re: Just got a raspberry pie

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You'll have to extract them to pull out the correct file

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sorry to ask a stupid question, but how do i do that?

Ok that worked. I notice the sound can be choppy. I'm guessing that's because the higher end the game the rougher the cut?
Is that the case if I keep going up to sega cd and Saturn, etc?

I would assume arcade isn't that bad

I need to research how to do the bios and command and configure stuff

Everything I've read talks about going back and configuring RP, etc but I never know how to even get to that screen. Every time I power it on it goes to retoropie screen with my systems.

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I need to research how to do the bios

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I know at emuparadise whenever you select a game, it'll link all other files that you need to DL with it on the same page. So select an arcade game and on the same page as that download will be a link to the BIOS file. Just DL the BIOS file and copy/paste it in the BIOS folder the same way you would transfer a game rom over to the correct emulator.

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I've read talks about going back and configuring RP, etc but I never know how to even get to that screen. Every time I power it on it goes to retoropie screen with my systems.

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Very basic rundown:

Whenever you google or youtube things (like customization options), try to read the most recent articles and not something from 2013 for the most part. In early versions of this program, users needed to write command lines to get all customization done. But now as retropie has become more advanced, most of the customization options you are trying to do is located right in the main menu under the retropie option. So scroll through your emulators until you get to retropie and open it. From there play around and go through each option as each one contains things you can change like graphics settings & screen resolution, change themes so the menus look different, change splash screen (the boot up screen that shows after you turn on your raspberry pi), set up a blue tooth controller, etc... you can do this all from the main menu now. You might not understand a lot of the terminology at first, but you can always google what each option does and from there you'll start getting the hang of it.

Anyways, The screen you auto-load to with all of the emulators is called emulation station. So if you ever see that term used, it's the screen with all of the emulators that you go to first when turning the system on.

Occasionally you'll have to leave emulation station for customization, like with using the sselph scraper I mentioned earlier in the thread. So just hit start>quit>quit emulation station and confirm you really want to. That'll close out the screen with the emulators and bring you to the black program screen where you can write command lines. So for the sselph scraper, here is where you'd write the command line "sudo /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh". Then just follow the directions on the link I provided earlier and you can set up that scraper. You'll have to leave emulation station and type in that command line every time to use that scraper though.

Another thing you can do here is check how many GBs are used/available on your micro sd card by typing in "DF". Or "DF -H" (one space between the F and the -) which is what I use because it breaks down your card usage even further than the regular "DF" line.

That's just two of the easy command lines that you'll probably use often, but there are tons of shite you can do here - a lot of which is way over my head too. I try not to get too involved with writing commands here unless it is something that I REALLY want to do. But for the most part, there isn't too much that I personally needed to do in here. Setting up a silent boot during the system start up is probably the most technical thing I tried to do and that wasn't very difficult.

So if youre researching customization and it requires you to write a command line, quitting emulation station (again, by pressing start and then quit) will get you to the correct screen. If at any time you are here and aren't sure what to do, just type in "emulationstation" on a new line and it'll bring you back to the initial load up screen with all of your emulators.
But most of the basic setup you are probably trying to do right now is located in the retropie option within emulation station as I mentioned earlier.

If there is something you're specifically trying to do and cant figure it out, post it here and I am sure someone will try to answer it.

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Hmmm. I thought there was trouble with that system so I never really tried. I may have to look into it now.

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Though, I haven't played any of them to completion on my Raspberry Pi, I've successfully played decent chunks of:

Sonic CD
Snatcher
Spider-Man
Heart of the Alien
Mansion of Hidden Souls
Rise of the Dragon
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Jurassic Park
Night Trap (32X version)
(...and a few others I can't think of at the moment)

I actually owned a Sega CD back in the day along with most of the games mentioned above and the emulation is spot on as far as I can tell.

Just added the Sega Master System entire catalog as well as the game gear. The Master System has some really good graphics and color way better than NES imo.

No I haven't. I need to learn how.

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The Master System has some really good graphics and color way better than NES imo.

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The Master System was more powerful from a video perspective but the NES had a better sound chip.

You can see demonstrations of this by comparing games that were on both systems like Rampage and Double Dragon (which is 2 player on the SMS unlike its NES counterpart).

Go play with themes in the retropie settings. Click the retropie settings and then click ES Themes. There are quite a few to choose from that will change how all of your menus look and change how emulation station looks. Some themes call it Sega genesis and others call in Sega mega drive. You have to install the theme first to view it. I have the zoid theme loaded on mine and that one has Sega Genesis listed instead of Mega Drive.

Some themes take effect immediately after you go back to emulation station. Some you have to press start and restart emulation station and they'll be loaded when it reboots.

Here is the zoid theme in action. Of course your setup will only show the emulators that you have roms in. LINK

But try them all out until you find the one you like best.

Added a few sega cd games last night and they all seemed to work (at least the sega cd logo and opening credits ran smoothly - didn't have time to test gameplay). I am curious how well the FMV games will run during actual gameplay as most of the ones I added were FMV.

I swear I read somewhere Sega Cd was buggy, but maybe it was an older article for previous RP versions that I was looking at and didn't realize it. So thanks for mentioning they work.