Zombeaver

I use Mednafen in RA for PSX yes. Shaders are a matter of personal taste, but personally I'm a big fan of CRT-Easymode Halation and the Kurozumi edit of CRT-Royale. It's all subjective though - there's plenty of stuff for you to experiment with. It's easy to switch them so you can find what you like best. We can help you get that sorted out once you're setup. I've been in the process of converting over from standalone Mednafen Saturn to the RA core. Either one is fine. One thing I really like about using it in RA is that with shaders you can take care of some of the interlacing problems that are present in some games that ran at 60fps (primarily fighting games) - you can't really do that in standalone. Standalone has some deinterlacing settings that you can tweak but none of them do the job very well to be honest.

Mednafen is better than SSF. SSF was the go-to for a long time but Mednafen is better. If you're having trouble with it we can help. It's more than likely a problem with your rips, though there are ways to fix that (in most cases). I've got about 70 games using Mednafen and there are almost no issues among them. SSF was alright but I couldn't make that claim for it.

ePSXe is okay but it's not as accurate as Mednafen. There are some games that even now just don't work/look quite right, such as Jumping Flash 2. Upscaling is a complete non-issue for me for PSX because while it vastly improves PS2 and even DC games, it typically just looks awful (to my eyes) for PSX games. More often than not it just sucks the life and character out of the visuals and makes it look weird - they're just not designed to be viewed at those kinds of resolutions; more often then not it just makes them look... weird. When you add in shaders on top with Retroarch, it's no contest whatsoever. I'm a PSX nut for the record. Keep in mind this is coming from someone that, echoing the sentiments of @DOS76, was highly resistant to RA in the beginning. I'd used standalone emulators for years and years and years. I was using ZSNES back in the late 90's. I knew what worked best for what, tweaked and fiddled with them all individually, then tweaked them some more, read message boards, piddled around Zophar's Domain... When I first came across Retroarch it just seemed like this gigantic, impenetrable, non-intuitive, non-user-friendly mess (it could still use some work in this regard, in my opinion). But, I have to tell you, after knuckling down and just using it and figuring out how to use it... it's an absolute godsend. Again, coming from myriad separate emulators, and having tweaked and prodded them all for years... I've ditched almost all of them for RA. There are a few exceptions where you might be better off with something else but by and large, if it's supported in RA, RA is usually what I'm going to be using. It's a genuinely awesome tool once you get a handle on it. There are just so many amazing features packed, it's crazy. Take the plunge my friend!

These are all covered under Retroarch, so yes. http://libretro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=123&p=854&viewfull=1#post854 I'm not sure about Daphne.

Yep, you got it. The close function is totally achievable via Xpadder - in a couple of ways actually. You could either setup a combination of keys to send an alt+f4 input or you could setup a combination of keys to send an ESC input and then add in an AHK script to the emulator entry (Autohotkey script tab) to close on an ESC input: ; This section closes [emulator] when pressing Escape $Esc:: { Process, Close, {{{StartupEXE}}} }

Okay but if you're using it that way you don't need controller automation is what I'm getting at. They both serve the same basic purpose except you can do more with Xpadder - some people don't need the added functionality and for them Controller Automation is sufficient (plus it's built in to LB/BB). If you're already using Xpadder and it's already setup, you're not losing anything by not using Controller Automation. You can use both controller support in LB/BB AND Xpadder, but not the way you're currently setup. You would need to unbind the basic direction/button inputs because those are going to be picked up by xinput anyway (otherwise it's gonna get double inputs). You could still use it for custom combination commands. While it's true there are some emulators that don't support xinput (though they're few in number), they'll pretty much all still support dinput at least, which will still have you covered. If you really want to use Xpadder AND Controller Automation, you can, I'm just not sure why you'd want to. There's nothing you can do with Automation that you can't do with Xpadder.

Why do you have Xpadder configured to send basic dpad inputs? I'm not sure why you'd be using it for that. Those sorts of inputs are picked up in applications natively via xinput (which is why you're getting double inputs). Even when I did use Xpadder the only inputs I setup were specialized/complex stuff like special commands for a combination of keys.

Ehhhh... that makes it so you can't navigate the actual PPSSPP UI itself though (config changing, savestates, etc.). I wouldn't recommend using that. Controller Automation's close function works just fine with PPSSPP and allows you to still use the PPSSPP UI itself.

If you're using MESSUI/MAMEUI you can disable the menubar permanently in the mame.ini file via this line: # WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS # menu 1 Changing the 1 to 0 makes it stay hidden.

@ckp You know you can enable it for "all controllers" right? There's a separate checkbox for it. No idea what this is about. Totally lost me here. Personally I used to use Xpadder but I dumped it for Controller Automation because it does everything I need it to do.

"Atari 8-bit" isn't a platform currently in the DB but, per the post I made here, it should/will be (consolidating the existing "Atari 800" and "Atari XE" platforms in the process). For the moment, I've got my own library setup to use it as a custom platform and set to scrape as Atari 800. I'm a huge fan of Lucasarts (originally named Lucasfilm Games). They made many of my all-time favorites, going all the way back to my childhood on the C64. Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus, and Koronis Rift got played many many times when I was a kid and I think they still hold up well even now. I break out Ballblazer, especially, very frequently. I never had any of the Atari 8-bit computers as a kid (or even knew anyone who had one) so my exposure to the games is fairly new (well, to the Atari 8-bit versions of them anyway - nearly all of them are also on the C64), but I've discovered that many of these early Lucasarts games were actually originally made for the Atari 8-bit family and later ported to other platforms including the C64. Honestly, despite the 8-bit being technically inferior (generally speaking) to the C64, they're better versions of the games. That's a pretty huge compliment considering how much of a C64 fanboy I am. I've had a blast replaying them! RIP Lucasarts You gave me many hours of joy as a kid and I still love your games today. Normal: Scanlines: Normal - Version 2: Scanlines - Version 2:

So you've got an image type of "Boxes" selected and they don't appear in LB but they do in BB? That doesn't make any sense if so... There shouldn't be any discrepancy between the two. Edit one of the game entries (ctrl+e or right-click and edit) and look at the images section at the bottom right. Do you see images there? If so, what's the image-type (Boxes - Front, Screenshot - Gameplay, etc.)?

...did you try the things Jason and I suggested?

They appear to be, yes. There are DB entries for the titles he specified. Aquaplane Aaargh! Altered Beast Avalon Are you sure you're scraping them properly? Is your platform named "Sinclair ZX Spectrum"? Are you using any custom "scrape as" settings?

Sure, no problem. I've created the ticket. I accidentally created it as "Anonymous"

Are you sure you're not just accidentally set to the wrong image type (like say "carts" instead of "boxes")? Click on the drop-down at the top right of LB and to change the image type. None of your media should "disappear" but you could be set to display the wrong type of media (which you might not have).

They have decent prices on the really low-end stuff - something that might typically be an $7-$10 game you might find for $4-$5, but their high-end stuff is way overpriced. Anything priced over $15 you're probably better off looking for elsewhere. The games themselves and other contents (manual, case art, etc.) were thankfully intact, it was just external damage to the cases. Thankfully, those are replaceable. It just didn't seem worth it to save a few bucks to have to then deal with the hassle (and cost) of getting replacement cases. I hope your controllers come in okay. Admittedly CD cases are somewhat fragile so you're probably okay, it just kinda left me with a bad impression.

Be careful with Lukie. I've bought some stuff from them in the past. They package their games like garbage. I've ordered from them twice - PSX games both times - with about 5 or 6 games per order. Each time about 1/3 of the cases were basically demolished. After the second time I decided I wasn't going to order from them again... I can't comment on their controllers/hardware, but if they treat them the way they treat their games I'd avoid...

I edited the post to also mention the underscore requirement for titles that use an apostrophe. I ran into this last night when I had to rename an image for Nemesis '94 Gradius 2 to Nemesis _94 Gradius 2.jpg in order for it to match. Apostrophes are usable in Windows file names but LB doesn't seem to like them for matching.

Wikipedia: Atari 8-bit family So I started messing around with Atari 8-bit emulation last night. Any time I jump into a new platform I do research on the games and hardware. I was a little bit confused when I saw how we have these games setup in our DB however. We've got a section for Atari 800 and one for Atari XE. What's the reasoning for this? Isn't this a bit like having a platform for Amiga 500 and one for Amiga 1200? Unless I'm missing something they're just variations (upgrades) on the same hardware, not unlike the multiple Amiga models. They're just different parts of Atari's 8-bit home computer line. 800 and XE (which should actually be the XEGS based on the box art that's in that platform in the DB - the system image itself is actually the 130XE though) aren't even all of the models, so I don't know why those were singled out - there was 400, 800, 1000, 1000X, 1200XL, 600XL, 800XL, 1400XL, 1450XL, 65XE, 130XE, and XEGS (and I'm probably leaving something out). Obviously we don't need separate platforms for all of these just like we don't need ones for every variation of the Amiga. They're the same games - the XEGS just repackaged them with new labels. From the Atari XEGS Wikipedia page: From the List of Atari XEGS games Wikipedia page: It seems to me that the 800 and XE should be consolidated into a single platform which should then renamed to Atari 8-bit - that way it encompasses all of them. This is the way Mobygames handles them.

I figured out how to have the partial UI mode on by default! It's in mess.ini in this section # # CORE INPUT OPTIONS # ui_active 0 Change the 0 to a 1.

Alright, finally got it working with standalone MESS thanks to your tips. It turns out it didn't like my old bloom.fx file for whatever reason. The screen is completely black if I use it. All of my other old hlsl .fx files seem to work though.

It's not a huge deal but it seems like generally I'd be much more likely to be making use of it being on than off. I seem to be having problems converting over my MAME HLSL so that's what I'm working on.

I figured it out. It's in the mame.ini as # WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS # menu 1 changing it to 0 makes it stay hidden.

No, there's like an actual menu at the top which I can disable if I click to disable it but it always comes back after starting again.