Choosing different BIOS for MSX? (lr-bluemsx)
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Hi all,
just started playing with RetroPie and I love it! I'm having a bit of a hard time configuring some aspects related to a few emulators, though, and this post is related to MSX, as it's the one I care the most about.
Specifically, I can't figure out how to start the emulator (either globally or per-game) using a different BIOS than the one lr-bluemsx apparently uses by default. Looking around I've read bluemsx uses an ad-hoc folder structure for different Machines in RetroPie/BIOS , so I found the one associated with the Sony HB-501P (the version I grew up with as a kid), downloaded the right rom and put it in the folder making sure the name and path in the config.ini were correct. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be any way to tell the emulator to use that one rather than another. I've also tried retrieving just MSX.rom and PHILIPSDISK.rom (the ones listed in the wiki at the MSX item) and putting them in the right folder, hoping something would automagically work, but nothing changed either. I'm still getting the 512Kbytes RAM splash screen and the 3.0 Basic version. I've checked the retroarch configuration, both the global and the MSX one, to see if I could find anything, but it doesn't seem to contain anything more than video and control related stuff (which probably makes sense, as that's what retroarch is taking care of on behalf of the emulator itself).
How can I solve this? Am I missing something obvious? Is this something one can change in the "regular" bluemsx, but locked in lr-bluemsx instead? Should I give up and try lr-fmsx instead, or would I incur in exactly the same issue?
Thanks!
Lorenzo -
@Rainmak3r I'm not quite sure as I haven't tried that model, but for libretro there are core options that can be modified in the rgui that give you 2 or 3 machine options only for the msx versions though I think.
May be the same issue as the colecovision, standalone bluemsx runs it but controller hooks aren't integrated in the libretro version, so If the source is changed to enable that machine as a core option it will definitely run the games but there is nothing in the code that allows for you to control the game.
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@herb_fargus thanks for the quick reply! Anyway, I already tried crawling the RGui options (via the Retroarch item in the Retropie menu, from Emulationstation) and I couldn't find anything that was specific to any of the supported emulators. Just checked again and I definitely can't find anything MSX related, for instance, neither in the Settings nor in the Configurations of the Main Menu. Am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks!
Lorenzo -
Just found a way to do something, by using Select+X while in the game: from there, a Quick Menu allows me to see the options you mentioned (but not the rom I added, so you may be right about the static options). Anyway, not sure any change I make here is persistent...
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