Outrun, Paperboy, Commando, GhostnGoblins, Kung Fu Master, Bubble Bubble, Bomb Jack.

These were the Games that i played on Commodore64 (friends) or on an Apple //e (me) in the 80s

And they were so special to me because i saw the "Originals" in the Arcades in other parts of Europe or the World and was sooooo astonished what Arcade Cabinets were able to do.
To unterstand that: here in Germany Places were Arcade Machines stood were only allowed to be entered by persons with the Are 18+.
So we had never the chance to play or even see those great machines as Kids.

And the love stays on - i still play those games (concerning Retropie: with AdvanceMame) and dont need all that modern stuff while doing that 😊

@RetroJoe you were already answered here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21731/retropie-share-image/

3rd party images are not welcome here

@Dinsdale gamingdisplays.co.uk

@ballboff said in Collectors, how big is your stash of Pi games?:

I don't see the point of this. Scrolling through that many games isn't fun. Take the gamecube for instance, out of the 600 games released, there are only say bout 5 or 6 that are playable.

Wait, what? 5 or 6 playable games on the GC? Er no!

However I do agree that having too many on the Pi is a pain. I've tried to hand curate my collection down to a more reasonable 64GB, and personally I think that's a good limit for the Pi. Any more and it's overkill for me, plus it slows Emulationstation down too. I'm currently trying to manually curate my MAME collection and it is proving hard work, but it has to be done. There are too many obscure puzzle games and mahjong games, clones and many other games that don't work and will never work on the Pi. They have to go. I've got it down to about 1700 right now and I think I'm nearly done. Hope I am anyway! Be nice to just download a finished set but everywhere you look it's complete set or nothing.

I do support the idea of going much further with a more focused setup, say a few dozen titles for each system comprised of games that you know you'll want to play, but I do like the discover-ability of having a nice large MAME set. Like for example, this morning in fact I discovered a marvellous 1983 game I'd never played or even heard of before and it is truly superb - Blaster. Rather than feeling like a retro game it plays more like a modern take on a retro game. Absolutely superb gameplay, and without a good set I would never have found it.

@Rastan80 Nope, it is in no way playable on my overclocked RPi3B, and no way it would be on an overclocked RPi3B+ either.

Pretty sure you would need a PC setup to run this game well. I don't even think the beefier ODROID-XU4 or RockPro64 ARM SBCs would do for this game.

@thelostsoul Wow I was thinking exactly about that...
Thanks about that!

I'll post updates here as soon as I have something ;)

Hello,

Yes, as long as it is powered off the raspberry pi is ready to boot one 'image' or another on any drive.

The ability to boot from usb is possible and it takes some additional programming outlined here. If the usb mode is programmed the ability to boot from a SD card or a USB is granted. Additionally the ability to boot from SD card will be unchanged. Lastly the boot order while powering on will detect a installation on a SD card before a USB.

'Noobs' installation is an easy way to manage start up and it is possible to have multiple operating systems on one disk. Retropie is built on the raspbian distribution which is based on debian linux. Many of the things learned can be applied interchangeably.

Learn a lot, and you're welcome.

@SgtJimmyRustles Yes of course. The restart is the default option but if you change the python script intead of

os.system(scriptDir + "/recalbox_SafeShutdown.sh --restart")

You set the --kodi switch ;)
I recently build a small media center with the BATOCERA system and I would like to play some games and want a Media center. So it's a small gift to myself ;)

The Expansion Pack has been released on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3491239

Additional Details can be found here.

@cyperghost Thanks. I wound up putting the files in a sub-folder of my /home/pi/ folder because, as you said, my roms folder is on a USB drive. Unfortunately, I still couldn't get it to work. Effectively, I had the same error messages. It's a bit of a pity, but I wonder whether any progress has been made on the porting of it in the meantime by @toto2000.

@IanDaemon The Streets of Rage PAK works well. The Ghouls and Ghosts PAK is a fun Beat 'em Up remake. The X-Men PAK is sort of a rough version of the arcade game.

@UDb23 said in Micro PC - i5: best OS & Launcher for emulation ?:

Update on windows testing: latest Dolphin version slightly improves performance (option to use multiple cores seems to help).
P.N.03 and Gauntlet Dark Legacy at 2xIR (720p) without any noticeable slowdown.

How does the original arcade version of GDL run?

@celly

Very nice! I have a v1 myself, so I'll have to do a bit of soldering for this, but it definitely looks worth the effort. Then again, I may just buy a v2. I'm still training off and on in NES 'Tetris'. I went back to the drawing board with some new building strats and while I still haven't cracked 400K yet, I can reliably break 100K on most attempts and 200-300K+ somewhat frequently. The new play style and the speed in higher levels tops me out fairly fast at the moment, but I figure once it becomes routine, 400K+ won't be far behind. Again, those pics are great. Be sure to post back if you can as things progress. It's really nice to see this little guy getting some love.

@quicksilver said in Video : PC games with RaspbianGL:

Or is this new?

Not quite, I just added the tag recently.

If so, then congrats! It's well deserved!

Thanks.

works now. did as specified above and all set. thanks.

@obscuredbyclouds I tested lr-4do on my overclocked 3b+. I tested out road rash, and with threaded dsp enabled the game came very close to being playable. Still a bit slow to be enjoyable but the fmv cut scenes and menus were full speed and loading times were fine. In game I was getting anywhere from 35-50 fps. Other less demanding games might actually run ok but I didnt test beyond road rash since I don't have a big interest in the 3do system.

@quicksilver I'll give it a shot, thanks! Only played the red one briefly to see how the game went.

AdvMame works well for it so I'm sticking with it. Thanks for the tip and a happy Saturday!

Emulationstation accepts the --screensize <width> <height> parameters so it might work to start it in a viewport without mocking with the overscan bands on the display. This, in combination with the RetroArch viewport settings, might enable you to run everything in a custom viewport.
Of course, you might have trouble with console script (i.e RetroPie Setup or any other scripts) and with non-Libretro emulators.

EDIT: you might need to also add --screenoffset <offsetX> <offsetY> in addition to --screensize to position the viewport.