@dankcushions >the docs are synced to the wiki... at some point.

They should be synced automatically ish. At least much quicker than once a week. :)

@chunger I have the same doubt about this issue, what have you done?

@Lyle_JP said in Best Emulator / ROM Set for saving high scores?:

What 8/16 bit console ever kept high scores?

I just died laughing just now.

Why on earth did they ever even put a high score system into games like Contra and Black Belt if they weren't going to save it on battery backup? Man, some poor kid was probably almost on that "NES Achievers" on Nintendo Power and lost his high score to not having a camera or his mom tripped over the power cord. O_o

Well, trying to figure things out for MAME now anyway. (EDIT: Got it now, figured out I had to put hiscore.dat into ~/BIOS/mame2003/)

@twd oh i forgot to mention that it was for mame. my roms work for other emulators like snes and genesis on ES but not on AM.

also, not interested in using floobs image yet. I like to make it myself and know how to configure it manually. just seems like the right info isnt displayed anywhere online. i have a feeling i need to get floobs image tho, this shit is frustratingly difficult.

Port to macos
Get the script with the following command:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/share/master/noclones_fba-next.sh --output noclones_fba-next.sh

on script replace the line 47:

if ! wget -O "$gamelist" "$gamelist_url"; then

by:

if ! curl "$gamelist_url" --output "$gamelist"; then

No, there is no metadata stored in the actual ROM zip, it's just a compressed file containing one or more files of binary ROM data.

That binary data might be a valid parent ROM, a valid split child ROM, a valid non-merged child, a picture of your cat, or random garbage.

The only way to check the contents of the zip against known ROM contents is to checksum the contents and compare them to known checksums. Those checksums are what a DAT file contains.

@perseides The new post dialog has an input where you can add tags, it's at the bottom, where it says Enter tags here :

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If you delete the joystick cfg files, it would probably recreate them after you go into the RetroPie menu and configure inputs again.

After that, get to the terminal (press Esc on your keyboard), then type the following commands,

cd /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/ ls

There should only be a couple of files in there, look for something with logitech or rumblepad in the name and:

sudo nano YourFileNameHere.cfg

Look for these lines:

input_enable_hotkey_btn input_exit_emulator_btn

If you don't have those lines, add them somewhere towards the bottom.

Mine is listed as:

input_enable_hotkey_btn = "6" input_exit_emulator_btn = "7"

This means, my enable hotkey button (tells the Pi you're going to issue a command that isn't related to the game itself) is the "Select" key (or better yet the "Back" key because I'm using a Logitech F710)

And the command button is the "Start" key. Now I can hold down "Back" and press "Start" to get back to the main menu.

This page should be a little more descriptive if you need a hand: RetroPie Wiki -> Logitech controllers