re: Raspberry Pi Emulator

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This link is a pretty simple instruction list on how to do it and what equipment is needed. It also describes how to transfer the game Roms to your running raspberry pie via USB stick which I skipped over in my post on the first page. Again, you can also transfer Roms over wifi which is even easier than this USB method, but the wifi way isn't talked about in this article.

Also in the setting up retropie section, they mention "You will also need software that can extract a .gz file." This is the 7zip software I wrote about on the last page (the step I accidentally skipped). DL 7zip for free. Then right click on the Retropie file you DL'd, click 7zip and then click "extract here". That's it. The .gz file will appear right next to where you DL'd the retropie file initially. Then you use the gz file for the win32 step to write retropie onto your sd card.

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Any easy way to find the MAME roms version number?

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There really isn't because of the variability of the contents of each rom and the disorganization of the sites that tend to host them. I can't locate it at the moment but at one point I found a site that had the contents of each arcade rom zip file listed so you could more easily figure out what files you might be missing and what the sizes of those files should be. I manually "built" a couple of roms this way at some point but it honestly ended up being way more trouble than it was worth.

To find the set of roms I'm currently using, I think I did a Google search for: MAME2003 0.78 roms

...and then used the torrent in the first or second link. That's not to say that all of those roms worked with RetroPie's Mame2003, but the ones I wanted did for the most part. There are always exceptions, though. For instance, I can't get Mortal Kombat 2 to work for some reason, though MK1 works fine. I haven't attempted to dig into it too much, though, mostly because I don't really care that much about MK.

I use Recalbox instead of RetroPie. I've really liked Recalbox, but is there any reason I should consider a switch to RetroPie?

I'm a little late to this thread, but let me add my two cents that yes, getting an RP3 to use as an emulator is absolutely worth it. I love mine, and the fine folks who make RetroPie made it as easy as they possibly could to get everything set up. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Almost pulled the trigger on a NES classic until I saw this thread. The classic is perfect for traveling however the Pi looks to be more compact even enabling bluetooth would remove even more clutter. Shouldn't be any trouble considering HDMI/RCA connections one would think?

Why do they emulate poorly?

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Why do they emulate poorly?

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Not an expert, but it's just the graphics and all that encompasses running that size of file. The funny thing is I started this thread because I plan on getting a Switch to play N64 and Gamecube games as well and it got me thinking about emulators

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but it's just the graphics and all that encompasses running that size of file

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Performance for most of the emulators are 100% accurate. Graphics seem to be worse than what we remember, but mostly because we are running crappy 8bit and 16bit graphics on our 40"-60" 4K/UHD TVs, so they tend to stand out

There are graphics options in the settings that you can use to change the resolution and iron out some of the pixilation. And you can change each emulator to run different graphics settings, so you can set each one up to your preferences. In then there are the shading/filter options that DieDaily mentioned on the first page of this thread to help even more.

It'll never be perfect graphic emulation, but there are ways to drastically improve the out of the box graphic settings.

I haven't seen it mentioned, but has anyone tried a DreamCast emulator on these?

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Dreamcast is supposedly pretty buggy. Haven't tried it personally

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That's what I figured unfortunately. There's a few games on there I would want to play like Crazy Taxi, which I'm guessing you couldn't play the arcade version of it. For arcade racing games that had the actual wheel and there was a World Series 99 arcade game that used a lever for hitting, can they change it to where it's a button?

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just bought one someone else did for $50

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Where'd you do that? While there would be the personal satisfaction of building this on my own, I feel like I would screw up a small detail and not realize where I did it