Tips for Mac users?
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@saiyan7702 You are right. The forum does not have private messaging. In a way, this allows any knowledge posted to be shared and searchable. It also discourages "secrets", as everything is out in the open so no chance of violating the terms of use.
Ok, so what you really want is the combination of configs, from my IPAC switch key mapping to the relevant retroarch.cfg files to make emulators work the way I want them to. You can get all of that from this post.
Note that this combination basically gets me into a working config for 4-player arcade, two-player consoles, FBA per-rom configs for NeoGeo and a different FBA per-rom config for fighter games. For MAME, it is a good start, but I am almost always making some adjustment in the MAME GUI (TAB) to support my odd, three-panel cocktail design. This often includes re-mapping player 1 and 2 for vertical games. None of that adjustment is covered in the retroarch configs. It's all game-by-game using the MAME GUI.
I have another per-rom retroarch.cfg that I use for arcade games where I want to setup a single-joystick "tankstick" (Vidicators, Sarge) This config basically maps all of the Player 1 and 2 inputs to "nul" so I don't get the double inputs that prevent <CODE_NOT> mapping. This may be more complicated than you care to know, but you can easily search for posts by me with "<CODE_NOT>" and get all of the gory details.
Finally, none of this applies to AdvanceMAME besides the IPAC keys. They are basically MAME defaults, but my hardware build requires plenty of in-game remapping which gets saved in the .rc file for AdvanceMAME.
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i must be editing the wrong area of the cfg file, can you send me youre cfg files so i can see what youre doing in there and i can edit them accordingly? email is jryder528@aim.com
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@saiyan7702 you aren't using smart quotes in your cfg files are you? That will fail.
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@saiyan7702 I already gave you the configurations from my files in that post I linked. Why don't you share yours and we can all help you.
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I suggest to try KrojamSoft BatchRename
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@tulpan That opens as an exe file. Not Mac, but Windows software it seems.
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Helpful post. Many useful tools, thanks.
You have mentioned ApplePi-Baker app. I know also Disk Drill tool, found it on cleverfiles website. It can scan and recover all photos, music and other important deleted files. + it's easy in use. -
Discovered a useful one last night. . . I typically access my Pi over wifi, but the network I am using for that at the moment is hit or miss. The Pi tends to drop off the wifi and it is very frustrating. It happens to be sitting next to my Mac, so on a whim, I tried plugging an ethernet cable into the Pi and directly into my mac. I am not using a hub and this isn’t even a crossover cable.
Anyway, after a few moments, in the Finder, I can now pull down the menu on my mac Connect to Server and put in
smb://retropie.localand it connects! I have to pick GUEST for the connection, but it gives me each SMB shared volume. Obviously, transferring ROMs over ethernet is fast, so this is super helpful if you have access to a network cable. -
@caver01 Whoah, this could be a game changer for me, i hate uploading my files over wifi! Good find!
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@capeman said in Tips for Mac users?:
@caver01 Whoah, this could be a game changer for me, i hate uploading my files over wifi! Good find!
Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised. One or the other network interface must auto-detect the other and dynamically crossover. If the Pi is doing this, the tip would apply to any platform that can connect to SMB shares.
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Quick tidy to add @caver01 's latest tip, just the sort of stuff we need, VERY useful!
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