NES music way too fast
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hi @ all,
no matter which emulator I use on the pi (zero), the NES music is way too fast:
I tried both available emulators (FCEUM and nestopia). Is this a known issue?
Best wishes!
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Sounds like you are running a PAL run rather than NTSC - make sure you use a US/JAP rom (So it may be that you have a game designed for 50fps running at 60fps).
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So I cannot use PAL roms the way they were intended?
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I don't know if you can. But since your video refresh is likely 60hz the NTSC games will run smoother. You can try and switch the framerate to 50fps (choose a 50hz video mode and it should do this automatically) but it might not affect actual timing of the game audio etc. so I don't actually know sorry.
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will try. on PC (also a 60 Hz monitor) it is no problem using the same rom. so I guess it is something with the emulator(s)?
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@BuZz Is this PAL inconformity only a NES problem? or does it affect the other platforms, too?
Would be a real hassle if I would have to get all the roms in NTSC, because I need the German versions in some cases.
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I don't know about other consoles - Amiga should be fine though.
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Isn't there an option to switch between PAL/NTSC in retroarch? I cannot find it unfortunately :(
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you can control framerate in retroarch. Timing will depend on the emulator I guess (but I don't know I'm afraid).
You could ask here - http://libretro.com/forums/forum.php there have been some other threads related to this also if you do a search.
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Tried everything now. but NES emulation seems to be too fast. Unfortunately libretro forums do not allow to post. I tried three different registrations. none has gotten an activation mail :(
even tried to reactivate my old account.
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Fixed it by renaming the roms to (E) at the end. strange!
This info should be stickied.
Are there other systems as lazy as the NES emulators for retropie? I mean: Getting the region out of the filename? Why not use the header info to be on the safe side?
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I have edited https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Nintendo-Entertainment-System with the info - feel free to add information like this to the wiki.
I answered the question regarding filename in the other thread.
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thanks! will do!
do you know if SNES and mega drive are also affected by this?
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I don't.
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OK, will try and let you know. but I guess the SNES/mega drive emulators check their headers carefully.
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before I go to sleep I wanted to test the (E) issue on again. and what can I say: despite your google findings every emulator I tested does not care about the file name, but takes the header info.
even nestopia works fine without the (E). how come the same emulator does not work the same way on retropie? -
please list actual versions and be less vague. eg. are you talking about retroarch on another platform or standalone emulators?
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I was testing the standalone versions on pc.
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That's not the same emulator. The libretro one is based on nestopia but may deal with this differently.
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I dont know if this is the same issue but if I'm not mistaken there was an early release from no-intro this year where the nes archive did not contain headers. The latest no-intro from september fixes this and there where a hotfix applied later to the same release from 2016-01-03.
Anyway.
No-intro from 2016-01-03
Every NES rom seems be headerless and won't run in most emulators.
Edit: No-Intro 2016-09-06 is the latest.
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