re: Raspberry Pi Emulator

Quick question for yall about loading ROMs to Retropie. Going to use the SNES game Darius Twin as an example.

I downloaded the ROM from emuparadise and it came as .7s format. I used 7zip to extract it. The results are the following files:

Darius Twin (E) [t1].smc
Darius Twin (E).smc
Darius Twin (J) [b1].smc
Darius Twin (J) [h1C].smc
Darius Twin (J) [t1].smc
Darius Twin (J).smc
Darius Twin (U) [!].smc
Darius Twin (U) [t1].smc


This happened to every game that I have, some of them with 20+ different files.

Which ones do I upload to my ROM folder?

Pretty sure that is just different versions of the same game. E means it's the version released in Europe, J = Japan, U = USA. Then there are different hacks and mods attached to each version to add to them, make them run better,etc... That's what's signaled in the brackets. And pretty sure the ! after a game means it's been tested and confirmed that it works. Don't think you have to copy each of these files to your emulator. Just copy one of the U versions if you want the US version.

Some sites like Emuparadise have each version of the game listed separately, so you can just download the one version you want. It keeps the need to extract each file after DL to a minimum (you need to extract for most CD games though)

Edit: and Retropie does read .Zip, so you can just add the one big file if wanted like just mentioned.

TTownTiger is right. Use the "Darius Twin (U) [!].smc" file. Generally speaking, the file with the exclamation point is the one you want to use when you get a compressed rom collection file with multiple versions like that. The letters are the region. Additionally, you'll sometimes see the letter 'B' for beta or 'P' for prototype, but these won't have the '!'.

Maybe diedaily has a different way, but what I do for psone games

DL the ISO and extract the files. I then create a new folder and name it the same name as the game (so if you DLd Resident Evil, create a folder called "Resident Evil"). Then I copy all BIN and CUE files into that new folder. Then just right click on the entire folder and copy/paste in the emulator.

The BIOS file has to be in all lower case letters. spch1001.bin I think is the correct name of the BIOS. Just place that in the BIOS folder.

I just tried putting the .cue and .bin files into one folder and adding it and it worked beautifully!

(For the record I was trying to get Crash!)

Was this your first time building a system through a raspberry? Just asking for the lurkers of this thread. How difficult did you think the process was of setting it up?

Getting my stuff Tuesday so we'll see for me

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Thinking about getting one as well. Are you able to pick up where you left off on games?

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Yes, at least for the home console games. If the game supported saves back when it was originally released, like The Legend of Zelda for example, you can use the in game saving just like you would on the original Nintendo. You can also use a "save state" to take a snapshot of a game at any time which you can roll back to. This is especially good for semi-lengthy games that didn't support saving, such as Super Mario Brothers 3 or Metroid.

The save state feature is very hit or miss for arcade titles, though. Either it's not supported at all for a game or the save states can become easily corrupted. That's not a big deal in my experience, though, since most arcade games are short and meant to be played in short bursts anyway.

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Didn't Metroid "save" your progress by giving you a passcode whenever you died?

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Yes. A 24-digit password. Fun! I'll take save states over that any day.

Have any of you overclocked your Pi? I'm just reading things before I get mine and it looks like that helps run N64 games but obvious has risks with it

Also, have any of you installed heatsinks or other cooling devices and have any suggestions on what to get/install?