@vice86 said in Can an Attract Mode theme be made to work in EmuStation?:

If the theme can be made in Attract Mode, can it be made/work for Emulation Station or is there just a bunch of things I'm not aware of differences between the two softwares?

I'm sure some functions can be replicated but would require lots of manual work and wouldn't be exact. Pegasus would probably be better able to replicate it but requires lots of coding know how

thx for all,

@mitu I thought about it a few moments later.

It would be nice if the kodi setup was system default.

@piboy I've never seen that article before.There is a guy from one of the main forums for the Nes Mini Classic & Hakchi that dumped the full firmware from the nes mini, and he did some research on the roms that were on the mini, and found discrepancies between the roms and pirated roms online.I can't recall how many pirated roms he found that are on the mini.

@bombay The Raspberry pi is not a pc (x86/64 architecture) therefore it cannot run "windows games" natively. Like for every device, programs have to be compiled specificallyf for a type of machine (pc/mac/Android/etc). So there are two solutions out there to run "windows programs" on Raspberry pi.
1/ You get the source code adapt it and recompile it for the Pi (very unlikely)
2/ You try to run your games throught some "pc & windows emulator" like exagear ( https://eltechs.com/product/exagear-desktop/ )

@buzz
Sorry for the long delay - I was prevented from working on this. When I did get around to it though, I was able to use this advice to come up with a solution. Thanks a bunch!

@maplestory Correct. It doesn't matter. Those lines relate to the extra folders - nvram, etc.

Thanks for reporting! Hope you're having fun.

@mediamogul I am using the Pi 3B+ but when i was using a Pi 3 awhile back i had it overclocked to like 1.35Ghz and was still running pretty good from my experience.

@celly

Very nice! I have a v1 myself, so I'll have to do a bit of soldering for this, but it definitely looks worth the effort. Then again, I may just buy a v2. I'm still training off and on in NES 'Tetris'. I went back to the drawing board with some new building strats and while I still haven't cracked 400K yet, I can reliably break 100K on most attempts and 200-300K+ somewhat frequently. The new play style and the speed in higher levels tops me out fairly fast at the moment, but I figure once it becomes routine, 400K+ won't be far behind. Again, those pics are great. Be sure to post back if you can as things progress. It's really nice to see this little guy getting some love.

This is great info even for those of us who are not using standard HD video resolutions. Anyone building an arcade cabinet using dirt cheap 17 or 19-inch LCDs typically find them running 1280x1024 resolution, and although 1024p is not 1080p, it's certainly better than 720, and I can definitely attest to how nice the CRT-PI shader looks at 1024.

It's also handy to know that the shader looks best when it has 4x game resolution to render the scanline and shadow mask effects. This has come up in a few other threads over the past few months--people building hand-held devices that have tiny screens sometimes ask about using the CRT-PI shader. I had always thought you would need extra pixels to make the CRT effect look nice. I guess my advice was sound. Good info all around.

Thanks for the reply. I just tried with a second controller, but while the SteelSeries controller is connected it seems to affect all other inputs. I can't seem to control anything until I disconnect the SteelSeries one.

The only controllers that I have been able to get working are the keyboard, and a wired controller. My goal was to get a pair of bluetooth controllers working, I just haven't had much luck yet.

@Everett1954 I was able to get about half the Creativision games working with Advmess. However, I wasn't happy with the results because I couldn't get Planet Defender to work. I wound up manually installing the creatiVision Emulator (Linux Source dated 24 April 2016) (source file: creatiVision-1604240src.7z) from this website: https://sourceforge.net/projects/creativisionemulator/ This emulator uses SDL.

Having unzipped the files into a new build folder, I compiled it with cmake /home/pi/build(using GNU 4.9.2 on my Pi) and make. Once the executable creatiVision file was created, I then set up a layout etc.

All of the games seem to work and appear to work at full speed.

Your mileage might vary. I did this more than a year ago on Jessie, and I'm using Attract Mode, rather than emulationstation, and I also use xboxdrv for controls.

Also my emulators.cfg looks like this:

default = "creatiVision" creatiVision = "/opt/retropie/emulators/creativision/creatiVision -r %ROM% -b /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/crvision2/bioscv.rom -f"

Note the reference to the bios file bioscv.rom.

You may need to adapt the emulators.cfg for emulationstation, but I can't help you there.

In theory should be possible with bluemsx (not sure how well implemented the libretro version is) but from what I was reading running .cas looked a bit involved, there was a bit of a guide I saw on the bluemsx forms but I don't think I can link to it as it looked like it had ROM or bios links.

I tend to leave them zipped for the older consoles but any cd based system I unzip them as they are usually slightly faster to be read by the emulator as they do not need decompressing

@meleu Well funny thing is that I fixed it for now. And I installed it via Raspian Desktop the first time.

@m0h most joypad extractions are handled through retropad with retroarch, I know they had some plans at some point to make the retropad more visual but I don't now where they are at with it.

All set! Thanks again!

@jdrassa said in Request: Option To Disable Carousel in ES UI Options:

FYI,

Someone submitted something similar to this previously that was rejected.

https://github.com/RetroPie/EmulationStation/pull/85

It looks to be rejected mainly based on how rudimentary the request was that was submitted. The guy who originally submitted this push did so by simply making a flag that disabled the back button in ES, which is too simple of an implementation for buzz, he wrote that he wanted to make sure it was a better coded function.

@Hex, i promise I'll get to the next step soon, perhaps tonight if i get a lull, hahaha! Too many adult, work and parenting responsibilities come first. Damn these 30's.

@AlexMurphy Yes they did. I didn't convert them and it's not a file ownership issue.
It was the bios the old bios I was using SCPH1001.BIN. And downloaded the same one from a trusty website and voilá problem solved.
Thanks for the brainstorming @AlexMurphy. it really helped.