@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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Hi All, I'm back. To thank you of all the support I have written my configuration experience here:
http://sasadangelo.altervista.org/how-to-transform-kodi-media-center-retro-game-platform/

Feel free to share and if I missed important things let me know in comments or here.

i actually happen to have 2 Circus Charlie prints for my arcademachines (i have 2 upright cabinets and a upright racecabinet ) but both prints have gfx errors :-( lucky for me i have 60-70 other games to choose from.

love to play that game though....but Psychic5 is my alltime favourite. And Mag Max, and Gyruss and,and and.....

As for now, the only true alternative to a physical collection are flashcarts along with an a mod like UltraHDMI.

the pi1 b (512mb version) isn't to bad... and can run some PSX games...

I was able to play pac man world on it using the .cue/.bin extracted from the disk with no problems as well as a couple others (crash bandicoot and such)

though more graphic intensive games like Tony Hawk was unplayable...

and N64 on Pi1 was near impossible...

@obsidianspider I love James and Mike but I found this video a little frustrating. Maybe because I have to play this all the time and know the rules. I was surprised they didn't realize how to screw over the other player :)

Just go for a PS3 controller. Now mind you, you need to plug in the PS3 controller via microUSB, then finding ps3controller on the RetroPie setup.

This should probably help you.

@hawsey I'm also building my own arcade cab (bartop arcade). I'd be interested in seeing how everything turns out.

@juniorug Works fine here. I'm using the USA version of Side Pocket. Try updating retropie.

@cafarellidigital

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@GtBFilms I didn't know the ad for my bike made it all the way there! :)

@Gnakula Works fine here in lr-fbalpha. Make sure you're using the correct romset.

Actually there was no response of apathy from myself.

The files were included as a genuine error (being in devs/kickstarts) and were not even correctly located for use as the main bios files for Amiberry.

The files were removed at windale's request , however, the reason for my dislike and removal of his comments from GitHub were a result of him posting there about the WHDbooter , on a page for another area of my the project (the config maker), and continuing to post on the matter despite me making this point to him.

As is clear from the language used above , the intent was purely to annoy, and given that he previously has caused issues on the Facebook (taking , rather badly , responses to requests which there was not capacity to resolve in the time he wanted), and had falsely claimed he did not use Facebook (accounts across several sites are not that hard to follow) I stand by my response to him,

Whilst I too do not condone piracy, my personal opinion on the matter of older bios files may differ to some... ( considering I still own a considerable amount of Amiga hardware with this rom data) nonetheless, I still removed files and it is irrelevant to the main RetroPie project here , and I would always respect the wishes of this forum... i would note this is why I have never posted regarding my project/Private Facebook group on this site, since reference may be made to using easy to obtain (google) files which anyone can download.

I hope this explains my position on this matter, and thank you to Buzz for removing personal details.

@lilbud I see 😀