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...

@edmaul69

Hi mate, no i cannot set them, well , yes i can but then if i try using the custom viewport setting to lets say 352 x262 (somehow my Sony PVM does not take the 224 so i have to go with 262 but still looks great) for PC engine legend of hero Tonma while booted in the config.txt as something else like 256x262 (for the rest of pc engine games) then the sizing does not work...it's driving me nuts

One good thing doh, using just the config.txt dcmi_cvt settings, i can obtain near perfect native resolution for just about anything..
That's why i am looking for a way to use that somehow as it gives me the best results but just not so workable as i have to reboot and adjust the config.txt cdmi_cvt settings each time..
such a shame as this pi 3 with retro pie is able to make it work for the all what matters here for me and that is true native res for all! just amazing really

@Lyle_JP thanks for this. Never heard of it. My nieces will love this.