@optimuschrisss Which consoles are you to planning to spend your social life on :D Yeah I know RetroPie is very awesome. I don't even touch my PS4 anymore since I got the Pi.

@PetroRie

LocoRoco on PSP has some slowdowns and absolutely maxes out my Pi causing a very quick heat lockup if I don't have the fan on. I would just play it on my actual PSP, but i develop tendon pain after a couple minutes using the PSP anymore.

Enhanced Resolution on the PSX does look great and frankly, if I don't run that or PSP, then I could have stuck with my Pi2. I may try out no enhanced resolution but a shader to see how it runs.

I don't see Dolphin (GC/wii) or the PS2 emulator on a Pi for a long time. It's just not going to be powerful enough on the graphics end. Frankly, I have an XBOX 360 and XBOX One when I want more modern stuff. The X360 still plays a lot of the better original XBOX games.

Heck, my boys are spoiled with their choice of: Xbox 360, Xbox One, PSX, N64, Wii (the version that can play GC games if I bough a GC controller) and Retropie.

Dude that's awesome XD Love it when programmers put their own stamp on their code that only other programmers will discover

@FlyingTomahawk If your PNGs are pixelated on the edges, you are likely using 8-bit PNG format, this uses a gif style indexed pallet and has no support for alpha blending. This is the default setting on photoshop/illustrator for save-for-web output. Make sure you are saving your PNGs as 24 bit to allow for alpha transparencies around the edge pixels, and the pixelated effect will be gone. Drawback is the file size will be 5 to 10x larger.

Graphic designer by day, gamer by night, haha.

@kantu PC Engine is the name of the Turbo Grafx 16 home console, not an actual PC/DOS emulator.

DOSBox is the actual PC emulator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16

crus 'n usa is available in mame2003, but, like any 3d mame games, it will run about 1fps on the pi.

Looks like a modder by the name of Madmonkey on a Russian forum has figured out how to add extra games (total of 60) to the NES Mini. The exploit involves connecting the console to a computer via a USB cable and then booting it into "FEL" mode. Madmonkey's tool is called "hakchi". Another modder named Cluster has put together a streamlined version of this tool called "hakchi2".

When you played them back in the days you played them on a normal TV, which has a lower resolution compared to the TV you're playing them on now.

@meleu google was my friend :/

@hansolo77 haha. Nice story! :-)
The hotkey and RGUI -> Quick Menu -> Restart has the very same effect, so I think we can screw up the Magneto plans using both ways.

@Graboid

Thanks anyways :) I have opened a new post.

updated it and no performance gain sadly :(

@Lyle_JP said in Best Emulator / ROM Set for saving high scores?:

What 8/16 bit console ever kept high scores?

I just died laughing just now.

Why on earth did they ever even put a high score system into games like Contra and Black Belt if they weren't going to save it on battery backup? Man, some poor kid was probably almost on that "NES Achievers" on Nintendo Power and lost his high score to not having a camera or his mom tripped over the power cord. O_o

Well, trying to figure things out for MAME now anyway. (EDIT: Got it now, figured out I had to put hiscore.dat into ~/BIOS/mame2003/)

I found solution... add this line to rc.local before exit:
con2fbmap 1 0

@mat03111984 said in emulation in shops:

such a shame that there not a place where people can relive them for free

Weeelll, when you put it like that, I am reminded of an exception, should you happen to live in the United States. A certain website was granted exemption from the United States Digital Millennium Copyright Act and is allowed to possess and even cache games to be played directly from a browser. You can also download games and even whole collections of games without worry of violating copy protection, so long as you don't redistribute the games, or make them available for public play afterward.

So, as it currently stands, if your business resides in the US and you offered up the ability to play the games via their web-based cache format, I don't believe any laws would be broken at all. This would effectively allow a makeshift internet arcade to exist where people could gather to relive these games for free, legally. What's more is that when Kodi v18 is released with their RetroPlayer media layer, an addon will also be available to stream and scrape these games from the website, allowing an almost unlimited game library to be searched, browsed and played as if they all existed on your system without the need to take up any significant local storage space.

All in all, it really is a great time to be a retro-gamer.

@Corykrist1 Resizing the image created from win32diskimager is a little tricky, but it can be done if necessary. See this post: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6470/script-to-resize-shrink-win32-disk-imager-retropie-images

You'll probably have an easier time if you just back up your roms/configs folders after accessing your pi on the network (via \\retropie), and then copy them back onto your new installation on a smaller SD card.

@dankcushions I did say that...