General Emulation Discussion

Converting a 1up into a raspberry pi arcade for a friend.

Just wondering what's the best solution? Retropi or is there anything else?

Take some photos as you go! Would love to see how that all works.

Yeah I was looking more at Retropi there and tbh I'm not up on emu stuff a whole lot but the recommended mame for pi4 anyway

That and LHX Attack Chopper are crying out for someone to do an optimisation on them like that Road Rash improvement version.

This made me look again what the improvement version was, ended up with Road Rash 1-to-3 playing on MiSTer with CD music in the MegaCD core (but low/regular fps). Didn't realise that the normal roms would have a FPS improvement in the old Mega Drive core, which should have been obvious when you use the 'CPU Turbo' setting.

RR3 is still a let down when you had the 3DO version looking amazing at the same time

Road rash 3 was the first one I played and I still prefer it to road rash on the playstation / pc / 3do. I'm like a broken record saying it at this stage but the latter is missing the mechanic where the faster opponents match your speed and you get into some epic fights and combat on the mega drive games.

That is totally missing from the latter and ruins the gameplay for me as you just speed past the leading racers most of the time.

Still had one of the best game intros though with Soundgarden's Rusty Cage!

Funny.......I was sort of thinking of starting from scratch with Launchbox as well as an excuse to tailor ExoDos into the current install, but 10mins into things on the PC with the heat outside dissuaded me from things sharpish 😅

Might well leave it as a post-summer project, but currently have ExoDos and my main Launchbox separate from each other and both seem happy, but the main install is just too bloated.

Some huge effort put into the Exo project all the same. Still need to import the other Exo installs for Scumm, Windows etc, but it is a great way to spend countless hours.

Very general emulation comment, but i run Linux (Ubuntu) which doesn't have as much support as Windows, in terms of gaming.

However, it does have Steam. Maybe I'm out of the loop but Steam has this "proton" stuff which is like WINE, and can emulate windows games.

I've been trying to get some games working in Heroic Launcher by manually installing wine and some other packages, with middling results, but i found a really good trick in steam that I wasn't aware of.

In Steam, you go into your library and chose the option to add a non-steam game. You can pick any game but in my case i picked the Blizzard Launcher exe. It just worked. I was able to install the launcher, log in, and then install StarCraft on my linux machine, all as if i was on a windows machine. Everything just worked. I was impressed!

Next step is to try with some other Windows software and see if it works too. I've tried before using WINE and failed so this could open up some new possibilities.