now a lot of my games are not showing up and it’s scrolling left to right instead of having the whole screen with games
@@chillvillmancuecas6513 please watch the entire video where I cover the settings menu and "Grid" view.
Regarding your games not showing up, I'd suggest using the Dreamcast-Talk.com support thread in the video description. Unfortunately I'm not able to assist in troubleshooting at this time. I will say you need valid GDIs (TOSEC-style, not Redump) or valid CDIs.
I switched back to gdemu and everything is back to normal at least not sure why open menu doesn’t work
Thank you for the video, but what about “force VGA mode” for those DC games that don’t play if you’re running a DC with an HDMI adapter?
I should've mentioned! openMenu does auto-region and auto-VGA patching without needing to enable it.
@@derekpascarella Then I’m sold!
@@1776Sledge 😉
After switching to openMenu, I have had a hell of a time getting my games to actually launch. For awhile I could bypass the issue by taking out the VMU, but now even that method isn't working. Are there troubleshooting steps to make sure games will launch?
@@j__r0d try the support thread linked in the video description. This part of the forum may be locked for new accounts. If so, make five posts/replies to unlock it. I personally haven't heard of this issue. Sorry I can't be of more help.
Cheers for this! the missing artwork was starting to really bother me .
Happy it helped you out.
Does this process work for Aliexpress GDEMU V5.20.5 Clones? I want to do it with mine but I heard that those work differently
@@moisesbarboza4535 this works with all GDEMUs, including clones of any version.
there are any incompabilities between the various gdemu versions and openemu?? i can't find a single information about it
@@TheProgressiveStyle No.
Does openmenu still struggle to recognise utility type CDI images? Last time I loaded up openmenu it wouldn’t read some at all.
Not in my experience, no. Just be sure to use all of the latest versions per the video.
I have found openMenu to be a very nice improvement over GDMenu but I'm surprised it doesn't come with many themes. Could you make a tutorial on how to make/import themes for it?
@@flumphflumph6021 www.dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17862
I'm tempted to try out migrating a 128GB gdmenu SD card over to OpenMenu. But I know what I'm like and will probably methodically, compulsively fill out every single metadata box and replace all boxart images with title screenshots before booting a game. I imagine that 200-odd installed Dreamcast titles viewed on the full mode might affect menu performance? If the software is Win7 compatible I might experiment. Thanks for this pleasure of a video.
There's no hit to menu performance, even with 500 games!
Tried this whole spuel before, but it doesn't play nicely on a clone GDEMU 5.3 or whatever. Not all my games show up on openMenu, and when I revert back to GDEMU, the game list loads slowly no matter what I try to do 😢
It has nothing to do with your clone GDEMU. You're either doing something wrong (like not using all the latest versions per this video), or have subpar disc images. If you put even an ounce of faith in my years of Dreamcast work, believe me when I say that openMenu can work for you 🙂
@@derekpascarella Sounds like it works with the clone version then? I'll give it a shot :)
I also have clone version and no problem, maybe try formatting the SD fresh with guiformat or try new SD card
@@aaronbr311 Finally, I fixed the problem on my end. It turns out that it was a VGA-patched version of a game that was the culprit. I deleted it and then the rest of the games appeared
Would this work on a GDEMU bought from Aliexpress?
@@SONYPVM yes.
Great work!! in which firmware version of the gdemu do we need to be? mine was never updated since i bought it in 2016. I went to the creator of the project but he refused to give me older firmware version to update it accordingly (i cannot simply install the latest one). thanks in advance
GDEMU firmware typically doesn't matter for openMenu, but it's hard for me to speak to a version as old as 2016. Try contacting Deunan again for firmware updates.
openMenu was written on a first gen clone from around that time. Works fine
I have over 250 games on my sd card but when I insert the card in my Dreamcast it only shows 8 games…..why is this? Every single game shows up in the card manager program but on the Dreamcast it just shows 8 games on screen
Sorry man, never seen that before. Perhaps try the openMenu support thread from the video description.
You're also sure you don't have any filters or anything applied (from openMenu option screen)?
Also, is it just the first eight games on your list that you see? Is it as if the list is prematurely cut off? I ask because this may be indicative of some corrupt disc image you've got on your card that isn't playing nicely with the newer SD card manager utility.
@@derekpascarellait’s just the first 8 games
@@dogeymon83 your 9th disc image is not being liked by GDMENU Card Manager. What is it? Going to guess some homebrew software.
@@derekpascarellait’s alienfront online
@@derekpascarellaI removed a special VGA patched version of some game and then I started seeing games get added
Great tutorial, thanks. However I'm unable to return to BIOS with OpenMenu, it just keeps resetting back to the menu. Any ideas how to fix? I reverted to standard GDMENU and now it is working fine again.
@@emagid3599 you're selecting "Exit to BIOS" from openMenu and it's not working? Never heard that before. Very weird. Maybe try turning off auto-start in your BIOS settings.
@@derekpascarella unfortunately this isn’t working. Seems auto off was already selected in BIOS. Only way I can fix this is by reverting back to GDMENU.
@@emagid3599 By the way, are you sure you followed my guide and not only grabbed latest version of the card manager utility, but ALSO the latest version of openMenu and overwrote the necessary files?
@@derekpascarella Sorry, I was busy these past two months with a move to another state. I just tried this again from the beginning, watching your tutorial carefully. When I select return to bios, the system restarts and then goes back into Open BIOS. No way to get back into BIOS unless I remove the SD card, and then revert back to GDMENU. Any ideas on a fix? I really prefer the look of Open Menu, but not being able to access BIOS is a problem for me.
@ very strange, and I'm not aware of such an issue. Please report to the Dreamcast-Talk thread, along with your console revision.
i managed to add 1/2 image missing and i cant get the settings to save in open menu
@@Akina-vh5by someone else reported this. What controller and memory card are you using? I suggest creating a post on the openMenu support thread linked in the video description.
@@derekpascarella its a sandisk extreme pro, the controller is the sn30 wireless (but i use it wired for now) and the game i cant add is hdr-0003 blue stinger
@@Akina-vh5by there have been issues reported with non-OEM controllers. Please report to the linked thread. No idea about Blue Stinger. Works fine for me.
@@derekpascarella i reported, nothing yet, might be a somewhat dead forum idk
@@Akina-vh5by it's not dead, but only so many people willing/able to help for these specific issues. Were you sure to take out hyphens from game IDs like I instructed in video? It's also likely that your controller just isn't compatible.
will openmenu support the upcoming 8bitmods vmu memcard aswell?
@@11Eighty6 Thanos, the 8BitMods developer, says he'll submit code to openMenu so it'll support game IDs. That being said, he's also developed a method for ID'ing a good portion of the retail library automatically even when using original discs.
any one knows a way to turn the images into 256png cux im failing bad.
@@TheGeokaiser there are probably hundreds of image editing tools out there capable of this. The GIMP is a free open source alternative to Photoshop that'll do the trick.
Looks great, is there any way to download a complete metadata file?
@@Gladson given the nature of indie/homebrew, there really isn't such a thing. Some people have tried to put together sets, but you may not like some of their artwork choices. In my view, it's best just to add the missing artwork yourself. Not as bad as it sounds!
I cannot for the life of me get this application to detect an SD card and I've been struggling the past 4 hours for what should have been really straightforward...
@@whodafaqareyou try the support thread linked in the video description. Include as many details and screenshots (if necessary) as possible.