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Not sure about latency but I think there's a few folks on here who've used them or the Nes one. Here's a review of sorts (if you can tolerate the presenter):
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Just subscribe to floob trust me.
Favourites fork of emulation station: (also has a kid and kiosk mode)
Overlays and scan lines with a simple script:
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You can just use Floobs tool, which is the easy way, but here's what it's doing in the background if you fancy doing it the manual way just so your understand things.
1) When in-game, press select + x (whatever you assign select and x to in your initial controller setup...it might not be a button labelled as x on the joypad!). This opens the RGUI menu.
2) Scroll down to Online Updater, and confirm that selection (button R on my controller)
3) Then scroll down to Update GLSL Shaders, and again confirm that.
4) This downloads/updates the shader files.
5) Then exit the game, and go into the Retropie Menu from the start screen.
6) Select Configuration Editor from the menu
7) Select Configure Basic Libretro Emulator Options
8) Select either Configure All, or choose the individual emulator you want to configure. In this case I've chosen FBA (as it's way better than Mame on the Pi I find).
9) Set Video Smoothing to 'False' (seems to be the general consensus, though it's down to individual preference on what you think looks best reall).
10) Set Video Shader Enable to True
11) Choose the specific shader file you like, in this case I think crt-pie-curvature-vertical looks the best on my current tv
12) With all those options set, exit back to the main menu by 'cancelling' your way back out.
13) Start up the game, and it will load your chosen shader file.
14) To browse through the rest of them, press and hold Select on your controller, and use 'm' and 'n' on a keyboard to flick between the different shader files.
15) If you find you like a different one & wish that to be the default one, simply choose that one for step 11 above.
My tv is a 720p/1080i set (ancient plasma), so I think that's skewing up the scanlines for me slightly. Even at though, they make the games look way better than the raw image you'll see without them (think pixelated mess). Some/certain games don't play nice with certain shaders though...the one I chose above looks very well for arcade games...but for something like Sonic 1, it looks awful when the screen is moving. You need to play around and find the best one for each case I think.
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I had edited the config.txt to turn off overscan (disable_overscan=1) but that made no difference. I got too impatient and formatted the micro SD and have started again. :pac:
Cheers for the link though.
Did that a few times myself tbh.As an aside - is it possible to edit the config.txt while the Pi is running? Using nano or something? I turned off the pi, popped the sd card back in the pc and edited the file that way but that's awful time consuming.
Yup, sudo nano *filename should open the file for editing, just be sure to ctrl-o, enter, ctrl-x to save & exit...then sudo reboot for the changes to take effect
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Yup, sudo nano *filename should open the file for editing, just be sure to ctrl-o, enter, ctrl-x to save & exit...then sudo reboot for the changes to take effect
Cheers. Reflashing did the trick, back to the black borders so can live with them for the time being. Initial impressions on that Snes 8bitdo controller are great, decent build on it. Really like those purple button colours too and the fact X and Y are concave (I can feel o1s1n shaking his head in disagreement
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Anyway, back to step 9 of 51 so going to leave it for tonight.
I had a read of that scrapper link you posted above and noticed this note:This will also only work if your roms are located in the local roms folder and not on an external device.
Seeing as it worked for you I'm assuming that the Pidrive isn't classed as external - probably because of all that mounting lark you went through?
Have you gotten to play anything yet even as a test - runs good on the pi3?0 -
I had a read of that scrapper link you posted above and noticed this note:
Seeing as it worked for you I'm assuming that the Pidrive isn't classed as external - probably because of all that mounting lark you went through?
It's because I symlinked the roms folder on the sd card, to the roms folder on the hdd drive (so when you ftp into the Pi, and double click into the roms folder, it automatically brings you to the hdd - so the system doesn't know any different). If you don't do it this way, you've to edit paths etc for each individual emulator, and it's way messier. Symlinking is the perfect solutionHave you gotten to play anything yet even as a test - runs good on the pi3?
Played and tested a good few systems yeah, everything from Atari 2600 right up to CPS3 stuff...everything has run perfectly for me so far0 -
Have you gotten to play anything yet even as a test - runs good on the pi3?
My younger kids are very disappointing and not impressed with the 16-bit era games I grew up with. I was awfully disheartened until my wife and her brother came in and spent a good bit last night reliving their memories on the Master System and Megadrive Victory! 0 -
So the WD stuff arrived during lunch - PiDrive, PiDrive cable kit (includes power adapter) and the 6x6 enclosure.
The enclosure is very neat, just over an inch tall with the cables feeding out one side - effectively the back, so I won't see them.
PiDrive is tiny, SSD sized. The USB data cable between pidrive and the pi itself is very tight but not so bad connections are getting bent about etc. You have to push that cable in to slide the case top over it.
There is space to feed more cables including ethernet out the back although I'll go wireless when set up properly:
Size comparisons:
Overall it looks like a very neat solution that will just look like a small box under the tv so happy with it.
Hopefully I'll get some time tonight to get back to setting it all up.0 -
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I just got a Pi 3 Model B myself on Friday. I have retropie working and sorted sound going through the HDMI cable. Could you do the same with a share off of your local network ? It'd save me the purchase of the WD solution.
You could in theory, Once you mount the folder you intend to share you should be able to symlink to it. You won't be able to symlink to it unless the folder is mounted though as it needs that shared piece of address in order to do the symlink.
A little more info hereI've only set up a handful of mame roms to begin with < 10. When I go to system shutdown through the emulation station menu's the display turns off after a few seconds but the power to the Pi is still there. Is this because I'm running a small fan that came with the case I got ? Is there such a thing as a usb power cable that attaches to the Pi itself and subsequently to your usb power cable so I don't have to keep unplugging/plugging directly from the Pi ?
Overall, very impressed with retropie. Prior to this I had a small form factor PC running windows with emulation station on it. It was clunky in comparison.
Regarding the power, I was looking into this also but it appears to be the expected way to power up and down the pi. I plug it out from the wall for now to try and save the connectors on the cables but I'd love a more useful solution if anyone comes across one 0 -
Regarding the power, I was looking into this also but it appears to be the expected way to power up and down the pi. I plug it out from the wall for now to try and save the connectors on the cables but I'd love a more useful solution if anyone comes across one
I was wondering about that also - is there a better way to power on the Pi other than flicking a switch on a wall or power adapter, by pressing a button on a controller or keyboard etc.0 -
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