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    • edmaul69E
      edmaul69 @briandamico
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      @briandamico what is the name of your rom and your image file including the file extensions. Tell me that and i can tell you what to put in it.

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      • edmaul69E
        edmaul69 @briandamico
        last edited by edmaul69

        @briandamico i just realised, it is supposed to be blank. I still need to know those names because you need to edit two other files.

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          briandamico @edmaul69
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          @edmaul69 ok. well its no longer an image as its running on basilisk on my mac.
          i assume i now need the original .img file or is what i have done via the mac app for basilisk going to be good enough to move over to the pie?

          the files are as follows

          MacOS-753 is the image/OS (a 1gb txt edit file representing the OS)
          and i have a few roms

          PERFORMA.rom
          QUAD650.rom

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          • edmaul69E
            edmaul69 @briandamico
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            @briandamico ok put the files in you macintosh roms folder. you dont need the performa rom. but you can put it there still if you want. now open up /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/emulators.cfg and replace the info with this:

            basilisk = "/opt/retropie/emulators/basilisk/bin/BasiliskII --rom /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/QUAD650.rom --disk /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh/MacOS-753 --extfs /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/macintosh --config /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg"
default = "basilisk"

            this also is set up so you have your macintosh roms folder as an external drive. so any new files you want to add, just dump them in there. now open up /opt/retropie/configs/macintosh/basiliskii.cfg and replace its entire contents with this:

            extfs /
seriala /dev/ttyS0
serialb /dev/ttyS1
udptunnel false
udpport 6066
bootdrive 0
bootdriver -62
ramsize 268435456
frameskip 2
modelid 14
cpu 4
fpu true
nocdrom false
nosound false
noclipconversion false
nogui false
jit true
jitfpu false
jitdebug false
jitcachesize 8192
jitlazyflush true
jitinline true
keyboardtype 5
keycodes false
mousewheelmode 1
mousewheellines 3
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
ignoresegv true
idlewait true
ether slirp

            now you should be good to go. these configs here also give you 256mb of ram.

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              briandamico @edmaul69
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              @edmaul69 thank you!
              well i have the files moved over successfully but i am having issues replacing the text in the cfg file.
              i cannot just edit in cyberduck and i used terminal to access the file, which was actually blank, or maybe it is blank now, but still, cannot save the changed in terminal as it gives me an error upon hitting enter and says no such file or directory

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                briandamico @edmaul69
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                @edmaul69 ok fixed first part, i didn't have the / before opt/
                it had to be /opt/

                stupid mistake.ok I'm gonna keep going and see how i make out

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                  briandamico @edmaul69
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                  @edmaul69 ok its all done to a T
                  everything you said to do is done.

                  now the result, doesn't work lol.

                  i rebooted, went to the emulator on the pi, hit start, and it just bounces back to the emulator .

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                    briandamico @edmaul69
                    last edited by briandamico

                    @edmaul69 here is what the roms folder looks like incase u wanna see it

                    [URL=http://s95.photobucket.com/user/briandamico/media/nes/Screen%20Shot%202017-05-13%20at%201.33.26%20PM.png.html][IMG]http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-13 at 1.33.26 PM.png[/IMG][/URL]

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                      briandamico @edmaul69
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                      @edmaul69 Hey Ed
                      sorry for all the replies.
                      just keeping you in the loop

                      i wanted to shed some light on something that i discovered to happen.

                      Once i successfully got the 1gb file that was my macOS-753 in the rom folder i was no longer able to load ANY games what so ever on ANY emulator

                      and i already erased my sd and restored from a back up to start from scratch and without doing the cfg files yet, i just moved stuff to the rom folder, and then since cyberduck would let me drag and drop the macos-753 over, i used my usb stick to do it, and once it got over there, not one game would open. just bounces back to the games list.

                      very very very odd.

                      with the other rom files in there its fine, but its the os file that seems to be the problem

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                      • edmaul69E
                        edmaul69 @briandamico
                        last edited by edmaul69

                        @briandamico rename the os to "mac.img".(all lowercase) Then edit the emulators.cfg file so it is called mac.img (all lowercase) in there too. See if that helps you any.

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                          briandamico @edmaul69
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                          @edmaul69 just to be clear
                          this is no.img in the text you wrote
                          it was originally just MacOS-753 with no .img after it

                          so I'm just putting mac instead of MacOS-753

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                            briandamico @edmaul69
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                            @edmaul69 didn't work :(

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                              edmaul69 @briandamico
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                              @briandamico you can put .img. It doesnt care. Can you post a pic of your files in your macintosh folder and pics of the contentents of your emulators.cfg file?

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                                briandamico @edmaul69
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                                @edmaul69 ok here they are

                                http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.49.05 PM.png

                                http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.50.50 PM.png

                                http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-14 at 8.50.34 PM.png

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                                • edmaul69E
                                  edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                  @briandamico ok so couple issues. I dont see mac.img in your roms folder. Second, in the emulators.cfg you have the old config and the new one i gave you in there. You need to delete all of it and put in only what i gave you. It wont work with all that in there.

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                                    briandamico @edmaul69
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                                    @edmaul69 Ok I will update the config file

                                    As I mentioned earlier I removed the mac.img file that was there because with it in there it stopped loading all of my games across all consoles.

                                    The moment I removed the mac.img from the rom folder macintosh everything worked again.

                                    Weird right? Can you possibly explain that?

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                                      edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                      @briandamico i cant explain except maybe you dont have enough space on your sd card and are completely filling it up??

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                                        briandamico @edmaul69
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                                        @edmaul69 128gm card and only used 25-30gb

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                                          briandamico @edmaul69
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                                          @edmaul69 I may just call it quits on the macintosh if it's this difficult to work but I have to ask, I have the apple ii emulator up and running games just fine, i even have an apple ii keyboard, but apparently it's not mapped like I thought it would be.

                                          Can I map a vintage apple ii keyboard for the apple ii games?

                                          I didn't even think I would have to since I hooked up the keyboard used for many of these games but not much is working other then when typing for metadata descriptions

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                                          • edmaul69E
                                            edmaul69 @briandamico
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                                            @briandamico if you quit emulationstation and exit to commandline does it show 128gb? I am just curious if it expanded the file system automatically or not.

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