@BreadPie said in Any alternatives to symlinks for organizing non-libretro savegames?:

I just get "Failed to create symbolic link" and "Operation not permitted"

That's because the filesystem ( the roms folder ) doesn't understand symlinks.

Thanks for your reply mitu! I want to configure advmame with joypad (I have all controls except analog sticks and this I want) for this reason I cant access to "tab" menu (only if use keyboard plug) but I cant plug to cm3 the usb keyboard for this reason I think the solution is virtual keyboard.....but if I cant do this....I search other options ^^'' Thanks for your reply! (If I only play with GP430 I done but If I want the limit of the GP430 I can only try, mod & fix =) )Thanks again!

@BreadPie thanks! I was hoping there was a more elegant solution, but I’ll try just spreading the saves around the other VMUs for the games that support that.

The Mac version of Redream doesn’t have shared VMUs, so hopefully a future update will sort the Retropie version in this regard.

@XEntombmentX Make sure you understand what that entails - you'll have to maintain the custom configuration manually. Each time a new system is added (you install a new emulator) you'll have to manually copy the new system entries from the system config to the custom one.

I'm not sure the download location has changed, I don't see the doc page reference a precise location for each system. The cheats are downloaded from the Libretro buildbot AFAIK, not directly via git, the archive is generated from https://github.com/libretro/libretro-database. Both have been restored after the hack incident a while ago, so it shouldn't be an issue.

@xNYARLx you should open a new topic instead commenting on a post from four years ago. Please provide the information requested at: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Only lr-picodrive supports multi-disc games. Are you using that emulator for your multidisc games? Details about the Sega-CD emulators can be found in the docs here: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sega-CD/

@mitu Thanks for looking at it, keeping the files in zip format :)

Not that I know of.

You might have accidentally created the music folder with root permissions and the pi user does not have access to it. Try changing the owner of the folder with

sudo chown pi:pi $HOME/RetroPie/roms/music

and re-try.

@funkotron77 Again, I see nothing. Maybe also check the /var/log/syslog, but without grep to see every message. A simple cat /var/log/syslog will show it, and you could copy & paste the last part of the output. To be sure, you could look at it before and after the remount command, to check for changes (the same goes for dmesg).

After that, alas, I'm out of ideas. I never had to deal with something similar myself yet.

@Skervix Enable your tv's game mode. That's the best you can do. Run the pi4 at 1080p. I also recommend rtings.com. They measure the input lag of many tv's.

You'll find MAME 2010 in the "optional" packages in RetroPie setup. It isn't installed ex-factory.

Ok, thank you

@mitu Oh wow, I didn't know about the sortname tag, that is useful. I'm grouping other titles together right now as well, thanks.

@mitu , @lostless & @Clyde - You all are great. I swear I looked at the Sega CD Docs at least a dozen times, and my eyes just completely glossed over the order of the emulators/BIOS instructions. ROMS loading now without any issue.

Thanks again!!

The only thing that would have a say in this are the kernel/firmware updates. What kind of Wi-Fi setup do you have (2.5ghz, 5ghz) ?

As a diagnostic, run dmesg | sudo tee /boot/dmesg.txt and post the dmesg.txt - you can read it from the PC if you put the sdcard in.

@XEntombmentX Ah shucks that happened to me the first time too.
For future reference, when done transferring files, right click the disk in the manager and select "Flush Cache to Disk" and then it's ok to remove the drive.
I should have mentioned that.

Glad it solved your initial problem.

@escc1986 i'm sure it's possible to optimize the new 3d engine for the pi4, as the emulator itself is currently using the old 3d engine only for pi4... someone could modify the open-source supermodel code if they had the skill.