Can anyone HELP! me place these ROM'S in their correct location?

martinrdgz

@rbaker My bad, when I say PC roms I'm not meaning that I'm trying to emulate a PC. I all I mean is that I have my roms from an image of a retropie and that now I'm stuck figuring out where to place them on my freshly installed Retropie in my raspberry pi 3

cyperghost

@rbaker

are you asking where to place the roms in the folders on your pc that don't match your retropie structure?

I think so.....

@martinrdgz
Again... Please read the links that I've posted.
This one was created by @meleu and should help to get first tough in heavily changing systems.

martinrdgz

I really don't wan to get anyone upset or angry I'm just struggling figuring this out. I hope you all don't take it the wrong way. I'm sorry that I'm a newbie

rbaker

@martinrdgz you place them in exactly the folders that match the emulators. The docs detail the best ways to achieve this. I use SSH and drag and drop. The problem you have is that you have gaps in your understanding of the Arcade side of all this so the docs must be studied. The systems you describe are in folders on your pc because the creator of the image that you used placed them that way. CPS refers to Capcom rom sets from various points in history. The problem is that you probably don't know what romset you have and there in lies the problem. Arcade emulation requires a specific romset depending on the emulator you choose. Fba, mame etc. Trial and error will destroy your mind. Read the Arcade section, it's pretty clear and come back if you have any questions. If you must though, place all the cps roms in the Arcade folder and choose final burn alpha to test them out. If you have no luck, you need to acquire the correct roms for the emulators available to you.

cyperghost

@martinrdgz That's okay but you see it's not easy to set it up because it depends

on a ready setted es_systems.cfg to locate your roms by Emulation Station
you need a theme that can show the systems (otherwise there is just a white space or some graphics that is not related to your emulated system)

cyperghost

@rbaker Sorry to be rude now, but please tell him why a created folder... maybe CPS1 won't show up in ES. Then you can tell what is a romset and after that you can tell how to establish ssh and then you can tell how to edit some files....

martinrdgz

@cyperghost Ok I've already set up the comic theme instead of the carbon. Now I'm just figuring out the es_system.cfg

rbaker

@martinrdgz said in Can anyone HELP! me place these ROM'S in their correct location?:

if I create a CPS1 folder in my retropie and place roms there it won't work

I have read back through your post. Doing this will not help. Read this..https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

rbaker

@martinrdgz and this: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/7247/guide-arcade-games-and-how-to-play-them-a-non-technical-mame-fba-tutorial

I wouldn't try to set up any themes at all until you have a working setup. What you are doing right now will not help you play cps roms. If you have read all that, now read all this:
https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Validating,-Rebuilding,-and-Filtering-Arcade-ROMs/

cyperghost

@martinrdgz
Okay 30% done....
Next setup the es_systems

Best is to copy the whole <arcade> part and rename it to <cps1>

But please read the links I've posted ... they contain essential info. You will surly made it.
Excuse me @rbaker but step by step is better maybe the romset is good and there will be no error. But at first point he will need access to CPS files.

martinrdgz

I'm reading all the information given I'll be back if I need help or have a ? Thanks!

martinrdgz

I read the information given, but mostly didn't comprehend anything on it :( But what I've learned is that roms have a version number, and I need to place them with an emulator that plays those rom versions for example mame4all plays roms that have a version 0.37b5. So now my question is what versions are my cps1, cps2, and cps3 can you help me.

Note: The Roms that are on my PC were extracted from the Rey's Image. I'm building my own image for myself.

herb_fargus

@martinrdgz we won't support third party images or the contents of them. Ask Rey for help.

martinrdgz

@herb_fargus Ok sorry, but do you know if cps1, cps2, and cps3 have rom versions?

TMNTturtlguy

@martinrdgz I am assuming you will be following @herb_fargus advice and starting with a fresh image. Since I just reset up my CPS games due to issues with FBA2012 emulator, see this thread which has plenty of information about what romsets work with what emulators. What Emulator/romset for cps1-2-3

martinrdgz

@tmntturtlguy how can I enable video snaps on you comic theme?

TMNTturtlguy

@martinrdgz you need to scrape for video and make sure the videos are in your gamelist. Make sure that in the start menu the theme is set to video. That is it. There is nothing different or special that needs to be done with my ComicBook theme, it works just like all the other themes that support video.

martinrdgz

@tmntturtlguy I've press start--->UI SETTINGS: and I don't get anything on theme that states video. Below is what I get under UI SETTINGS:

UI SETTINGS:
Screensaver after
Screensaver Behavior
Show Framrate
On-Screen Help
Quick System Select
Transition Style
Theme Set: COMICBOOK

Inside my snes rom folder I have the following folders:
snap (which contains the videos)
the rom files
gamelist.xml

martinrdgz

@tmntturtlguy I barley got videos enable on the retropie. I had to edit my: gamelist.xml

From this: <image>./boxart/Sunset Riders (USA).mp4</image>
To this: <video>./snap/Sunset Riders (USA).mp4</video>

And it worked, but the problem now is I wouldn't want to edit one by one is there an easier way?

TMNTturtlguy

@martinrdgz you have 2 choices:

continue what sounds like using a gamelist which you got from unsupported third party image and rewrite the list manually.
start with a fresh image, follow the documents and instructions and use one of the supported scraper programs which will scrape most of your roms for both images and videos depending on what setting you choose.

In the end it is your decision. I started my system fresh and used universal xml scraper and now I manually update art and videos to get each rom the way I want it. It is very time consuming but I have found that while all the scrapers work fairly well, none are perfect, and none are exactly what I want for every game.