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Help with these Sega/Snes bios files??

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    RetroFreak89
    last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 00:58

    Good evening all

    Today i downloaded the no intro roms set for
    Snes and Sega Genesis but i found out it has a bunch of bios files like Sega laserdisc and Sega CD bios files and the snes one had stuff like DSP1,2,3 bios files and others....
    My previous set i used disnt have these but where do i put them????
    Do i put them in the bios folder or do i put them in the roms folder or both or what...
    Not sure
    Can anyone tell me please???
    Its alot too i think Sega has like 10-15 bios files lol and snes has like 10 not sure where to put them i think they just go in the roms folder?

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      Darksavior @RetroFreak89
      last edited by Darksavior 9 Mar 2017, 02:06 3 Sept 2017, 01:05

      @retrofreak89 There's no guesswork to this. Only segacd needs 3 bios files.
      https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Supported-Systems

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        RetroFreak89 @Darksavior
        last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 01:06

        @darksavior So i can skip all the snes ones??
        Where does the Sega bios go?
        Or is that in the link let me check it...

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          Darksavior @RetroFreak89
          last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 01:07

          @retrofreak89 link has all your answers.

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            herb_fargus administrators @RetroFreak89
            last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 01:07

            @retrofreak89 read the docs. They tell you all you need to know.

            If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

            Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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              edmaul69 @RetroFreak89
              last edited by edmaul69 9 Mar 2017, 03:00 3 Sept 2017, 01:59

              @retrofreak89 sega cd bios normally go in the bios folder, but some people had to put them in the roms folder. They have to be unzipped. This link tells you what bios are used for what emulator. With retropie generally if you see a bios, with similarities in the names, you just rename them to what the pi wants them named to. And everything that is caps and lowercase have to be named exactly how the help pages list them. Snes and genesis dont require a bios.

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                Darksavior @edmaul69
                last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 02:29

                @edmaul69 said in Help with these Sega/Snes bios files??:

                @retrofreak89 sega cd bios normally go in the bios folder, but some people had to put them in the roms folder.

                Those people are just doing trial and errors without reading any documentation. They go in the bios folder and nowhere else.

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                  edmaul69 @Darksavior
                  last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 02:36

                  @darksavior i just helped someone yesterday and he had the files in the bios folder. As soon as he put them in the roms folder they worked. There has been several people who had to do this with psx, sega cd and and other cd based bios'. Just because it is supposed to be in the bios folder doesnt means that is true in everyones case. And there are several emulators that they are listed that the bios' have to go into the roms folder.

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                    edmaul69 @Darksavior
                    last edited by edmaul69 9 Mar 2017, 04:00 3 Sept 2017, 02:55

                    @darksavior since i have nothing else going on i decided to figure out why some people have to use the roms folder. if the retroarch.cfg in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ does not have the line:

                    system_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS"
                    

                    in it or it is hashtagged out, then you do in fact have to have the bios in the roms folder. also i would assume people who use rgui to edit their retroarch.cfg files can cause this to happen even with it correct in the main retroarch.cfg

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                      Darksavior @edmaul69
                      last edited by Darksavior 9 Mar 2017, 05:38 3 Sept 2017, 04:38

                      @edmaul69 People also tend to mess with the retroarch.cfg or anything else without knowing much and it all comes down to user error. I've edited the cfg countless times and never got that problem. Might be caused by people that delete their cfg and generate a new one which might not be setup for retropie. Also, 3rd party images.

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                        jonnykesh
                        last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 04:45

                        No Intro ROM sets do not contain all that crap. Get the real set.

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                          edmaul69 @Darksavior
                          last edited by 3 Sept 2017, 05:13

                          @darksavior me i like manually doing everything. I have learned so much about the different configs on the pi by studying them and testing different things on them.

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                            jonnykesh @edmaul69
                            last edited by jonnykesh 9 Mar 2017, 06:37 3 Sept 2017, 05:17

                            Haha @edmaul69 Just tell OP that No Intro sets do not come with that sort of nonsense. Please.

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                              edmaul69 @jonnykesh
                              last edited by edmaul69 9 Mar 2017, 07:37 3 Sept 2017, 06:32

                              @jonnykesh he says he has the no intro rom sets. I cant tell if he is correct or not since i dont know where he got them from.

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