@capeman I'm more envious of that jungle green N64

@gorgar said in wanted any mini pc recomendations.:

I love the pi and its form factor but I hate I always having to skip the majority of N64 and yes I am aware you can tweak and overclock but I don't want to :) but I have seen videos of people running retopie on their PC and the N64 stuff looks silky smooth so I wonder if anyone has any recommendations to get good performance on any of the new mini PCs and configurations that are out? Thinking of the NUC or anything similar perhaps an old alienware steam machine?

Gigabyte Brix is another. But hell, why not just get a Nvidia Shield TV? It has the oomph to run all of those, plus runs retroarch.

This might work as well: https://www.amazon.com/Beelink-Z83-V-Graphics-x5-Z8350-bluetooth/dp/B073DYLJG5/ref=sr_1_30?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1509200109&sr=1-30&keywords=mini+pc

@cwacha this is something that has always been a confusion due to the various hardware types. It had originally been left bottom, left top but that was confusing too depending on people's vantage point. It's most telling on the Xbox controllers where physically the shoulders are flat buttons whereas as the triggers are actually shaped like triggers as opposed to PlayStation controllers where the top buttons don't have any physical distinction other than placement. Shoulders and triggers are also more common in most gaming communities

In short: bottom = shoulders, if there only two like the SNES then they are shoulders. Top = triggers

I included the diagrams so they reflect the controls and verbage in emulationstation and so there can be no ambiguity.

it was me......god i'm thick........................

nba jam, superstar soccer, wwf wrestlemania - the arcade game, hotgear/ super monaco gp, any nostalgic edition of fifa

Done: https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/commit/68fb68cae367abdfb81e227593be220c7d45cfd6

@battlecat One way to do this would be to do the following:

Scrape all of your roms to make sure all are listed in the gamelist.xml file. Manually edit the gamelist.xml file (usually located in ~/.emulationstation/gamelists/<system>) to remove the unwanted roms. From the main emulationstation screen, push start, then find the option in the menu that says "Parse gamelist.xml file only" or something like that. Reboot your system, then enjoy!

This is how I hide the various bios files as well. Of note, if you add a new system or rom, you'll have to disable the "Parse gamelist.xml" option to see the new roms, unless you've scraped them already.

Good luck!

This sucks i named my games like this disk 1 of 3 disk 2 of 3 etc.. like this site says but it still asks for disk 2 and it wont load it in using Uae4arm can anyone tell me how to load 2nd disks

@caver01 said in Best case to keep raspberry pie 3 cool?:

I suppose I could just setup a nice little beer fridge next to the TV and build my project inside the ice section of that.

It sounds like a man cave in the making! ;)

I've never used anything bigger than 30MM which has always been sufficient. I think more important than bigger is managing air flow (if the Pi is completely enclosed) moving air over the components and exhausting it.

Basically seal the case, manage the air intake to keep negative pressure and it will move toward the fan. Like a PC pulling air from the front/side and venting back/top. I've never been a big proponent for positive pressure even though it will keep dust out better.

You could add a 2nd fan for intake but that just seems overkill unless you're a cooling enthusiast.

My case is completely open on all sides with the fan above the CPU pulling air straight up. I don't think much is going on there except it's pulling hot air straight up which pulls cool air from the sides but it runs very cool.

85c after 10 minutes and still climbing, it had also clocked itself down to 800mhz.

That sounds right as warnings (temp gauge upper right corner) start at 80C and auto-downclocking at 85C. I think optimal is 70C or below to cover all components as some of the miscellaneous chips are rated at lower max temps but I suppose that's harder to nail down the temp of some chip sitting off to the side of the CPU or memory.

@retrofreak89

the little i played it was ok. the version you tried is still way better, but as you pointed i just will not play. so one will have to lower ones expectations of what it will look like.

as for bugs. i did not come across any.

i cant imagine how tedious this must be to play, I had it on the saturn, it was a nightmare compared to a pc,
Dune 2 on the megadrive is a great game, but urgently needs a mouse to make it playable on any decent scale

@pokeengineer He has it running on the pi. But progress will be slow since he is working on this by himself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNES/comments/74oeid/working_on_an_snes_frontend_for_raspberry_pi/

@herb_fargus Ah right, thanks for your help. I did not realise that. I think I need to do some more research to learn more about it. Apologies if I broke any rules. Thanks Again

@jonnykesh thats what im asking tho how do i find out the name in the header?

Cause when i ran that command "/opt/retopie/emulators/mupen64plus/bin/mupen64plush.sh mupen64plus-video-rice rom name"

replacing romname with MARIOKART64 nothing happened, but when i typed the full rom name with the .z64 extension at the end, it worked.

RETROPIE WOOOOOOO. Love this community and every thing it brings. Lets keep making Retropie even better then it all ready is.

@mitu the fix is already in Raspbian Jessie.

They're using Kodi only for the front-end, in the back-end they're still using the same emulators and libretro/Retroarch to play the games - https://seedisystem.com/about/seedi-open-source-software-information/ .
The only novelty here is that they're introducing the CD emulator to read the data from the physical device and - I'm just guessing - present it as a regular pair of .cue/.bin files for the emulator to understand.
They're also promising (the same page as above) that they'll open source upon launch their CD emulation layer, so maybe there is hope in the future (if their project succeeds).