@meleu @buzz thanks for your help! much appreciated.

@chillyboy

Most of these games are between 30 and 40 years old. Playing them on a HDTV highlights how low-definition/pixelated they truly are. To alleviate that for those who don't like the pixel aesthetic, filters have been created to smooth things out in different ways depending on the filter being used. The smoothing example given above is a popular approach and not very processor intensive, but some people find it too blurry for their tastes.

There are also filters like this that try to take a middle ground by smoothing the pixelation, while sharpening the resulting edge, but some people find this approach too unnatural or plasticy. Something that seems to satisfy purists and revisionists alike is to recreate a CRT look on your LCD monitor like this. Personally, I take the path of least resistance and leave the games in their unfiltered pixelated glory, but at the end of the day, it's all about personal preference. The question you have to ask is, which one of the many compromises is least objectionable to yourself.

@General_Toxic wow! Your post is pretty confusing buddy!
What exactly did you change? What files?

@rbaker, @caver01 - thanks for clearing things out... I must have missed something in the video tutorial I found :)

ohhh
ok.
Thanks so much for your effort!!!
Keep us informed!

@backstander

Great work, that did it! Thanks very much!

@Omar007 in that retroarch config is there a payer 1 and player to joypad index? If so set both player 1 and 2 to joypad 0. Or if lr-snes9x-next is available on there it should be fixed to swap the players in all stars.

@Floob said in X-Arcade support:

Have you seen this video?

lso, please provide a bit more info:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Watched this video and it explained a lot. Do you know the extra steps to program the track ball?

I got this fixed. First I set up the PS3 controller "manually" using this post as a guide:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/3ye3f0/cant_manage_to_configure_dreamcast_controls/

Then, I did the first two things on this post (1 - disabled emulationstation's automatic configuration of reicast and 2 - modified reicast's config so it attempts to "read" the proper joysticks from /dev/input)

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2869/reicast-not-detecting-xbox-360-controller-partially-solved

I noticed that when the keyboard was hooked up it was controller id 0, and the PS3 was Id1. With no keyboard the PS3 controller was Id0 and worked. So I told it to look for id1. But then it stopped configuring the controller in reicast, so I had to do it manually.

Now the PS3 controller works - would be nice if I didn't have to tell it which controller in case the numbers change, but it works and that's what really matters.

There is this project that is building the gamelist and art based on the output of my scraper and other sources https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-gamelists It requires that things are named like no-intro set.

Another option is to run my scraper from another system and just copy over the gamelist and images. I make versions available for almost everything (I don't have FreeBSD but now that I'm running that I may add it)

You can download here:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases

And the basic instructions are unzip the zip and place the scraper executable in the rom folder and from a command line change directory to the rom folder and run ./scraper or scraper.exe on windows. That will create a gamelist.xml and images folder that you can copy over.

@ruxton_bruce I'm glad you have it sorted out. I've opened an issue to track adding a check for bin files named the same as the cue. I imagine that it is common enough that the emulator handles it. https://github.com/sselph/scraper/issues/100

@vretro can mount /tmp on tmpfs. If we did that by default there would be out of memory issues

ok. there is no cheaper way to get a few more USB devices onto the zero? I do not know why the first controller connected to the hub works, but the others don't. have I misconfigured retropie?!

@SA_Drone an option has been added the scraper module to scrape your metadata into rom folders as well

@challenger2010 Yeah and even on Dragons Lair 2 the overlays go away after you get past the first level. After that you only get the visual queues just like in DL1 and Space Ace.

@DM24 Are you running Win32DiskImager as Admin?

@caver01 Actually, What I needed was very simple. I had recently soft modded my 3ds but couldn't find anywhere on how to edit specific roms. I wanted to view vertical roms horizontally.

However in the future I may look into making a mame system with a RP3. Thanks for the help I'm trying this out today

@senkun thanks for the reply yes I have done this and the buttons work fine in emulationstation so then I ssh over some snes Roms started playing one and it keeps bring up the Retroach menu also the screen goes black for a few seconds somtimes