Make-A-Monster - MR1

• Generate and save your Make-A-Monster file pairs where ever you like. I created a "CD" folder within DuckStation directory.
• While at the shrine, Choose Disc Stone. When prompted to insert the CD...

1. Click Change Disc > From File > and point it to your [monster].cue file.
2. Press the confirm button on your controller to go through the dialogue until the game says "Reinsert Monster Rancher 2 CD..."
3. Click Change Disc > From Game List > and point it to your Monster Rancher 2 game.
• If you didn't set up your Game List you can instead click Change Disc > From File and point it back to your game ISO.
4. Press the confirm button on your controller to proceed to get your Shrined monster.

DuckStation on Mobile requires extra steps during the Shrine process.

• It is suggested that the downloaded monster files are in the same directory as the game, or in a subdirectory within the game's location.
• Recent versions of DuckStation on Android will often Error when loading monster files that are saved in the default Downloads folder. So if they are saved here, Move them into a directory inside your DuckStation folder.

Assuming your files are saved in the suggested location, and any file extension issues in the above steps have been resolved, and the normal instructions don't work, you may need to perform a different order of steps on mobile:

1. Click Change Disc and Point to the Data file first (.BIN or .IMG) and wait between 5 to 10 seconds.
   Do not click "X" yet.
2. Click Change Disc again and now point to the ToC file (.CUE or .CCD).
   • Wait a few seconds...
   • NOW Click "X" once you've pointed to both the Data and ToC file.
3. Wait for the game to read the data. Once it asks you to reinsert the Monster Rancher game...
4. Click Change Disc and point it back to the Game's ISO file to resume the shrining process.

• Generate and save your Make-A-Monster file pairs where ever you like. I created a "CD" folder within DuckStation directory.
• While at the shrine, Choose Disc Stone. When prompted to insert the CD...

1. Press ESC on your keyboard, Click File > Change Disc > ISO > and point it to your [monster].cue file.
2. Press the confirm button on your controller to go through the dialogue until the game says "Reinsert Monster Rancher 2 CD..."
3. Press ESC on your keyboard, Click File > Change Disc > ISO > and point it to your Monster Rancher 2 game.
4. Press the confirm button on your controller to proceed to get your Shrined monster.

Unlike DuckStation or ePSXe where you can just "Change Disc" and point to the Make-A-Monster files, RetroArch requires some pre-pwork and extra steps to do it. Be sure to pick the Correct Core when generating the files!

1. Put .CUE & .BIN file pairs for the monsters you want into the playlists folder:
• This will be the Game ISO (or CUE/BIN), along with the Make-a-Monster files for the desired monster(s).
2. Create a text file in the playlists folder with the files you want to use, and rename or save it as .m3u extension
• 1st line should be the game's file name.
• 2nd line should be the Make-a-Monster .cue file name.
Example of Files

3. Start RetroArch, load Content, then load select the .m3u file instead of the game directly.
• For Beetle specifically, it seems you must run the game ISO directly first, then once the game starts you can File > Load Content and point to the .m3u file.

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4. Go to the Shrine, and select Disc Stone.
5. Click Command > Disk Options > Disc Eject (Toggle) - ^{(This opens the tray)}
6. Click Command > Disk Options > Next Disc - ^{(This swaps to 2nd line/M-a-M file in .m3u)}
7. Click Command > Disk Options > Disc Eject (Toggle) - ^{(This closes the tray)}
8. Press the confirm button on your controller to go through the dialogue until the game says "Reinsert Monster Rancher 2 CD..."

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9. Click Command > Disk Options > Disc Eject (Toggle) - ^{(This opens the tray)}
10. Click Command > Disk Options > Previous Disc - ^{(This swaps to 1st line/file in .m3u)}
11. Click Command > Disk Options > Disc Eject (Toggle) - ^{(This closes the tray)}
12. Press the confirm button on your controller to proceed to get your Shrined monster.

• Generate and add the CUE/BIN file pairs to the playlists folder.
• Edit the 2nd line of the .m3u file to point to the next [monster].cue file you want to generate and save it.
• Save your current progress.
• Click File > Load Content and point directly to the Game's ISO to load the game/clear the playlist
• Click File > Load Content and point back to the updated .m3u file
• Load your save then Follow steps 4 through 12