A pretty dark problem

[locomat]

Hi guys,

I just installed the Retropie on my Pi…it works just fine but…

When I start a ROM in the SNES emulator (pocketsnes) the games are way to dark…for example in Castlevania 4 I cant even see the background.

The GUI is perfect its just the ROM that are dark.

Is there any way to setup the brightness of the emulators/ROMS?

If I use pisnes the colours are perfect but for some reason I cant set up the controls but thats another problem. I would really want pocketsnes to work….

Hope that someone can help me!!!!

[Anonymous]

I am having the exact same problem. It only seems to affect certain SNES roms, and some worse than others. I also tried switching to pisnes but something was wrong with the input configuration since pressing specific buttons gave the wrong action. I couldn’t figure out how to fix that so I am back to the default emulator.

[Anonymous]

I never did figure out how to get pisnes to work, but think I got the dark picture problem fixed in the default emulator. I disabled video shaders and enabled smoothing in the retroarch config in the all folder and in each emulator config file. For whatever reason, that seems to have solved my dark image problem. Hopefully this helps, locomat.

[nemo93]

hi!!
You should give a try to piSNES. Great compatibility and works like a charm. At least the behavior you described never occured with this emulator. I believe you just have to comment out the proper line in the es_systems.cfg file.

hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I did that already. I got pisnes running, but the problem is that it appears that pisnes doesn’t pay any attention to the retroarch.cfg file and the controls don’t match my snes controller. Then I tried re-installing pisnes from source to actually get a config file and after that it wouldn’t run.

[nemo93]

hey atimmins,

piSNES comes with its own configuration file. It’s named “snes9x.cfg” and you’ll find it under the pisnes directory in “/opt/retropie/emulators/”.

it’s really weird (again) as I can’t reproduce this. Perhaps you could try downloading another version of this game? to be sure.

cheers,

[smatticus]

how can a noob like me launch piSnes? and is there a way to make it the default emulator in emulationstation over pocketsnes? i don’t have any darkness issues, but there does seem to be some stuttering in a good portion of roms (kirby’s dreamland 3 and super metroid). if pisnes offers improvement i’d like to try it. could someone please help?

[nemo93]

hi smatticus,

to make piSNES the default simply edit the “es_systems.cfg” file and spot the Super Nes section. Amend it like this:

<system>
        <fullname>Super Nintendo</fullname>
        <name>snes</name>
        <path>~/RetroPie/roms/snes</path>
        <extension>.smc .sfc .fig .swc .SMC .SFC .FIG .SWC .zip .ZIP</extension>
        <command>/opt/retropie/emulators/pisnes/snes9x %ROM%</command>
        <platform>snes</platform>
        <theme>snes</theme>
    </system>

hope this helps.
cheers,

[Anonymous]

Just an update for the original poster; I had the same problem with the backgrounds being too dark. Apparently it is only the default video shader in retroarch that makes this happen. Change the shader to something else and it should solve your problem. I prefer the shader hq2x2. I noticed that leaving video smoothing turned off resulted in better performance.

[locomat]

Thanks for the hint with the shader!

It works perfect but how can I save the setting? Everytime I quit a game and select a different one the setting are default and I have to activate the shader again.

I really like the shader option it makes the games look really good!!!

[Anonymous]

Try editing the config file at opt/retroarch/emulators/snes/retroarch.cfg. That’s how I did it.

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