Fairchild Channel F

edmaul69

@robtedes123 also there should be 3 bios'
sl31253.rom
sl31254.rom
sl90025.rom

and the extra one you put in the game roms folder rename it from .rom to .bin so it shows up with the games.

OneSwitch

Not sure if I'll be confusing things, but I have the Fairchild Channel F working on RetroPie 4.4 on a Raspberry Pi. This helped me....

I used a PC to network in using //retropie (typed in the search window)...

Under retropie > configs > all > emulationstation > es_systems.cfg

I manually edited es_systems.cfg using Notepad++ and added

<system>
<name>channelf</name>
<fullname>Fairchild Channel F</fullname>
<path>/opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/image/channelf</path>
<extension>.bin .BIN .zip .ZIP</extension>
<command>/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS channelf %ROM%</command>
<platform>channelf</platform>
<theme>channelf</theme>
</system>

Before that I had installed MESS2010 (which was a struggle and took a long time - never seemingly correctly installing - but seems to work).

These help guides may help too:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/himanmz5etw6358/HELP TO GET WORKING.txt?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/970dya8pgu16jo9/CONTROLS AND TV POWWW HELP.txt?dl=0 (for understanding the unusual controls)

Hope that helps a bit.

Cyborgbob

So..... When I try this. It just seems to brick my image. I also tried it with an older copy I found 4.2 something and the same thing happened image became bad. I am guessing the info is old???

Cyborgbob

So found out nothing to do with the info in this post. Just me. I almost have this. Not sure what is wrong. I have Channel F showing up in RetroPie. Big as day. I have all my games Showing up. No worries at all. I have placed all the files in all the right places and set everything to 0777. I am on RetroPie V4.4.5. When I try and launch a game, it acts as if it is going to start then nothing. I am back to the load screen.

In the dev/shm/runcommand.log I get this:

Parameters:
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin/advmess channelf -cart "Galactic Space Wars, Lunar Lander (USA)".zip
sl31253.rom NOT FOUND
sl31254.rom NOT FOUND
ERROR: required files are missing, the game cannot be run.

and in the Configs/all/emulationstation/es_log.txt i get this:

lvl2: req sound [basic.launch]
lvl2: (missing)
lvl2: Attempting to launch game...
lvl2: /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 SYS channelf /opt/retropie/configs/mame-advmame/image/channelf/Galactic\ Space\ Wars,\ Lunar\ Lander\ (USA).bin
lvl2: Creating surface...
lvl2: Created window successfully.
lvl2: Added known joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2: Added known joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2: req sound [detailed.launch]
lvl2: (missing)
lvl2: Attempting to launch game...
lvl2: sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh retropiemenu launch /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/rpsetup.rp </dev/tty >/dev/tty
lvl2: Creating surface...
lvl2: Created window successfully.
lvl2: Added known joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)
lvl2: Added known joystick Microsoft X-Box 360 pad (instance ID: 0, device index: 0)

Any ideas? I am guessing by the runcommand.log that it is looking for the BIOS so I have it everywhere. I mean everywhere. Lots of copies. I have also made sure that the paths are spelled right and that I have not fat-fingered anything. Any Ideas I would Love to get this up and running.

Cyborgbob

So........ I feel so Slow. Also remember to rename your bios files from .bin to .rom.... But now I got it to work.... Happy me..