What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?

pjft · 26 Jan 2019, 13:16

@quicksilver well, that one did happen though.:)

The new BIOS location only came to be in August 2018:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Dreamcast/_history

The BIOS folder is where it had been prior to that. I had come from a 4.2 setup (maybe older? It was 2016 or so) and that's where I kept my Dreamcast BIOS files before.

quicksilver · 26 Jan 2019, 14:06

@pjft I'm so confused...was there a commit that automatically moved the bios to /bios/dc/? Because that's where mine are located but I don't ever remember having to move them into the dc folder. And I setup Dreamcast on my pi over a year ago. I guess it doesn't really matter, I just need to finally get set up on RP 4.4. I appreciate all your help with this. When I am done with the migration I'll report back if it works.

pjft · 26 Jan 2019, 16:29

@quicksilver I'm not sure if that happened - only if RetroPie-Setup did that in an upgrade hook. But I'm not sure that would have happened.

In my case, I reinstalled a fresh 4.4 image on a SD card I had lying around and surprisingly (or not), Reicast does not come installed, so the thought of it being the binary that came with 4.4 goes up in smoke.

However, that led me to something different: if I install Reicast from binary, it seems to work just like I have it. If I compile from source, it doesn't. I'm looking into the source of this to check whether that is 100% accurate, or whether there's something else at play here.

So, instead of monkeying around with the file I just shared, for now you can just try to update Reicast from binary in 4.4 and see if that works.

EDIT: confirmed. I installed from source and stopped working. I installed from binary and it works, so mistery err... postponed. @mediamogul if you want to solve your Ikaruga issues, try updating Reicast from binary instead of from source and let me know how it goes. @quicksilver you might as well try to do it on your current setup, though there is the chance that the jessie binaries are from a different codebase.

zefolhadela · 26 Jan 2019, 18:37

Aero Fighters 3 it is a arcade game, game is good, stunning soundtracks.

quicksilver · 27 Jan 2019, 04:34

@pjft just wanted to report that updating from binary fixed the issue with ikaruga. So it must be the correct binary even for Jessie.

pjft · 27 Jan 2019, 13:13

@quicksilver well, that's a great turn of events.:) You fixed Ikaruga AND avoided an upgrade. And as a bonus, I'm not crazy.

Happy Sunday!

AndersHP · 28 Jan 2019, 12:07

But wasn't Ikaruga supposed to be unplayable on the Pi3?
Is Dreamcast now emulatable, or?

pjft · 28 Jan 2019, 12:10

@AndersHP It runs quite well, but I'd stick to the CDI version. The GDI versions I tried, and the CHDs I built always lagged a bit. There are reports that level 4 and later have a bit of slowdown because of memory leakage, but I only reached level 3 so far :)

quicksilver · 28 Jan 2019, 13:28

@AndersHP there are quite a few Dreamcast games that run pretty well on a pi3. I have done a fair amount of testing and can confirm that overclocking the GPU core_freq does help for fps related issues. Going from stock 400mhz to 550mhz was enough to smooth out the gameplay for quite a few games.

AndersHP · 28 Jan 2019, 14:47

@quicksilver Cool! Can you make a shortlist or post a link to this?

quicksilver · 28 Jan 2019, 15:29

@AndersHP if you want to make a new thread (let's keep this one as on topic as possible) I'd glad to share what I have learned thus far.

IanDaemon · 28 Jan 2019, 19:23

@thelostsoul said in What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?:

Thats a really tough question. In reality, I can't pick one. But if you really force me, and you do it currently, I pick DoDonPachi for Arcade. But I know it only through Mame.

There are other shmups I played more often on Snes, like Parodius. But then I did not have any Genesis or TurboGrafx-16 (which wasn't released in Europe), the arcades was for adults only and so missed really essential and good shmups. Later on emulation I discovered some really cool gems like DoDonPachi and played it for highscores. I like the highscore system, the overall look and feel in music and graphics and the bosses.

My personal favorite: Espgaluda

I really broadened my horizons with a MAME cabinet. The Cave Interactive shooters are almost all fantastic. I love DoDonPachi. If I had to pick a personal favorite, right now, it's Espgaluda. Historically I played a lot of Guwange and Ketsui. Those are all great games. Psikyo's games are good in addition.

In April of 2017 Martin Robinson wrote the following "What is it that makes Psikyo games stand out? For me its the elegance to be found in their simplicity; these are shmups that stop short of the chaos of many of their contemporaries while maintaining a complexity of their own. They're slick, sturdy things that never feel mean-spirited, and have oodles of style."

Great Psikyo titles include Strikers 1945 III (released as Strikers 1999 in Japan) and Dragon Blaze.

mediamogul · 29 Jan 2019, 15:55

@pjft said in What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?:

if you want to solve your Ikaruga issues, try updating Reicast from binary instead of from source and let me know how it goes.

I've got my Dreamcast discs back, but unfortunately, now I'm in the middle of moving. At this rate I may be testing it on a Pi4.

(knock on a wooden horseshoe, while using a rabbit's foot to toss salt over my left shoulder into a patch of four-leaf clovers)

quicksilver · 29 Jan 2019, 16:06

@mediamogul said

(knock on a wooden horseshoe, while using a rabbit's foot to toss salt over my left shoulder into a patch of four-leaf clovers)

I hope that works! id love to see a pi4 this year. I still have a slim hope that RPI foundation is just trolling us and and pallets of pi4's are sitting in a warehouse somewhere getting ready to start shipping in a few weeks.

pjft · 29 Jan 2019, 16:26

@mediamogul ...and don't forget the ceremonial robe, or you'll have to do it all over again.

Raspberry Pi launch days are end of February for the most part, so you never know... I'm not sure we'd get a Pi 4 this year yet, but hey, if it happens I'm always looking for reasons to re-do my setup yet again.

Best of luck with the move!