RetroAchievements in a Nutshell

hooperre

@meleu My man! Just a heads up, the list of NES games gives me a 404. I was playing OG Legend of Zelda on the default NES emulator (FECuMM? Can't ever remember the letters.) But I like Nestopia as my default NES emulator. Opened my saved game to find out I wasn't getting cheevos with Nestopia, but was with FCUMM, or whatever. A list of supported Emulators would be pretty helpful IMO. Or did I do something wrong? Haha.

cyperghost

@meleu I'll step into this ;) I think it's good to use this thread as encourgement. Without you my friend I did not even know that such a system is available :)
And I think I'm not alone with that statement.

meleu

@hooperre said in RetroAchievements in a Nutshell:

the list of NES games gives me a 404.

fixed. Thanks!

A list of supported Emulators would be pretty helpful IMO.

Damn! How could I forgot to write about that?!?! I've updated the OP with this info. Thanks again! ;-)

By the way, RetroAchievements doesn't work with Nestopia. :(

meleu

@cyperghost after creating your account, don't forget to send me a friend request! ;-)

obsidianspider

cyperghost

@meleu Time to compete ;)

cyperghost

@meleu
Now I'm ready for earning cheevos and satisfied with the setup

A Former User

@meleu So I’m switching to hardcore mode as the achievements don’t make sense outside of hardcore mode.

I see there is a way to reset all achievements. Is there a way to reset all non-hardcore achievements?

P.S. Sent ya a friend request on there too. :)

meleu

@livefastcyyoung said in RetroAchievements in a Nutshell:

Is there a way to reset all non-hardcore achievements?

There's no such filter there.

But keep in mind that when you earn a cheevo in hardcore mode you actually get two cheevos, the hardcore and the "softcore". That's why hardcore cheevos worth double points.

Then, if you reset a softcore cheevo that you got in the hardcore way, you're actually thowing out some of your points.

I hope I was clear. :-)

P.S.: Friend request accepted.

A Former User

@meleu Guess I’ll just go back and get the hardcore version of all the softcore ones I’ve got then! 😎

Thanks!

A Former User

@meleu Is there a way to activate leaderboard participation on RetroPie?

meleu

@livefastcyyoung not (yet). The implementation already started, but needs more coding. I'll post here when it's ready to use. ;-)

A Former User

@meleu Excellent. Just broke an achievement score of 10,000 today. I’m coming for your 30,000+! ;)

meleu

@livefastcyyoung what game?

A Former User

@meleu Just the overall achievement score on RetroAchievements.

meleu

@livefastcyyoung oh! Now I've got it! ;)
Let's go to the 100k!! :)

meleu

Somebody else also wrote about RetroAchievements here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/RetroAchievements

meleu

@livefastcyyoung said in RetroAchievements in a Nutshell:

@meleu Is there a way to activate leaderboard participation on RetroPie?

just a heads up: yes, currently there's a way to activate leaderboards on RetroArch. Details on the wiki page:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/RetroAchievements

meleu

Hello fellows,

I spent most of my free time in the past couple of months working on the RetroAchievements Documentation Project:
https://retroachievements.github.io/

It's a good resource for those who want to learn to create achievements (although it has some info for regular users too).

I hope you enjoy!

BillyH

Seems like a lot of achievements are either unobtainable, or have glitched counters though.

Example:
http://retroachievements.org/Game/401