General Emulation Discussion

mm_surf

Ta. Had a flashcart for the original DS. Wasn't sure on the newer versions.

M.

Mr.Fantastic

Got myself a retrotink 4k CE and using it on my sega saturn and my lg c2 42inch. Its a night and day difference what a proper scaler does.

The_B_Man

I'm going to setup BigBox for the first time this coming week. I bought the licence ages ago but never got around to it. I have the hardware side sorted. The only complication is the 29" CRT in my cab but i have CRTEmudriver running with an AMD GPU so it's also sorted.

So now it's just setting up the emulators to work with both my 2 player panel and also my 2 lightguns.

I'm gonna tidy up my folder structure so emulators are in one place, ROMs in another.

Does anyone know if i can configure the lightguns once in BigBox or do i have to configure it per emulator? I've already done it for Supermodel M3 but not for anything else, and I'd rather not have to do it every time i add an emulator.

Also, i was playing a game on Supermodel and noticed the sticks aren't really analog. I'm using a jvs-pac2 (irkenlabs one) and left is mapped to left arrow on the keyboard, right to right arrow etc.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Inviere

Paprium now running on a modified genesis gx core on Retroarch. Impressive looking game, despite the obvious background issues.

o1s1n

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123610996#Comment_123610996

Only took 5 years! 😁

Delighted to hear that, I've wanted to give it a go for a long time now but no way was I dropping cash on a real cart.

Wonder when a Megadrive rom hack will be come available.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123611469#Comment_123611469

Seemingly you can even buy the bloody thing, even if you wanted to 🤷🏻

Doesn't work on Everdrive's yet, so bootleg carts not yet either (if even possible?)

o1s1n

I wonder would the newer Everdrive be a runner at some point given it has FPGA capabilities for Mega CD emulation? FPGA out the extra Paprium chips?

Whole thing was an absolute disaster, some people still don't have their game and they ordered them back in 2017.

That Fonzie guy raised something like a million euro from the kickstarter.

Doge

Has anyone managed to get the road rash rom hacks running in an emulator?

Particularly interested in Road Rash 3.

The last time I tried running it I got a message straight away saying it needs to be run on the real hardware.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123612248#Comment_123612248

Pretty sure I had all the framerate and CD audio versions of the trilogy running on retroarch at some point

Doge

Edit: Sorted!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123612722#Comment_123612722

I actually remembered the error in correctly:

I'm running Genesis Plus GX in Retroarch.

Any idea what setting needs to be enabled? I was fiddling with settings for the Sega CD but this message still appears. Thanks 😀

Doge

Do I have a to load the CD image also maybe?

I thought it would be optional.

Doge

Finally got it working!

None of the BIOS files I downloaded had the correct filename, i.e.

bios_CD_U.bin

I must have downloaded about 3 packs before I found a GitHub page with the BIOS files for all systems.

And these had the 3 files needed with the correct filename.

Everyday is a school day!

Relikk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123612223#Comment_123612223

It boots on my MegaSD (most likely on an Everdrive Pro, as well), but it doesn't progress past the minigame at the start after pressing reset, which is apparently an anti-piracy measure. The source for the changes in Genesis Plus GX are public, so I reckon a firmware update would be able to sort it. The only thing I'd see needing some research is implementing the audio streaming engine used in the original cart, or if there's an already existing solution (MD+ or MSU-MD) that can be used to bypass it.

Inviere

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123615856#Comment_123615856

That mini game seems to run when the game's sram is empty. Once it's written to, ie, a successful boot, sram data is created and the game seems to run (emulation.) It'd be great to see it run via flash cart/mister