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    The best solution for Sega Megadrive/Genesis Mini on Raspberry Pi

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      Ulmez
      last edited by Ulmez

      Amazing job @frgn! I've been doing some testing and MD/GEN & SMS work like a charm :-)

      However adding MCD/SCD (jewelcase format covers) it all works just fine until it tries to show a CD cover, crashing and popping this error message instead of displaying it properly. Could it be the different image size? It works just fine on Blast16.

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        frgn
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        @Ulmez
        Thanks for the feedback! :)
        The thing is that initially I did it for personal use. In my assembly of roms for each system, I took the same proportions of box art. Therefore, I removed the "extra" elements intended for squared box art.
        I recommend you just redo all the square covers in megadrive format, that is - 230x320
        In the future, I will most likely return the missing elements so that different cover formats can be used.

        Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
        My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
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          Ulmez @frgn
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          @frgn said in The best solution for Sega Megadrive/Genesis Mini on Raspberry Pi:

          @Ulmez
          Thanks for the feedback! :)
          The thing is that initially I did it for personal use. In my assembly of roms for each system, I took the same proportions of box art. Therefore, I removed the "extra" elements intended for squared box art.
          I recommend you just redo all the square covers in megadrive format, that is - 230x320
          In the future, I will most likely return the missing elements so that different cover formats can be used.

          Great! I really hope you come back to do that sometime, because the rest of it is phenomenal and that final touch would be the cherry on top. Keep up the good work!

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            frgn @Ulmez
            last edited by frgn

            @Ulmez
            I added the missing frames and now everything works, however, the selector of the selected game (which is not in blast16) is displayed in strictly specified proportions of 230x320 even when the square cover is selected. Therefore, I had to remove it.
            If you are satisfied with such a solution, then here is the link to the new update.
            Снимок.jpg 2.jpg
            I think over time I can find a way to solve this.

            Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
            My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
            Blast16 to MDMINI mod
            DONATE HERE

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              Ulmez @frgn
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              @frgn

              Fantastic! Now it works without problems. Many thanks! As a suggestion / contribution: How about putting the cursor in this way? It respects the style of Mega Drive Mini, adapts to all covers and looks better than nothing :-D

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              Cursor:

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                frgn @Ulmez
                last edited by

                @Ulmez Done. The link in the previous post has been updated.

                Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
                My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
                Blast16 to MDMINI mod
                DONATE HERE

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                  Ulmez @frgn
                  last edited by

                  @frgn said in The best solution for Sega Megadrive/Genesis Mini on Raspberry Pi:

                  @Ulmez Done. The link in the previous post has been updated.

                  It's simply perfect!! Thanks! :D

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                  • frgnF
                    frgn
                    last edited by

                    A small update. Added the ability to change the NTSC filter from the settings, as well as many small corrections.
                    Снимок.PNG Comix Zone000.png

                    Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
                    My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
                    Blast16 to MDMINI mod
                    DONATE HERE

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                      Nojito @frgn
                      last edited by Nojito

                      @frgn hello. Thanks for the great work! I would like to inform you that I found some english translation errors. In the Menu. In Audio section theres a misspell "Aduio" and in the Display mode: "Standart" instead of "Standard"

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                        frgn @Nojito
                        last edited by

                        @Nojito
                        Thank! Fixed.

                        Aloha from Russia, and sorry for my bad English. ¯\(ツ)/¯
                        My RetroPie themes repo - https://github.com/free-gen/
                        Blast16 to MDMINI mod
                        DONATE HERE

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                          joharibk
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                          I’m surprise nobody figure out how to run other emulators using blast16. Even loading cores in retroarch is impossible. 😢

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