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I tried moving RA, epsxe and Chrono Cross over to my SSD, and I got a considerable speed boost. Apparently, an external USB 3.0 HDD still has considerable lag...funny, considering that nullDC, Demul, PCSX2, and Mednafen (for Saturn) all run from the HDD without lag. Anywho, I'm sure we'll see improvement as Mednafen development continues. Hope this helps others who are having lag issues.

After playing with Mednafen, I think my hardware may be starting to show its age. Admittedly, I'm not experienced in tinkering with OpenGL. With Mednafen's focus on accuracy, I'm sure it needs more juice to up-res on top of keeping everything running true to the original hardware. Until I build a new PC, I may be stuck with epsxe. Not a gripe, but something to keep on the radar for later on.

Thanks for your suggestions! Wiping out the core config is where I'll start.

I've toyed with the HD core, but I seem to get worse slowdown with rendering set to OpenGL as opposed to software. My guess is my settings are to blame. Where is a good place to start?

Total noob here. Could anyone suggest some settings for the software and OpenGL cores in Retroarch? I've played around with 2x resolution in both cores, but I get SLOW audio if I go 4x or higher. I'm not sure what general effect scaling, dithering, cropping, or shaders have, and I'm not sure how much slowdown they might cause. My PC specs are as follows: i7 990x, Win10 x64 24 Gb DDR3 GTX 980Ti Particularly, I'm trying to get Chrono Cross looking nice with synced audio. Any suggestions are much appreciated :-)

Thanks! It turns out the console was listed twice. One had an additional capital letter. Fixed me right up.

I'm running across a strange issue of having one console (TurboGrafx-CD) show up twice in Big Box mode. This doesn't happen in standard LB mode, and the games list appears split between the 2 instances. Anyone else have this problem?

Thank you, Sir! That makes sense. I'll move everything over to my LB folder and then follow your directions.

Hey guys, What is the proper method for importing Dreamcast GDI games into LB? I've tried once with my whole GDI/bin/raw collection and royally screwed it up. From having watched a video or two online, I knew to leave the "Use Folder Name instead of ROM Name" box checked. I also used the "Add Folder" option, as I have about 250 games to import. The problem I ran into was that every single file was imported as its own copy of a game. For example, "Skies of Arcadia" Disc 1 has a GDI file, 2 BIN files, and 1 RAW file. When I tried to import the entire folder, all 5 files got saved as separate copies of "Skies of Arcadia." That left me with over 2000 game listings under "Sega Dreamcast" when I only have about 250. I need all of the files to be copied over into my Launchbox folder, but I only need for LB to point to the GDI image. I could manually copy over each game into my LB folder and add it individually to my LB library, but I'm sure there is a better way. Has anyone successfully accomplished pulling over an entire GDI library at once?

Yep, Mednafen is my go-to emulator. I'm only using SSF for 3 games total (out of over 100). Once those 3 get fixed in Mednafen, it's adios muchachos to SSF, a great emulator but such a pain to configure.

Hey guys, I've been toying around with the suggestions @lordmonkus and @DOS76 made, and I managed to do a work-around for mounting/unmounting with SSF. I also managed to pre-load XPadder. My mounting solution has the .cue format pre-associated with DTLite, which is important to note because it reduces the number of commands necessary to mount discs. Check out the photos for my setup. If anyone needs the entire command lines, let me know.

Thanks for responding! What I'll probably do to be on the safe side is put each game in its own folder and manually copy them all to my LB directory. That way, all .bin and .raw files will remain in the same folders as their respective .gdi files. Then, I can tell LB to use the folder names instead of the file names for metadata purposes. With multi-file games, this seems like a good way to keep files together in an organized fashion.

I'm curious about the importing of .gdi files with their associated .bin and .raw counterparts. To run properly, it's my understanding that .gdi format games require all of these files. Typically, I like to copy every game I import into my launchbox folder so that everything stays organized. But since most games have the same names for their .raw and .bin files (i.e. Track01.bin), wouldn't that cause a problem with copying multiple games into my LB folder since no two files can have the same name in one folder? Is there a way to import the entire games and not just their .gdi images so I can keep everything organized?

Confirmed, Lunacy playable to completion. I also have been able to successfully use the swap method for Panzer Dragoon Saga; each disc runs at least to the save file screen. Without a save files I'm not sure how the rest of the content looks.

Sure thing! There are 3 different files. Worth noting is that the game asks if you want to save on Internal Memory or Cartridge Memory. I used the Cartridge option, which probably affects the save files. I'll also upload my .m3u file as well. Hope this helps. Lunacy.1154aee19ed19c45d11396242320a0b0.bkr Lunacy.1154aee19ed19c45d11396242320a0b0.smpc Lunacy.1154aee19ed19c45d11396242320a0b0.bcr Lunacy.m3u

WHOA, it worked on Lunacy!!! I had to rename my save files, but I followed your directions and created the .m3u file. When I next loaded the standalone emu, I opened the disc tray with F8. This caused the Saturn media player screen to appear. I changed to Disc 2 with F6 and hit the "Load Application" planet button and VOILA!!! The game loaded, seemingly properly, and I am able to continue. Thanks, man!

Thanks for the fast reply! Since I'm using the standalone emu, I'm assuming the F6 & F8 keys will work for changing discs.

I looked on the Mednafen page, but the process of making .m3u files isn't really clear. Do you all know of a good place to find an example? Thanks, guys!

Has anyone figured out how to change discs with games that have multiple ones? I've played Lunacy to the point where it asks for Disc B, but my latest save won't work if I try to launch the game from the second disc. Currently, I've listed each disc as a separate entry in LB. Is there a way to mount multiple discs to a single game listing?

Actually, I tried mounting the disc image and used the "install from files" option instead of "install from disc image." That let me install the game, and then I did like you said and changed the command.

Thanks for the info. Did you just replace "-unmount 0" in the batch file with "-unmount_all" or did you leave it as 0 and add in the command line under additional apps?

When trying to install "Star Wars: Rebel Assault" from a bin/cue image, the process terminates with an "Illegal command: INSTALL" error. I noticed from browsing the image that the installation .exe file appears to be "REBEL.EXE." Apparently, the DosBox interface automatically uses the "install" command on all games. Is there a way to change this so the game imports correctly?

I finally was able to sit down and give this a try, but for some reason, I am getting a "Mount switch syntax error" before SSF loads. My batch file looks like this (sorry I don't know how to get it to show in its own pane): ---------------------------------------------- @echo off set game=%1% set daemon="C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTLite.exe" set emu="G:\Video Games\Gaming Archive\Emulators\Sega Saturn\SSF_012_beta_R4\SSF.exe" %daemon% -mount 0, %game% start /wait "" %emu% %daemon% -unmount 0 --------------------------------------- I'm thinking that this has something to do with the version of DTlLite I'm using, or perhaps I made a type-o. With Mednafen now working with most games, this almost seems like a crapshoot LOL

I've checked out Mednafen and your video tutorial, and all I can say is WOW! All but 2 or 3 games seem to run flawlessly. For an unstable build, the emu already out-performs most others with only a few drawbacks. This may very well be the definitive Saturn emulator. Thanks for posting the tutorial vid!

Wow, THANKS for the fast, detailed response. I'm at work now but will give both options a try on my next off-night. As for xpadder, I'm thinking I can just open and minimize it before running launchbox. I'm not really as worried with that part but just thought it would be cool to have everything automated