neo geo pocket help needed

mitu

@Unknown said in neo geo pocket help needed:

I can't seem to find it in experimental.

Because it's not in there. It should be already installed, it's a main package.

Unknown

@mitu Thanks for clarification, but why aren't my neogeo pocket roms visible?

mitu

@Unknown Do the ROM files have the right extension, as described in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Neo-Geo-Pocket/ ?

Unknown

@mitu They are in the correct folder , and they are ".bin" files. I haven't messed with any retropie configuration, so I'm not sure what is wrong.

Unknown

@Unknown said in neo geo pocket help needed:

@mitu I haven't messed with any retropie configuration

Well, I did install some NDS emulators from the experimental, but I kept them at default settings.

mitu

@Unknown You really need to click on those doc links and read on.

ClassicGMR

@Unknown It is in the docs... the docs show that .bin is not valid.

.7z
.ngp
.zip

are readable formats for NGP and NGPC files. Also I don't believe you can just zip up your bins and expect them to work.

Unknown

@mitu @ClassicGMR Changing ".bin" to ".ngp" fixed the problem. Thank you, I apologize for not checking to see I my roms were named correctly .

ClassicGMR

@Unknown said in neo geo pocket help needed:

@mitu @ClassicGMR Changing ".bin" to ".ngp" fixed the problem. Thank you, I apologize for not checking to see I my roms were named correctly .

Glad you got it working. Just remember, when in doubt, RTFM almost always fixes the issue. :)

Unknown

@mitu Will zipping up these files disable them? I want to save memory space.

simpleethat

@Unknown It will not disable them, the emulator can read both zip and 7z compressed files. If you have scraped the games already you could run into a problem with emulationstation looking for whatever-your-game-is-named.ngp instead of whatever-your-game-is-named.zip (or .7z) which can be solved by rescraping or editing the gamelist.xml for neo geo pocket.

[edit: realized I worded the first sentence very poorly...]