Sorry I was just referring him upstream to the originating source code authors or some fork. I'm not sure how they decide which versions they want to code next. At one point I think there was some "challenges" between them and the official MAME authors but not so much anymore plus all the forks. It always seems to come from upstream somewhere. You just need to sit downstream as not to do the "heavy" core work! ;)

I think it's bound to happen from time to time, especially when you're mass producing these things.

@kg14 read the forum rules.

How they are doing it is that it's illegal and eBay cares more about getting their cut than the law.

@mediamogul Ok thats good. Yes that is understandable. Code can only be optimized so much and hardware limitations in this case remain constant.

@retrofreak89 I have some input as far as DosBox is concerned, as I have tinkered with this a bit. DosBox distributed with RetroPie has dynamic recompilation enabled by default, and trust me that's what you want (i didn't realize this was possible on a non-x86 CPU at first). With this feature enabled, and if you max out the CPU cycles in the config file you get performance in the area of a 100 MHz x86 CPU, somewhere between a 486 and a Pentium. I've run old DOS games like Blood and Shadow Warrior on the Pi3 and they work well as long as you keep the default low resolution (320 x 200) I believe. Start raising the resolution, and the games quickly start becoming unplayable. I was also able to install Windows 3.1 under DosBox and run the old strategy game Outpost, which was a favorite of mine as a kid. Outpost ran well under Windows 3.1 (after some arm wrestling with the installer) with no sound stutter or other serious issues. Anything more advanced though would likely have issues however, such as War Craft 2 (which I have not tested, but would be delighted to find out it works well).

I would be surprised if this was successfully done by someone. The video for the screen is streamed over a proprietary 5 GHz radio. A gentleman in a previous post said it's based on 802.11n and he could very well be right. Still I think it may be possible through a custom USB adapter of some kind, though the 480mbps throughput limit may turn out to be a constraint, not sure. Is it possible? I believe so yes. Is it something easy to do, almost certainly not. You would probably need to find an engineer to design a custom USB adapter to communicate with the pad.

That's the real trick isn't it, having the support I mean. I think people are just eager for a successor to the Pi3 (myself included) and impatience is getting them to seek alternatives, lol. I hope the next board has a better GPU, as the current one has been stretched as far as it can go I'm thinking. For emulating 2nd through 4th generation consoles, RetroPie has compatibility and convenience I haven't seen with any other solution. And PSX emulation is great also on RetroPie. I just find N64, Dreamcast, and PSP to be somewhat lacking, but I think that's mainly because of the limited GPU in the Pi, to say nothing of the DC's robust FPU.

@petrorie Yeah, that was a dumb question. Ignore it.

The weirdest for me was playing Final Fantasy III on the SNES back in the day, and stumbling upon the Sketch glitch without realizing what had happened.

For those who don't know, Sketch is an ability where you select an enemy and "sketch" it, causing you to instantly use one of its abilities against your enemies. The problem is that when Sketch misses for whatever reason (e.g. spells that cause your target to turn invisible), the game bugs out, and things got weird, usually in a very game-breaking way.

Years later, I found out that this happened because of the way the ability was coded in ASM; when Sketch missed, the algorithm would reference a memory address that contained junk data, and different things would happen, depending on the stored values.

@capeman Well that's leaps and bounds better than my NES/Atari setup

@muehltime ah Attract Mode. Never thought of that. But I'm concerned about after installing and using Attract Mode, will I still be able to boot into Kodi and Rasbian Pixel and vice versa? Also, will my music still be able to be played in the Attract Mode menu ; and still have the ability mute the preview rom video snaps and system preview videos? I'll just have to make a backup of my sd card right before I install Attract Mode, and see how that works out.

Well I was going to add to this list but that's the single most extensive list of 4-player games I've ever seen. Thanks!

I copied the syscard-file only in the bios-folder and didn't change the names of my cues and bins.
Everything runs fine.

It's variable, and I'm still working through them one by one, but yes.

I don't really want to overclock, but Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Kart & Starfox work pretty well. I still have the original console, so although they're not perfect, those ones are pretty decent.

Goldeneye & Perfect Dark seem to need more power to run well. Conker's Bad Fur Day is unplayable. Working on F-Zero X & Wave Race, as I've read they should work without an overclock, but aren't brilliant on mine.

Why do you ask?

Rob

@lilbud screwing with things is what makes it fun, and I wouldnt ruin it. You can always fix things again. :)

@mediamogul Haha! :)

@ortsac said in PS3 Cooling Fans:

@ecks What other devices and controllers do you use the USB? What is power rating on the fan that you will be using? Does it have any labels on it?

There is no label saying anything about the power rating on it which you can see in the images and like i said USB wise for cords i use it for my game controller and phone to recharge the only thing i have left if an old micro usb charger but it is not even 5 volts it is more like 2 or 3 volts instead (was made for a super old flip phone)

@chadz yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyESSSSSSS

Radiohead always have the best surprises.