Add Fairchild Channel F

mitu

The libretro core for Fairchild ChannelF is already included in RetroPie.

Unknown

@mitu My apologies. I cannot find it in the Docs.

Unknown

@mitu
I have begun work on adding Fairchild to the docs. However I need to know how to add the system to retropie. Do you know of any guide to instruct me on this?

mitu

@Unknown said in Add Fairchild Channel F:

However I need to know how to add the system to retropie.

Like any other emulator/port, you just install it and the system will be added in EmulationStation.

Thorr69

@mitu said in Add Fairchild Channel F:

@Unknown said in Add Fairchild Channel F:

However I need to know how to add the system to retropie.

Like any other emulator/port, you just install it and the system will be added in EmulationStation.

And add at least 1 rom to the folder

Unknown

@mitu
What emulator do I need to install? It’s not in the docs so I don’t know which.

sleve_mcdichael

@Unknown looks like these 2:

$ grep -rnie "addsystem" ~/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ | grep "channelf"
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-fbneo.sh:93:    addSystem "channelf"
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/libretrocores/lr-freechaf.sh:42:    addSystem "channelf"

barbudreadmon

@Unknown make sure to read https://docs.libretro.com/library/fbneo/ if you intend to use FBNeo for console emulation.

Unknown

@barbudreadmon @sleve_mcdichael
Thank you for that information.

Unknown

I have now created a pull request to add it to the docs.
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Docs/pull/133

Unknown

@barbudreadmon @mitu @sleve_mcdichael Fairchild-channel-F is now officially in the RetroPie Docs. Thank you for your assistance in finding the information.

barbudreadmon

@Unknown while ~/RetroPie/BIOS/channelf.zip is not wrong, this is actually the 2nd fallback path. The core will prioritize bios found at ~/RetroPie/roms/channelf/channelf.zip then ~/RetroPie/BIOS/fbneo/channelf.zip

mitu

@barbudreadmon said in Add Fairchild Channel F:

The core will prioritize bios found at ~/RetroPie/roms/channelf/channelf.zip then ~/RetroPie/BIOS/fbneo/channelf.zip

I've mentioned the fbneo sub-folder being also read for BIOS files in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Fairchild-ChannelF/#bios.