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    Need Some Advice Please

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      awsd12 @rbaker
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      @rbaker

      Hey baker sorry to bother you once again, but im in a dilemma, I got 029738 romset and 2003 mame refernce set. 029738 romset is 10gb and has 4,000 roms inc parent and clones and the 2003 mame refernce set is 17gb and has 2,000 parents and clones, i was wondering do mamae and fba games overlap ?, so I wouldnt have to xfer the 17gb mame refernec set and save that space for other emulators. cheers

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        awsd12 @awsd12
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        @awsd12

        Scrapped some games then I added the Pixel them, and now when i Press f4, it takes agaes for command line to show up and when it does it doesnt show any prevouis commands liek it used to now it just shoes => (pi@retropie@"-$ ) WTF did I do wrong or pressed ?

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          rbaker @awsd12
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          @awsd12 said in Need Some Advice Please:

          when i Press f4, it takes agaes for command line to show up

          You just need to read the wiki. On there, there is a very clear FAQ section. In that section, there is this:
          https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQ#why-does-shut-down-and-reboot-take-ages
          I had this problem and it was solved by reading those instructions to stop it from happening. It is even marked under troubleshooting to make it easier to locate.

          i was wondering do mame and fba games overlap ?

          I will assume that you are asking if the same game exists in FBA and MAME? If so, you need to re-read the concepts behind how the emulation of the roms are handled. Games dont "appear in" an emulator. You have to think of the rom file as the original dumped code in a zipped package. If it is zipped and named incorrectly, the emulator of your choice will not run it, hence the romset versions. These versions will only execute with the emulator that they have been compiled for. They evolve over time - you did read those links I posted days ago on this right? Each romset will contain hundreds of identical games but you will not be able to run those games on multiple emulators, hence the need to offer the variety of MAME and FBA versions. I use lr-mame-2003 for most things but for vector games, advancemame is superior and also offers trackball support. I like MAME4ALL due to its performance but lr-mame allows use of the pi-crt shader to emulate scanlines. Each set can only be used according to the dat file. By now, you should know that if you have a recent version of mame roms, you could rebuild any set to any version using clrmamepro if you can be bothered. I did it because I had a 0.111 set and didn't want to download another 50GB. You can also locate "lite" versions of the dat files that remove all the duplicates and some game types to make a cleaner set for the menus.

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            grahamken @Dominus
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            @Dominus Can you please advise. I'm clearly not the most intelligent of lads as I don't seem to be able add Tags either :(

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              Dominus @grahamken
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              @grahamken Haha yeah I should have put what I did. On the bottom left under the title and message it says "Enter tags here" or something similar. I think you just put keywords in there.

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                grahamken @Dominus
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                @Dominus Thanks Man, really appreciate it. Not so obvious, so don't feel too dumb.

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                  awsd12 @rbaker
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                  @rbaker

                  I reformatted my sd card and got retro pie 4.0.2 but, now I have the rainbow box flash in the middle of the screen and when i go into command line by pressing (f4) and type Add disable_splash=1 in /boot/config.txt in one line it says (-bash: in: command not found ) ?

                  Pi@retropie:- $ disable _splash=1 in /boot/config.txt
                  -bash : in: command not found

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                    Ekstreme
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                    You have to edit the file. Come one man, this is basic 2 second google stuff. I'm not watching or replying to this thread any more

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                      awsd12 @Ekstreme
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                      @Ekstreme

                      Link to how to edit file and how to do it ?

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                        Ekstreme @awsd12
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                        @awsd12 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+use+google

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                          awsd12 @Ekstreme
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                          @Ekstreme

                          HAHAHAH Nice one :)

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                            awsd12
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                            Hello guys,

                            I was wondering if i can scrape roms that have numbers infront of them like 2607-Zelda for GBA using Steven Selph's Scraper or does Steven Selph's Scraper scrape roms using rom hash ?. I read https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper but doesnt mention anything regarding numbers infront of roms

                            Thank you

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                              Dominus @awsd12
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                              @awsd12 I haven't tried it myself with Steven's, but the ES Scraper did not find anything till I removed the number on one of my roms (A Final Fantasy VII rom for the NES, which should have produced some kind of result). If it doesn't work you can try to get a mass renamer for your roms specifically, or mass renamer like Métamorphose that might be easier to use then renaming them all individually.

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                                awsd12 @Dominus
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                                @Dominus

                                Yeah Doesn't really work, another thing I found out was most of Neo Geo games are in my FBA romset ahahahha so at this time I dont really care anymore its just to much of a hassle.

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                                  Floob @awsd12
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                                  @awsd12 Yes, it works based on hashes, so filename itself not important. Unless its MAME/Arcade games then the filename is important obviously.
                                  https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper

                                  Please read the Docs before asking a new question.
                                  RetroPie Help Guides: https://goo.gl/3gcNsT

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                                    awsd12 @Floob
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                                    @Floob

                                    Cheers, read it but not detail, has anyone unscraped roms ?, meaning getting rid of the images instead ?

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                                      awsd12
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                                      Is there a way I can make games more clear ?, like for example street fighter alpha 3 in FBA, it is a bit pixelated and I was wondering If I could make it more clear like 1080p or 720p clear ? or less pixelated

                                      Cheers

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                                        grahamken @awsd12
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                                        @awsd12 It's not too hard to do when using retro arch in the retroarch cfg for each system... Once you know how. Haven't tried it withFBA, but will have a look into it today and get back with my findings.

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                                          awsd12 @grahamken
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                                          @grahamken
                                          thanks

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                                            awsd12
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                                            hello guys i did this to fix the boot times and now when i scrape roms it doesn't show any j pegs https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FAQ

                                            Cheers

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