Needing this broke down, "Barney style", if possible...

[SGTBeau]

After reading several posts on "what to do", and knowing full well that I am NOT that technologically advanced, I am trying to find a way to put more (or BETTER) SNES emulators on a Raspberry Pi Zero. The ones that are on there are really not that great. I can't get some of the ROMs to play (they boot up, but the controller isn't working- Super Mario All-Stars is a prime example) or the sound is choppy/crappy/insert other term here... I was wanting something like either SNES9x or ZSNES to put on the Pi Zero, but I have no idea how to go about doing that and every time I try to read an article "explaining" how to do that, I go cross-eyed. It's not that I can't do this, but I'm VERY new to doing this building thing (as opposed to just downloading an emulator on my computer and playing THAT way) and want it to work properly, and baby steps would be great. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thank you, in advance!

[edmaul69]

@SGTBeau they are emulators that are able to run on the less powerful pi zero. Snes9x will run bad on it. Super mario all stars originally had the first and second player controllers backwards. Some emulators fixed this. To fix it for you create a file in the same folder as your roms. If your rom is called "Super Mario All-Stars (U).zip" then the file would be called "Super Mario All-Stars (U).zip.cfg" dont forget the file extension in the name which is .zip in my example. Then in that file add this:

# Settings made here will only override settings in the global retroarch.cfg if placed above the #include line

input_remapping_directory = "/opt/retropie/configs/snes/"

input_player1_device = "1"
input_player2_device = "0"

#include "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg"

[SGTBeau]

@edmaul69 This is awesome, but how do you create the folder you're talking about and where do you go on Retropie to do that? Can I set up the folder on a flash drive and install it THAT way? Would it be possible to have these instructions broken down into step one, step two, and so forth?

[rbaker]

@SGTBeau I recommend using Winscp to edit the configuration files as it operates using windows. You can then access the Pi remotely and browse to the relevant folders to adjust the configuration as required as described in the wiki.

[edmaul69]

@rbaker its a file not a folder. If you load your roms with a usb it would go into the same folder the roms go into. In this case you would put the file in the snes folder. You can make a text file on your computer, add the info i posted and save it. Then rename the file. Remeber to name it exactly the same name with the file extension but then .cfg at the end removing whatever extension name it had when you created the file.