@mitu said in Prevent Emulation Station to read all ROMs when starting:

Note that if you add or remove games, they will not show up/disappear unless you disable this option so that EmulationStation will write the correct/updated gamelist.

As I have all the ROMs I want collected (that's why it takes so long for the EmuStation to read) I will give it a try.
Thanx

@QuantumFusionX https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Transferring-Roms/

@amtimes546 RetroPie doesn't develop daphne neither any other emulator, meaning your triple-post suggesting daphne's future developments is entirely meaningless.

@SuperMazut yeah. Retropie only cares about the retropie-mount folder on the USB drive -- whatever else you do with the rest of the drive, doesn't matter.

@sleve_mcdichael Thank you so much for your help.

@stanbu84 said in cant see systems or roms in retropie:

just started getting into pi's and command prompts and what not so i feel very green and dumb. thanks for the assist.

You don't need to use the command line at all. Our docs explain everything, even in video form if you'd like to.

@Gnatrgaming Ps1 games must be unzipped otherwise, they will not appear in EmulationStation menu.

@CobraDesign47 said in Trouble Running Games:

Any further advice is appreciated!

Again - please provide the info asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, including the emulator and ROM/system where you have trouble.

You can also provide a log file after you've activated verbose logging; copy the contents of the log file (/dev/shm/runcommand.log) and post it on pastebin.com, providing here the link.

I recommend to read the RetroPie Doc's about arcade emulation: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Arcade/

Of course, we can't provide links about bios or roms files because is illegal and against of RetroPie community rules.

@sirhenrythe5th Awesome! Thank you for this response. It will be very helpful in getting rid of some of the systems I don't intend on playing on my arcade cabinet! Thank you again!!

@mitu Sorry for the delay, I didn't receive an e-mail notification about your reply or maybe I miss it....

PR is submitted to update the documentation.

Have you verified that the dumps are correct and they match the redump.org site checksums ?

I have just checked checksums for several games and they are correct:

Medal Of Honor (Single-Disc)

Redump : SHA-1 - 99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin" 99f46eec7a8abe548b376f3c920353ab1f642de2 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Medal of Honor.bin

Metal Gear Solid (Multi-Disc)

Disc 1

Redump : SHA-1 - 3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin" 3daa7fbdf69e232e76b593951950c34be930b299 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 1).bin

Disc 2

Redump : SHA-1 - 578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04 Generated .bin file:$ sha1sum "${HOME}/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin" 578bef4fb45a4c20a7dd5f6645b474a5180aae04 /home/mylogin/RetroPie/roms/psx/Metal Gear Solid (Disc 2).bin

Which CD unit are you using to dump the discs ?

I'm not sure so I'm not going to say anything wrong... The script is mainly a wrapper around cdrdao and toc2cue utilities so I let the cdrdao utility do the job to generate the .bin files.

I see other scripts on the Internet but they were buggy or not enough user-friendly as mine. To rip a disc, I just want to :

Insert the disc Start the script given the name of the game and eventually, its number of discs Restart EmulationStation and have fun

@pigpen said in Retropie for pi5?:

@Shadow666 Everything runs slowly and the sound is very choppy with recalbox? Surely it can't be throttling the cpu

What games are you running? Everything runs great bar N64 atm with the 9.2 release on the site. If you have a patreon account you can get the latest beta where n64 runs better. They even have killer instint arcade version at full speed with Mame 2003.

I tested fbneo and they seem to be running a very old core, they are missing a lot of features which are on the official build.

Recalbox support seems to be focused on French which is a pain as it is not a language I am good at.

@wtstreetglow1 It looks like reversing the slashes on the first (windows) share got this working.

It should have been:

//WESTONSPC/roms

@StewDapples

My advise is not to mix mame and fbneo roms just keep them in separate folders.
Otherwise you can't keep track of which is which.

About new roms and emulator releases.
I would not spend hours and hours finding which rom still works and which needs updating if not necessary.
I would just backup all and get all new ones and filter them again which is much faster.
For lr-fbneo this would be easy as I explained.

For lr-mame2003plus I don't know.
I could be wrong but for lr-mame2003plus I don't expect many updates.

I never used CLRmamepro so I can't help you with that.

I saw the option to enable Jiffydos at retroarch and I see that, when enabled it loads a .d64 file somewhat quicker. Is this the only advantage, or you can do other things with it?

@sleve_mcdichael said in stop ScummVM from generating .svm files?:

If you run the command manually, does your output look like mine?

nope, there's an additional line: Using configuration file: /opt/...

using tail -n +4 solves that then. Sorry for bothering you with this, seems like something I could've figured out...

You can try scraping them. That's what the <platform> tag is for in es_systems.cfg, where you configured the custom system.

looks like I'd removed that line (in my attempts to isolate from the main scummvm), but I'm adding it back in now.
(even though not all games there are scummvm...)

i've used skyscraper before, thanks for the tips!

Was there a reason you want to use the scummvm.ini contents, specifically?

oh, no, it just looked like there's more info in there, but not much of it is useful for scraping anyway

thanks for everything, i think i can handle it from here :)