you can also use 7zip to open an image file and extract its contents

@kok00 don't know anything about the script but for the record there are some non working parents that are required to make clones work so if you delete them they may break more games depending on the type of rom set you have.

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@dankcushions said in batch scan rom: keep good and remove bad?: why would a game not start? that shouldn’t happen. We don't even know what system the OP is talking about : assuming he is talking about arcade and he has read the arcade documentation to pick the right romsets for the emulator he is using, there is still the issue of non-working games, however removing those non-working games might lead to more non-working games (case of the non-working parents with working clones) if he is using split romsets.

Okay, I think I found the solution. There were a couple of roms without "[!]" in the name. Because I was trying anything I could think of, I deleted those files and now everything is fine. Emulation shows every N64 rom now. Sorry for asking your help. Thank you for thinking with me for finding a solution. Best regard to all of you!

@EpicWings You need to resize the 5Gb partition to take the rest of the 64 Gb of your USB disc. Use a live CD with System Rescue CD on your PC, boot it up, then insert your USB stick and resize the 2nd partition using GParted.

cheers for the info. i'll go with the easy option for now.

@GoldManSex778 I did try that and still ran into issues so said hell with it...erased everything off of USB drive and started from scratch at instructions for manually mounting. Since I had copied everything over using a previous copy method and that might have been causing issues. Right now I'm copying the correct directory structure over, so hopefully everything will work properly now once I do the rest of the steps lol. If anything I've learned some things about Linux from the experience. Final Update: Success! Thank you all for helping! For anyone ever going through this, one of two things I think was the issue: NOT following the instructions to the letter manually mounting, or my UUID was wrong. I had the last char wrong, but could have sworn it was something different before(either new copy changed UUID, or was my error). Resolution on a laptop helps reading the characters much more clearly than on the TV screen where its almost a guessing game. I used WinSCP to confirm that its working, and booting up was much faster!

@BuZz You were not far from the truth, for some reason I had it in mind that fbalpha was also distributed as a standalone emulator, but it's just pifba (and the older lr-fbalpha-2012).

Yeah, the \\IP-ADDRESS-HERE\McArcade\RetroPie\ROMs\Nintendo\Super Nintendo Entertainment System UNC style paths are Windows specific, they won't work on Linux. Glad you got it working, happy gaming !

@mitu Awesome, that fixed it, thank you!

So in the end I did end up making the gamelist myself. The good thing is that the game and the thumbnail are the same file for Pico-8 games :) pi@retropie:~/RetroPie/roms $ cat /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/gamelist.xml <?xml version="1.0"?> <gameList> <game> <path>./Across_the_river.p8.png</path> <name>Across_the_river</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Across_the_river.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Combo_Pool.p8.png</path> <name>Combo_Pool</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Combo_Pool.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Dank_Tomb.p8.png</path> <name>Dank_Tomb</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Dank_Tomb.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Hungry_Harry_3d.p8.png</path> <name>Hungry_Harry_3d</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Hungry_Harry_3d.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Kelins_delivery_Rain.p8.png</path> <name>Kelins_delivery_Rain</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Kelins_delivery_Rain.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Stories_at_dawn.p8.png</path> <name>Stories_at_dawn</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/Stories_at_dawn.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./The_Wee_Dungeon.p8.png</path> <name>The_Wee_Dungeon</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/The_Wee_Dungeon.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./U-Turn.p8.png</path> <name>U-Turn</name> <image>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pico8/U-Turn.p8.png</image> </game> <game> <path>./Dusk_Child.p8.png</path> <name>Dusk_Child</name> <image>./Dusk_Child.p8.png</image> <playcount>2</playcount> <lastplayed>20190414T055919</lastplayed> </game> </gameList>

If there's a way via optional, I think that would be valuable. Either that or have a "preview all systems" toggle in the menu you can turn on or off, which would reveal or hide systems you aren't otherwise set up for. There are certainly systems I don't really know, and would find it interesting to check them out if it were fairly easy.

@dankcushions said in Struggling to get a decent FB Alpha v0.2.97.44 romset - use a Mame one?: .44 is synced with current mame though a "non-merged" romset would have more roms Careful with that statement, it's mostly true but there are exceptions, as an example i know a lot of pgm games won't work if you use a mame romset without converting it to a fbalpha one through clrmamepro (every few months i have people who report issues saying "pgm games don't work" thanks to that). FBAlpha also includes a lot of hacks from hbmame, some are fun. @chubsta Sorry, i don't provide "no-clone" dat files, and i don't recommend it either : a few parents aren't working and are there only to get their clones working idk about 1943 specifically, but some games are different from a clone to another, i think that's especially true for a few shmup where you get different foes/pattern, i noticed that while working on a bug with raiden2 last year.

@aatheronb pay attention in class instead of trolling the forum

@mitu said in Regional dependencies on ROMs across different emulators: The emulator should be able to scale it to your native TV screen's resolution. EDIT: What I've other people recommend - and it sort of makes sense - is to try and run the NTSC version of a ROM when possible. NTSC ran at almost 60hz, similar to the modern displays. Bingo - that's exactly what I just did before I'm reading this :-) Set boot config to CEA-4, removed default emulator video choice from on-game startup menu and sorted out my ROMs so now it's all USA (NTSC) versions. Now it's all perfect. As always: Thanks buddy for your good explanation and clarification.

@Parabolaralus yes it will remove these letters. You can see it on that screenshot (column: Wiped File Name). https://github.com/TobiasKoller/RomSetManager/blob/master/Images/Readme/bestmatch_3_actions_wipe_btn.PNG

@OregonPacifist there isn't anything magical about it. You can put those roms back into the arcade folder and they will work. You just need to change the default emulator in the runcommand menu. Definitely should read the documents links previously posted.