Trouble hiding bios (not showing in game list)

mancity

Hi guys I’m trying to hide for example the neogeo bios but when I go to the neogeo game list connected using winscp, it isn’t showing on there? I watched a YouTube video showing this as a way of hiding bios/ unwanted Roms but for some reason the neogeo bios isn’t in the game list but DOES show listed I RetroPie - any ideas?

mitu

Did you have the 'Parse gamelist only' option set ? When set, Emulationtation will not look in the folder, but it will just read the gamelist.xml file.

mancity

@mitu it’s currently set to off

mitu

@mancity So the BIOS file appears in Emulationstation, but it's not on disk ?

mancity

@mitu it’s in the folder with the games physically and in RetroPie it’s there (and I want to hide it). That parse setting is off so am I right in saying if parse is off it literally just lists every rom and bios that’s there but if I turn parse on it then uses the game list? I did have a look at that setting previously but it reverted all the settings I’d changed! 😂

mitu

@mancity What emulator are you using for NeoGeo ? If you're using lr-fbalpha, you can move the neogeo.zip bios file in the BIOS folder, outside of your neogeo folder and it should work.

mancity

@mitu please can you tell me the file location to move the bios to? Sorry :(

mitu

@mancity I'm confused, how did you install your system ?

mancity

@mitu it was about a year ago so tbh I have forgotten a lot of it.

mitu

@mancity Just move the BIOS file in the BIOS folder. If you're using file shares, you should have a bios share, similar to the roms share.

mancity

@mitu @mitu I moved it to /home/pi/RetroPie/bios and it is using the emulator you mentioned but the games don’t work now? Is there a different location to buy the bios then?

mitu

@mancity Try using /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/fba. If that doesn't work, you'll have to put it back with the ROMs.

cyperghost

@mancity Another method that sometimes work is to rename file extension from zip to ZiPfor BIOS only. This will not work in Windows you need Unix for this. What also can work is to repack the file 7zip und remove 7z and 7Z from config file es_systems.cfg

reeebs

I use to set bios roms as “hidden” (you can do this in that page containing each file info: name, producer, cover path, year of release, and so on...)
you will still see hidden files in “normal” use, so I switch to kiosk mode (where hidden files are not shown)
when have to do some modification or trick, I easy switch back to “normal” mode by a short controller combo password (default is up up down down left right left right A B) and then when done switch back again to kiosk mode.
this way everything works great, and I am also sure that casual users (friends, or my kids too) can’t mess up with my system (kiosk mode disables almost all configuration switch and options)