Lordmonkus

Any chance of having manuals added to the database and downloaded through the scraper like other media ? Or would this be a copyright violation ? I know Nintendo got on to Blockbuster for renting the game manuals out and Blackbuster had to resort to photocopies. Not sure if that would be a similar thing here or not.

I just use Retroarch and let the core set the aspect ratio and use integer scaling and this looks good and "right" to me. 4:3 is the aspect ratio that TVs would "fit" the output image of the console to. So in the case of the Genesis the actual output resolution would be 4:3 like an average CRT TV of the time. In the case of the SNES the output resolution of the console wouldn't be 4:3 but the TV would adjust and "stretch" the image but artists knew that this would happen so they designed it knowing this and allowed for it.

Yeah you are definitely pointing to the self extracting zip installer, you need to setup Mame first. https://forums.launchbox-app.com/topic/33619-mame-tutorial-for-n00bs/

Mame shouldn't lose your controller settings on reboot though, it will lose controller settings if you start it up without the controller plugged in however.

What emulator are you trying to use ? My first guess at this is you are pointing to a self extracting executable zip archive and it is trying to extract itself.

You can try setting your config files to read-only.

There's not a whole lot of info on this that I could find with a quick Google search but I did find this discussion about it: http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/12143/genesis-games-lower-resolution?page=1 From what I gathered out of it the vast majority of Genesis games use 320x240 while a smaller percentage used 256x224 and the 320x448 was used in split screen games. The SNES stuff used 256x224 for the game and some games used the higher 512x448 for menus.

Higan - Latest and most up the date version and the most accurate but very CPU intensive. Requires extra chip dumps to work properly. BSnes - This is what Higan used to be called and is based on an older version of code but is very accurate. Accuracy is more accurate while balanced is slightly less accurate (not noticeable) but requires less CPU power. Also requires special chip dumps to work properly. BSnes Mercury - These are essentially the same as BSnes cores but removes the requirement of the special chip dumps, it emulates them internally rather than using actual chip dumps. It also allows for overclocking of the Super FX chip so you can run games like Start Fox faster.

I spoke with Sour very briefly and he said he still has work to do on the core like allowing the remapping of controls and stuff but hes off vacation now so its gonna take a little time but the core is more than usable on a daily basis for anyone.

Honestly I have no idea, beyond never hearing of that emulator before I have also never seen rom files in dat format. Not saying they aren't good or anything like that, just never seen it.

No problem, glad you got things all sorted and working.

The good old C64 was many peoples first computer or first computer experience, it was certainly my first experience with a computer. It was shortly after my uncle got his I got my Vic-20 back in '83. So many games for it, it's really hard to narrow down any sort of definitive list of games for it. Best bet is to just check out a bunch of Youtube videos and look for games that seem interesting to you or just for the full set.

I never heard of the emulator either so I looked it up and it looks like it hasn't been updated since 2010 and there is no reason to use it over NullDC or Demul. That is just based off what little information I could find on it though.

Well the title is about romset but the first post asks about good games.

Odd issues, I haven't encountered any of those at all. It is an early core though but it is based off of the stable stand alone and being done by the same guy, Sour.

You should try out the command line version of Mame, it's not that hard to get setup at all.

Only if your CPU isn't powerful enough to run Mesen because it is more CPU intensive.

Those were the 2 most played games I played on my uncles C-64 as a kid, I had a shitty Vic-20.

I believe the default location for it is in the \ini folder but I haven't used a UI version Mame in a long time.

The easiest way I can think of is to just make a playlist with those same games, no need to pull out a set of roms at all. Will take a little bit of time to go through your list and get all your games but just go through them and every game you want just right click and add it to the playlist.

Mesen has finally come to Retroarch and it is awesome. Update your Core Info files using the Online Updater in Retroarch and the core should be in the list. For those of you that aren't aware of this emulator it is essentially 99.9% accurate which is way more than the Nestopia or FCEUMM cores. This emulator has one other awesome little trick up its sleeve, HDNES Packs. What this allows for is higher quality sprites than the NES was capable of. For some screenshots of what is possible and your first pack if interested check out this page here which has a download link for the MegaMan 1 pack, https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=25426.0 To make this work it's very easy, load up any game in RA using the Mesen core and go into the Core Options and set Enable HD Packs to On. Then go to your Retroarch install folder and then \system, the core should have made a folder called HdPacks but if it didn't make one yourself. Then you will want a folder for the game the HD Pack belongs to named after the rom file itself and all the art files go in there. So for example on my system my MegaMan 1 rom file is called Mega Man (USA) so my folder structure looks like this:And then in this folder all the .png files are located. There are only 4 publicly available HD Packs that I am aware of as of this post and other than the MegaMan one they are horrible looking, hopefully this is something that catches on and more become available like the MSU-1 audio for the SNES. Also keep in mind that these HD Packs will impact performance of the emulation.

I should add, with the Mesen core that the CPU requirements compared to FCEUMM and Nestopia are higher and if you plan on using any of the HD packs it's higher again. Was just doing some testing with the MegaMan HD pack and I had to lower the frame delay setting down to 5 where as without the HD pack my frame delay was set to 9.

My guess is that is a bios issue, I don't have any Naomi stuff setup at all so I can't confirm that but looking in my older Naomi bios and a quick Google search it seems like it's a bios file.

Even without the core if the roms were imported to the platform with an emulator (in this case Retroarch) the games should at least be there in the platform even if they don't load. Glad you got it all sorted out though.

Thanks for removing the link, we were debating this one in private trying to decide what to do since it is such an oddball case. If you wanna post the site without a link to it that would be fine.