@AlexMurphy

cool. thx for that. ill have to give that shot later

@meleu Thanks. Good resource!

@dedbob indeed. Glad you got it sorted in the end.

Now only if the mp3 compression worked... Would sure make my Sega CD library smaller.

@Danorak1981 said in Converting Genesis and Super Famicom Controllers to USB:

Is there any reason that I wouldn't be able to solder a female USB to the Raphnet board in order to fit it flush inside the SNES pad?

You should absolutely be able to do that.

@KokoPebbles Please use descriptive titles for topics - Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

(Understand you are visually impaired, but I assume you are able to read the website/forum via large fonts/high constrast/text to speech etc).

What problem are you having with the calibration? I'm not sure anyone can do a better step to step instruction than our existing official documentation. I have no idea what guides you have read but this is the official one -

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

Please follow that and go into more detail what you can't do etc.

@beretta9 Your solution worked for me, thank you very much. Too bad lr-genesis-plus-gx has a far less satisfying performance.

@BuZz Why does Kodi need to copy that file into that folder to make its own port anyway? I don't know why it says to do that under Kodi in the Wiki?

@celly

However when I try to scrape Genesis, it only returns with Mega Drive art.

I've heard that if you edit your es_systems.cfg and change <platform>megadrive</platform> to <platform>genesis</platform> it will scrape Genesis art instead of Megadrive. I haven't tested this so please let us know if this works.

@rbaker
As in playing the roms for consoles outside of the zip file as opposed to inside the zip.

MAME roms have remain zipped due to the game actually being multiple files workign in tandem. While roms for home consoles are single files held in a zip compression, and can be played either zipped or unzipped.

@dankcushions said in Any performance difference for playing console un-zipped roms?:

i guess it might take 0.1 seconds to load the whole thing into ram rather than 0.2 seconds :)

Yea, I assumed the whole program was running from ram instead of constantly referencing the compressed file... but wasn't sure, so I thought I'd ask here if there was a performance difference.

Though I've had seen some threads on reddit talking about how certain games only seem to run when not zipped.

@Jiryn said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

@MWGemini said in Playing Console Combined Rom Packs? (SNES, GEN, NES):

You can also put things in subfolders. So I might have all my Mario games in NES\Super Mario Brothers and SNES\Super Mario World, for example. That way I can see all the variants within a particular game, but at the root level, I'm just looking at the "base" game name. It makes scraping a little bit more difficult, but that's a different issue.

Thank you!
No I went back and grabbed a NO INTRO set, since there would be less/no redundant files this way.

One thing you can do to further reduce your no intro set of its redundancy, is produce a "1g1r" set from it (1 game, 1 region). If you download the appropriate P/clone xml DAT (from here http://datomatic.no-intro.org/?page=download&fun=xml ) and load it into Romcenter 3.7.1, you can point it to your rom directory and have it keep only a single version of each game based on your ordered preference of regions.

@AndersHP said in How do you organise romsets? MAME and (in particular) consoles:

you need a set newer than 0.78 to reliably generate a 0.78 set from it.

My knowledge stops with the tutorial video. The commentary from @herb_fargus was helpful in suggesting this.

turns out my xin mo had some quality issues...

button 9/10 when pressed would disconnect the xin mo... i changed from P0 to P1 to confirm this...they are sending me a new one.

Thank you. I got it updated and it worked after an ES restart.

As of 2024, I can confirm that @akafox's method still works.
In our case, we had two generic SNES-like controllers and a third generic PS3-like controller plugged in.
After pressing Select-X to get into the emulator menu:
The first two controllers had many controller type options.
The third controller only had retropad available.

On controller #1, we selected 3 button + 4 way tap.

Then reset the emulation from inside the menu.
Voila, 3 players.

Having started this thread I'll speak up again, because I don't think I managed to ever get the O2 change (though I did get the Genesis change just fine).

So there's technically two files in two different locations where this kind of thing can be changed, and the preferred location is in /etc/emulationstation, and in the other location mentioned, that cfg file can be safety removed / deleted?

I'll have to revisit this :)

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I SO NOT TROLL

@backstander

Just keep them away from 'Donkey Kong Jr. Math'. An ape in a diaper has no business teaching arithmetic.

Okay so, apparently I misunderstood the copying process... I thought I could just use the SAMBA Shares, but that didn't work... However, I have since used the USB Flash Drive option and now the games and emulators are showing up on the console.

So, problem solved!

@antricluc look in the thread started by obsidionspider and you will see what way i did the switch and he will be posting what he does

@gorgar said in Two player puzzle recomendations.:

Thanks all some good stuff in there been playing quite a bit of Quarth, strangely addicting and nice controls.....

YES quarth is so good, hahaha