@mitu

Thank you mitu, I appreciate your reply, will go have a look into that.

So, thanks for the help.

I found on my computer the file SMS BIOS V1.3 (UE) [h1].sms. I started it up. It showed the Sega Master System startup screen, then it went to the Snail Maze without any prompting from me. So, thanks for the help everyone. I feel 14 years old again :D

Bummer! Thanks for the answer though! :)

@Razak said in Start retropie and start with the same game:

But, the aspect ratio is wrong and I'm unable to disable the auto-run function.

Depending on your emulator, you might have to configure that first, by running the ROM from Emulationstation and configuring the video aspect/pixel stretching in the emulator.

F4 on the keyboard is not halting the function. Is there another way to get back to the emulationstation configuration menu?

F4 only works in Emulationstation. While you're in an emulator, it depends on the emulator - if you have a gamepad try Select + Start or Esc if you're on a keyboard.
Open a new topic with these issues and add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

i would recommend mame2003+ more games inproved input system bit of a learning curve.

Hi, mitu. Thank you very much for the reply. This is what I was looking for.

@gforce In this case, if you prefer to edit the configuration file, have a look at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/RetroArch-Configuration/#config-hierarchy to determine where to add the configuration parameters.

@rjmonteiro edited last post for error

@herb_fargus You're right, sorry, I'm a bit confused since I'm just beginner when it comes to a game industry, I will look somewhere else.

@didier110 Hey, I had the same problem running Mega Bomberman.

I switched from lr-picodrive to lr-genesis-gx and all was fixed with that game. Since that, I've switched most of my sega to the lr-genesis-gx emulator.

Good luck!

@akafox Thank you for the info. I will add it manually.

@sara I'm not familiar enough with game engines to know but there are some game engines like love2d (which is based on Lua) essentially you're limited to either game engines retropie supports or engines that convert games to portable code like c++ which can be compiled on most platforms.

Pygame is one that is particularly suited to the pi.

The weirdest for me was playing Final Fantasy III on the SNES back in the day, and stumbling upon the Sketch glitch without realizing what had happened.

For those who don't know, Sketch is an ability where you select an enemy and "sketch" it, causing you to instantly use one of its abilities against your enemies. The problem is that when Sketch misses for whatever reason (e.g. spells that cause your target to turn invisible), the game bugs out, and things got weird, usually in a very game-breaking way.

Years later, I found out that this happened because of the way the ability was coded in ASM; when Sketch missed, the algorithm would reference a memory address that contained junk data, and different things would happen, depending on the stored values.

@magostinelli kindly check my comments on github

@edmaul69 Tried it (I updated retroarch and all the other cores), and now it magically works! Thanks a bunch, edmaul :)

even a pop up or on screen option by pressing a button

Honestly, I can't really see something like this becoming successful. The Atari 2600 has the AtariAge crowd that loves developing homebrews and putting them on carts, but I personally don't see this happening with the NES. Not that it can't happen, but I think that the motivating force that drives their homebrew community isn't really there in the NES communities.

The 8-bit era was when a lot of iconic franchises like Mario, Castlevania, Final Fantasy, and Megaman came of age, and much of our love for the NES is tied strongly to our memories of those games. If you take a look at some of the 8-bit indie games out there like Shovel Knight, a lot them play the nostalgia card and are meant to remind us of those franchises.

The Atari 2600 was more about the games and not so much on characters (even Pitfall Harry is rather generic), so the focus becomes more on what you can do with limited sound/graphics and a one-button joystick. Unfortunately, that way of thinking doesn't work for the NES because it raised the bar for gaming as whole, and gave rise to memorable characters that we are now attached to. I can look past the fact that Wall Jump Ninja features a generic ninja and wonder what the gameplay is like, but my first reaction with Eskimo Bob is, why should I be interested?

@lordg2009 same results here. a menu opened up very momentarily but then things crashed so... yeah idk. maybe it needs x and doesnt like running on the framebuffer.

have you tried bombic?

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bombic/