@tpr said in Question about Multi-Disc Consoles:

Going back to the Sega CD question, what are my current options? Do I just have to have all the discs listed in the rom directory?

Yes, since no SegaCD emulator supports .m3u files at the moment, so you'll have to load the game directly from a disc.

I haven't use .chd files yet. Are a game with .chd format require more processing resources to run, than bin/cue format?

Works a treat! Thank you so much.

lr-opera worked on Lemmings with Player 1 as the mouse, it didn't occur to me to try Player 2 for Sega CD.

I've only had it happen on my 3B+ setup with the lr-genesis-plus-gx emulator. And it wasn't unique to megadrive games. I has some Master System ROMs also do it.

Hope they can resolve this in an update before long.

@fatfrog 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

Case sensitivity INSIDE another file has gotten me multiple times.

@mitu I have been trying to run Flink(U) and Dragon's Lair

@quicksilver thank you, I was going to try that it's nice to have a confirmation beforehand

It is from MAME 0.205 (x64) release.

@Dinsdale The bios for picodrive can basically be copied and renamed to
bios_CD_U.bin
bios_CD_E.bin
bios_CD_J.bin
and then the cd should work for lr-genesisplus-gx.

The audio seems to be baked in with the .bin, this usually will work so I don't know why it isn't.

Maybe the .cue has a line break edit that make it incomplete, and you could try checking for carriage returns with edit+, maybe the emulator accepts them anyways.

Could try searching for a method to separate the audio tracks. extract audio from segacd.

Or try to convert to CHD with chdman; "sega cd .cue to .chd"

@mitu Yes I tested them on PC and they aren't working on PC either so definitely seems to be a problem with the files themselves. Here is a pastebin of the info command: https://pastebin.com/s6g48Nr7

You can use iso+ogg for more space (edited with cue files) with games who have many sound track and lr-genesis-plus. Turborip is fine for compress in that format.
Chd is fine too and more easy, but more heavy in general. Picodrive use cso+wav but i don't use it.

@tommyellas Please read the forum's rules - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2/forum-rules, there's no ROM/bios/games sharing.

@saccublenda Ive found switching between discs was an issue when select-x to retroarch menu When using bin. and .cue roms. Try using just .iso roms for mutli disk games like night trap and ground zero texas. Worked for me

@Shmeter.man are you using a thumb drive to put the bios on? There are issues with the sega cd bios' and that method. Use something like winscp to put the bios files on.

@meleu

I think RetroArch doesn't care about extensions...

Jeezy Creezy.... It was just that easy.

Ahhhhhhh well. At least when I'm wasting a ton of time and the answer is just this simple at least I'm learning new things, right?

I absolutely can't believe the best answer was changing .bin to .cue. Works perfect for launching the game, and it shouldn't give any problems with our script either.

Thanks everybody!

@RobotLimeLtd That is not the default for retropie - default retropie has

# Sets the "system" directory. # Implementations can query for this directory to load BIOSes, system-specific configs, etc. system_directory = "/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS"

in configs/all/retroarch.cfg - perhaps you overwrote the config?