Roms and Bios

raspberry79

I have many roms saved on the laptop. SO, i just wondering, how can i tell it some of them were roms and some where bios.

sleve_mcdichael

@raspberry79 most of us save files to specific folders when we download them so we know what they're for. Be more organized I guess?

sirhenrythe5th

@sleve_mcdichael fully agree! The ordinary way would be: go for a specific system and collect the roms. Then look out for BIOS-files, collect them too.
@raspberry79: what kind of package did you download for god sakes?
"all i could find to any system in a miracle box.zip" with 91,5 TB? :O

raspberry79

@sirhenrythe5th
What is .BIN and .CUE files, are them bios

sirhenrythe5th

@raspberry79 said in Roms and Bios:

@sirhenrythe5th
What is .BIN and .CUE files, are them bios

Well, there are some bios-files that end with *.bin, but as far as you also have a *.cue those will be ISOs.

Why do you have such a mess? Why are there so many different file-types unsorted? This is quite unusual.

raspberry79

@sirhenrythe5th
So, i was downloading roms from yes safe sites. One of those roms i downloaded was
Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (USA) .BIN .CUE
and i downloaded a game and the file type was Disc Image File

sleve_mcdichael

@raspberry79 what system is Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (USA) .BIN .CUE for?

and i downloaded a game and the file type was Disc Image File

For what system?

dankcushions

looks like you've downloaded a windows game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man:_Adventures_in_Time

we can't really account for this bizarre random way you seem to be acquiring games. retropie isn't some kind of encyclopedic videogame catch-all player; it is for emulating a limited subset of retro systems.

raspberry79

@dankcushions
So, what emulator would i put that in on Retropie or Lakka

sirhenrythe5th

@raspberry79 there is no emulator for windows games.
So you cant use it with RetroPie or Lakka.

raspberry79

@sirhenrythe5th
Pi 4 Retropie 4.8.
I hear online from some that you unzip the roms and others keep rom zip.
So What do u really do, do you keep the roms compressed or do you unzip them all.

barbudreadmon

@raspberry79 said in Roms and Bios:

do you keep the roms compressed or do you unzip them all

Arcade emulators require their games to be zipped.
Other emulators usually require their games to be unzipped, or to be a single file in a zip archive.
There might be oddballs.

raspberry79

@barbudreadmon
Got it, but i'm having a little problem launching Retropie from Kodi.
I have Kodi install on retropie, i set it to autostart at boot, but when in kodi, i can't exit to launch ES emulationstart???

BuZz

@raspberry79 you have already posted a topic on this.