A few questions (newbie)
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Hi everyone!
I set up my first Raspberry Pi today and I've finally installed Retropie 4.1 on it, good news is it's works great (this far at least)! I've never used anything Linux-based before, so this was a new experience for me.
I managed to get some games up n' running, and I was pleased to see that my Xbox game pad got recognized immediately as soon as I plugged it into the machine. I would like to ask a few questions though; (I am new to these forums, so I am not sure if these questions have been asked before, but here it goes!)
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Are there any filters I can use on the games to "glorify" them (aka smooth pixels)? I recall there being emulators that has this feature (Open-emu for example).
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I heard that the Dolphin emulator would be usable on Retropie 4.0.2 and above, yet I can't find it anywhere or anything similar to it anywhere in my files. Am I doing something wrong? I have a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
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Is there a way to show game covers when picking a game somehow (Like OpenEmu)?
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I see black bars on the sides of the screen, how can I get rid of them?
Many thanks in advance, all help is appreciated.
~Henriko
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https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Shaders-and-Smoothing
Dolphin is not available for the RPI3 - it's for retropie running on X86/X86_64 (PC)
You can force the aspect ratio for systems - check the configuration editor out from the RetroPie menu. But the screen will be stretched etc then. Unless of course the bars are due to overscan - in which case check out https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-remove-the-black-borders
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@HenrikoMagnifico said in A few questions (newbie):
- Are there any filters I can use on the games to "glorify" them (aka smooth pixels)? I recall there being emulators that has this feature (Open-emu for example).
I would look into Shaders for this. Pixels don't get smoothed out persay, but these games were designed to look their best on CRT (i..e big old huge glass tube televisions), and CRT TV's have scanlines. I LOVE the look of using the CRT-Pi shader on games - even when played on my modern 60" LCD TV.
For game covers, there's a built in "scraper" which will attempt to find artwork for each of your games. I think people still like the aftermarket scraper by Stephen Selph though.
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@Dochartaigh said in A few questions (newbie):
@HenrikoMagnifico said in A few questions (newbie):
- Are there any filters I can use on the games to "glorify" them (aka smooth pixels)? I recall there being emulators that has this feature (Open-emu for example).
I would look into Shaders for this. Pixels don't get smoothed out persay, but these games were designed to look their best on CRT (i..e big old huge glass tube televisions), and CRT TV's have scanlines. I LOVE the look of using the CRT-Pi shader on games - even when played on my modern 60" LCD TV.
For game covers, there's a built in "scraper" which will attempt to find artwork for each of your games. I think people still like the aftermarket scraper by Stephen Selph though.
Thanks a lot for the help, I am a bit unsure on how to use scraper though, since the games only appear in a list and I am not sure on how I enable it.
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Extremely easy: hit the Start key for the menu, then choose Scraper , then Scrape Now.
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@HenrikoMagnifico https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/scraper - Please take some time to look through the documentation
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I prefer the Steven Selph scraper too. The built in scraper pretty much sucks (not RetroPie's fault, it's built into EmulationStation). The built in is too slow, and it's fuzzy logic is terrible. Whenever it doesn't have an EXACT 100% match, it prompts you for the game, even when there is only 1 game on the list. Steven's is much faster, requiring no user input. The fuzzy logic built into that one is like 99% accurate. I've not come across any mismatched games, but the scraper doesn't find them all. A lot of Japanese games just fail "hash checks". I haven't figured out a way around that, other than scrape with Selph's first, then go back in and use the built-in one.
But the other replies are correct. Before I started building my setup, I went through the WIKI and DOCUMENTATION. In fact, just about everything is already covered in the video on the homepage's link to Installation:
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