cd games

raspberry79

I had bought some pc games on cd years ago. How can i transfer the pc games from these games over to usb to play on the retropie.
They ant game console cd, just for pc, just want to be able to get them on a usb drive to play on retropie.

ExarKunIv

@raspberry79 well it depends on that type of PC games they are and that your system you are running RetroPie is.

if you have a Pi4 you can use Dosbox if its a old dos game, or if the games are older window games you can use WINE.
anything newer will not run on a Pi you will need to use steamlink and stream it from your PC to the Pi that way

if you are useing a PC, i believe you just install it like normal and you will need to make a .sh file to call the game so it will start.
Im not totally sure on that since i dont have a PC so i dont know how RetroPie works on a PC

retropieuser555

Also if the games are supported by scummvm you can use that as well to play them:- https://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Category:Supported_Games

jamrom2

@raspberry79

what games? DosBox games are tricky to get working and it all depends on what the original commands were in Dos. But once they're setup, they're good. I usually run DosBox on my PC and just copy the commands I used to get the game running into the config file for the game in RetroPie.

You effectively have to copy the entire CD to a folder, then mount that folder as the CD drive letter and then add in the CD drive commands to the "exec" lines of the config file.

I can help if they are older Dos games. I've gotten everything running up to Daggerfall and NHL 96 on my Pi3...although I had to dump NHL96 because of performance issues.

raspberry79

@jamrom2
They just pc games on cd, i don't know if they rom type or dos type.

Can i rip the games from the cd since they are pc games into a file to play on retropie on the raspberry pi 4

jamrom2

@raspberry79 are you familiar with how to use DosBox outside of RetroPie?

It works the same in RetroPie with DosBox Staging except you have all mappings, mounts and other required commands in the config file for the game.

Lr-dosbox-pure is even easier but you can't mount a CD. So if you can copy the game folders individually like Space Quest, you can zip the whole folder and dump it into the PC folder of your rom directory. Have RetroPie point at that folder location. Select the game and select "Pure" as the emulator. It will bring up a list of useable .exe .bat .cmd commands that are in the zip of the game folder. Select the one that works and off you go.

Ashpool

@raspberry79 It would be helpfull if you would post your retropie setup (targeted system specs/method of install) and the games/cds in question... and then, what no one so far said... if those optical discs, or better to say games thereon, are incorporating some form of copy-protection it could become complicated (Dosbox is able to mount iso images of cds, but what would be needed for some/most protected discs would be an image that incorporates all subchannel data and is also able to emulate out-of-CD-spec missuse of some protections (like DaemonTools or such will do with a prober image of the source media)).
Best case in being able to help you by this community would be if you name your setup/target system specs and the games/cds you want to run!

raspberry79

@Ashpool
I been located the games on download, less hassle.
But, i see games in .rar/ .tap .ios .I have retropie 4.8
can i play rar tap ios types on retropie

sleve_mcdichael

@raspberry79 .rar is an archive format, like .zip or .7z. You can decompress these with an archival program on your computer like WinRAR or 7zip.

I'm not familiar with .tap or .ios files. The latter sounds like an iPhone game; those probably aren't going to work. Did you mean .iso? That's a disc image, that you can mount in DOS-Box and "install" the game to your virtual "hard drive."

(Edit: the .tap files might be tape-format images for the C64 or ZX Spectrum?)

raspberry79

@sleve_mcdichael
I been looking over the games that i had collected so far.
One is Sonic the Hedgehog 3 JUE what is JUE

mitu

@raspberry79 said in cd games:

JUE

Probably the region coding: Japan, **US and Europe. It looks like a Windows game, so that won't run on RetroPie without Wine. It was released for the Megadrive/Genesis also, so you can probably play it through emulation.