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      Folly @mechafatnick
      last edited by Folly

      @mechafatnick

      I followed you guides and installed it on my old x86 laptop, as I am on a holiday.
      (works slow, as aspected on my laptop, but now I know it can work !)

      Curious how this will indeed work on the pi4.

      Your quite far in "development" now.
      Are you going to try and make a module-script for it ?

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        DTEAM @Folly
        last edited by DTEAM

        @folly said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

        Curious how this will indeed work on the pi4

        It works very well on a Pi4. The games look a little bit like Naomi or Atomiswave with lr-Flycast.

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          Red_Trev @mechafatnick
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          @mechafatnick said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

          @red_trev ahh remember you have two factors in play - the size of the screen the emulator is rendering and then the window the emulator is placed in in the pi.

          It sounds like the emulator window is bigger as per the file but the actual window the emulator is being placed into isn't. You should be able to solve it by launching a game from emulation station, entering the configuration menu then changing the default video mode for super model (i use 87-46 myself.)

          the one in /home/config is the one you need to edit. The arguments you feed to the editor will take priority so if you want to mess with the resolutions per game you'll need to dump those.

          Remember though that the Pi is definitely not the optimum hardware for Model 3 emulation so i wouldn't push the resolution too far!

          I have tried everything and cannot get it to display full screen via Emulation Station, it is still stuck in a small box & zoomed in to bottom left corner:

          6918f943-825e-4331-90da-d56df1c4cb30-image.png

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          I have tried changing video modes in pre launch menu & Raspi Config menu itself but same result regardless of any change

          cbcaf6d7-cc2d-41f4-a0bc-f3ec2cc77c29-image.png

          When I open a game via cmd line without XINIT it does show fullscreen but with slowdown

          Here is the contents of the emulators.cfg file:

          supermodelHighRes = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel -game-xml-file=/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/Games.xml -legacy3d -sound-volume=50 -music-volume=80 -no-vsync -no-throttle -no-dsb -res=1024,755 %ROM%"

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            DTEAM @mechafatnick
            last edited by DTEAM

            @mechafatnick

            Hi

            When i'm using your old /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel, It run well, but when I run your new file. I get this message in Supermodel.log

            [Error] OpenGL initialization failed: Unknown error
            
            [Info]  Program terminated due to an error.
            

            and in shm/runcommand.log this message

            Executing (via xinit): /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel -game-xml-file=/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/Games.xml -legacy3d -sound-volume=50 -music-volume=60 -no-vsync -no-throttle -no-dsb -res=496,384 /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/model3/spikeout.zip
            
            /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL2_net-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
            xinit: connection to X server lost
            
            waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
            

            Could it be your new changes with R3DShaderTriangles.h?

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              mechafatnick @Red_Trev
              last edited by

              @red_trev What video mode is 52-20, sorry?

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                mechafatnick @DTEAM
                last edited by

                @dteam That's surprising! try:

                sudo apt-get install libsdl2-net-dev

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                • Red_TrevR
                  Red_Trev @mechafatnick
                  last edited by

                  @mechafatnick 1024x768

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                  • DTEAMD
                    DTEAM @mechafatnick
                    last edited by DTEAM

                    @mechafatnick said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

                    sudo apt-get install libsdl2-net-dev

                    It works with that. Thanks.
                    UI buttons settings work also with gamepads !!! Fantastic

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                      mechafatnick @Red_Trev
                      last edited by

                      @red_trev what happens when you ditch xinit and lower the emulator Res to 496 *384?

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                      • Red_TrevR
                        Red_Trev @mechafatnick
                        last edited by

                        @mechafatnick said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

                        @red_trev what happens when you ditch xinit and lower the emulator Res to 496 *384?

                        via command line it opens in a small window, should I try that via emulators.cfg ?

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                          mechafatnick @Red_Trev
                          last edited by

                          @red_trev yeah lower the resolution in emulators.cfg, keep it for run command :)

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                            Red_Trev @mechafatnick
                            last edited by Red_Trev

                            @mechafatnick said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

                            @red_trev yeah lower the resolution in emulators.cfg, keep it for run command :)

                            but the whole point is not playing in a box a quarter of the screen size... is there any method to remove this limitation? I can see the video is increased but it's focused on bottom left corner, why is it doing this? is it XINIT causing it ?

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                              DTEAM @mechafatnick
                              last edited by

                              @mechafatnick

                              Hi ,

                              I'm able to save games but doesn't able to load them with this symlink:

                              ln -s /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Saves Saves
                              

                              I don't know why for now.

                              For screen view, in Supermodel.log you can see more options

                              XResolution=496
                              YResolution=384
                              FullScreen=0
                              WideScreen=0
                              Stretch=0
                              WideBackground=0
                              

                              I'll try those later

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                                DTEAM @DTEAM
                                last edited by DTEAM

                                @Red_Trev @mechafatnick

                                For full screen ... I did It !!!!!

                                1- you have to delete -res=496,384 and replace that by nothing. All the video settings must be done in Supermodel.ini

                                Supermodel-normal = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel -game-xml-file=/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/Games.xml -legacy3d -sound-volume=50 -music-volume=60 -no-vsync -no-throttle -no-dsb -res=496,384 %ROM%"
                                

                                2 - Go in Supermodel.ini and add :

                                XResolution=496
                                YResolution=384
                                FullScreen=0
                                WideScreen=0
                                Stretch=0
                                WideBackground=0
                                

                                3- Set you screen resolution like you want but never use FullScreen. You can use WideScreen, Strech or WideBackGround. With Full Screen, hotkeys stop working.

                                Mine (5 inch screen)

                                ;setup for 5 inch lcd touchscreen 
                                ;XResolution=496
                                ;YResolution=384
                                XResolution=800  
                                YResolution=480
                                FullScreen=0
                                WideScreen=1
                                Stretch=0
                                WideBackground=0
                                

                                It slowdown the emulator a little bit, but not that bad.

                                The only missing thing is loadstate. After that It's complete for me!! Nice emulator

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                                  Red_Trev @Red_Trev
                                  last edited by Red_Trev

                                  @red_trev said in Sega model 3 #segamodel3:

                                  @mechafatnick thanks , ill give that a go later ....

                                  i have tried modifying the arcade 'emulators.cfg' to

                                  supermodel = "XINIT:/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/supermodel -game-xml-file=/opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/Games.xml -legacy3d -sound-volume=50 -music-volume=80 -no-vsync -no-throttle -no-dsb -res=1024,768 -fullscreen %ROM%"

                                  when i launched a game, it had the same small video box in the center of the screen, the actual game picture seemed to be bigger but it was zoomed into the bottom left corner (and my controls stopped working)

                                  is there anyway of preventing the output from being displayed like this ?

                                  a953fcc6-7646-41bb-8d34-c06791d69c3a-image.png

                                  also there is a method of setting resolution on a per game or global level via the Supermodel.ini file (https://www.supermodel3.com/AdvancedUsage.html#ConfigFile)

                                  as this file appears in 3 places (config, bin, pi/home/config), i assume the same modified file must be placed in each place ?

                                  and even then, how would the values in 'emulators.cfg' affect it ? which set of instructions take precedence ?

                                  thanks again !

                                  @DTEAM well done !! so I was thinking correctly with this ;) again , Supermodel.ini file appears in 3 places, do I have to update all of them ?

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                                    DTEAM @Red_Trev
                                    last edited by

                                    @red_trev

                                    If you have done your symlink before:

                                    
                                    ln -s /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config Config
                                    
                                    

                                    It’s in
                                    /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/Supermodel.ini

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                                      Red_Trev @DTEAM
                                      last edited by Red_Trev

                                      @dteam

                                      update Supermodel.ini located in /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config

                                      then copy that updated file to /home/pi/Config

                                      i assume all controller changes must be saved to that file also?

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                                        DTEAM @Red_Trev
                                        last edited by DTEAM

                                        @red_trev
                                        You can do it like that too. With this method, you need to update both files. If you want use a symbolic link (press F4 or just close Emulation Station and write the proposed above command) with that, you only need to update opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/Config/supermodel.ini

                                        Both options work

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                                          DTEAM @DTEAM
                                          last edited by DTEAM

                                          @Folly
                                          @mechafatnick

                                          The only missing puzzle part is to be able to load save states. We can save, but not load. Any idea of what to do?

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                                            mechafatnick @DTEAM
                                            last edited by

                                            @dteam there's a hard-wired save state selection key that may need to be rebound. Try using it and then see if it will load (would be an easy update if it solves the issue. Not sure there are any games that really need save states though)

                                            Also do:

                                            ln -s /opt/retropie/emulators/supermodel/bin/NVRAM NVRAM

                                            That way you'll keep any settings you change on the board (useful for only having to set Daytona/Scud race to single machines the once)

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