Roms and Bios

[sleve_mcdichael]

@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?

[sirhenrythe5th]

@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

[raspberry79]

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

[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.

[raspberry79]

@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

[sleve_mcdichael]

@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?

[dankcushions]

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.

[raspberry79]

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

[sirhenrythe5th]

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

[raspberry79]

@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.

[barbudreadmon]

@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.

[raspberry79]

@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???

[BuZz]

@raspberry79 you have already posted a topic on this.