Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo
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I went ahead and ordered a new 3B+ so see if placing my current SD into it will rule out a hardware issue.
I went in and deleted .cfgs and tried to default everything back, what a pain in the ass that was, I am not even sure if I did it right. Worse comes to worse, I create a brand new image and test on both 3B+ boards to rule out something within my current image. I really do not want to start over again.
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@GreenHawk84 i can't imagine a hardware issue would ever manifest in one game(s) playing a bit slower. i can almost guarantee it is your configs being all jacked up, which seems the case from your last few posts. very easy to reinstate if you follow the above advice. there will be an rp-dist master version in every folder, but i fancy you got yourself into a mess that no-one will be able to truly fix without seeing the whole structure.
i advice starting a new thread and uploading all the relevant config files and screenshots of the folders in question. this is very off topic now.
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@wmarcio i am also interested in doing this as i updated retropie to try to fix an issue on having with kodi and eduke 32 (no music at start unless you go toggle music on in menu and it gets messed up anyhow later on) as well as stratagus ( resolution is off no matter which one you choose and cant see menus), and that updated my fbalpha which I wasnt wanting it to do.
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Hi, I would like to filter the fbneo roms by category. Is there a dedicated catver.ini or which one comes close enough? Thanks.
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@Clyde
Hy Clyde.i know my way is no one-click-solution and some work to do, but i sorted all my games manually over the years.
I wanted all the games to be sorted by category in the gamelists.
So what i did is to edit every single entry of the gameslist by "edit metadata" and renamed the game.i.e. "Samurai Showdown" became "Fighting - Samurai Shodown"
This procedure was also helpful to sort a lot of sequels in their right order.
As example (MAME Gamelist is sorted by publisher on my set):"Mercs" became "Capcom - Commando II: MERCS",
which is right (Mercs is "Senjo no Okami II" in Japan. And guess..."Senjo no Okami I" is "Commando" in Japan) and pretends browsing a hundred entrys to find the sequel instead of putting them together.
Same thing with the "Rastan"-Saga and lots more. Makes life a bit easier ;DP.S.: i also replaced every scraped image (~4000) against nice ones i searched in the world wide web.
May take some time, but looks better and makes your setup even more unique. -
@sirhenrythe5th Thank you, but although I don't shy away from managing my roms manually, I want to automate as much as possible. Currently, that means filtering the FB Neo roms by genre with Simple Arcade Multifilter using the xml dats from https://github.com/libretro/fbneo/tree/master/dats and the
catver.iniof the newest MAME. edit: Since this isn't a dedicated fbneo catver, I always include the "uncategorized" roms for manual review.After this, I scrape the filtered roms with Skyscraper. Then I go through the games list in Emulation Station manually and delete any game I don't need, and finally vacuum the
games.xmlwith Skyscraper again, because ES only deletes the rom file, but neither the list entry nor the scraped media.Anyone does this a little (or more) differently, this is what I settled with for myself after trying many other tools and methods. :)
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Tried Bad Dudes (arcade) today on FBneo, and the sound is messed up. Switched to FBAlpha 2012, seems much better.
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@GreenHawk84 I tested it out on both emulators on my pi4. 2012 seems to have scratchy audio when inserting coins, otherwise I can't tell the difference. Neo does have higher requirements. I don't have my pi3b+ set up to check fps.
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@Darksavior said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
@GreenHawk84 I tested it out on both emulators on my pi4. 2012 seems to have scratchy audio when inserting coins, otherwise I can't tell the difference. Neo does have higher requirements. I don't have my pi3b+ set up to check fps.
Update, well I guess both cores aren't so hot on this game. Strange, since other higher end games run great.
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I use FB Alpha Emulator for playing CPS2 games on Pi3 and I'm really surprised about the performance and I will never change it for the fbneo emulator.
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@kataxeb said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
I use FB Alpha Emulator for playing CPS2 games on Pi3 and I'm really surprised about the performance and I will never change it for the fbneo emulator.
As far as cps1/cps2 emulation is concerned, our fbneo project only has improvements over our now-dead fbalpha project, and will still run at full speed on pi3, so i don't understand your point.
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I miss understanding the question, sorry for that. I use pi3 and work fine.
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Might be worth mentioning since i expect people reporting about this soon : cps3's refresh rate was changed to 59.59949Hz (the previous 60Hz was wrong).
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@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
Might be worth mentioning since i expect people reporting about this soon : cps3's refresh rate was changed to 59.59949Hz (the previous 60Hz was wrong).
I am appalled and disgusted by this news. I demand those 0.00051Hz refresh speeds back!!!
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@thestarglider said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
I demand those 0.00051Hz refresh speeds back!!!
It's 0.40051Hz actually
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:-)
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@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
@thestarglider said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
I demand those 0.00051Hz refresh speeds back!!!
It's 0.40051Hz actually
God dammit!!!!
Now I'm **really mad!!! **
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I'm a bit curious, does it improve things for cps3 emulation on pi3 ? Having slower paced emulation might help with the slowdowns ?
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@barbudreadmon said in Goodbye fbalpha, welcome fbneo:
I'm a bit curious, does it improve things for cps3 emulation on pi3 ? Having slower paced emulation might help with the slowdowns ?
I wouldn't know. I don't really play any CPS games!
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This wont make any difference retroarch is running anything 57 - below 60 at 60fps. The only people it will make a difference too is someone on a machine that supports freesync or gsync or if they know how to change the audio skew. It certainly will make a difference on the otehr fbneo ports though.
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