Retroarch in Launchbox

[SentaiBrad]

Nah, it's ok, it was a wild hunch. The MESS core might be a bit more locked down than standalone, which is why I would still suggest MESS Standalone to anyone who reads this: http://www.emucr.com/search/label/MESS?&max-results=12 (which of course there is a new build of today... the day after I recorded this friday's tutorial dealing with MESS xD)

[Lordmonkus]

Yeah I still say use a stand alone build of Mess. I just updated to a 177 build of Mess and with BGFX shaders it looks great.

[Lordmonkus]

On a side note, depending on the shader you use it may look like shit with the 5200 using the Mame core. I like CRT-Royale and it does not look good at all with it.

[Lordmonkus]

Put the bios file in your "Mess\roms" folder if that doesn't work you don't have the correct bios file.

[SentaiBrad]

Yea, the bios only need to go in to the roms folder, no sub folder after that.

[Lordmonkus]

Finding the right bios can be a pain in the ass for sure.

The first result when typing "mess bios" into Google has always been good to me.

[SentaiBrad]

No, you're fine. I only ever got my BIOS from a MAME Rom pack. It's really hard to know if the BIOS you are grabbing matches up nicely with the version of MESS/MAME you are using if they're not marked appropriately.

[SentaiBrad]

If you're going to the most pleasureful place on the planet, then you'll be fine.

[dov_EL]

PS.
Commodore 64 and retroarch ?

[paulmichel21]

I have a big problem with retroarch, use it for nintendo entertainment (Nestopia) and works perfect. but when I want to use to run games Super Nintendo Entertainment does not work ... do not load. I try again to load games Nestopia and if it works perfect ... so I could see not libretro.dll loading the SNES. I put the core indicated and emulator configuration also put well the core libretro. They have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

[DOS76]

Do you have the same core in the Associated Platform as you downloaded from the online updater some of the names of default cores recently changed.

[paulmichel21]

yeap, i update info to snes.balance.libretro.dll . LB try to open, and returns to the frontend, do not start. but neither I throw me any error. But when I try to open Nestopia opens perfectly well

[DOS76]

bsnes_balance_libretro.dll should be the name but I'm guessing that was just a typo. Do the platform names match on the platform list on the left side of LB and what you have typed under the associated platform. it has to be a small typing error somewhere as SNES is one of the easiest systems to get working in RA.

[paulmichel21]

if it's a typo error. I'm telling memory since I'm not in front of the machine now. It is so as you say. if it called like Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I thought the same insurance due to a typo error but can not find which can be. even download the latest version of retroarch update everything and nothing yet.

[SentaiBrad]

SNES doesn't require BIOS, so it's generally a lot more simple. As long as you downloaded the bsnes balanced core (the suggested core for SNES), you set the core name in the associated platforms tab, your SNES platform name there in the associated platforms menu matches the name of your system in LaunchBox, and your SNES games are using RetroArch to Launch you should be good to go. If you want extra help you can follow out tutorials if you'd like. It is more of a beginner tutorial, so it might show a lot of stuff you already know, but it's the only SNES tutorial we have. I did the starter tutorial with SNES on purpose.

 

[fromlostdays]

From experience, if this is happening with SNES, check the rom extension. If it isn't bin, or sfc, get another set.As to not make assumptions, are your roms zipped? Are they tosec? Some sets will come zipped and have like 5 versions of the same rom in the zip, and that's a problem. 

[Lordmonkus]

I haven't seen and SNES roms with a .bin extension, I have only seen .sfc or .smc roms.

[fromlostdays]

I had a bin set a while back. It works in RetroArch if I recall. You can actually just rename the sfc extension to .bin if you wanted. The only reason I could think to do that is if you had the bin set and could only find a rom in sfc but wanted your set to have all the same extensions. I'm pretty sure you can do the same from bin to sfc. 

[Lordmonkus]

Hmm interesting, the only roms I have seen with .bin extension was Sega Genesis / Megadrive and cd disk images.

[fromlostdays]

I'm taken back to all the horrible ad riddled probably malicious websites I was drawn to for roms before I knew what a torrent was haha.