@Tango said in Newbie - Setting up Arcade Machine, Question about hardware requirements: Let's say I go for more power. Compared to stock Debian (which, admittedly, I haven't used since about 2008), how hard is it to install RetroPie and setup a version of MAME or FinalBurn on it? I would say pretty easily, especially if you're already a little familiar with Linux. Even if was a long time ago, the basics didn't change much (I'm using Linux since 2006/2007 myself). Apart from the Pi 3b (no plus) in my upright cabinet, I'm running Retropie on my PC and Laptop with Kubuntu 18.04 and KDE Neon. The only not(ic)able difference is that I have to enter the sudo password on those systems to start RP's setup scripts, whereas the stock Retropie image for the Pi doesn't require that (which is a security issue of course, but depending on your setup more or less negligible). Retropie installs into /opt, so it doesn't collide with the main system … well, mostly, because it upgrades some packages liks SDL to versions that might break some dependencies, but I can just downgrade them to system state without noticing any problems in Retropie. That said, I'm using a separate user "pi" for Retropie to keep it apart from my everyday user and its $HOME directory. One day-to-day tip I want to give you is to switch from RP's standard Samba shares to FISH or sshfs over ssh. You could even combine the latter with autofs to mount it automatically on-demand and unmount it again after some idle time. Although encrypted, the file and directory access is much faster than Samba on my systems, and with public key authentication also more secure. See the Docs about how to setup ssh on Retropie. Just remember to de-share or even uninstall Samba after setting up ssh file access to close that then unnecessary rabbit hole. You'll close standard Windows access to RP this way, of course – if that's an issue for you.

Unfortunately there isn't a centralized list by model of system - most of the system/platforms supported found in the docs are supported, some of them are specific for PC (Gamecube, Wii, PS2 for instance) and are marked as such.

@hiulit said in Runcommand shows same name for different emulators: @mitu Could it be possible to launch a ROM without asking which emulator to use? I mean, when I select a gb game, can I know it's a gb game and consequently launch its respective emulator? Sure, you can do that, but you'll have to basically add each game to the emulators.cfg and specify its emulator, just like when normally choosing the emulator through the Runcommand launch menu. Runcommand does not have a 'match by wildcard', but a 'match by name' based on the emulators.cfg file. The downside is that each game must be explicitly added with its emulator - you can do this through your script, but any subsequent game added in the new system will have to be processed again by your script. Again, much easier would be to create a Collection and this will automatically taken care of by Emulationstation (i.e. launch the correct emulator). You're basically re-inventing a custom Collection from scratch, but trying to shoehorn it in the Runcommand launch sequence. Can I have more than one default in the same emulators.cfg? No, that's not possible.

@mitu I think that is in the end my only option, if I want a single Arcade menu option. I really wanted avoid this.

@kinduff I gotta say, it's a very intriguing use of ES. I commend your efforts.

@pjft and to complete this ... I have collections that are named "RetroAchievements" and "RA - Battle Bugs". The Battle Bugs is for challenging games or for the Monthly Random Game introduced here (Currently Mario RPG). These collections in combination with a small script Automated Switchable RetroAchievements make an automatic connect/disconnect to the RA server possible ;) So you all see custom collections is a milestone in the ES development. Thank you pjft :D

@kap5ule using a third party image is a discouraged action here.

Guys Could i use something similar to use 2 different bezels ofr gb/gbc as at the minute i am doing it per core but both are using the same bezel :( thanks

thank you very much!

My favourite is probably an SNES emulator I came across a while back. I think the retropie is the best way to host it, but recently I've been looking at some alternatives to Raspberry Pi: https://www.1and1.com/digitalguide/server/know-how/raspberry-pi-alternatives-single-board-computers-to-check-out/ out of interest and I wonder how well they might handle an SNES or even a PSX emulator. But as far as the retropie goes, it hosts the SNES emulator like a champ; the frame rate is great and everything ran smoothly. I just wish I could remember the name of it. When I do I'll add it below.

@capeman I didn't realize it incorporated light gun. That makes more sense.

Its been a while since i implemented this and everything works just fine. I wonder though, would it be technically possible to load a different splash video or splash screen depending on the loaded es_system file? For example, for console games a splash video and for arcade games a different splash video.

@darknior That was just a joke :) Yes the method from meleu and me needs heavy handwork. I hope that pjft and Zigurana can do an integreated system. For myself I'm happy with my coding - I often did not challenged in the mame rows because I forgot the week winner title :(

@dankcushions I figured it had to have been asked many times before. I personally merge all the sega systems together. It was just the inconsistency that made me ask. both are cart systems with cd add-ons but one is separate, one is merged. You could argue that the supergrafx was a separate system not just an add-on like the 32x but with only 5 games who wants to split that out! There is one problem with merging though. sselphs scraper doesn't find sega cd titles or pce cd titles if they are in the megadrive or pcengine folders so they have to be scraped manually, the built in scraper doesn't find them either (the system is part of the search criteria and it's the wrong system).

Hi, yes they are, I've checked everything amd after asking in various other places it may be that the issue is retrosmc as I'm using that instead of retropie

The poll has had 80 responses so I thought I'd sort them for all to see. You'll notice ones like Megadrive/Genesis have both their combined total and their individual totals. I think this is good info to have. Unsurprisingly, SNES, NES, PSX and Megadrive/Genesis are at the top of the list. Here are the results so far: SNES/Super Famicom - 81 Megadrive/Genesis - 80 NES/Famicom - 70 SNES - Super Nintendo Entertainment System - 66 NES - Nintendo Entertainment System - 60 PC Engine/TurboGraphx-16 - 52 PSX - PlayStation 1 - 48 Game Boy Advance - 42 Sega 32x/Mega 32x - 41 Genesis - 40 Megadrive - 40 Nintendo 64 - 40 SegaCD/MegaCD - 36 Game Boy - 34 Game Boy Color - 33 FinalBurn Alpha - 32 Master System - 30 Neo Geo - 30 Atari 2600 - 29 Sega 32X - 28 Kodi - 27 PC Engine - 26 TurboGrafx-16 - 26 Sega CD - 22 PC Engine CD/TurboGraphx CD - 20 Arcade - 19 MAME - 19 Atari 7800 - 18 Dreamcast - 17 MAME - Libretro - 17 Game Gear - 16 Nintendo DS - 16 PSP - Playstation Portable - 16 Atari Lynx - 15 Ports - 15 Super Famicom - 15 Mega CD - 14 Commodore 64 - 13 Mega 32x - 13 Virtual Boy - 13 Family Computer Disk System - 12 Neo Geo Pocket Color - 11 ScummVM - 11 Atari 5200 - 10 Colecovision - 10 Famicom - 10 PC Engine CD - 10 Sega SG-1000 - 10 TurboGrafx CD - 10 ZX Spectrum - 9 Intellivision - 8 Vectrex - 8 Amiga - 7 MAME 4 All - 7 PC - 7 Game & Watch - 6 Capcom Play System - 5 AdvanceMAME - 5 MSX - 5 Neo Geo Pocket - 5 Atari 800 - 4 Atari Jaguar - 4 Desktop - 4 Neo Geo CD - 4 Sega Saturn - 4 Amstrad CPC - 3 Daphne - 3 Odyssey2 - 3 PC-FX - 3 WonderSwan Color - 3 3do - 2 Atari ST - 2 GameCube - 2 Commodore Vic 20 - 2 WonderSwan - 2 Apple II - 1 Coco - Tandy Color Computer - 1 Macintosh - 1 PS2 - PlayStation 2 - 1 Steam - 1 Stratagus - 1 Videopac - 1 Nintendo Wii - 1 Zmachine - 1 Adventure Game Studio - 0 BBC Micro - 0 Dragon 32 - 0 Love - 0 MESS - 0 Oric - 0 Pipplware - 0 ResidualVM - 0 SAM Coupé - 0 TI-99 - 0 TRS-80 - 0 Edit: I just realised SNES/Super Famicom has 81 points, even though there have only been 80 entries. I guess a few someones out there have their SNES and Super Famicom Roms separate.