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Ah ok, the good thing i only need to change the Gamma cont and bright levels all the other HLSL settings are find in the Mame.ini.. So fingers crossed all is good.. :)cheers mate

Cant believe it. Ive fixed it. So for some reason im sure when you go into the sliders section after loading a game that any changes didnt save. However they bloody do! And they save PER GAME too. So its simple. Chuffed.

yeah i had thought of that, and hoped it just effected Umk3 but it effects others too... i have over 2000 and damned if i am going through all and writing a new ini for each.. wow.. could you imagine... I have been trying to find a middle ground but thats impossible.. my test games are SSF2T, Killer instinct, and UMK3... its impossible to get all 3 where they are kind of acceptable... SF and Ki work well together but when i up the brightness etc to cater for UMK the other 2 look ridiculously bright.. Is there any kind of HLSL which really is a middle ground?.. i was wondering if its due to Keymasks making things dull within HLSL... or should i try GLSL?.. ive no idea.. so frustrating

haha thanks for your eloquent reply - much appreciated. Now, if i can wrack yours or any in the audiences brains one last time.... What do you guys do when you apply HLSL and it darkens some games?.. I love the look, curved screen etc, however i pop SS2T on and its just about ok, Ken is abit bright white, it SHOULD be turned down a tad however when i pop on Ultimate MK3 its dark.. and so are many other games... What the hell do i do to make sure all games are the right brightness / contrast / gamma (or whatever it is).. nightmare

hi Guys - I have a vertical.ini, a mame.ini, and a Horizont.ini.... I created Vertical, and Horizonal ini files to add the small line of using a generic bezel for when either orientation game is loaded AND has no bezel.. however, i can just put this artwork line into the Mame.ini file as if the game isnt a vertical game it must be a horizonal, and therefore just read the Mame.ini instead - leaving no need for Horizont.ini Or am i missing something here?

Just thought of a reason why this may not be a good solution.... IT is good to save scores on Ki - if this resets each time to a save state then all progress would be lost.. So it would be a toss up whether you want to save high scores OR always be greeted with the intro music.. hmm

hi guys - it frustrated me that the "blue bar" initial sound test causes the fantastic Ki intro music's not to play so i have an idea.... I know how to fix it temporarily but it needs to be applied each time you boot the rom up, and you need access to the keyboard to do it. Not good on an arcade set up. Is it possible to save the state of a game and any time i then re-load that game it starts from the saved state every time?. If so, then i would save the state immediately the machine begins after i have done the fix so the intro plays in all its glory. thanks

thanks for being so honest, its refreshing

A Friends drive, let me clone it from a while back. He had lost interest, no idea if he built it or not

Hi all - I dont suppose you have had any more thoughts on this have you? Thanks alot

you are so super duper! thanks mate legend.. I saw that before but disregarded it because it read as thought it wanted just ONE default bezel for ALL roms... worked a treat thanks

hi all - so for about 90% of my Mame roms i have 4:3 bezels fine.. however there are some which just leave an ugly black bordered screen. Is it possible for roms that have no bezel to use a default bezel? Same question for Daphne please which currently i have no bezels at all for. thanks guys

Ok - so... - Went into ..Config/Genesis_Plus_GX/ and moved the Sonic CD cfg file out of there. I did notice that there were over 1500 other CFG files in there too (must be Megadrive, game gear etc too) - Loaded bigbox > opened Sonic CD > opened retro arch > Changed to Auto > saved core override (in the overrides menu) > Restart..... When i press restart it doesnt actually restart, just goes back to bigbox... So i reloaded Sonic and same problem - Checked and its reverted back to Pal and not saved... I am assuming amongst those 1500 CFG files there is another keeping it stuck but i am worried to effect any other sega system.. ?!

Ok will give that a go tomorrow. I was trying everything earlier to save the poxy thing. Thanks for your help. Will feedback, fingers crossed!!!

Yeah i know its pal used to always buy ntsc snes carts with my adapter decades ago haha.

hey neil - great so i did that and it worked!.... so before i take the plunge and update RA on my main drive i took a look and noticed what perhaps seems to be an obvious error... see here i am trying to load Sonic CD (USA) yet my region is not set to "Auto" like on the test build i just did, but "Pal"?/.... See picture ... is THIS the problem?!.... if so, i set it back to "auto" but it never seems to save and always end up back at "Pal".. if this is the problem, how do i keep it saying "Auto"?

no i havent - as yet... a little too scared to do so!... its a case of, what is worse - not having Sega CD, or all the work ive put into Retroarch being lost.... This not having Sega CD is the better of the worst cases haha

update : managed to find a Jap bios that matched the CRC of the master file, added it to System folder, started a game and the same damn cd player screen started... no game

Hi Sundogak - Ok so, this screen shot shows all the CRC32 for all 3 bios;..... I have copy pasted from your master database you posted above and seems like "J" is different, but the other two are correct.... ?? Is my J bios bad?.... why then do no games work if 2 of the other bios' are fine? perhaps they are all Jap games? comment "Sega - Mega CD - Sega CD"" rom ( name bios_CD_E.bin size 131072 crc 529ac15a md5 e66fa1dc5820d254611fdcdba0662372 sha1 f891e0ea651e2232af0c5c4cb46a0cae2ee8f356 ) rom ( name bios_CD_J.bin size 131072 crc 9d2da8f2 md5 278a9397d192149e84e820ac621a8edd sha1 4846f448160059a7da0215a5df12ca160f26dd69 ) rom ( name bios_CD_U.bin size 131072 crc c6d10268 md5 2efd74e3232ff260e371b99f84024f7f sha1 f4f315adcef9b8feb0364c21ab7f0eaf5457f3ed )

What great help, thanks. I will get the checksums of the bios' checked right away and report back

Just as an update - I have obtained a different version of Sonic CD.. tried loading and the same Bios start up screen...

Fromlostdays : I did take a look at that the other day but for some reason forgot about it (maybe my age!) i will take another read thank you Sundogak : Thanks - im really sorry i posted in"noobs" for a reason haha, what is CRCs?

Just off a quick search can see some entirely different named Sega CD Bios's exist.. For Eg "us_scd1_9210.bin" - perhaps if i popped these in my system folder they may work.. There is a US, JAP, and EU version EDIT: Ah these seem to be for the picodrive core i believe

Neil : Thanks, so if i update retroarch will all settings remain the same?.. i dont really like Retroarch and its been a real walk through treakle getting it the way i want it and i would just not want to risk messing any of that up.. however if i can update RA and the core without any worry then ill give that a whirl mate..... Also you asked if it lists CHDs as a supported format, if i go back to that screen i was on and scroll down are you saying it will tell me? Fromlostdays : You think its the bios do you?. So apart from region bios's there are different versions of each one?. ...

So i have gone in there and looks like all 3 Sega CD bios are there and seen fine... is that what you meant?