That's a good idea, I'll give that a try- thanks!
Edit: yeah, that did the trick! Thanks! Gotta convert a bunch of ISO's now...
Raspberry Pi Gaming thread - Cheap emulation and gaming projects
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That's a good idea, I'll give that a try- thanks!
Edit: yeah, that did the trick! Thanks! Gotta convert a bunch of ISO's now...
MiketheBSG
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Odd that changing to a .bin file did it as .iso should have worked too.
Glad to hear you got it to work!
Glad to hear you got it to work!
sselph's scraper used to be fast, but unfortunately all scrapers are slow now because of TheGamesDB being slow. Nothing that can be done about that any time soon either, unfortunately. It's a real shame.
Yep, it's odd. I'm having issues with all the ISOs I've gotten, too. I can't mount any of them to OS X. Only downloading new files as bin/cue seems to work (if I can find them as bin/cue...).
piratepwnsninja
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So I got mine set up. I'm getting weird ghost inputs, though. Like, it goes to the menu for retropie by itself, or launches a game by itself. Really weird.
What controller are you using? I've got a Buffalo SNES and there's something about the thing that gives ghost inputs sometimes, though mine never launches games- just moves around the menu.
piratepwnsninja
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Wii U Pro controller. Was really easy to connect it via bluetooth. Things seem to have calmed down now.
alf717
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How is sound emulation on a Pi3 with the latest Retropie? When Pi3 was new I remember seeing someone play Mega Man X and the audio wasn't correct. Also say I play Final Fantasy Tactics on this are the reverb effects emulated correctly?
Wow really? You don't need the mayflash adapter for the pi3? That is really cool.
Wow really? You don't need the mayflash adapter for the pi3? That is really cool.
hardcastlemccormick
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This is probably old hat but I reinstalled Raspbian on my Pi 3 and things are much better now. I think my old SD card was bad.
Then I installed Mono and ran ArchiSteamFarm. Now I can idle for Steam cards overnight, because I wouldn't leave my PC on just for IdleMaster. 2 extra watts of power running isn't as big of a deal.
Then I installed Mono and ran ArchiSteamFarm. Now I can idle for Steam cards overnight, because I wouldn't leave my PC on just for IdleMaster. 2 extra watts of power running isn't as big of a deal.
Not a Raspberry Pi project, but in the same vein. Been spending some of my time off this month converting a Macintosh SE into an emulator box. Almost done - just need the speakers to arrive so I can mount them inside and buy another SFC30 for Mario Kart and SF2. Also have a BT and WiFi module coming, but those are more for convenience than anything else.
Using an Odroid XU4, an eBay 8" 800x600 LCD, and running EmulationStation on Debian. Been a fun project so far! Can't wait to finish and button it up
I'll try and get some beauty shots once its done.
Using an Odroid XU4, an eBay 8" 800x600 LCD, and running EmulationStation on Debian. Been a fun project so far! Can't wait to finish and button it up
I'll try and get some beauty shots once its done.Not a Raspberry Pi project, but in the same vein. Been spending some of my time off this month converting a Macintosh SE into an emulator box. Almost done - just need the speakers to arrive so I can mount them inside and buy another SFC30 for Mario Kart and SF2. Also have a BT and WiFi module coming, but those are more for convenience than anything else.
Using an Odroid XU4, an eBay 8" 800x600 LCD, and running EmulationStation on Debian. Been a fun project so far! Can't wait to finish and button it up
Looks cool! You did a great job. Do you have an on/off switch?
Not a Raspberry Pi project, but in the same vein. Been spending some of my time off this month converting a Macintosh SE into an emulator box. Almost done - just need the speakers to arrive so I can mount them inside and buy another SFC30 for Mario Kart and SF2. Also have a BT and WiFi module coming, but those are more for convenience than anything else.
Using an Odroid XU4, an eBay 8" 800x600 LCD, and running EmulationStation on Debian. Been a fun project so far! Can't wait to finish and button it up
Nice work, what's the reasoning for the Odroid XU4 over a Raspberry Pi?
Polioliolio
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Anyone ever run a game playing pi off of a portable charger?
Probably won't do this yet, but thought it would be neat to put a portable micro projector inside of a console case with the pi and power them both off the portable charger.
Would that work?
Probably won't do this yet, but thought it would be neat to put a portable micro projector inside of a console case with the pi and power them both off the portable charger.
Would that work?
No on/off switch, just a C14 receptacle into a splitter for the two power bricks for the screen and Odroid.
Speed and memory, mainly. Knowing me I'll rip this apart and turn it into something else in 6 months and was worried a Pi wouldn't have the grunt eventually. Also, I'm pretty sure I did the majority of the purchases late at night after a few drinks and having a quad core 2ghz box in there just sounded cool. Also, eMMC has been pretty legit so far! So fast.
I believe the Odroid XU4 can do Dreamcast/PSP/N64 emulation at full speed (or at least close to it). There is a build of Recalbox/Lakka that works on it.
Here is a older video of a Odroid C1 vs Raspberri Pi 2 on Sonic. The difference in framerate is huge. I can only imagine what the Odroid XU4 is like, no doubt a Odroid XU4 is a few months away aswell.
FF7: Crisis Core running at Full Speed in HD.
Edit: would you guys be up for turning this thread into a Single Board Computer one rather than strictly a Raspberry Pi one? Obviously OP will need to change.
Here is a older video of a Odroid C1 vs Raspberri Pi 2 on Sonic. The difference in framerate is huge. I can only imagine what the Odroid XU4 is like, no doubt a Odroid XU4 is a few months away aswell.
FF7: Crisis Core running at Full Speed in HD.
Edit: would you guys be up for turning this thread into a Single Board Computer one rather than strictly a Raspberry Pi one? Obviously OP will need to change.
Yeah. Works fine with Final Burn Alpha.
MAX PAYMENT
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Considering building a raspberry pi 3 emulator machine.
What are some details I should know before diving in?
I know nothing about this.
What are some details I should know before diving in?
I know nothing about this.
CrashPrime
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Your TV needs to handle low latency 720p upscaling, you need a good controller, and don't bother with n64.
Why? Running Retropie with a native 1080p output from a Pi2 or a Pi3 works perfectly fine. Why did you output at 720p?
MAX PAYMENT
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Don't bother with n64? It's my favorite retro console.
What if I dropped the resolution to 480p?
The Omega Man
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Mario64 and Mario Kart64 run great on a slightly Overclocked Pi 3, I haven't tested other N64 but there should be many others that are playable at optimal speed as well.
P.D: Where do you choose the ouput resolution? I tried change it at the core settings but that didn't make any difference at all.
P.D: Where do you choose the ouput resolution? I tried change it at the core settings but that didn't make any difference at all.
Curious if anyone has experience setting up a MIDI device with RPi/Retropie,
I'd like to play my DosBox games using the MT-32 music option and think I have a way to pull it off. I happen to own a very old Roland SCC-1 in a PC (ISA slot, no less!). The idea would be to purchase one of these USB to MIDI converters, change the DosBox config to output MIDI to that device, then route it through the Roland card.
Any thoughts or recommendations on this?
I'd like to play my DosBox games using the MT-32 music option and think I have a way to pull it off. I happen to own a very old Roland SCC-1 in a PC (ISA slot, no less!). The idea would be to purchase one of these USB to MIDI converters, change the DosBox config to output MIDI to that device, then route it through the Roland card.
Any thoughts or recommendations on this?
StrangeRoboMemory
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What's the best/most widely used power supply out there for the Pi 3? I've seen a lot of reviews, and it seems like all of them have different problems, aren't stable, etc.
CrashPrime
Member
Integer scaling and shades.
Graphical glitches, inconsistent framer rates, and the need for over clocking makes the Pi a poor choice for the N64 if it's your favorite retro console.
So I used to run recalbox (3.3) on my rpi2, being ablet o run cps3 games without issues using fba_libretro. Now I am trying to set things up on my rpi3 and recalbox 4.0 and it runs the games but they are choppy as hell. Anyone else seen this? If so did you find a way to resolve this issue?
The Metal Slug games had those slowdowns on the actual hardware, so what you're seeing is just accurate emulation. You can eliminate them if you go into the RGUI - Core Options and set the CPU overclock for the emulator to 200. That will basically simulate the NeoGeo hardware being overclocked and will run all of the Metal Slug games with zero slowdown.
Harlock
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The main issue is the controller. Best option is to have the PS3 or 360. Clones controllers can have problems reading all the buttons.
One time consuming thing I have was to organize roms. The big torrents will have too much files, with all the variations, russian, french etc. I was adding one by one to keep easy to browser. Other problem is the scrap function is very bad finding games to download info and cover when the file name is not exactly the database name.
I believe I saw somewhere that Recalbox does not support the internal Bluetooth for SNES30 but will in 4.1...I couldn't get it to work so I switched to retropie.
Quoting myself to help anyone that might get the same issue, that is bad framerate in SNES / FBA_LIBRETRO / PSX. There's a function called Rewind in the game settings of recalbox (main settings menu). Turn this off and everything is smooth as butter
hooijdonk17
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It doesnt work with Recalbox but works with RetroPi. The day they get that shit working will be the day I install Recalbox.
Yeah, after doing some more research recalbox doesn't support the internal Bluetooth at all in the stable release. Little frustrating that I had to order a Bluetooth adapter to get this to function properly. I prefer RetroPie as I find recalbox limiting, but this was a gift for a non-technical person.
IMACOMPUTA
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Wondering if someone can help me...
I have a pi 3 with RetroPie installed.
I've been scraping my game library all day (so slow). I got home from work and stopped the scraping and then tried using a different power cable that I found at work. It seemed to work but once I was in emulation station, everything went crazy. The screen was glitching and shaking going back and forth between systems and looked really unstable. I unplugged from the new power supply and went back to the one I had been using. Now things just don't seem right.
For example, when I go to scrape I get this:
Also when I go to select which systems to scrape some don't even have a checkbox next to them.
It just seems like menus are broken.
Anybody know what's going on or how I can fix this?
I appreciate any help.
Thanks!
I have a pi 3 with RetroPie installed.
I've been scraping my game library all day (so slow). I got home from work and stopped the scraping and then tried using a different power cable that I found at work. It seemed to work but once I was in emulation station, everything went crazy. The screen was glitching and shaking going back and forth between systems and looked really unstable. I unplugged from the new power supply and went back to the one I had been using. Now things just don't seem right.
For example, when I go to scrape I get this:
Also when I go to select which systems to scrape some don't even have a checkbox next to them.
It just seems like menus are broken.
Anybody know what's going on or how I can fix this?
I appreciate any help.
Thanks!
What's a good USB Bluetooth adapter that would work with a 8bitdo SFC30?
This does just look like corrupted files , the display name its trying to put up for the scraping is 'wrong' and so you get the block characters instead.
This could just be the files on the SD card and replacing them would be fine (however I have no idea what files you'd need to replace so possibly better just putting a fresh image on and starting again) , or it could be a sign that your SD card is bad.
Wondering if someone can help me...
I have a pi 3 with RetroPie installed.
I've been scraping my game library all day (so slow). I got home from work and stopped the scraping and then tried using a different power cable that I found at work. It seemed to work but once I was in emulation station, everything went crazy. The screen was glitching and shaking going back and forth between systems and looked really unstable. I unplugged from the new power supply and went back to the one I had been using. Now things just don't seem right.
For example, when I go to scrape I get this:
Also when I go to select which systems to scrape some don't even have a checkbox next to them.
It just seems like menus are broken.
Anybody know what's going on or how I can fix this?
I appreciate any help.
Thanks!
micro sd might be corrupted.
I just ordered one of those Pi-compatible TRRS composite cables so I can hook up my Pi to a CRT. Couple of questions/thoughts:
In those emulation recommendation threads, people always recommend the Wii because of its ability to output in 240p. The Pi doesn't support 240p (480p is the lowest), so what potential graphical issues are going to arise from outputting 480p NES and SNES games into a CRT? Why is 240p preferred?
When setting up the Pi for CRT, do you have to go in the config files in order for anything to show up on the CRT? I know I'll have to adjust the screen settings but I'm just wondering if I'll see anything without changing the video mode to SD.
The main reason I'm hooking my Pi up to a CRT is so I can compare it to my SNES. Just curious how they compare graphic and audio wise, and also want to find the cold hard truth about input lag on the Pi.
In those emulation recommendation threads, people always recommend the Wii because of its ability to output in 240p. The Pi doesn't support 240p (480p is the lowest), so what potential graphical issues are going to arise from outputting 480p NES and SNES games into a CRT? Why is 240p preferred?
When setting up the Pi for CRT, do you have to go in the config files in order for anything to show up on the CRT? I know I'll have to adjust the screen settings but I'm just wondering if I'll see anything without changing the video mode to SD.
The main reason I'm hooking my Pi up to a CRT is so I can compare it to my SNES. Just curious how they compare graphic and audio wise, and also want to find the cold hard truth about input lag on the Pi.
They had one in their store for like $3 that i picked up at the same time as picking up the SFC30 that worked well. From the official 8bitdo ebay store that is.
Set one up for my birthday, was incredibly straight forward with ApplePi Baker on the Mac, just download the image from RetroPi website and then format your SD card with it using ApplePi Baker. Was up and running in 10 mins.
I bought the official plug and case, really nice.
Only gripe is no on/off switch, I'm literally having to pull out the power to turn it off.
I bought the official plug and case, really nice.
Only gripe is no on/off switch, I'm literally having to pull out the power to turn it off.
Doesn't emustation has turn off in the menu?
I set my pi up yesterday and have the same gripe. That and saves don't seem to work? Only tried a single game but saving in game, then relaunching didn't show the save.
Gonna be awesome when I get it all configured and working though. Trying to think which controller I should buy for it.
Harlock
Member
What game? You are using the saving states hotkeys?
So I just got a Pi 3b with a kit on Amazon. One thing I hadn't thought about was a power button. If I plug this thing in as is right now, do I just shut down via software or how does this work? What is the best thing to do here? I just barely got RetroPie on my SD card but haven't plugged the Pi in yet.
I have a surge protector attached that has an on off, since the Pi will turn on automatically when it gets power, this works for me. There are some things you can get to do this.
http://www.mausberrycircuits.com/co...ducts/direct-plug-shutdown-switch-with-rocker
I keep my Pi on 24/7. From what I've read it uses very little power.
Harlock
Member
I think the only problem if you not shutdown using the system menu is that you can lost the changes made by the scrap (cover image and description).
Actual
Member
So I've been planning to build a RetroPie cabinet. It would have a PC monitor as it's display.
I would be playing games that are meant for 4:3 monitors mostly, with some arcade games having a more vertical view. Most monitors available at a reasonable price are 16:9.
I'm wondering if I should use the monitor vertically or horizontally?
I would be playing games that are meant for 4:3 monitors mostly, with some arcade games having a more vertical view. Most monitors available at a reasonable price are 16:9.
I'm wondering if I should use the monitor vertically or horizontally?