[Running out of space due to art/video files]

On 1/3/2020 at 12:33 PM, The Papaw said:

Here is something I found and do every so often and reduces my images folder to almost half the size. When you add games and artwork is scraped, it's a crap shoot as to what format and size you are going to get. Might be jpg's, might be png's, etc.. And the image sizes???  They can be very tiny to HUGE in file size (both physical size and pixel size) .

I use a program called FS-Image Editor (FS=FastStone I think). It's free and still updated regularly. It's suppose to be for photos but works with most all images. It allows you to re-size or convert images real easy. One at a time or batch, batch (whole folder at a time) is the key here. If you have a big collection, it will take a little time to do it the first time. I have almost 8tb of game data, so it took me a bit to figure it all out and do it the first time.

Awesome idea, thanks!

I found that you can search by filetype in windows and then drag-n-drop, so you can do your subfolders or even your entire system by choosing to set the MAX resolution it should be (for example, I reason that on my 1080p system, no art should be bigger than 1920x1080). Then you enable the settings to preserve original aspect ratio and not to resize items that are smaller. Seem to be clawing back a ton of space since some of these items such as BOX - Front have come down with super-high resolutions!

 

 

 

[Neo Geo X stick not recognised]

UPDATE: Tried the other app mentioned in this thread, for me JoyToKey has been working very well in this setup and would be my recommendation if you are using these sticks (you are going to have trouble in various emulators).

If I were starting this build again, I would probably hardware mod at least one of the sticks to use a different controller board (fightstick PCB or cheap controller from amazon, i-pac, whatever), assuming I don't mind changing the original hardware. They are a great feeling fightstick but detection is hit and miss across different emulators / OS / frontends since they were only really ever designed to be used with the Neo Geo X. Doing the hardware mod would allow them to work as a pair on the raspberry Pi I suspect, so in that case it might be the only viable option.

[Need help with Daphne]

Daphne for some reason throws a video error whenever there's no USB mouse attached to the system. This is a long-standing bug with the emulator.

After a lot of trial and fail over this weekend, trying to make it work on a minipc setup with just 2x Neo Geo arcade sticks attached via Joy2key (no mouse or KB), I've finally found a workaround for this (might come in handy for other times where there's no mouse too)!

 

Install the following device driver, it will appear as "wacom mouse". Daphne will be satisfied and not throw the error:

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds004071-wacom-digitizer-driver-for-windows-7-32-bit-64-bit-vista-64-bit-xp-32-bit-64-bit-thinkpad-w700-w700ds-w701-w701ds

Enjoy!

[Neo Geo X stick not recognised]

Having this issue right now - 2x NEO GEO X  Arcade sticks connected. Reads in Windows and in MAME but not LB/BB. Doesn't show in the devices list. Tried restart etc... I'll look into Joy2Key or something as a workaround but would be nice to have these working without needing other applications. I suspect it's to do with it not liking both plugged in at once (might troubleshoot this further, will post back if i find anything of note). Incidentally, On the rapsberry PI it wouldn't work with 2 connected which is why I'm now building my mini NEO-GEO using using a windows mini-pc instead...