@pbizzle said in Where are the ROMS?!:

@dankcushions should all the ROMs be .zip files?

not for all systems, no. you can find out the possible extension(s) for a given system by looking at the wiki page. eg https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Super-Nintendo-Entertainment-System

@CodeDrawer said in Legality of roms by nintendo.:

Is mame the arcade emulator?

Yes, merged with MESS these days, which supports consoles.

Ahh, thank you, I'll try this ;-).

Aside from the fact that they're not supposed to sell a RetroPie image, their showcasing of RetroPie is the most troubling part; someone who doesn't know what's going on can look at that and assume that the RetroPie team is behind it all.

I've recently heard of a script that downloads roms from an exclusive web server once the Pi is booted and is connected to the internet, so they're technically not selling roms, but that still can't be legal.

Also, the sad part is there's not much that anyone can do about these sales; if you report them and they get shut down, they just come back under a different name. The only thing that I can suggest is to encourage people to build their own setups instead of buying them. People who aren't tech-savvy tend to be intimidated at the thought of putting one together, and they need to know that this is a platform for beginners to learn computing; it's not some impossible piece of tech that they can't wrap their heads around.

Hey Simonster,

i know regarding third-party images. But any suggsetion or tipp would maybe help.

I will reconfigure the xbox controller

Thanks for help

Edit:

I´ve found the error.
Last night i installed over the retropie setup the xboxdrv - for whatever reason :-)

Now i uninstalled the driver and it works again with the xbox controller like before.

Thanks for the help

@lostless i see your taking selfies again. I also noticed there are no ice cold corona's already at the table. Remind me not to ever visit that resort...

I tend to leave them zipped for the older consoles but any cd based system I unzip them as they are usually slightly faster to be read by the emulator as they do not need decompressing

Cool...Thanks! Awesome....it's now bookmarked.

@pjft MACs aren't my thing, I leave them to the GF and the young wan. Everyone I see talks about dd In fact I saw etcher get ripped to shreds on reddit by people criticising them for just over-complicating dd. Saying that, I do like a nice GUI and I have no issues with it. Straight into a zip? You could ask them to add it. They seem like they are willing to help.

@chrissphinx 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

Make sure you are using an official image, or have done a manual install yourself. We will not support 3rd party images.

@herb_fargus Note I use ubuntu linux, so I would like the program to work with that.

@SKIIERFOX86

Also:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation#installing-additional-emulators

@brettsalyer it looks like you have everything running!?! Do you mind sharing with us if you found the issue? Or did just reinstalling the roms to the USB card fix the problem? Thanks

Alright.

@spykypie do you mean .7z? if so, you need to extract with a zip program (eg http://www.7-zip.org/download.html) - the files within hopefully are compatible types :)

@dankcushions Perhaps he means , "how to set up CPS 1/2/3 as their own systems"? @SKIIERFOX86 you need to manually create these within your theme. If you want to know how to do it you should search the forum as this has been covered extensively or start a new thread.

@kevreh said in How to reverse lookup emulators if I have roms?:

"if that's the case...don't"......... meaning don't bother looking them up because we know they're for mame? Guessing so. But yes, their zipped up.

Thanks everyone. While I'm thinking of it, what do you guys use, if anything, to validate them before putting them on Retropie? Something like ROM Center or ClrMamePro?

because of the way mame works, starting from random roms is generally the wrong way to go. knowing they are mame is one thing, but you'd need to know which specific romset they are for, which isn't easy.

i wouldn't even rebuild. all the mame emulators in retropie use specific romsets, so just start from there.

@capeman Well that's leaps and bounds better than my NES/Atari setup

@epd .ecm is not supported. see the documentation for supported formats: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Playstation-1

@jepperi well, this is going to be tough because you don't describe exactly where you installed your roms in the first place, nor how you are using what you call a "raspberry stick". It sounds like you were trying to use USB ROM service, maybe. You need to start over and really describe your setup (see the link at the top of these pages) and explain exactly what you did (with directory paths etc.)

Also, please do some research with the Docs link above. The arcade section shows you all of the directories where emulation station is looking for roms for each emulator. The answers are right there. I shouldn't have to even write this.