DCI4VMI v1.0

***wraggster*** · January 26th, 2006, 02:32

Date of Release

December 26th 2005

Title

DCI4VMI v1.0

Author

bucanero

Information

I´ve coded a simple tool to convert Dreamcast savegames between Nexus .DCI format and .VMI/.VMS format.

I know there are other tools to do this same job, but I think this is the first tool to handle both-way conversions (DCI <-> VMI/VMS) without any other parameter than source file (a DCI or VMI file) and destination file (for .DCI target) or resource name (for .VMI/VMS target).

Website

http://www.bucanero.com.ar/verpost.php?id_noticia=181

**fackue** · March 19th, 2006, 01:23

I tried converting to a DCI file and I get

[+] Reading crzytxi2.VMI ... ERROR: Can't open crzytxi2TIFIER".VMS!
[-] Source file crzytxi2.VMI could not be readed.
[-] Failed!

**bucanero** · March 19th, 2006, 15:58

can you send me the crzytxi2.VMI/VMS files you're trying to convert to see what's the error there? And also let me know your OS, version, and any other tip that might be useful for bugfixing.

btw, have you tried to convert the same VMI with my win32 tool "DC Save Converter"? if you can, try it and let me know if you get the same error there too.

**fackue** · March 19th, 2006, 22:00

vmu_saves.zip

I'm using WindowsXP Pro. I edited/created the VMI file with VMI File Writer and since I don't have the .NET FRAMWORK installed, I can't use DC Save Converter.

**bucanero** · March 21st, 2006, 02:32

thanks for the files... I'll check them out and post the results

**fackue** · March 22nd, 2006, 01:13

I'm curious what you found out.

**fackue** · March 26th, 2006, 16:13

The VMI was created with an older build of VMI Writer, but, even after using the new VMIs it's basically the same problem.

I could suggest, it might be the way it's reading the file name. You might wanna, if you want to, look there.

**SiZiOUS** · March 28th, 2006, 16:24

[+] Reading crzytxi2.VMI ... ERROR: Can't open crzytxi2TIFIER".VMS!

May be it's a $00 string end missing.

**bucanero** · March 30th, 2006, 13:07

Originally Posted by SiZiOUS

May be it's a $00 string end missing.

Yes, I agree, I had the same idea, but I'm over the edge lately!

lots of work at my job and I'vent had time to check my hunch.

The other thing that I want to check is that the .vmi file and my read routine are 100% complaint with the standard (at least the standard posted by Marcus Comstedt at http://mc.pp.se/dc/vms/vmi.html )