kpop Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 im trying to setup sega saturn trough retroarch and saw thatit rs alot better on mednafen core compared to yabause, but my retroarch doesn't seem to have, i have followed brads saturn vid to update retroarch to the nightly, but still no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 It should be there, try updating the core info using the online updater, the core is labeled "Sega Saturn (Mednafen Saturn)" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpop Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 i updated all the files on 1.40 and 1.36 of retoarch and all there is coming up is yabuse saturn core. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Weird, I just installed a 1.4.0 beta a couple nights ago and it's there. You could always download the latest cores manually https://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/windows/x86_64/latest/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 Yea, I needed to update myself, just checked 1.4.0 and it's there for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpop Posted January 26, 2017 Author Share Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) putting it in manually has fixed it, cheers, just got to get the right bios now. thanks Edited January 26, 2017 by kpop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Weird. I had the same issue with a freshly downloaded 1.6. The mednafen cores including the Saturn one I wanted specifically to try, were simply not there in the updater. Thought I was going mad, searched online, ended up here. Followed Lord Monkus's advise to add the core manually. But - then the core sure enough showed up in Load Core, but wouldn't run. Restarted retroarch and now the mednafen core does not show up, but now RA shows the beetle Saturn core is installed - which I never installed. Very odd. Well, then I DLd 1.5...same thing. No mednafen cores listed. WTF? They just aren't there. Finally I got the latest nightly, the Mednafen Saturn core still not listed. Installed core manually and this time I could load it. But. Loading cue files...no. "Failed to load content". Several known working games tried. *sigh* Not having any luck at all with anything, at the mo. Grrr. As a relative newb with emulators I have found you just run into a streak of being snakebitten sometimes while at other times it's smooth as butter. Tired, cranky, going to bed. Incidentally, the reason I even want to try the Mednafen Saturn core is that in the stand alone Mednafen, all my Saturn games run, in fullscreen, in a window - i.e. black bars on all four sides. On the sides it's fine, I want the native aspect ratio. But black bars top and bottom also, making the image smaller. I have scoured the internet and tried some things, poked around in the config file, to no avail. To try to alter the resolution, etc. to fix the issue and get true fullscreen with the 4x3 ratio. Anyone have any suggestions for that as well? Cheers, it's 12:21 am here, work tomorrow...Haven't actually played one game this evening... G'night!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 The Mednafen cores are now named Beetle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 You're fracking kidding me. Why???? Okay well thanks for the very quick response. Why can't they just be called Mednafen for the love of all that is holy?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Not really sure of the reason for the name change but my guess would be to differentiate ?? I don't know why the Retroarch guys do some of the things they do, I just accept it and deal with it, lol. As for your black bars, try turning off aspect ratio in the video settings if you have it set to on. If that doesn't work you may have to set up a custom aspect X by Y to get as close to the edges as you want. Personally I like aspect ratio on because it works best for CRT shaders and I have a 1440p monitor so the bars at the top and bottom are small and not very bothersome at all. At 1080p though the top and bottom bars can be quite noticeable. As for games not work but working before were they working in Mednafen before or another emulator like SSF ? If another version of Mednafen they should work in the new ones but if SSF you may need new disk images or repair the ones you got. I have posts on the forums on how to do it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Yeah...I've noticed the way the Retroarch folks go about doing things can be quirky at times. And confusingly you can still get the Mednafen cores to install manually. That's why I've dabbled in RA but ultimately stuck with the individual ems with LB. Thanks for all your help and info. I do have a 1080p setup. In fact, it's a 110" projector so the games are far from small, I should probably just deal with it, but it's just something that started to bug me so I've been devoting time I probably should've spent on actually playing games trying to solve or work around it. It is for games that are known to work, in Mednafen stand alone. In fact for Radiant Silvergun it worked in Yabause but not Mednafen, I finally got it working by using CDmage to rengenerate the bin and cue, I probably came across your info on that so thanks again. Unfortunately the Beetle core is still showing failed to load content. I give up for now. I'll take some of your kind suggestions and try to fix the Mednafen stand alone tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Weird that Radiant Silvergun failed for you using the RA Beetle core, it works for me. Maybe you need a new image, Mednafen is pickier over the quality of the disk dumps than Yabause and SSF. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Yeah tried several known working games in stand alone Mednafen, but with RA 1.6.0 and the Beetle Saturn core, failed to load or just straight up crashed. Went back to my previous 1.2.2 Retroarch, installed Saturn Beetle. Crashes every time when loading games. I dunno...black bars...who cares?? My Saturn setup with LB and Mednafen stand alone is brilliant except for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 That is very strange that a game would work in the stand alone but not in RA core unless maybe they were the PAL region ones since those were kind of problematic at first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 RetroArch 1.2.2 predates mednafen saturn core so doubt it works there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 Yeah there is that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 (edited) Okay! Well thank you Lordmonkus for the suggestions, they were perfect. I was able to get true fullscreen with the stand alone Mednafen. If anyone else has the same issue of black bars on all four sides I did the following in the config file: Set [system].stretch, for the Saturn, ss.stretch to 0. ;Stretch to fill screen. ss.stretch 0 It had been set to aspect_mult2 and I had the pretty severe windowbox effect in fullscreen. Changing to aspect helped some. But I put it to zero which made it the native resolution, very tiny on a 1920x1080 monitor. I adjusted the scaling factor settings and was able to get it perfectly sized. In my setup the perfect setting was: ;Scaling factor for the X axis in fullscreen mode. ss.xscalefs 4.85 and ;Scaling factor for the Y axis in fullscreen mode. ss.yscalefs 4.85 You could play with increasing the x axis for a more widescreen effect. I did the same thing with Turbografx as that had the same issue. Now it's perfect! Thanks again! p.s. - sorry for sort of hijacking and re-routing the original thread Edited June 21, 2017 by usuallee76 p.s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Beetle isn't a made up name. It is a code name, or an alt name for Mednafen, but I don't know why they chose to switch to it either. (sorry, getting out late responses). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usuallee76 Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 Well, it sure as hell threw me for a loop! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drybonz Posted August 8, 2017 Share Posted August 8, 2017 I updated my cores and I don't have anything called Beetle... it's still mednafen as far as I can tell... at least in my cores folder. I am having trouble loading discs. It goes to the Saturn disc load screen. Is the name of the BIOS supposed to be the same as the standalone Mednafen? sega_100a.bin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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