Sega Naomi in lr-reicast

Zering

For those NAOMI roms that have a .zip file and a folder containing other files, is it possible to stop ES from displaying those folders at all?

AdamBeGood

@Zering said in Sega Naomi in lr-reicast:

For those NAOMI roms that have a .zip file and a folder containing other files, is it possible to stop ES from displaying those folders at all?

I mark files I don't want as Hidden on Emulation Station and then have Kiosk mode on. If I am tinkering I turn it off. There may be more elegant solutions available!

If all files are hidden in a directory, then that directory doesn't appear on ES.

Ps. I have PSP emulation going on now, couldn't resist. May need a bigger SD card.

Zering

@AdamBeGood That's a lot of files to mark as hidden, but thanks for the suggestion.

Get an external hard drive! 2 TB is barely enough for me ^^

dankcushions

@Zering said in Sega Naomi in lr-reicast:

For those NAOMI roms that have a .zip file and a folder containing other files, is it possible to stop ES from displaying those folders at all?

can you give me an example of the kind of files that you'd want hidden? if they're BIOS type files, it's possible the filenames could be added to a list similar to https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/blob/master/resources/mamebioses.xml - so they can be automatically hidden.

but if each naomi game just has a bunch of unique supplementary zip files, then that's less easy to justify adding to such lists.

Zering

@dankcushions Some NAOMI games, like Border Down or Under Defeat, have .chd files in folders. Without them, the games don't launch (but naturally you launch them from the .zip file).
I suppose I could just remove the extension from my es_systems.cfg entry, having said that. I distinctly remember having folders full of files with numbers for extension, but I've been updating all my ROM sets so I suppose it is possible I've changed that one too ^^

dankcushions

@Zering if it's .chd that's tricky, as dreamcast emulators themselves support standalone chds, so you couldn't really differentiate between the two by default. i think manually hiding is the way in this case, but yeah if you never use CHDs normally then you could remove .chd from your .cfg.

Zering

@dankcushions Luckily that doesn't concern me, my dreamcast set is all cdi for now and I have a separate entry for NAOMI.

G30FF

There's a few options to hide the Naomi CHD files.

You could edit es_systems.cfg for dreamcast. Since it sets allowable file extensions to .chd and .CHD, remove .CHD, and rename all the Naomi CHD files to use uppercase CHD as the extension. Then regular Dreamcast chds will appear, and Naomi ones won't.

Another option, and one I prefer, is to sort Naomi and Atomiswave games into the Arcade folder, and add lr-flycast as an Arcade core. You can find instructions for doing that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/f04z8l/how_to_add_lrflycast_as_an_arcade_emulator/ The Arcade system in ES only supports .zip files by default, so you wouldn't be able to see the Naomi CHD files anyway, just like MAME CHD files.

Zering

@G30FF thank you for all the suggestions!

Maupie74

@langest said in Sega Naomi in lr-reicast:

I updated lr-flycast from source and this broke my working naomi games.
Did this happen to someone else at some point?
Any idea if some changes to flycast has been made that might break old naomi setups?

RetroPie Version 4.5.14 (f541deb) (current master)
RPi4

It just happend to me.. Did you fixed it, and how??

knipik

How to install Sega Naomi ROMs on my PC, I want to start playing this kind of game again, some suggestions about Emulator which one is the best.

G30FF

@knipik On Windows PC, go with Demul.