@nbk Great find!

@Rion Here you go !
Based on your list, FBA .39 resolutions calculated and added to Resolution Database: this is the updated link for download.
Added you in the readme file as source of the list ;-)

Some items in your list were not recognized by the program: for some of those I was able to find and add data manually, with some others no luck (e.g. 1942c64... *demo ... *frog ... *drumkit..). FBA resolution db still provides display info for 4132 games !

Add me to that too. Just wanted to say thanks to Loganmc10 for the absolutely amazing work done on N64 for the Pi! I'm still on 4.0.2 and that is fantastic, so to hear it's even better with the latest update is just incredible.

@mammaplank Good to know you like it! :-)

If you solved your issue, please mark this topic as Solved. It improves the forum's quality. ;-)

Cheers!

@Wizardling Also a gold choice to change password. Annother solution is to use the import feature .... But use the hashed PW value instead.

Every hash consits of a HEX value. So it does not matter if you used special Characters.

@mediamogul I think it will work fine once it is configured. The question is does Retropie let you calibrate analog controls that use pots? If so, how?

Thanks!

@edmaul69 said in I need help using a scanline overlay on a CRT:

@simillarian @starquake @dankcushions @Floob i added this in my /opt/retropie/configs/nes/retroararch.cfg

video_fullscreen_x = 320 video_fullscreen_y = 240

and i got it in fullscreen 320x240. wouldnt this fix @simillarian 's problem? i also removed the video setting from run command menu right before a game starts

That won't work. There are three resolutions used when emulating games using retroarch on a Pi. The game resolution (e.g. 240P), the retroarch output resolution (could be 240P as in your example) and the resolution that the Pi uses for it's video output (for composite it's 480i or 576i) which is set in /boot/config.txt. Let's assume 480i in this discussion.

The problem is, even if you get retroarch to output 240P, the Pi will upscale it to 480i and alternate displaying odd and even lines on alternate frames. If you emulate scanlines (by shader or overlay) you will lose either the odd frames or the even ones effectively show a blank frame every other frame. As starquake said, this effectively cuts your frame rate in half. If you have a game that relies on showing or not showing something on alternate frames for transparency effects, you'll only get to see those frames that show (or not) something and the transparency effect will be lost. Even if you don't use games that rely on transparency, you'll only be seeing half the frames which will spoil animation effects and make the screen seem to lag.

@simillarian, You say you have a Trinitron TV. Does it have some form of RGB input? If so, you could use a HDMI to RGB adapter or a Gert VGA adapter to enable you to get a 240P signal you could feed into your TV.

Wow very useful tip. I am very new to all this.
Thank you very much!

@Dochartaigh yes. A lot of the genesis cables have loose pins and these style of connectors generally have a tighter fit.

I was reading through this today and found the following steps worked for me..

Go to your retropie menu
then select retropie setup
then managed packages
then manage optional packages

then install from binary

The Amiga and Dreamcast then installed onto my retro pi once I rebooted it

@hansolo77 said in Problem with Genesis/MegaDrive USB adapters (RetroUSB and Mayflash brand):

Would you be against buying a 3rd party controller?

I'm a stickler for the originals I must say. I've had bad luck with pretty much every single after market controller I've ever tried going back even to the 80's. Even had bad luck with 2x 8BitDo's everybody seems to love. Only lately, ~20 years later, am I having problems with the real console controller brands for the first time (and even that's not their fault as they're now antiques, and I'm using them on a computer and not a console).

@edmaul69 said in Problem with Genesis/MegaDrive USB adapters (RetroUSB and Mayflash brand):

the biggest issue is the cables are crap.

I'll deal with re-wiring them if I have to, in like another 20-30 years when the controllers are going for $100+ each because they're so rare ;)

Right now I have working properly: 4x+ NES controllers, 2x SNES, 3x Genesis, 2x PS1, 2x PS2, and a bunch of Xbox 360 wireless controllers....so even though it took me a ton of trial and error I have at least a set for each proper console I emulate so I'm just leaving it at that. It was just a shame that it took so much trial and error to get to this point. I want to have a 2-player set of controllers for each console, and a backup or two so I'll probably pickup another SNES and Genesis controller, but that's about it.

@BuZz Thanks, yep I was using the Samba-Shares option, but it was weird, initially none of the folders or files under roms, bios, or configs were showing.
After leaving it up for several hours then coming back and trying again, it let me get into the roms folder, so I deleted a few Dreamcast roms, and it's working now. very odd.

@sabelstrom

Here is my pictures.

On this boot i got a bad resolution and i do not know why..

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So the one in the link does work or not?

EDIT: found other Your posts, so it's the working one :)

@meleu Tried to replicate the issue one more time and now its working fine.

bangs head against desk

After entering 'attract-mode' into the command line, I was able to get it to work. There doesn't seem to be any art readily available, so I'll follow Floob's video instructions on how to download everything into the required folders. I'll ask for help again if I run into any other problems.

Thanks :-).