I do agree the lists need complete overhaul as some games that ran flawlessly, now don’t work (Pokemon Snap)

@thedatacereal You're welcome. :)

@quicksilver

heya. yeah. havin no luck getting this chd convertor to work. i'm gonna keep trying, but so far, no dice. i can't even tell which version im running because the thing just crashes in wine.

*EDIT

just got it to work. finally found a chd converter that worked in wine with gdi files. first one tested was ikaruga which came out to 73 mb (as you said). this is insane. just converting the 4 dreamcast games on my retropie to chd should free about 2 gigs.

thanks again

@herb_fargus thanks herb appreciate the feedback! I will take your advice and post my proposed changes here for feedback first. I have got N64 running well on my pi (at least for most games anyone cares about). So I'd like to share my tweaks that have made it a more enjoyable experience. Thanks again.

Although I like to "earn my spurs" sometimes, I think that anyone should play their games like they want. For the vast majority of people, games are for having fun, after all.

So, if someone wants to play all unlockable content from the start, I'll gladly let them. RetroArch officially supports cheats, after all.

Another situation in which unlocked saves and cheats are very handy are gaming parties where people just want to have fun. Even hardcore gamers do that from time to time.

@fruitybit

I was aware of the contest when it was going on, but had too much on my plate to participate at the time. Between all the various puzzles and programming an actual 2600 game, I still can't get over how much effort was put into it. Such a great promotion.

@brigane

For my DOSBox setup, I have mouse control set to a toggle. By default my left thumbstick acts as the standard joystick for DOSBox, but with a button press it's able to control mouse movement. I also have it set to change the two joystick buttons to left and right mouse clicks. This works well for the Atari ST and Amiga systems too, as several games need to be launched from an emulated desktop environment. Once the game is launched, I press the toggle button again and it reverts back to being a joystick. All that said, I still use a mouse and keyboard when I feel they're better suited. It all depends on the situation and the game.

@clyde That's alright.

I do want to do the soft links again for another ROM related project in the future. So I would love to remove that copying and pasting step. The project would be simply to make a separate system for GB and GBC games that have two player game link support between two identical games with, obviously, lr-tgbdual as the emulator. Of course, this being GB and GBC, the identical copies wouldn't be as bad space-wise as Neo Geo was.

@mitu said in Spectrum Next Emulator:

@ballboff Has any game actually been released for the new system, one that would use the new features added to the system ?

Yeah the one that I mentioned is called "dungeonette" and it uses the full colour palette of the new system. There are also some demos knocking about and i've heard rumours about a new dizzy game in the works...

about ports. im not a linux master so dont blame me ;) but it would be marvelous to make VCMI (open-source heroes of might and magic 3 engine) run on retropie. it offers few linux versions, maybe it would be possible ?

https://wiki.vcmi.eu/Installation_on_Linux

looking forward for a lot of new ports for raspi
cheers ;)

@hansolo77 said in Differential Backup Utility?:

Is there any "for dummies" documentation somewhere or some simple instructions?

https://www.ixquick.com/do/search?q=rsync+for+dummies ;)

We can build mupen64plus/ Glide64mk2 but it runs really bad. I don‘t know why but it is the slowest graphics plugin available.

@matchaman said in Would it be possible to have retropie emulate an actual Neo Geo MVS?:

FBA emulates the Neo Geo flawlessly from what I can tell.

I remember reading fba (actually a fork called fba-rr including recording tools) is the recommended emulator for neogeo speedrun, because of its accuracy.

@mikozzz Can you check the log file to see where ES gets stuck ? It's in /home/pi/.emulationstation/es_log.txt.

oh snap! Didn't notice this was out! Will have to try it out soon! Thanks for the thread :)

For the Nes I discovered Fire and Ice on emulation, I wish I bought that game back in the day. Not for the sake of the value, but just pure for the gameplay.
It's a great puzzle game if you're interested ;)

@supercatfooz But don't worry TS still can play tons of great retro games on the Pi.

@petrorie It is probably because the tech have some other disadvantages than scanlines only, making the image worse, which you may dislike. The emulation together with LCD displays have "perfect" image, clear from any pincushion etc and color corruption duo to ntsc standard and cables (consumer or rgb?). Plus the consumer tvs have worse scanlines than the good scanlines we used to emulate. On NES emulator, I use blargg's NTSC filter to add additional artifacts, even if I didn't have a NTSC console and grown up with superior PAL system (at least superior in image quality). I like it the bad way. ;-)

Btw, funny enough I posted several hours ago something related to your statement. I show there, why I use shaders on my crt monitor. Thats right, I got crt monitor and still use crt shader on it. :D Its just because I can't run them in native resolution, sadly. Here if you want see the comparison (jumps right to my posting): https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/4046/crt-pi-shader-users-reduce-scaling-artifacts-with-these-configs-in-lr-mame2003-lr-fbalpha-lr-nestopia-and-more-to-come/280

@andrewh said in RetroPie on the 3B+:

Now that RetroPie 4.4 is out, I’m thinking of upgrading my bartop.

I have a Pi 3B+ to hand, and since it looks like I’ll need to pretty much do-over from scratch, I’m thinking to swap it in to replace the current 3B.

Can anyone who’s got it working comment on relative performance & temperature? i.e. is it worth it?

I appreciate that my WiFi is quicker for transferring and scraping. I appreciate that my DS4 controller pairs when it didn't before. Other than that, I hvan't noticed too much difference between the 3B and 3B+ outside of those things and maybe a little more stability in emulationstation.

As far as temperatures go, it's cooler. I have a fan powered on mine though, so I'm not one who checks temps or anything. Sorry.

I manage a RetroPie image for my brother and cousin as well, so the transfer speeds made it worth it for me. If you aren't tweaking it much at this point, I would say it isn't worth it.