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      MrLightgun
      last edited by MrLightgun

      Yes yes yes yes yes...

      I'm able to play House Of The Dead 2 - Sega Naomi Arcade using Lightgun on Raspberry Pi thanks to this thread.

      I've also managed to get Confidential Mission and Maze Of Kings both on Naomi Arcade working well too.

      I wasn't able to the get the existing Lightgun support in lr-Reicast to work but was able to interface directly with the Sinden Lightgun. Hopefully we can get the existing support functioning across all the games in lr-Reicast, if not I'll make my hack more generic so anyone with a Lightgun device can play the Sega Naomi Lightgun games till the full support is working.

      House Of The Dead 2 is quite glitchy on graphics and sound but still playable. The Dreamcast version also works and has less glitchy graphics but I couldn't get the Lightgun to work. It does work OK with a controller if you want to play without a Lightgun. Confidential Mission and Maze Of Kings both work quite well.

      Atomiswave lightgun games like Ranger Mission, Sports Shooting USA and Extreme Hunting work too but I haven't yet been able to get the Lightgun controls to work.

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        quicksilver @MrLightgun
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        @MrLightgun that's pretty neat! I see what you mean with the graphics being a bit glitchy. Dynamite cop has the same flickering triangles. Not sure if this is a short coming of the pi or the emulation.

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          BJRetro @quicksilver
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          @quicksilver yeah a good amount of Dreamcast games do that (cannon spike runs really nice except there are so many of those black triangles interfering it becomes unplayable). I think it is the emulation and that for more powerful devices they developed a rendering fix but pi is not powerful enough to handle the fix. Great to hear about your progress with the sinden lightgun @MrLightgun !

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            MrLightgun
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            If anyone is clever enough to get Virtua Cop 2 Dreamcast working on the Pi I will be forever grateful!

            I've tried both the Japanese version and the USA Sega Smash Pack version and they both crash straight after the Sega splash screens. I've tried a few random graphics settings in the hope it might work but no joy yet.

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              MrLightgun @BJRetro
              last edited by

              @BJRetro said in Working Dreamcast games:

              @quicksilver yeah a good amount of Dreamcast games do that (cannon spike runs really nice except there are so many of those black triangles interfering it becomes unplayable). I think it is the emulation and that for more powerful devices they developed a rendering fix but pi is not powerful enough to handle the fix. Great to hear about your progress with the sinden lightgun @MrLightgun !

              Ah that's a shame, I hoped it was just an early defect with the Raspberry Pi support, not an a known issue. However the Dreamcast version doesn't have them so just need to get the Lightgun working with that at some point. Thank you, the project is getting there slowly.

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                hermit @shavecat
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                @shavecat said in Working Dreamcast games:

                @hermit
                thanks ,
                but still not :\
                i give up...

                here we are a little going offtopic
                try to open a new topic and enter all your lr-reicast settings ;)

                • /config/dreamcast/emulators.cfg
                • /config/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg
                • /configs/all/retroarch.cfg
                • /configs/all/retroarch-core-options.cfg
                  -etc...

                another interesting test could be to create a new system dedicated to lr-reicast
                ;)

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                  shavecat @hermit
                  last edited by

                  @hermit
                  will give it a try ,
                  once my new pi will arrive ;)

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                  • DarksaviorD
                    Darksavior
                    last edited by Darksavior

                    Pi3B+,Retroarch 1.7.6. Bios in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/dc . Tried both a dc gdi game and naomi .zip game. Here's my error. Boots me back:
                    Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-reicast/reicast_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg

                    "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/fotns.zip" </dev/null --appendconfig /dev/shm/retroarch.cfg

                    /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh: line 1007: /opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch: No such file or directory

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                      Efriim @Darksavior
                      last edited by Efriim

                      @Darksavior check if these files looks okay_
                      /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/emulators.cfg
                      /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-reicast/reicast_libretro.so
                      /opt/retropie/configs/dreamcast/retroarch.cfg
                      ls -l will list directory owns/perms
                      I can turn my pie on and get a better reference going, i just turned it off. I have lr-reicast installed but I haven't tried naomi so I'm kind of interested. Im really sleepyy though.

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                        Darksavior @Efriim
                        last edited by Darksavior

                        @Efriim Oh crap. It was a failed update I stopped. Ok, reinstalled retroarch. My other games work. Still no dice on dreamcast. Creating dir: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/Ikaruga//dc/data mkdir(/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dreamcast/Ikaruga//dc/data) error: No such file or directory.

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                          Efriim @Darksavior
                          last edited by Efriim

                          @Darksavior
                          reicast and lr-reicast are working for me, I don't know anything about NAOMI but I added .zip extensions to es_systems<dreamcast>. I know that MAME arcade rom sets are name specific and remain zipped, They are also MAME*machine specific, so one package may not work for a different emulator. Maybe once I figure out how to run them myself first...

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                            Darksavior @Efriim
                            last edited by Darksavior

                            @Efriim It's a bios location issue. I've read up and there's a few posts about it but no real fix. No dreamcast or naomi games work.

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                              Efriim @Darksavior
                              last edited by Efriim

                              Sorry I wasnt at all more help, I built lr-reicast less than a week ago from this thread, I didn't have any problems but regular reicast outperforms it in everyway other than hwc reset and controller niceness. Again sorry, I got to go to bed, before I understand naomi.

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                                mitu Global Moderator @Darksavior
                                last edited by mitu

                                @Darksavior You seem to have reset your system RetroArch folder, so if your BIOS files are in bios/dc, they're not picked up and RA tries to uses the ROM folder path as system. Backup your retroarch.cfg file frm /opt/retropie/configs/all and then move the .dist file over.

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                                  Darksavior @mitu
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                                  @mitu Great, that worked. Thanks.

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                                    Efriim
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                                    Oh I see it now, I guess I skipped that one for being interested in just getting naomi files to work.

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                                    • DarksaviorD
                                      Darksavior
                                      last edited by Darksavior

                                      Hokuto No Ken Atomiswave running at an asstastic 24fps. Held my hopes high for this one. Also tried Capcom vs snk 1 Naomi at the same fps. Yea, I won't be running this emulator on my pi.

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                                      • Stuart2773S
                                        Stuart2773
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                                        the following Atomiswave/Naomi games run pretty well in lr-reicast :-

                                        Animal Basket
                                        Knights of Valour : The Seven Spirits
                                        Jambo Safari
                                        Monkey Ball
                                        Powerstone 2
                                        Puyo Puyo DA
                                        Radigy NOA
                                        Samba De Amigo
                                        Shakatto Tamborine
                                        Slash Out
                                        Spikers Battle
                                        The Maze of Kings

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                                          BJRetro @Stuart2773
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                                          @Stuart2773 I also found guilty gear x 1.5 very good.

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                                            quicksilver @Stuart2773
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                                            @Stuart2773 can you define pretty good? At/near full speed? No/minimal visual issues?

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