Lordmonkus

Name: CDMage Saturn Disk Repair Category: Tutorials Date Added: 2016-09-23 Submitter: lordmonkus This is just a super short and simple tutorial on how to use CDMage to repair corrupt Saturn disk images. It may work for others but I have only ever had to use it for Saturn games and has worked for several games for me. CDMage Saturn Disk Repair

Yup, if you got some games working your setup is right so if you got unworking games those are bad dumps. If they are Saturn games they can sometimes be fixed using CDMage or simply mounting the image with a virtual cd drive and redumping that with something like ImgBurn. If you Saturn games have mp3 or wav files then those will need to be redumped. Here is a video tutorial I did on fixing dumps that have mp3 or wav files.

Yeah some people keep their roms archived to save on space. If you are loading a rom through through Retroarch and it is a zip / 7z file it will need to be extracted first. Launchbox will extract it to a temporary folder first, then load it and delete the temporary file after playing, all leaving the original compressed file alone. I believe Retroarch does the same thing as Launchbox but again I cannot say for sure since I have always extracted my files out. The file type .sfc is a rom file but .srm files are still save files. The 2 rom file types for the Snes is .smc and .sfc.

Hopefully I can answer a couple of questions for you here. Keep in mind I do not use zipped files at all for my emulation, all mine are already extracted. First 7z or zip doesn't matter, both file types are recognized and handled just fine with 7zip which Launchbox uses to extract the rom files. The only time there may be a problem is if there are multiple files within the archive file, the first file will try and be loaded and if this first file is not an actual rom it may cause problems. Files with the extension .srm are save files and not rom files at all. I am not sure what the .src files are but I do know they are not rom files either. Emulators that directly run archived roms will be things like Mame, NeoGeo and some other arcade emulators where the rom archive contains several rom files and these should never be extracted, the emulator needs them to remain archived.

Load times are much better, great job on this Jason. Also love the new sound effects.

Oooohh.

Scrolling is fixed, awesome. But like @master333said it does feel very laggy for some reason. I can't compare to any other themes because I have never used any themes other than the default BigBox theme.

With Mame if you use an HLSL shader you won't have to worry about whether the game is vertical or horizontal. You will have worry about that though if you use RA with a CRT shader or in Mame with a GLSL shader. If you don't use any shaders at all or if you use something other than some sort of scanline shader it shoudn't matter in RA.

Off the top of my head I can't really think of many systems better emulated through a stand emulator over a Retroarch core. Though the PSP and N64 are better done through the stand alone versions. Nintendo DS it just depends on personal preference, I use the RA core because it lets me use shaders and the right analog stick for the stylus without using X-Padder. ePSXe is better if you have a lower end system and cannot run the RA PSX core. NES may be a tiny bit better through a stand alone but it's so close it isn't worth worrying about. Mame in terms of emulation quality is equal but because how RA handles CRT shaders for vertical games I prefer the stand alone version of Mame.

Cool, really like the look of the theme though so far. It's the only theme I have bothered to even try out yet.

Don't know if this is a bug or just a setting I am missing but my Platform list doesn't scroll. I can select platforms off screen below the cutoff but it doesn't scroll to show the platforms. The games list scrolls just fine but not platforms.

There is the throttle function in stand alone Mame, not sure if the Retroarch core has it or not. Did you try the Mame (no year) core ? Mame 2014 core is based off of the 159 build of Mame. I just tried it out in a 168 build and it's running at an appropriate speed. Pressing F11 while the game is running will show you the speed the game is running at.

Did you try it with v-sync off or in the stand alone Mame ?

Jason is breaking out the "disappointed parents" strategy.

The father posted it to try and show he wasn't involved in this and I can understand that, I wouldn't be hard on him for it. I am now locking this thread.

Man I really don't know what to do with this. Part of me is thinking I should remove the pic with the names and emails but at the same time why should I do that to protect a couple of people trying to steal from Jason. I do find it ironic though that people worried about their email privacy is using a gmail account. I fully understand and get the fact that it is difficult or impossible to buy Launchbox in certain countries because of exchange rates and credit card rules. I have no idea either of you tried to contact Jason privately about obtaining a license through other means or not, that's between you and him. Edit: Ok I thought about it and I removed the pics with the names and emails just because I believe it is the right decision. Don't make me regret it @Prags and @StuDentBR.

Now this is a theme that speaks to me, looking forward to trying this one out.

Some emulators can read roms zipped and need to be extracted before running but some systems like arcade games and Mame you don't want to extract them.

Yeah 4.5 GHz is way more than enough for the accuracy core, 3 GHz is the recommended speed for it. You don't need to delete any cores if you don't want to. Just download the new core and edit the command line parameters in Launchbox in the Retroarch Associated Platforms window to use the core you downloaded. If you do want to delete the old core go into the cores folder in your Retroarch folder and delete it.

Yes the same core will work for Super Famicom games. If you have a decent CPU you can use the BSnes Balanced or Accuracy cores and those would be better than Snes9x in terms of compatibility. The Accuracy core claims 100% compatibility while the Balanced is basically 99% with one game having a small graphical glitch. Here is a link for Retroarch info including a pretty good recommended cores list. The Saturn core listed is out of date though since the Mednafen Saturn core is now available. http://www.powerup.io/gaming/emulators/retroarch

Don't make me get the dick flicking bear gif.

For punishment make him watch Golden Girls on loop for hours on end.

I saw this and I just could not resist the urge to share.

Yes, CPU is the only thing that matters when it comes to the raw emulation speed and quality of emulation. The GPU comes in when you start resolution scaling and using shaders.

Here's another little secret but don't tell anyone. If someone really can't get a license legitimately and they are really polite and ask Jason nicely he might just give them one. There is just no point in worrying about people who steal the software, all you end up with is a headache over something you can't do anything about. Rule of life, worry about what you can control and just accept what you can't control. I believe Jason is able to make Launchbox his job and support his family because of his approach to being DRM free and providing a quality product worth the money. Using The Witcher 3 and CDProjekt Red as an example, that game is awesome and DRM free and out sold so many other games out there due to the good will of CDPR.