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put everything into the /roms/fba/ directory instead of the neogeo one

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@trimmtrabb
which PS1 games have you gotten playable?

@ottbry420
1 – yes but just barely for only a few games that I have noticed
1.1 – mario64 actually works pretty well, I also tested an army men game that worked. maybe one of the banjo kazooie games loaded but was too slow to play really… its not the emulator, I believe its just the limitations of the Pi’s hardware
1.2 – not really… i’ve got my Pi overclocked to the max at 1000mhz, I will be trying higher settings later on but really, its probably not going to provide any noticeable difference. most games just don’t load, the ones that do are VERY LAGGY

2 – yes
2.1 – the same way you do it with other games, use the built-in scraper or add them yourself or use sselph’s scraper tool

3 – i’ve successfully used (with n64 and others) the xbox 360 wired controller and Tomee SNES-style USB controllers

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whats wrong with 1000mhz overclock? i’ve had this on for weeks now

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@cheekee – that looks good to me personally. have you run the “Register RetroArch Controller” before?

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@spanner – thats a very interesting way to get disc games working with the wav/mp3 files…. would you happen to know of a way to get it to work without using any physical media?

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@krux02 – I’m not so sure about that… I’m testing my RetroPies these days using nothing but SNES-style USB controllers by Tomee.

@cheekee – I would say that that any controller with a total of 6 “game” buttons, a start, select and at least one d-pad should be fine. So yeah… any SNES-style controller lol…

I have had good experiences with the Xbox 360 (wired) controller as well but that requires the installation of another driver.

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Awesome!!! Just the 1 player right?

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neogeo – neogeo.zip (should contain MANY files), this goes into the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba – yes, into the roms folder with the roms themselves

GBA – gba_bios.bin – it goes into: /opt/retropie/emulators/gpsp/raspberrypi – with the emulator itself

its strange that neither of them need to go into the /BIOS folder huh? lol
you don’t need anything for MAME I believe, I have been playing around with MAME only for a little while but it seems that you don’t need any BIOS files for it

just in case:
for sega CD you need to place those into the: /BIOS folder in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS and name it us_scd1_9210.bin (this is for the USA bios, different names for Japanese and European ones, check the wiki)

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wait is this for the PC-Engine/Turbo Grafx 16?

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i wouldn’t recommend that you zip anything if you can can, I understand that mame/cps/neogeo arcade roms will be but you shouldn’t apply any compression to them if you can help it too, just a plain archive zip file will work best.

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yeah thats the “issue” – i’m still unclear as to what causes it to not be written to the file. i haven’t done NES or SNES yet but I believe you.

i thought it was a permissions issue but I did the following:
sudo chown -R pi /home/pi

that should give me total ownership over everything under it. i have done it with other directories on this system without any issues. You should understand however that the scraper isn’t exactly the best part of RetroPie lol, it has a lot of issues overall and you should consider using the Pi version of sselph’s scraper:
https://github.com/sselph/scraper/releases

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which systems are you having trouble with?
i got mine to save for some (Sega CD) but not for others like the sega master system

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ok, lets break this down into the two questions:
1 – Can you run two emulators at once? Yes and no. You probably could set it up somehow, I have no idea how but I do believe that it is possible because just about anything is “possible”. So no, you can’t do this right now lol

2 – How to get MAME roms working – Someone else should step in and help you here or you should check out the wiki for this project. I haven’t actually touched on MAME yet but I will give it a go right now and come back to this thread later.

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RPi Model B+
Copper heatsink on the CPU, aluminum heatsink on the ram is it?

in config.txt I have made the following choices:
hdmi_mode = 4 (720p, lower res, slightly less resource consumption)
TURBO DEFAULT – I did this in the raspi-config but here are the values: arm_freq = 1000, core_freq = 500, sdram_freq = 600, over_voltage = 6

avoid_pwm_pll = 1, Don’t dedicate a pll to PWM audio. This will reduce analogue audio quality slightly. The spare PLL allows the core_freq to be set independently from the rest of the gpu allowing more control over overclocking

h264_freq = 0, isp_freq = 0 – these two as well as “v3d_freq” are part of “gpu_freq” – I have reduced the h264 (video) and isp (image sensor) down to 0, this should in theory give a boost to the v3d, allowing it all of the 250mhz of cpu_freq

force_turbo = 1 – THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY!!! I tried this out and so far everything I have been doing is as stable as it was before… It will likely also reduce the lifespan of your RPi but so far I have seen nothing really different.

FUTURE PLANS:
I plan to test higher arm_freq and gpu_freq, or at least a higher v3d_freq

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hey, did you just copy of the image file over to the memory card?

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did you run the “register a retroarch controller” option?

you can also test controllers by installing jstest:
sudo apt-get install joystick

then use it like this:
jstest /dev/input/js0
jstest /dev/input/js1
jstest /dev/input/js2
jstest /dev/input/js3

the numbers at the end are for each controller that is connected

hope you enjoy playing your games

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did you select every option?
i’ve had similar results with what I believe to be the same things failing to compile.

i have come to the conclusion that after 3 compilation attempts to just use the image file that is uploaded to this website… no problems with it at all

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oh wifi setup is something else then:

How to set up WiFi on a Raspberry Pi

that guide at the link should suffice :)
it will cover doing it in a GUI desktop environment and at the terminal

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sharing of copyrighted software isn’t allowed here, including system BIOS’
i can share with you a few things to make sure you get the right one on your pi:

the neo geo bios FILES go into a zip file named neogeo.zip, you place this into your /RetroPie/roms/fba folder

[proxycell]

wow, this is strange. have you run RetroPie-Setup.sh and selected the Register RetroArch Controller?

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when you say “binary”, you’re referring to the image?

I believe that SSH should already be enabled by default in this image and raspi-config should be executable from the terminal anywhere just like it is in vanilla raspbian

keep us posted on how things go for you

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can you get it to boot vanilla raspbian?

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PiFBA will do zip as will the Sega CD… though I think there are RAM issues with Sega CD games being so big, unzipping them into memory will likely fail for most games unless you have a lot of RAM for them, which you likely won’t since you likely have the 256/256 split

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you have to name the sega cd one as follows:

eu_mcd1_9210.bin
jp_mcd1_9112.bin
us_scd1_9210.bin

depends which region you want. put it into the bios folder: /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS

for neogeo… you place the bios (neogeo.zip) and the roms into the same folder: /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/fba

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oh wow, i’m glad to see that you figured it out. i would have never thought that it was the output switching around

which hdmi mode are you running on now? i was doing 1 (vga) but i have switched to 4 for 720

[proxycell]

it likely is the wrong bios file, assuming you are placing it in the correct place which is the gpsp emulator folder

you will see a checksum on the screen when it complains about the bios, record the first few characters and google it…

you can’t share copyrighter files here ever

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no problemo, i’m currently running TURBO actually and its very stable for me. I have tried going over this as many people have suggested I try it but I have yet to find a stable OC that is above the recommended limit that comes with the pi.

are you running this on a TV/monitor? could you SSH into the PI and check your temperatures please. i strongly recommend that you get heatsink’d now that you are on a higher OC.

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ok, have you overclocked? what is your memory split? are you loading the CUE file or the BIN file?

i am able to get both games running currently

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have you overclocked your pi?

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are you loading the games from inside of ZIP files?
please let me know as I am currently troubleshooting game issues, include Sega CD!

Which games have thrown this error for you?

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is there a way to do this in osmose (game gear)?

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thank you. i was looking for a solution similar to this recently.

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did you use the retropie image or run the compiler script?
do these roms work in an emulator on another computer?

i have not had anything but great success with genesis, haven’t needed any special configuration

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this might be a strange thing to ask: but is that SNES controller functioning properly? like are those buttons working on another platform/computer?

You could test it on a PC with an emulator

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i have not approached the intellivision yet but which atari are you talking about? i have the 2600 working for me without any special configuration

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