Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie
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For The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime, the files I extracted from my genuine Mac CDs work on RetroPie but the GOG version doesn't work. What gives!?
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From discussing this with people on the scummvm irc channel, I found out that Pegasus Prime on GOG has a bunch of ugly hacks to make it work which haven't been merged into ScummVM. People can play with data extracted from the Mac CDs but not from the GOG re-release. That's too bad. :(
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Quake Rally is here and here and Quake Matrix is here. Apparently, these mods were based on modifying the Quake 1 source code. Running them isn't out of the question, but would require getting the modified source and applying the modifications to the ports of Quake currently running on the Raspberry PI. I'd be interested in recruiting any interested parties for a collaborative project along these lines so that these awesome mods (and maybe Quake 2 as well) can shine again. It may also be worth looking into the possibility of porting SUPERQOT to the Raspberry PI, as it's just a modified version of the Darkplaces Quake engine, which I understand already works on Raspberry PI.
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Updated with the locations of ROMs on your Windows storage drive if you bought "SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics" or "Atari Vault" on Steam.
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This might be kind of along the sames lines as MOON8 for the NES...
Have you heard of the NES 8 BIT XMAS?
These are Christmas/Holidays themed homebrew NES games and they release a new cartridges every year. You can download a demo ROM for most of the years. I believe I first heard about these from @mediamogul. -
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Gotta add STREEMERZ
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@benmclean I noticed that there is not an ARCADE section to this post. Since running MAME is a very common goal of RetroPie users, I would suggest adding Gridlee, a game that was created with emulation and distribution in mind from the get-go. It is a great one for setup and testing of MAME.
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@caver01 said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
@benmclean I noticed that there is not an ARCADE section to this post. Since running MAME is a very common goal of RetroPie users, I would suggest adding Gridlee, a game that was created with emulation and distribution in mind from the get-go. It is a great one for setup and testing of MAME.
Added! :)
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@BenMcLean Here is a link to a set of homebrew
ColecoVisionROMs. Some fantastic clones and great original games. http://www.colecovision.ca/roms_homebrew_0-9.php -
All of the Neo Geo games at GOG seem to work flawlessly on RetroPie 4.3 (I only checked their attract mode and some minutes into actual gameplay). So, I think they would fit nicely into this topic's list.
You'll need the neogeo.zip and [romname].zip (e.g. pulstar.zip) from the GOG installer file. The Linux .sh installers are just zip files you should be able to extract with any zip tool. On Linux/Retropie, this could be unzip:
unzip pulstar_en_gog_1_15377.sh -d .Mind the "." at the end, it means "current directory" in Linux. The option -d determines the directory to extract to. You could also use another extraction path after the -d option. The neogeo.zip and [romname].zip are located in the subdirectory data/noarch/game/ .
Alternatively, you could extract the Windows .exe installers with the tool innoextract that's available for Windows and Linux. For Pulstar, the command on Linux/Retropie would be:
innoextract "setup_pulstar_gog-1_(14775).exe"Here, the neogeo.zip and [romname].zip are located in the subdirectory app/ .
Important: You have to put the filename into quotationmarks if it contains special characters like "(" or ")" that are used as operators by the Linux shell itself. Otherwise, you'd have to put a backslash "\" before every single special character, e.g. "\(" and "\)" in the example above.
edit: According to @Eckaji, some Windows versions of the GOG Neo Geo games are modified and won't work in Retropie. So, you should prefer the Linux installers.
edit 2: Some of them are only listed for Windows, but all of those have (not officially supported) Mac & Linux versions in their "Goodies" download section. Thanks to @Eckaji for making me aware of this.
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ColecoVision NORTH: Added.
Neo Geo games on GOG: Added.
Thanks
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@benmclean Thank you, the same to you! What do you think about a link to my post above for instructions about extracting the roms?
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@clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
@benmclean Thank you, the same to you! What do you think about a link to my post above for instructions about extracting the roms?
Sure OK.
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@benmclean Thanks again. :)
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Mega Man Legacy Collection and how to extract the NES roms here
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@bense2k said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
Mega Man Legacy Collection and how to extract the NES roms here
Great find! See also the creator's awesome GDC talk where he tells companies to be sensible about emulation for a change.
People are perfectly happy to pay for ROMs if you give them a way to do it. But make no mistake: we will in fact get the ROMs one way or another, so game companies choices are to 1. Profit from this or 2. Not profit from this. There's no such thing as a third option in which people don't get the ROMs and anyone who thinks there should be can go to hell.
I added the Mega Man Legacy Collection.
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@benmclean I agree with you in so far that I buy any roms legally I can get my hands on. But to justify using illegal roms by saying "we will get the ROMs one way or the other" is a lame excuse for ignoring other's rights, in this case those of the copyright holders. But if you ignore other's rights that easily, why should anyone respect yours?
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@clyde said in Where to (legally) acquire content to play on RetroPie:
But to justify using illegal roms by saying "we will get the ROMs one way or the other" is a lame excuse for ignoring other's rights
I think you've got how this works backwards.
I'm not a pirate because I do whatever the hell I want.
I do whatever the hell I want because I'm a pirate. Arr!
in this case those of the copyright holders.
Copyright is intended to promote progress, not stop people from running decades old software on whatever devices they own which they can get working. If game companies aren't selling ROMs then screw them. They should have been on top of this 15 years ago.
But if you ignore other's rights that easily, why should anyone respect yours?
If I'm using DRM then they shouldn't, because DRM takes away individual physical private property rights, which are more important because they are a natural right, while copyright is an artificial convenience.
Now batten down yer hatches, landlubber, or I'll make ye walk the plank! Yo ho ho and a bottle of ROMs!
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@clyde
How about this one: It is a company's job to compete with what's readily available. I'm not going to try and help them if they're incapable of this. (A good example is SEGA Genesis Classics Collection on Steam. It's basically just a bunch of roms, but I bought it because it presents itself really well and has workshop integration.)
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