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  • Best Games for a Retro Gaming Tournament / "Decathlon"!

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    @backstander My kid can't get the B-class license on the original PlayStation Gran Turismo.

  • Is Overclock an Option or a Must? + Pi3B

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    synackS

    @omiez It's not a must, but it will help with some games.

    Here's a guide: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Overclocking

  • Possible to make Custom ROM Lists?

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    columboscoatC

    @MWGemini Cheers. Might try it out on my MAME ROMs. Maybe group into years or genre.

  • I was a fanboy

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    The PS1 had somewhate "simplified" 3d capabilities compared to the Nintendo 64. For instance, PSX didn't have any sort of camera perspective correction, so moving the camera would stretch/warp shapes. Of course you probably wouldn't notice this since SONY did textures better than Nintendo. The biggest downfall of the N64 (well graphics-wise at least) was the 4K texture size. I resulted on blurry, ugly, stretch out textures. Combine that with Hardware AA, and the result was pretty much always blurry.

    It was weird playing N64 on Retropie The first time with smoothing off, because it looked so much better than the actual N64 hardware.

    In the end, SONY probably made the smarter choice to go with less advance hardware and No AA. It didn't hurt that they had great marketing and went after an older audience that was probably a better fit for the system.

  • Bubble Bobble Lost Caves?

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    DorkVonWaterfallD

    Cheers mate, got it working

  • Button size preference

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  • Waiting on my first pi :)

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    @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.

  • It used to be about the games, maaaaan!

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    @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.

  • "Don't break everything!"

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

  • svg vs png

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    CapemanC

    @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.

  • How can I install DOS games ?

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    @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

  • Arcade Racing Games that are available for Pi

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

  • NES Classic Mini Hacking

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    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".

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  • PSX and Final Fantasy

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    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.

  • Problemas con Arcade en Mame

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    rbakerR

    @meleu google was my friend :/

  • Curse you RetroPad!

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    meleuM

    @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.

  • IPAC / XIN-Mo etc etc ... USB Suggestions?

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    @Graboid

    Thanks anyways :) I have opened a new post.

  • bloody roar 2 on rpi2

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    updated it and no performance gain sadly :(

  • Best Emulator / ROM Set for saving high scores?

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    @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/)

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