@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...!!

@rmbell34 said in Core settings per folder possible?:

@folly It worked! Thanks so much! That was the issue. I needed to change the emulators.cfg to tell it where the retroarch.cfg was in the famicom folder. Thanks again!

Great to hear it is working.

Curious,
what lines did you have in the famicom emulators.cfg ?

It should have added it when you updated your patched lr-nestopia.

@Beldar said in The State of Emulators on 3B+:

Will I still get the same nearly flawless experience with those emulators in their current state of development? I would rather not buy a Pi 4 if I don't need to spend the money.

I just updated mine first time in almost 2 years. Make sure to copy all ur splashscreen videos and stuff. I cant find the one I was using. I deleted my SD card and started fresh. However, you can just update the cores. You could try updating the kernel and stuff but I had a hard time because my kernel and stuff was too old it would freeze up. You might now have that problem.

" Will I still get the same nearly flawless experience with those emulators in their current state of development"
It will probably be the same if not better.

@mitu
Indeed you are right!
Thanks, solved now.

Done it! I succeeded to enable blargg's filters, thanks so much.

@montecore >Sounds like there's nothing that can be done

Well, you could manually recompile it from an earlier version to get back to where it was but as far as converting the savestates I'm not aware of any method

@heroism Again, you need to unzip the samples in their own game folder for this to work.

@bpmnyc

It wouldn't work for a couple of reasons. Primarily, RetroArch will only use a mouse or pointer device to emulate a light gun. Popular solutions to this are AimTrak USB guns, as well as a Dolphinbar/Wiimote/Gun casing combo. Another big hangup was input lag, as the screen flash has to occur at the exact moment the trigger is pressed. However, thanks to recent developments that were previously thought to be somewhat impossible, this would no longer be an issue when using capable hardware. Still, support would nonetheless have to be added for RetroArch to interface with actual light guns.

@thelostsoul said in NES PAL color reproduction in le-nestopia:

So its possible with both emulators.

Yes it is. They both even share many, if not all, of the same filters. However, in a few cases, the filters have different names.

Nestopia is said to be more accurate and less problems with sound production

Neither core will run every game, so you'll probably want both if you're looking for maximum coverage. lr-nestopia does seem to handle some of the more finicky unlicensed titles, like 'Action 52' that lr-fceumm won't even launch.

My main question is, what should I set them to if I want a similiar experience like my old PAL tv?

I'm a Statesman myself, so that'll best be answered by someone else.

Thanks to all for the advice. I have used the no intro rom set and slimmed it down to English language only games using Romulus and a dat file from dat-o-matic.

It's in the libretro directory of the Nestopia core's source: https://github.com/rdanbrook/nestopia/tree/master/libretro

@mediamogul it wouldnt work on the nes. I would remove all the circuitry in it and install a small board like raphnets 12 buttons to usb board making it a usb power pad. Or in my own personal case, i might just wire a 15 pin cable so i can just plug it into the connectors on my ipac.

Hey just quick question but could I use default cores or cfg by altering the files in Raspian Desktop?

@TPR I change my settings inside the retroarch gui in-game. Should be under Quick Menu\ Options

for those of you that might want to incorporate these into one of your Retropie Themes.

I'm still not sure what's going on. It seems like any new NES rom I load onto the retropie experiences the same issue. When I say new I mean any rom that wasn't already previously loaded on the retropie before I started to experience the issue.

I downloaded a fresh set of no-intro roms and verified they were correct using clrmamepro. I compared one of the currently working roms [Addams Family, The (USA).nes] to one of the ones in the new set I downloaded i.e.

Addams Family, The (USA).nes

CRC32: 94A230A9 MD5: 56DF8432043A2D724BAB64FEB39912D5 SHA-1: 7E236610BDFDE5A439A19E18C873982E2C607643

Everything matched so I know I'm using the correct set of roms.

I then tried to add a new rom from the same set [10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes], however this rom won't load, it experiences the same problem as the other roms I described in my earlier post i.e. the screen turns black for a couple of seconds then comes back to the rom list.

10-Yard Fight (USA, Europe).nes

CRC32: B312DF62 MD5: 0E2E5DD0C3D8A48C28588DA93EAFA82B SHA-1: ED2E5D9B4BEC0A87BAD56930A2482F752C0E06EC

Any ideas on how to fix this?

@edmaul69 i got it

i removed the garbage lol
good tip

@Citro Figured out the issue. Had nothing to do with the emulator; for some reason, the affected roms were 0Kb in size... not sure what happened, but when I re-copied roms to the Pi, they worked perfectly.

Thanks again @columboscoat