@TMNTturtlguy - Thanks for your comments! I feel a little better now. Many of the people here who did suffer corruptions were able to diagnose it to a specific cause (losing power; bad power supply; overclocking; etc).

@Neuromante - No offense intended by the "obsessed with finding the best way of doing something" comment; I actually meant that as a compliment. As in, users like you are playing a higher stakes game of poker and pushing the envelope of what is possible with this inexpensive little computer, and then relaying that information back to more novice users like me. So, thanks!

Interesting project idea with the game saves/cloud thing, also!

For purposes of simply backing up the ROM files, I do plan on keeping an uncompressed list of ROMS on a HDD or flash drive that mirrors the one in my ROMs folder on the Pi. Obviously, this would be contained within a full microSD card image, also, but I'd like to have the collection ready to go in case I need to start over (like with a new operating system or different device).

Cyberduck if you're on Mac

I noticed the same thing when Sbake Man launch those little snakes in Mega Man 3. This is the same on the original hardware.

Alright.

@spruce_m00se Slang for achievements ;)

your sdram overclocks could cause sd corruption too i think. possibly the overvoltage also. personally i'd remove all forms of overclocking if you're seeing corruption/instability.

@itsnitro

Birthday Balloon

@meleu

Ha! I'm sure there's an X or three in there somewhere.

Thanks dankcushions. I wanted to know because I would like to buy a raspberry pi 3 model B knowing I can run the Mortal Kombat Games and any 80s arcade game before that. Furthermore, emulating PS1 is better than paying 20 to 50 dollars a game here in the USA. For example, I have a actual PS1 in my apartment but on EBAY Crash Bandicoot 1 is going for 35 to 50 dollars (Black Label Complete).

With prices like that, I might as well get a raspberry pi model 3 someday. Thanks for being patient with me.

Have a good day :-)

My turn !
I use a couple of my old PS3 controllers (no need to review those I think).

I also acquired a Hori Fighting Stick Mini 4, for arcade purpose.
It's a USB 8 buttons arcade stick, small and pretty light, but though and quite stable if put on a coffee table.
I couldn't find better for 30€, and it's also compatible with PS3/4.

@Flavor Yeah I was able to install Raspian Lite with NOOBS and it worked fine. I am building this for a friend and would prefer the RetroPie, so it will just boot into it for him.

@kevreh said in How to reverse lookup emulators if I have roms?:

"if that's the case...don't"......... meaning don't bother looking them up because we know they're for mame? Guessing so. But yes, their zipped up.

Thanks everyone. While I'm thinking of it, what do you guys use, if anything, to validate them before putting them on Retropie? Something like ROM Center or ClrMamePro?

because of the way mame works, starting from random roms is generally the wrong way to go. knowing they are mame is one thing, but you'd need to know which specific romset they are for, which isn't easy.

i wouldn't even rebuild. all the mame emulators in retropie use specific romsets, so just start from there.

@Arcuza said in Where to follow emu development?:

@herb_fargus So for staying tuned with updates on the lr-mupen64plus emulator, I should look at: https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro/commits/master ?

yep! however that's not really getting updated (it's a fork of lr-glupen64, which was abandoned).

to follow the 'cutting edge' standalone mupen64 development, you should watch:
https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core/commits/master (the main emulator framework, plus the CPU emulation, which seems fairly complete at this point)
https://github.com/gonetz/GLideN64/commits/master (the video plugin we use by default - most development happens here)

@mediamogul the screen does have trailing issues but the way i viewed the screens on portables was "if its better than the game gear and the atari lynx screens then its good enough for me." I bought my cdx for $90 from toys r us and when i sold it to the same game store i sold the nomads to (game force) they gave me $175 for it. Being in the business though i have gotten so many awesome deals that most people would kill to get.

@pjft It's a long changelog, take a look at it. For me, its the proper support for system16 games. Performance? ehhhh. lr-fbaalpha is slower than lr-fba2012 in some games, like the konami ones.

Ya... it's hit/miss on which games have the issue. MAME so far. Never had issues with NES games yet. Probably another way around it for sure, but, no keyboard hooked up. Usually start/select together exits, sometimes it just ignores the one button completely and keeps adding coins.

When I make the game console, I plan to add a button to run a shutdown command on the console (not the joystick). Bought a small momentary power switch with a small LED in it, add a resistor and connect to the GPIO's directly. I bought a pack of these and jumper wires as well, for a small guitar amp project with a breadboard, figured sacrifice a few to get the single-pin parts so no soldering to the Pi directly. Though in most cases I'll probably run the shutdown from RetroPie's shutdown screen.

I have a master power switch going in the rear as well, because still need a way to power off the powered USB hub which will power the joysticks and the cooling fan.

Media server is running an old Core2Quad I upgraded from. Was running Win7 for years, but decided to change the case, switch to a fanless GPU, and got a free 32GB SSD drive so, decided to try OpenElec. I have 2 x 3TB drives in the computer as well, and a few computers stream from it in the house, all wired with ethernet, no WiFi. Runs fine... and if I ever need to switch out the other HTPCs, I'll probably use a RaspPi. But, for the main server HTPC on my TV, I'll probably always run a full computer.... though next upgrade, I'm building a case and getting a mini/micro ATX. Looks nice right now, but the new case is noisy, flimsy, and interior layout could be better. I can build something much nicer and more silent... probably for less too. Silverstone Grandia GD09, for the price, very disappointed, but after lots of work, got the noise down and installed a Flirc, internal edition not USB, added a small iR window at the front, can't tell it's there. Works pretty good, pretty impressed with OpenElec... again, tried Ubuntu, installed it twice and still wouldn't even update properly because of repository issues and such... unimpressed.

@madmodder123

The Bally Astrocade version of 'Checkmate' is four players.

@edm203

Great video! I'm a big fan of Gunpei Yokoi. The electro-mechanical games he designed for Nintendo before they got into the video game business are also a marvel and worth looking into for anyone unfamiliar with them. For example, the original 1971 'Duck Hunt' was played in the lanes of converted Japanese bowling alleys and the original 1974 'Wild Gunmen' had people shooting "real" cowboys on 16mm film. Just about everything he designed was a stroke of genius.

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