Megadrive doesn't work
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Hi there, complete begginer, so I apologise if I'm missing something obvious. I just can't get Megadrive roms to work. Actually, they work if I switch to DGEN when launching, but neither pico drive nor genesis-plus-gx will work. I select the rom, it opens so I can go into settings, but then it imediatelly closes and I'm back to the rom list. Anyone has any idea of what may be going on?
Many thanks!
Pi Model: 3
RetroPie Version Used: 3.6, updated today using apt-get update/ upgrade, then full binaries
Built From: SD
USB Devices connected:
Controller used: PS3
Error messages received: None, it just clses. Looked for errors in /tmp/runcommand, but it was empty
File: All megadrive roms
Emulator: picodrive and genesis-plus-gx -
That usually means a missing bios... Try to reinstall the emulator via the Retropie config
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I think Megadrive doesn't need BIOS, unless I'm running sega-cd etc. I reinstalled via binaries and it still doesn't work. I'm doing from source now. Thanks!
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Nada. Tried messing with video settings too.
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If you have a spare SD try a clean 3.7, it should work then.
I have found that many times that updating breaks stuff.
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please paste the contents of /tmp/runcommand.log after an unsuccessful load
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Rucommand.log was blank everytime. But I actually solved it, it was a rom problem. The rom set opened fine in my PC's emulators, but I tried downloading another set. Then it worked! Thank you very much.
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old megadrive roms has metadata info from copiers and use mostly *.smd extension , usually *.md and *.bin are pretty clean roms, but to make sure you used the proper ones try verify them with no-intro http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download
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