Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and the Sega Saturn

AdamBeGood

@quicksilver Okay, cool. I'll try that out then. It is such a fast emulator though, games are so smooth (when they work).

Jste84

@AdamBeGood was making a daft mistake in not renaming the bios. 😣

AdamBeGood

@Jste84 Easily done!

AdamBeGood

@quicksilver HLE Bios On makes Alien Trilogy much better, no glitching as yet. Still no sound effects on Powerslave though, but that is the only major issue I've got currently.

loula

@AdamBeGood I tested with Castlevania SOTN and it's working, nice job!

quicksilver

@AdamBeGood said in Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and the Sega Saturn:

HLE Bios On makes Alien Trilogy much better,

Any benefit to playing it on Saturn vs the psx version?

AdamBeGood

@loula Really not my work, no need to thank me. @quicksilver is the guy here!

AdamBeGood

@quicksilver No, not really... I just have a PS Classic and feel that I should play the PSX stuff on that, so having it on Saturn means that I can play it on my Pi and don't have to plug the PSC in. Ridiculous I know.

It works fine now, some minor sound issues but it is good enough to play on. PowerSlave having no sound is the only issue I am really bothered with, I can cope with some major glitches, etc.

Edit: You are right, and I hear the PS1 version is better also. I am playing that now!

Jbecker

@quicksilver its giving me an error when trying to install them? it said they failed to apply?

zerojay

I just installed without a problem. It's far more usable than any other Saturn emulator right now, even with some bugs and such. It looks like Jools' patch won't be needed soon as it was just accepted upstream a month ago.

AdamBeGood

Do Multi-Disk games work on Yabansiro / Yabause? I can't see a Disk Control option in the Quick Menu, and I was looking at the Yabause documents and can't see that .m3u is supported.

I know Beetle-Saturn can use .m3u but that emulator runs too poorly on my Pi for that to be of any help.

Thanks! I want to play Panzer Dragoon Saga.

Edit: I am told on Reddit that the game should save at the end of the disk, so the save file should then work on subsequent disks. Maybe renaming will be required but it should work.

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gomisensei

is there a way to run STV system games on this?

I assume there's a way due to since the help menu of the install script says "ROM Extensions: .iso .cue .zip .ccd .mds\n\nCopy your Sega Saturn & ST-V roms to $romdir/saturn\n\nCopy the required BIOS file saturn_bios.bin / stvbios.zip to $biosdir/yabasanshiro"

zerojay

@gomisensei said in Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and the Sega Saturn:

is there a way to run STV system games on this?

I assume there's a way due to since the help menu of the install script says "ROM Extensions: .iso .cue .zip .ccd .mds\n\nCopy your Sega Saturn & ST-V roms to $romdir/saturn\n\nCopy the required BIOS file saturn_bios.bin / stvbios.zip to $biosdir/yabasanshiro"

A copy/paste mistake, I believe. Yabasanshiro does not support ST-V.

shavecat

Install again and its working thanks ! <3

Darksavior

Can anyone verify the updates from sept 8 has made lr-yabasanshiro slower? Not sure if it's my setup. SFZ3 used to be roughly fullspeed, but now it struggles at around 49-55 fps. Performance almost matches lr-yabause's.

zerojay

@Darksavior said in Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB and the Sega Saturn:

Can anyone verify the updates from sept 8 has made lr-yabasanshiro slower? Not sure if it's my setup. SFZ3 used to be roughly fullspeed, but now it struggles at around 49-55 fps. Performance almost matches lr-yabause's.

I don't have SFZ3, and it's been a while since I ran a Saturn game so I can't say I see a difference in performance but when running SFA2, I did notice some weird occasional problems drawing to the screen and slowdowns here and there.

mxstar1

I installed this on an image a few weeks ago just fine, now when im trying to install on another fresh build im getting an error saying the shader hack failed to install. Any ideas? something change?

Libation

@mxstar1 Same here, worked on a previous system from awhile ago. I have tried the link provided by Quicksilver, and pulling the files directly from Github. The patch always fails to apply. I'm still messing around with this on my end, If I find anything I'll let you know.
EDIT Just found this on another thread. Could be the emulator got an update, so the patch won't apply to it anymore. This was 16 days ago.
"Without the patch that was discussed in this topic, lr-yabasanshiro will not work on the Pi4. I'm not sure if it applies cleanly (or at all) to the latest lr-yabasanshiro though."