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    Sega Saturn on Retropie...

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      KevinsHope
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      Hello All,

       Just so I don't get nagged about it here, I have read the "read this first!" post twice, I do have an official image,  I do have an adequate power supply, and I have been searching this and other forums all day for an answer.  Most of the posts I've seen are pretty old, so maybe this is a dead issue.    I am using a Raspberry Pi 3 and Retropie 4.3
      

      I can not get Sega Saturn to show up in my list of emulators. I have added several bios files for the Sega Saturn and I have tried renaming them to saturn_bios.bin, which some people have claimed will work, but no dice for me. I can't seem to find a BIOS file with that name anywhere on the internet, but I'm not convinced that is the issue. I have .bin files and ISOs in the rom folder. I have also taken a look at the es_systems.cfg and made sure there was a systems entry for the Saturn in that file. Still...no emulator is showing up. Any ideas or thoughts?

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      • herb_fargusH
        herb_fargus administrators @KevinsHope
        last edited by

        @kevinshope you need a cue file. But don't waste your time. From the docs

        Any Raspberry Pi model will achieve only 1-2 frames-per-second, rendering it unplayable on those systems. Saturn is really only recommended for use on a PC and even then emulation is less than perfect.

        If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/

        Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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          KevinsHope
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          @herb_fargus I had read that, but I thought it was applicable to earlier versions of raspberry Pi.

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          • dankcushionsD
            dankcushions Global Moderator @KevinsHope
            last edited by

            @kevinshope "any raspberry pi model"

            for the record, i got that 1-2 frames per second on a pi3.

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              KevinsHope @dankcushions
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              @dankcushions Let me clarify. I thought that statement was written before the Raspberry Pi 3 was released.

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                barbudreadmon
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                I've seen saturn emulators having slowdown on an intel core i3 @ 3.4Ghz, don't expect to run those on a raspberry pi 3, neither raspberry pi 4, neither raspberry pi 5, except perhaps if someone create a dynarec (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_recompilation if you don't know what i mean)

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