SNES New user confused on setting up

doctorstork

@lostless Thank You. Your answer has been most helpful. I am over 70 years old, trying to get back to a time that I have enjoyed and the other respondents have simply been very impolite. The wiki documents referenced have been read by me over and over and I am asking a question that they do not address.

rbaker

I read the manual and it is not clear

err.....I shall quote " place your snes roms in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/snes" Please explain why this is not clear? Please provide an example of something you consider unclear and I shall try to translate it into more clearness.

The wiki documents referenced have been read by me over and over and I am asking a question that they do not address.

You haven't really though have you?

Well they actually address all, yes all, of your questions as others have said so with regard to....hang on.......WAIT! .........Oh no, you got me.

I SO NOT TROLL!;)

doctorstork

@rbaker can you explain yourself a little better. I do not understand your post. Is this not a place to ask questions? Most people have way more experience than I do and I am asking for help. If you do not want to help...do not respond

mediamogul

@doctorstork said in SNES New user confused on setting up:

Most people have way more experience than I do

Those same people wrote the documentation that you insist on ignoring. It's also your repeated insistence that tipped your hand to your true intentions here. You can respond to this in any one of a million ways to say "I so not troll", but it's become pretty obvious.

doctorstork

@mediamogul http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/teens/absolute-truth

dankcushions

@doctorstork said in SNES New user confused on setting up:

@doctorstork what's "best" is all in the n64 wiki page. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Nintendo-64

@dankcushions can you please provide the quotes for me. The purpose of a forum is to ask for help. If you do not want to help then do not respond to someones questions

"While the mupen64plus-libretro core has the convenience of RetroArch configurations, the actual Mupen64plus does better with performance.

You can choose between the RICE, glesN64 and GLideN64 video plugin from the runcommand menu- you may have to test out each one to see which works best- but you can also check the compatibility list below.

Note that you need a Raspberry Pi 2 if you want any decent N64 performance and even then it is hit and miss."

mediamogul

@doctorstork said in SNES New user confused on setting up:

@mediamogul http://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/teens/absolute-truth

"Know where others are coming from. When the apostle Paul gave his speech in Athens, he earned the people's respect because he had read their poetry and toured their city."

Imagine if Paul had showed up in Athens, claiming to have read their poetry and toured their city, only to prove otherwise in every word of his speech. I doubt the respect would have been as free-flowing.

obsidianspider

mediamogul

@obsidianspider

My personal favorite Troll game has to be 'Stone Protectors'.

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doctorstork

@herb_fargus why do you allow your more experienced users to BULLY new people around for just asking questions. Is this forum not here just for that. Shame on you

rbaker

@doctorstork 12 hours ago, I asked for an example of something you consider unclear. When will you post it? I put it to you that it is so clear that you cannot find it due to the dazzle of the crystal clear!

herb_fargus

@doctorstork it's not a matter of bullying. It's a matter of understanding the purpose of the raspberry pi and this community namely to be an educational tool for learning how to code. This project is built by users of the community, and as part of the rules we expect users to take their own initiative and do their part to read the documentation and try a few things before they come asking for help.

I have made it a point to stop answering questions where the answer is already in the docs. I wrote the majority of the documentation because I got tired of answering the same questions on the forum over and over again.

If the basic documentation is too much for you to understand then I'm afraid this project may not be for you. Might I recommend lakka or recalbox?

We're here to teach people to fish, not to give fish away.

doctorstork

@herb_fargus I went "fishing" and after reading your documents and youtubing for 2 days...so I asked a question. "This project is built by users of the community, and as part of the rules we expect users to take their own initiative and do their part to read the documentation and try a few things before they come asking for help." That is a quote from you. I did that and asked my question

dankcushions

enough of this now.

BuZz

@doctorstork I don't think anyone is bullying - perhaps some joking around due to frustration, but this is due to the way you originally posted.

I accept that you were genuinely looking for help, but it did come across originally that you hadn't read any of the documentation. When registering we ask you to read a post which details information you should provide before posting, and you didn't provide any of that.

We also have had a lot of trolling in the past - I appreciate that you were not intentionally trying to be difficult, but it did come across that way earlier on.

We have a lot of people asking the same questions over and over again, and most of the time it is because they have not read the instructions before installing, or the guidance before posting. And probably because they have purchased retropie from an unscrupulous seller who was quick to take their money.

Hang around here, and you will appreciate the time everyone puts in to help others. My post count is in the thousands, and it's all answering user questions, and unfortunately mostly posting the read me first link again and again.

Your are welcome here - but we don't have time to continually re-iterate the information we have already painstakingly documented. Stay a while, perhaps share some of what you have learnt with others, and you will have a better understanding of the project.

Cheers.