@sleve_mcdichael In my searches I also learned that if you create folders for each game in the apple2 rows folder, it will only show as 1 game in emulation station. so rather than change the file extension, just create a folder and dump all roms in there. when you choose a game, it will show the disks, but easier than having a thousand rooms to choose from at the start.

@mitu I read through that thread and I can't seem to figure out if they agreed that it was a core problem or a retroarch problem. In either case it seems that the problem was never addressed.

I thought that save states would be a good workaround but that doesn't solve the problem of having to disk swap between game areas. not to mention, the save states are named after the disks rather than the m3u file so any save after the first one made must be renamed in order to be used.

is there a way to force the core into naming the save state a certain way?

edit: I'm an idiot. loading creates new disk drives to the index. you just need to pick the proper index slot, hit insert and that's that. arggagahha

@mitu said in Sharp X68000 disk swapping:

@pscotto1234 said in Sharp X68000 disk swapping:

@mitu I cannot find Disc Control function in RetroArch's menu: should you tell me the path where it is?

It's in the Quick Menu:

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@mitu Thanks a lot. Tonight I'll give it a try!

@mitu

Okay then. At the very least the info in the thread should help me out.

No hard feelings BTW.

@rkoster whoops! Didn't know/see/look at that. Thanks for pointing it out.

Hopefully the Guru's get this one figured out. Fingers crossed.

@folly Thanks for chiming in, I'll look into that!

Yeah from what I've seen so far, a lot of the menus still have enough English to be playable, with the worst of it generally being not being able to read/understand the characters for games where you'd have to make up a name for yourself. With an RPG like Esper Dream however, the language barrier was definitely going to be an issue (but fortunately a translated ROM exists). Just don't want to have it inconvenience me later on.

Anyway, hopefully I can get someone who can answer some of these other questions...!!

@dudleydes That's great information too. Thanks.

I test to swap disks with another world. It work's. I start amiberry, then put the first disk in DF0, pass the first level. When it ask the disk 2, I press select + x to access the amiberry gui from my gamepad. Then I select the disk 2 in the DF0 drive, press resume, then press a button on my pad like the game ask. The level 2 loads, they save me from this beast to put me in a jail, why?
Finally, every time i put a disk in DF0 I do it from the "floppy drives" menu, not from the "quickstart" menu, I don't know if it make a difference. I hope it will help you to play this very good game

@mitu said in Metal Gear Solid switching disks:

@smokingman The 'workaround' is how you're supposed to switch disks - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Playstation-1/#disc-swapping-for-multi-disc-games-in-retroarch.

what i read into this guide is that it is supposed i open eject disk tray, and than switch index to 2/2, and then the guide suggest to select the disk2.cue or .bin file.
if i do that i say it do not work.
it work only if i DO NOT select the disk2.bin or cue file.
it is enough to set index on 2/2, and push again disk tray cycle to close it, and quit the menu.
the guide do not claims that.

but tanks anyway to help me, really bro :)

Hmm ok thanks.
After fiddling with it a while, I was able to get a good controller mapping in stand-alone vice.

@parasven Ahh, cool. Thank you!

Problem solved!
Turns out I was missing the PSX bios. Don't know how I managed to play other games without ever needing them, but once I paid attention to the message "bios missing, add them for better compatibility" and placed them on the BIOS folder, everything turned out better. Games that crashed before no longer do so and I can now switch discs on Resident Evil 2 just like you all told me (eject, switch, close, reset) from the .pbp file.

Hi all. Just adding to this thread to mention that I was also having an issue where, when attempting to manually append a disc in Retroarch, no ROMs were appearing in my PSX ROMs folder. The above solution worked for me. This is the step-by-step for the technologically challenged (like me):

Using your computer, navigate to the "configs" folder in your RetroPie drive Go to the folder of the emulator for which your having an issue (in my case, "psx") Edit the retroarch.cfg file by right clicking it and choosing to open it in some kind of text editing program Add this line to that text file, substituting the 'psx' part for the relevant system in your case:

rgui_browser_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/psx"

Save the file Restart your Rasberry Pi

When you go to append a disc, you should now see all of your ROM files.