Lordmonkus

After messing around with my flight stick and trying it out and looking around there are some settings to look at. For each game in MameUI right click and go to Properties. Then in the controllers section try setting the deadzone to 0 and saturation to 1.00. For Star Wars after starting up the game move your stick around in a full circle or else the aiming cursor will be off center.

The Logitech stick gets good reviews from the Elite: Dangerous guys as well. That button is an 8 way hat switch.

The T-1600 is probably the one to go for then. That's the one that gets a lot of praise for its quality especially in it's price bracket.

What sort of budget do you have in mind ? And by thumb button on top for dial operation do you mean a hat switch ? At the lower end price range the Thrustmaster T-1600 M (amazon link) is supposed to be good quality, the guys over on the Elite: Dangerous forums swear by it at the lower price range sticks. I have a Saitek X-55 which has mixed reviews ranging from piece of crap to quality to people having no problems with it. I have had no problems with mine, but it is kind of pricey at near 300$ US on Amazon currently. I got mine on sale for 200$ Canadian. There is also the Saitek X-52 which is a bit more affordable at 140$ and 160$ for the Pro version, again mixed reviews like the X-55. And then of course you have the beast of a flight stick, the Thrustmaster Warthog at 400$ but it is made of metal and is supposedly awesome. I haven't set mine up for Tron, I will try it out later and I will give it a go on Star Wars as well.

I tried the 3 different FBA cores, fb_alpha_libretro.dll, fb_alpha_neo_libretro.dll and fba_libretro.dll using the online updater and I even tried copying over the cores from 1.3.0 build. In the end I am sure there is something i'm missing but I wasn't about to spend any more time troubleshooting it for no real gain in the end. I know the problem was in the core options not remembering to use the Unibios option, it just kept defaulting back to one of the MVS bios options. I tried saving the config but no luck. I looked in the retroarch-core-options.cfg and found in there that it was set to MVS and I have no idea what it would have to be so it would be set to use Unibios and I really just didn't care anymore to mess with it anymore. It's probably something simple, it usually is lol.

They are basically the latest non official versions, think of them as super ultra alpha. They may or may not be improved upon latest official releases and may be buggy as hell.

I got no problems updating, especially when there's a feature making the switch worth it but something in 1.3.2 and the FBA cores it was having some issues with NeoGeo. From the little time I spent at it it seems to want to default to one of the MVS bios files instead of the Unibios even after I told it to use the Unibios in the core options. Certain games weren't loading. So for now there is no compelling reason to make the switch, 1.3.2 has no features in it to make me switch. When they come out with the next point release with worthwhile changes like the difference from 1.2.2 to 1.3.0 I will make the switch and figure everything out.

Their forums are such a treasure trove of goodies though

I did try with Higan and had no luck, I spent a few nights messing with different versions of bSnes and finding the best version was a royal pain but I eventually settled on 0.88 for all the MSU enhanced games I got except for MegaMan X2 which worked only with 0.75 which is weird because according the that link it says that this feature wasn't implemented until 0.81. I had varying degrees of success with each version of emulator used. I tried bSnes 073, 075, 088, Higan 095 and 097 and still have those versions on my hard drive. I also tried other versions I had to dig around for but deleted them. For example one version will load 1 or 2 games with the CD music files but none of the other games or it will load with either no sound or very mangled sound. 088 really was the best middle ground I could find. I'm not sure of why Higan doesn't work for me but my best guess for now is because of the way Higan made it's own folders for roms and all that mess. I do know the latest version of Higan allows for just straight loading roms, I might give it another try later tonight. The other problem was that these games that are patched and compiled were more or less done so with the SD2Sness cart in mind rather than an emulator, might just be a side effect if an emulator actually works. No problem on the edit to remove the mention of that site, I will keep that in mind in future posts.

For those of you that don't know what this is. http://www.smwiki.net/wiki/MSU1 "MSU1, also named "Media Streaming Unit revision 1", is a homemade enhancement chip made by byuu for the SNES. It allows the SNES to have 4 GB of storage space and CD quality Stereo Audio. It can be used for every SNES games, but is so far only emulated by bsnes, and supported by future SNES flashcart, sd2snes. You can add MSU1 registers just by having .msu with the ROM. (since bsnes v081)" So basically what this does is that allows people to have CD quality audio and FMV "injected" into the games. Now by injected I don't mean it's placed directly into the rom. You need to have a folder with a patched rom, a bunch of pcm audio files and xml file for it to all work together. As of right now there is only 2 ways of playing these games, through an SD2Snes cart and the bSnes / Higan emulator. Patching the the rom and injecting the music is not a simple task but it has been done for several games and if you look around you can find them pre patched and compiled for you (search Google). One game you will not find done for you is the Chrono Trigger but the rom patch file is easily gotten on romhacking.net but you will need to get the flac format sound track "Chrono Trigger Symphony (Vol. 1,2,3) - Blake Robinson Orchestra" and convert all the music yourself. When you do find these pre patched games they are designed to be played through the SD2Snes cart and playing them through an emulator is hit and miss at best but I have had the best luck using bSnes version 0.88. Some games work with earlier versions but not newer, while some work with newer versions and not previous. Version 0.88 gave me the best all around compatibility but I did have to use 0.75 for MegaMan X2. Do a youtube search for Snes MSU-1 and check out some videos showing off how cool this stuff is. It is a pain in the ass to find these pre patched games but it is worth it in the end. The list of games that has had this done for them is not very big but the notables are Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Link to the Past, Mario World, DKC 2 Super Metroid, the MegaMan X series and a couple of others. Hopefully someone does this for other games like Final Fantasy, Castlevania and Super Ghouls N' Ghosts, these games are just crying for CD quality audio. Let me know if any of you have found a better and more reliable emulator than bSnes 0.88 for playing these games. Now if only someone can figure out a way to do the same thing for the Genesis since Watermelon was able to do it with Pier Solar on the physical hardware. Edit: I forgot to mention that these need to be played through the standalone version of bSnes. I had no luck in my attempts to get them working through Retroarch using any of the bSnes cores.

I had a little bit of a go at 1.3.2 last night to see if it was worth switching to. I got 3DO working but I had to switch my launchbox file to point at the actual iso image instead of the cue sheet but it did work. The one problem I did run into was NeoGeo using the FBA core because it was defaulting to one of the MVS bios and not using the Unibios and nothing I could do to fix it would stick. At the end of the end I just went back to using 1.3.0, the newer version has nothing important to make it worth the headache of changing.

Austins videos are great, lot's of great information in his videos even if they are a bit long they are entertaining.

I just did an import of my 7800 collection into my main gaming PC and the scraper (from what I could tell) grabbed the box art and meta data for 57 of 60 games. The ones it didn't grab correctly were just wrong named roms, Asteroids Deluxe which was just a wrong named Asteroids, Pac-Man Collection which was just Ms Pca-Man and Mario Brothers which should have been named Mario Bros.

Yup, all mine are like that. I noticed you said yours were zipped ? I don't have any of mine zipped at all and they all work just fine.

Are all your roms in .a78 format ? That's what mine are and they all imported just fine.

Just set it up like any other Retroarch emulator core in Launchbox, though you may have to edit the emulation windows core for the 7800. I think it defaults to Mess, just edit it so it's using the ProSystem core. Set the emulator to Retroarch and in the Associated Platforms window set Atari 7800 to -L "cores\prosystem_libretro.dll". Make sure you get the ProSystem core first though obviously.

Why use Mame and not Retroarch and the Atari 7800 ProSystem core ?

I have the mega plugin installed in both chrome and firefox, you need it to download files from mega.

Try removing one of the slashes, see how there are 3 ? When I linked to a mega site file on my Retroarch CD Tutorial video at first my link was messed cause of that. I just did a copy / paste and removed 1 slash and it worked.

Wow, I just watched the video and this looks amazing. I currently don't have a use for this but sometime in the future whenever I have to do a full rebuild this is gonna come in good and handy.

Yeah there aren't many games worth the effort. The GameSack guys did a video showing off most of the games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7qGy1jxsM0

Next big question is are there any games actually worth playing ?

You got PC-FX working ? Which games and which bios ?

You're welcome, I just hope that some people out there actually finds the video at least a little bit useful in getting these games up and running.

Lol yeah. I generally won't bother with games I can play through Retroarch like the older Strider games that are on sale as well. I also left Steamworld Dig alone since I already have the windows version of that game (very cool game though). I try and stick to games that won't run well on my shitty laptop like the newer Strider or just aren't available elsewhere.