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    Roms and Bios

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      raspberry79
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      I have many roms saved on the laptop. SO, i just wondering, how can i tell it some of them were roms and some where bios.

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        sleve_mcdichael @raspberry79
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        @raspberry79 most of us save files to specific folders when we download them so we know what they're for. Be more organized I guess?

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          sirhenrythe5th @sleve_mcdichael
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          @sleve_mcdichael fully agree! The ordinary way would be: go for a specific system and collect the roms. Then look out for BIOS-files, collect them too.
          @raspberry79: what kind of package did you download for god sakes?
          "all i could find to any system in a miracle box.zip" with 91,5 TB? :O

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            raspberry79 @sirhenrythe5th
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            @sirhenrythe5th
            What is .BIN and .CUE files, are them bios

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              sirhenrythe5th @raspberry79
              last edited by sirhenrythe5th

              @raspberry79 said in Roms and Bios:

              @sirhenrythe5th
              What is .BIN and .CUE files, are them bios

              Well, there are some bios-files that end with *.bin, but as far as you also have a *.cue those will be ISOs.

              Why do you have such a mess? Why are there so many different file-types unsorted? This is quite unusual.

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                raspberry79 @sirhenrythe5th
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                @sirhenrythe5th
                So, i was downloading roms from yes safe sites. One of those roms i downloaded was
                Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (USA) .BIN .CUE
                and i downloaded a game and the file type was Disc Image File

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                  sleve_mcdichael @raspberry79
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                  @raspberry79 what system is Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (USA) .BIN .CUE for?

                  and i downloaded a game and the file type was Disc Image File

                  For what system?

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                    dankcushions Global Moderator
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                    looks like you've downloaded a windows game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man:_Adventures_in_Time

                    we can't really account for this bizarre random way you seem to be acquiring games. retropie isn't some kind of encyclopedic videogame catch-all player; it is for emulating a limited subset of retro systems.

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                      raspberry79 @dankcushions
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                      @dankcushions
                      So, what emulator would i put that in on Retropie or Lakka

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                        sirhenrythe5th @raspberry79
                        last edited by sirhenrythe5th

                        @raspberry79 there is no emulator for windows games.
                        So you cant use it with RetroPie or Lakka.

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                          raspberry79 @sirhenrythe5th
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                          @sirhenrythe5th
                          Pi 4 Retropie 4.8.
                          I hear online from some that you unzip the roms and others keep rom zip.
                          So What do u really do, do you keep the roms compressed or do you unzip them all.

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                            barbudreadmon @raspberry79
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                            @raspberry79 said in Roms and Bios:

                            do you keep the roms compressed or do you unzip them all

                            • Arcade emulators require their games to be zipped.
                            • Other emulators usually require their games to be unzipped, or to be a single file in a zip archive.
                            • There might be oddballs.

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                              raspberry79 @barbudreadmon
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                              @barbudreadmon
                              Got it, but i'm having a little problem launching Retropie from Kodi.
                              I have Kodi install on retropie, i set it to autostart at boot, but when in kodi, i can't exit to launch ES emulationstart???

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                                BuZz administrators @raspberry79
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                                @raspberry79 you have already posted a topic on this.

                                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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