IR-CD-I ???
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Indeed that can take a while.
Tomorrow we will go further.Have your games ready :-) (*.chd)
Good luck !
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honestly , Thank you for the kindness and patience with me :)
i compiled the 5 files you requested
made them into one zip cdimono1.zip
do i put it in the root of the bios folder
or in the mame folder ?
i have 1 chd game to test ;) "Hotel Mario "
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Your welcome.
You can always upvote my important posts, you know. ;-)Well this way I also learned a thing or two.
Just put your cdimono1.zip in the BIOS directory :
/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/cdimono1.zipWe are not done yet !
We will have to work on the config files.
This is also not an easy task.For now you can try to run your game.
If it starts, you come into the Philips CD-I BIOS menu.
You will probably notice that the pionter is drifting and that the joystick buttons will not work.
Also the mouse and mouse buttons will not work and you will see a black emulated "liquid crystal display" in the screen with "CD-I"
If buttons are not working, you can't press the "play" button, so you can't start the game !These symptoms are due to the fact that lr-mess has also config files.
In other words, lr-mess is not a pure libretro core.
It's a sort of chameleon.So it took me 1,5 years to get the mouse fully working !
Step 5 :
To make it easier for you, you can just use my configs.Placed my configs here :
https://github.com/FollyMaddy/retropie-philips-cdi-tools
I advise you to download it with your browser and extract it.
The configs are in the config directory. Then you have to push those files with filezilla to /opt/retropie/configs/cdimono1/<config files>
( Remember to make a backup of your old config files first !)In these configs I :
- enabled the mouse (does not work if you run emulationstation from the a Desktop enviroment, should work for you though)
- added joystick/mouse buttons
- removed the black CD-I lc-display within the screen
- turned off the "gui" of lr-mess so "tab" key will not work
If you are interested :
I have bundeled all information, about the configs, in my script (not working at the moment with the "new lr-mess") :
Just open retropie_philips_cdi_setup.sh with a text editor.
You can read that if you want.
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Your so Helpful , Thank You For Everything
I was able to get everything to work thanks to you
I ran into some trail and errors with my set up but everything seems to be working for me now
From my tweaking I decided to stick with the default configuration ( I like the "Tab" key GUI for more options )
at first I tried the game and your right , nothing worked , I then proceeded to copy all your configuration setting in mine and got the mouse to work ... except my controller Dpad wasn't working , and the tab button wasn't working
So I did a reinstall to get the default settings , yes nothing works , mouse is disabled and all with default settings
So I tried this
I then opened the RetroArch GUI
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Went to Options
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Enabled In Game Mouse
And viola!!!!
The mouse worked for the CD-I Start up menu
I then proceeded with tab (opened up cd-I GUI )and configured my controller to the appropriate settings to play "Hotel Mario "
This is Great and Wonderful , Thanks to you :)
My only trouble some thing right now is I have that Horrible big White CD-I logo in my screen while playing any game
May I ask what is the appropriate settings that I should change or add so I can still my Screen cleared of this logo ?
Hope you can guide me
Thank you
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Great to hear it's working.
To remove that logo you have to go to the "gui" of lr-mess with the "tab".
Choose video options and then select : Main Screen Standard (4:3)
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You should know that with this new lr-mess, DVC (Digital Video Cartridge) games will likely still not work.
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Thank you once again Folly , you have been so nice by helping me and I appreciate it so much
I made the video changes as you suggested and it worked wonderfully , also yes it does save the video setting , so I don't have to change it everytime :)
Also appreciate the advice that the DVC games don't work , no problem at all I'm enjoying so much of the cd-I content and games , plus I'm happy so many games are dedicated to my little one so he is enjoying it just as much ;)
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Enjoy CD-I !
You now know a lot more !
Take advantage of this.
And you can help others too. ( who wants to run CD-I :) )Try learning a some terminal commands and bash.
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Hi Folly
just a quick question
i have been using a theme that doesnt have CD-I Artwork ...
do you know any good themes for the pi that has a logo for CD-I ?
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Hi,
Do you use the normal Carbon theme ?
I have made my own vector based pictures for CD-I for the Carbon theme.
I think you all ready have it.
Just look in the "es-theme-carbon" directory of my "retropie-philips-cdi-tools".
Copy the cdimono1 directory, with sudo rights, to /etc/emulationstation/themes/carbon/
and you are done.You can also install other theme's that already have cdimono1 in it.
The Retropie-Setup script of valerino has also more themes in it. Just run the setup and goto "configuration / tools" => "esthemes"I know that valerino/RetroCRT-240p has CDI in it, but I don't think that is what you are looking for. You can just try them 1 by 1.
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Hi Folly , I was Wondering of you Could Help Me with a Question Regarding CD-I ?
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What is your question ?
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Im Using a PC now , and want to get a set up of Cd-I games running on my pc ... i have looked around and there are no simple tutorails or step by step tutorails how i can play cd-i games on my pc ... any help ?
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What OS do you have ?
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Windows 10
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I can't help you with all, but I think you have multiple options :
- you can install standalone MAME on windows 10
- you can install retroarch on windows 10 and install the libretro-cores with them
- I have heard of tutorials running RetroPie on windows
- you could run a linux os seperately on and usb stick and then install RetroPie
Most simple option is to install MAME, I think.
Look here :
https://www.mamedev.org/release.html
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i have a question regarding the retoarch option ?
i have retroarch , but when asked if they have a core , everyone told me (in discord) there is no core ... do you know how i can download it on retroarch ?
or do you have anyone you may suggest that to help me with the mame portion ... im just really confused and have no idea when reading upon the mame ?
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As far as I know you can download them from within the menu.
And otherwise you can download them and put them in the correct directory.
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when i look in the retroarch menu , no option within dowload a core ?
do you have a link for the core ?
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